Brian NJ

Fun time with threatening sky. Whole show great. Highlights ... Pocket Way. Shakedown. LLR . LL. Tom Thumb (ginger ale not bread). Give me loving. Hard 2 handle. BMR superb!!!

Nice song selection!

Rick, you weren't there?

Great show fantastic! highlights, Good Lovin, Scarlet fire (35+min) There was ecstatic dancing by The Usual Suspects) eyes of the world, notable mention looks like rain very good. Sugar mag niiice !!! The place was on fire great venue it was a rainbow full of sound. One wild eyed crazed fan came running up the stairs orgasmically shouting top 15 he's ever seen!!!. We say somewhere between the top five and ten would be more accurate. Dictated from the backseat...contributing critics August West and pearly :-)

Why is Black Peter special to me.... Listening to BP from Europe (I think) last night I commented to a friend how this is probably the best blues song ever... This song has a way of putting all that life and death is into its proper perspective. I had spent a couple /few years listening to BP multiple times a day because the lyrics and bluesey groove was my life... "all my friends came to see me last night, I was layin in my bed and dying" 48 staples closing me up and coming back to life while a priest is giving me last rights and the friends that came to see me. "Just want to have a little peace to die and a friend or 2 at hand" my mantra for two to three years of nothing but the horror of what I had become... Wanting to die but " one more day I find myself alive tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground" This was a comforting thought... See here how everything lead up to this day and it's just like any other day that's ever been. The pain of knowing the life your living will be the life you die from and having no hope it could ever be different... The people may know but the people don't care that a man can be as poor as me. Take a look at poor Peter he's lying in pain... poor in spirit and extreme physical pain but the physical was minor in comparison to the spiritual pain. Black Peter brings me back to a life I was dying by and forward to the grateful life I live today... See here how everything lead up to this day and it's just like any other day that's ever been... 😀❤️😀

Of course. Fuck me!

I am sitting home wishing I was at Hampton Beach right now. Flashback to May of this year , looking forward to the Jubilee Red Rocks and rest of Summer tour... I should know better than to try to make plans. Jubilee comes up and find myself tight with cash so I figure Maybe I will borrow $50 so that I have money to get to work for the following week. that shouldn't be a problem I think I can go. A good friend of mine calls and tells me his brother committed suicide services are that Thursday. Come Thursday I'm thinking maybe I can leave early Friday morning make it to the Jubilee. Thursday night I get a call somebody I was trying to help get their life together overdose on heroin and dies, services on Monday. no Jubilee but at least I'll be at Red Rocks. A couple weeks before Red Rocks I go to get my monthly phlebotomy. for the last 4 years I've been getting phlebotomies every month because I have too many red blood cells. I go for the phlebotomy and they tell me we cant take your blood you're anemic. don't get me wrong Red Rocks was a blast But difficult being low on red blood cells and the altitude. okay well I'll do the best I can and make it to Hampton Beach. My Subaru has a wheel bearing that is just starting to go. I can't complain I have two hundred and sixty six thousand miles on the original wheel bearings. But not feeling like it's wise to drive up there without getting bearings done first and that will have to wait. Life is a fucking trip. Pints of blood work, I'm being scheduled to get a scope down my throat and up my ass, Aug 3rd dental appt to get estimate on having five teeth pulled one Crown put in at least one cavity fixed and denture or Bridge or whatever the fuck they do... ( no dental ins. Ouch) oh yeah almost forgot on Monday I have to schedule a CT scan on aorta to make sure aneurysm doesn't blow out. OK now that I got this fleeting moment of self-pity out of the way I need to say Fuck it, it is still a great day to be alive! I'll see you all in Asbury and Black Mountain...

I am sitting in the airport terminal waiting to fly back home. Congratulations to the band The Crew and everybody that makes this all happen and thank you. Thank you for a real good time, for keeping this music alive and well, for providing a place for like-minded spirits to dance and sing and have joy and thank you to the many many many beautiful souls I have met in this community... Darkstar selling out red rocks and perfection of the show they played was out of this fucking 🌎

I don't doubt this for a second! Dso... A band with integrity. I can say a whole lot more on this subject but I'll leave it alone.... I'm just happy that the band that is playing this music the best today and keeping the Dead scene alive is a band with integrity. Thanks and much appreciation Dso!!!

Sometimes we respect the dead with joyous dance, sometimes with quiet solitude.

Great show at red bank.. Had plenty of room for dance in front for first set and balcony for second set. Cool crowd .. They are expanding count Basie for the drinkers..

Best of times at penns band played great! Upstairs dance the best!

My wires have transcended across time barriers since 1974!

I think there was a comes a time after viola. Or was it a dream I still believe?

We will all be respecting the dead that day. Sorry for your loss doc.

Keep doing shows mojo... The music grows on ya. I used to hate corrina until hearing China cat segue into corrina at black mountain... I'm thinking this is a very funky transition into rider... Dso tricked me into appreciating corrina... I've been to my share of Dso shows in college or beach towns where it seems they have to play "that good song" ( its what I hear locals say. I hope they play that good song) ya know, touch of grey, Casey Jones, truckin, fod etc. Nothing wrong with those songs especially how skip brings bass to new level on truckin... Princeton was the epitome of a dancefest... Not sure where you were... Didn't I hear comes a time or was that a dream..

Jelly roll blues!

Thank you dso (band n crew) for blowing the roof off of mccarter theater!!! Superb set list played to perfection! I am beat up from the feet up! Could hear a pin drop during death don't have mercy, Jeff giving a soulful emotional rendition... not a single word was spoken in the house ... In the knock out box with the usual suspects I watched Rob and Dino during alligator and viola. They looked like they were a part of their drum kits, synconized like a fine Swiss watch all the time making it look like child's play. kUDOS!!! Knew it was special with opening Hard2Handle, Rob b bringing the energy of a very special night in Princeton. I could go on and on about tonight's show but need to crash... Oh yeah Lisa hurts me 2 and harp 😀 And of course Rob e doing what he does with perfection... This night was special! In my top 10 shows out of about 400. We will talk of this show for years like we talked of 5/19 rams head many years ago. Actually 5/19 is kinda pale in comparison...

Walking Blues super funky good... Watchtower on fire

Highlights...Eyes, easy wind. Steven/eleven- may be best I've heard Dso do. And I've heard many...

I am disgusted with myself for missing this show... To miss another black peter has me feeling like I should just pack my show days away as a fond memory...

I spent 45 min 630am Sunday moring in the cold drizzling rain talking to a homeless crackhead in dc that tried to bum money from me twice the night before. I asked why he was homeless and he was honest with me... I tried to give him reason to live life to its fullest. I think he heard what I was saying... At least I know he had hope for the day and he will remember our conversation.... I may not caution all......

I am a defender of the outcast in this world... Of the many people that love me today, if they knew me years ago they would not want to be on the same side of street had they encountered me. Chimes of freedom for the hurt ones....

Happy y'all got it! Sorry I missed it....

Dso played 6/14/91 beautifully... Stella Row jimmy hsf so good... Lisa on kazoo very special tonight... The Venue... Best sound ever and I think maybe best indoor venue I've ever seen dso play... Largest crowd indoors for dso show. 3000+ I think and still plenty of room to dance. Super cool staff... Security saw me sweating after hsf and asked me if I'd like a bottle of cold water. Thumbs up to dso, staff and venue👍