Ammagamalin Crew

Thanks for posting the setlist. There was a time in Crazyfingers that I forgot what started the jam, they were that far out there. Then landed us back on the ground with I Know You Ryder, Roadrunner and Promontory speaking appropriately to those that travel for music. Visions was an unexpected marathon encore. Everyone at the Mousetrap shows are super fun, so glad you made it. ⚡🔥🎶

Maybe it's the last time played being in a great space spiritually, physically, emotionally and technically to finalize? I kinda heard some practice leads in the proceeding PITB jam which tried to transition until China Doll intercepted. Jerry makes it clear SHE BELONGS here. He then does deliver the verses correctly if going from most important being: "She's nobody's child" descending to least "She wears an Egyptian ring". PITB>China Doll ended up being played right back at the Kaiser the first show of 86 two and a half months later. Seems like Jerry tripped out with the Comes a Time & SBTM options in 85 and didn't want them to become routine. The final cap to the wonderous 85 experiment. New Year's was kinda blah for me after listening to all the other new years up till then, also only a two nighter. Mighty Quinn saved the day!

looking forward to it John A, you write with insight and integrity to provide thorough and enlightening context that is appreciated when you make it happen 🙂

Helps me get through the days between knowing that "all we ever wanted was to learn and love and grow..."

Be nice if this one was streamed

Wow! That's so nice. Just acknowledging this show and then announcing it will be played again is very generous. If there were ever dark star to play this, it is the current band. A step in the same propensity as when 6/24/85 was gifted. A Saturday night just one kind day away from the Fri the 13th original. Thanks for the announcement⚡ Good luck everybody!

A "let Blair sing chant" (up in Indy~ homebase) resulted in my only Operator. Haven't heard him sing a song since which is weird. Barraco sing those two?

Yeah, you're absolutely right. WTF's up 4 CDs not being the four sets that were played? I felt similar when the Down Hill From Here DVD had the first and third Alpine shows as one DVD. That ruled out releasing all songs from all three shows. I think the Hartford 77 official CD release has a weird, stupid break of songs from different sets like this Frost 85. Encores, yes; however, each set should be it's own entity. Esp when these Frost boards have been around since 87. This merits a rant

It's been good to hear they're at 100% better (this was the first year I didn't go, saying enough is enough already💤boring). Now I hope they'll take this 100% better approach and integrate it with the Sphere's concert delivery environment allowing the 2024 audience to go to places we got to go to with Jerry. Kudos to those that get in. Looking forward to reviews and details of shows. This is the year I'm finally cutting back as I say each year and never dew. Passing on this isn't as distressing as trying to give up Phish and BMFS. Those two now end up being big concert $ drains. Dark Star, Hyryder, BCE, Emmylou and Del McCoury merit my concert dollar more than D $ C and Phish.

I'll chime in here ,real quick, All Fall Down was mastered at Billy's 9/25/23 Huntsville show, youtube it and check out the frog sounding peddle effect around 11:23 in. The two that followed: Pittsburgh and New Orleans pale in comparison to this Huntsville Sept 23 version of All Fall Down. He is really into beginning a song and not committing enjoying the pre song antics, similar to segues with the dead. I can't go to these big arena shows after starting in bars in 2014 and ending in Halloween 23, esp after the Riviera Dark star Chicago show which was easily accessed and waist high stage with so many kind people mingling.

It f*cked up the scene from a ground level viewpoint and a lot of people actively discourage it. Drained all the cash from the lots and didn't really induce any meaningful conversations. The travelling artist couldn't make it on the road anymore. Instead of there being a few bucks for grill cheese and crystals lots of people suffered when tanks came into the scene.

Same weekend that JHMF used to be on. Hope to see you there and finally get to shake hands and bones if you can make it. ⚡...if anyone is flying in from the west coast, Vegas or Phoenix don't hesitate to ask for a a pick up at a nearby airport.

. Jerry's first shows back with the dead after already playing eight shows at The Stone, Halloween at HJK and a couple of acoustic benefits. July 8 through October 3 was the time without. 88 days. Incredible recovery which included being part of a UC Berkeley class studying: Dionysus to The Grateful Dead with Joseph Campbell who went to his first dead show in 86 and compared to it to mythological celebrations where all boundaries are brought down and everyone is doing a celebration of life together regardless of class or profession. After lunch Jerry spaced with Mickey and others creating a music piece by generating industrial sounds that were in key with E, G, A, Dm and other music parts. He talked this in reference to the space jam. 90 min space created right before the four person panel discussion (Mickey, John Perry, Joseph Campbell, Garcia). This is a crazy fun show for DSO opening with Playing and then all throughout and space>truckin>Smokestack>Comes A Time ✓✓✓ this material has to have them firing on all cylinders, enjoy everyone!

There's the SF⚡ I don't see 7/14 following, but I could be wrong. That's what Lemmon can make you be🫠

Wow⚡ you all got dosed hard. Throwing Stones has always had the propensity to reprise and to come out of a wheel and into a wharf rat with a Gloria is really nice. I can only imagine the great crowd interactions during set break and then the anticipation as a 2nd set opening with Shakedown would further confirm the gathering for the everyone that was there. So glad it happened and for the experts who attended. Thx for keeping us in the loop!

Always bring ear plugs. Stanleys Pub had a box of them for the Ugly Radio Rebellion Band considering it was an older audience seeing as they are a Zappa cover band. Last summer Billy Strings had them available at the soundboard area for the two Indy shows. John Entwistle had them at his merch table when he did a mini spring tour in 1996 at local bars. $1.00 and tickets were only $15.00. You know he had the cream of the crop for his band. Couldn't talk Cincinnati peeps into going to the Dayton (McGuffeys) and the Louisville (Toy Tiger) gigs, but they all showed up for the Annie's show and realized what a big deal these were. He played from midnight to 2am and it was possibly the loudest I've experienced. Later that year The Who did a Quadrophenia tour at $60.00 for coliseum shows.. I passed after getting spoiled from the $15.00 bar shows. Thunderfingers indeed! Ear plugs and peppermint candy canes for when the cotton mouth sets in and your on the rail.

I hope to contribute when it gets to 88, 89 and 90. Used AKG 460's with 60 capsules corded into a real dbx home unit (that was secured in foam as a false backing to the backpack, the dbx was converted from ac/dc to batteries encoding>D5 capture. The masters were transfer from A to D decoding properly with a dbx 224x t into a tascam CD.

These MAC and SBD reels to listen to was unheard of when I started trying to get recordings of the shows I was at in 84, 85 and 86 until the coma. When he came back we had the AKG460'S >D5 in place, with an occasional D6. However to get my first tape of a show I was at (Syracuse 10/20/84) from a solid source, I had to give this guy my only tape deck for like 3 weeks before he returned it with the two Carrier Done tapes. I know he was using my deck and his to make a ton of tapes, but didn't think badly about it because I was about to have the Syracuse tapes. Later tapes we acquired by mailing out 10-15 90 min cassette with material that someone wanted who had 10-15 shows of what i wanted. Do all the copying with flipping every 45 min, labeling, packaging and then to PO to send off. It could take weeks even months to get a package back with tapes of shows I'd choose off their list. Made connections in cities all over so boxes of tapes were going everywhere and Maxwell and TDK were making out like Charlie Sheen. Thank God for our central library so we don't all have to get copies. Thanks for the time, expertise and the thoughtfulness of those uploading. Screw read Stephen King, this much more pertinent

Recent additions is part of my daily readings esp since it's listing like every show, fun to see the names and the equipment used to capture and transfer. With today's addition it interesting to see Seattle was played 6 days before a three show onslaught in Alaska where they probably hadn't played and probably won't get back so they had to lay everything out for those shows. Then the return was 8 days later in Pauly pavilion (I think) , they never let up because there's a three night Warfield 9/25, 9/26, 9/27, starting the 30 marathon that happened in October. First Alpine show was in August 1980, Althea played almost every night. This is could be the boost effect of Brent that looks like relentless time on the road and on stage. I hadn't given much thought to the Alaska shows until now when I see them in the context of Seattle heading there and the return CA shows with not much time between and the magnitude of possibly first and last show for those heads.

Ugly Radio Rebellion a Zappa cover band out of Michigan. Ike used to play with them when they came to Cincy for 8-9 yrs, Camilla Brillo>Muffin Man, Joe's Garage, Catholic Girls, Cosmic Debris, Uncle Remus, Trouble Coming Everyday, Crew Slut, Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?, Willie The Pimp, Apostrophe, My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama, Filthy Habits, Bobby Brown, Peaches En Regalia, Honey Don't You Want a Man Like Me, Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy, lots of others, 3 set show, encore: A Whole Lotta Love. Second time these three played together. The night before in Sandusky was they're first. Very talented bass and drum. They talking about bringing Ike back for a mini tour.

Wonder if anyone saw a band in Jamaica last night?

That was about as boring as it gets which ended up being a good thing as my violin friend and I got to continue working on Evangeline>Pancho>One More Cup of Coffee and got to add a Forever Young>IKYR>Senor>Sandman (America), due to Washington's QB not showing up, but hell it was supposed to be a championship game, WTF

Got my first Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion last night at the trap. Monumental moment like getting my first St Stephen at Bonnaroo in 2004. They opened with an extremely slick transition from Sugar Magnolia into Hell in a Bucket and towards the end of the first set, getting ready for the countdown set, played Lucy in The Skies with Diamonds and Midnight Hour...Viola Lee>HSF to start the year, Promontory Ryder>St Stephen...Sisters and Brothers...China Ryder, Black Peter esp good for all of my friends

Go Cowboys! I can't believe I'm watching my alma mater here in Cincy and we're up 6-3! ☀️