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That set 2 was a face melter. The help>slipknot was out of this world. I don’t actually know if the jam was end of help or if it was all considered slipknot but it went dark and was like you were in an evil trippy jazz club. The Franklins was more melt than just happy dance. I caught myself standing still with mouth agape several times during that pre drums segment. They really jammed those out deep. Easy wind is a top 5 dancer for me but it too was off the chain psychedelic and was very different than old school ones. It was one of those what could have been if dead jammed it in the 80’s. Pre drums many of the songs left the building for large segments replaced with jams you probably couldn’t identify if you didn’t know what song we were in and I love that!!!! Give me all dso originals from now on. A funny part is I think this is the 1st time dso did 2 originals at jubilee. It’s always 2 recreations and an original so we were like when did the dead ever open with UJB>the wheel. Then blow away comes up and we are like well that’s that. its been a minute since we’ve seen dso and I forget just how good they are with no weak links. It’s really rare to have a band where everyone is so so good and so in tune with each other at all times. The complexity of the jams were so ludicrous. We’d look at each other like this is perfectly brilliant. Now it’s time for the band to add another semi and travel around with those Meyer sound PA’s. Yes the buildings may crack open but that’s why venues have insurance. The ceiling collapsing would be the worry. Maybe another semi with steel netting to protect from falling debris would alleviate that risk. and I can’t forget that drum segment. Dino was looping rhythms then moving the sound everywhere and rob was on some trippy sound machine doing the same. We were in a bubble with the sound flying all around us. It was really such a badass drum jam taking advantage of the best PA they play on all year. Someone told me for the lost lands festival at buckeye lake that on the main stage they have 3 of those arrays on each side instead of the 1 10-speaker Panther array on each side at jubilee plus no telling how many additional bass stacks. Now that would be insane to see dso on before we all were forced to learn sign language.

that night 3 second set was as ridiculous as you can jam dead. There’s no one who can do what DSO does. All 7 musicians are working the interplay masterfully. They are the best in the biz and it’s not really even close. Then add in Cotter to make sure you can hear every instrument perfectly and you get the best dead band in the land and a band who can play dead as well as the dead did it. I don’t want to compare them to the dead since they created it and then there’s Jerry, but some of the jam segments were played as well as the dead ever played if not better.

Send a copy to my lawyer, gonna start a new life its cool to hear fun songs like that done jam style. Back at camp we tried to put the setlist together and were pretty close besides a Mattson tune and another we didn’t know and a few switched orders, so this was the corrected version from rob. Everyone usually dances at 30% capacity early in the day, but you couldn’t help but get down at 50% during this. Then we got Bruce and by the end of dso my legs were jelly. I told mei we need to push it as hard as we can and leave nothing here and we did. Now to reap the benefits of all that cardio exercise for a few weeks. After the music Sunday we were reminiscing how we became these dancing machines when doing a whole tour back in the day and we could go as hard as we wanted without tiring and would push the pace to give energy to others. This wasn’t that lol. We were beat. You know that feeling Chuck where you are dancing on air b/c you are living 4 hours of dance a night. Those cardio days seem like a dream lol. About 5 minutes in to a dancer I was on the struggle bus having to slow it way down lol.

We had the best time. Jubilee is just the best. Everyone from staff to vendors to the patrons are just top notch. I’d like to also thank the weather. It was also 5 star. We adopted a staff member with a golf cart to join our camp. He’s like I asked what to do and they said we will radio you if we need you and they never did so we met a new friend with benefits. Having a driver up and down the hill is sweet. He figured why not give peeps a lift to help if nothing else to do so we made a new friend. He was jamming with us during dso in his yellow jacket in the crowd lol. But every staff member had a smile besides maybe the overnight wristband checker at the gate. That’s a rough gig and he was the only staff that ever turned down a swig of good whiskey. I’m like bro you’re the one that needs it more than anyone at 3am in the chill. one of my favorite shows was Mattson and friends. Lisa, Jeff, skip and rob b and tom b with koritz popping in once in a while. It was such a fun setlist. I love hearing non dead songs done dead style. During masters of war, I couldn’t hold back a tear with Lisa singing it so angry. She really put her hatred of the senseless war and death into her singing and I was choking up the whole time it was so powerful. The last time I couldn’t control my emotions was Lisa breaking out chimes of freedom in Portland 2/2017 but that whole place had tears streaming. Skip singing the Kinks I’m an ape man is just perfect. He brings the fun to it. Rob b smoked the vocals on Dig a pony. I hadn’t heard that song in years. I was like holy shit they are playing deep cuts. here’s the set list Jeff Mattson & friends 5/28/23 Bright lights I want to tell you Ape man Body parts Take a letter Maria say that I am Carmelita Dig a pony Senor Masters of war 3/5 of a mile in 10 secs

Giddy up!! Will be on the road in 24 hours or so!!!! Jubilee is the best place on earth over Memorial Day weekend. The best overall place on earth is NOLA during jazz fest but jubilee is a close 2nd. Without Felix’s oysters it’s hard to say best place on earth unless Felix’s starts vending. I’m in for several dozen of the Rockefellers if they read this and decide to come up in 2024.

So this was the 5th time the finished version was played. 4-29-71 was the last time it was played without the hook and they didn’t play it again until 3-5-72.

Holy crap. Saw someone on CashorTrade trying to sell their DSO Was fest tix for $220 each which is face and it’s just dso playing not an all day fest or anything. Those were official platinum for 2nd row center. I’d pay more for DSO than pretty much any band but not paying $220 a ticket. Geez. I can guarantee no one on CashorTrade is buying those

Wow nice. You made the trek up the weekend before jubilee?

At this point GSET wasn’t finished right. At one point I went and listened to the 1st 10 or so GSET and they were still constructing the song. I don’t think it had the hook yet.

Porchestuh is the correct spelling. I’ve heard Vic say it and he’s the expert

We’ve gotten down every time your wife has performed. How could we stand still during Jerry Band. I always enjoyed the very Garcia band. I don’t want a full out skull and roses, but 3 other dead bands seems about perfect. We are all at least master level dead historians but I doubt many could name a song on the billboard top 50 right now. Yeah everyone knows WAP. It’s a great song but that was a few years ago and if you had teenage daughters that was probably an uncomfortable song to see them do on Tictok. In the name of decency I’ll leave it at WAP. in good news there isn’t a chance of rain for the next 10 days. Anything but rain is tolerable when camping.

It absolutely looks like perfection bro. 80/55 is perfect. 68 showtime and 60 at end. No chance of rain all week so will be dry ground. Pumped!!! A buddy of mine had some comment about the lineup. I said what do you mean. Dso is playing 3 nights. Oh you mean the bands we go check out for an hour or 2 a day while taking a stroll. Lineup. Gotcha. the temps are going up and it’s pretty clear industrialization is causing it, but no one I know is willing to completely change their lives for it. So you are like omg global warming but drive an SUV to work solo every day. I care but nothing I can do. I ain’t stopping travel. I like my house cool in the summer. It’s happening and humans will need to relocate some. But stopping it means changes no one would be onboard with.

sorta sad how things change. Years ago the 4 of us never missed those VA shows. Now only sunny holding it down. Gonna miss you 3 at jubilee. You gotta get back on that horse bro. Chris has permanently bowed out on jubilee :(((( even last year mei and I did the cincy DC Richmond run. I think I’ve flown to Reagan like 5x for dso.

Chris has been wondering why they don’t do a Hey Little one>liberty>new potato caboose>so many roads. Well he’s just waiting for they hey little one bust out. you know the Norva gets the goods. The salt of the earth gang got the only 1968 show there years ago. We cut such a rug we had to strip down post show to get the wet clothes off us. This would have been crazy fun too

The good news is the forecast has revised downwards. I remember year 2 was predicting like low 45 or so and a few days later it was 32 and tents had frost. I’ll take heat all day over that jubilee. That sucked. No one even bothered with camp fires it was so cold. Jump in your sleeping bag and shiver lol.

ADA is the shit. The thing I learned is they weren’t allowed to ask why you wanted in ADA. They could only say “this is the ADA section”. At that buckhead theater it was a massive flat area next to SBD in an otherwise sloping venue. I had my boot dance in full effect. That was the only really good ada on the tour. The others were so bad that we GA’d it. I also used the ada at a Deadco show in this sloped area. I asked the lady if this was ada, flat rectangle at the front of the mid pavilion. She said yea. I said thanks and walked in. Slopes suck. Not too proud to take a flat area plus my left foot hurts while dancing on a slope for hours. If others needed it more than me, I’d have moved along but most of the time they are empty.

The forecast temp keeps going up. Set up day on Friday can be rough in the heat, but after that it’s gravy. We mostly just go naked with no sunscreen like they did in Venetta in 72.

Excitement building!!!!! JUBILEE!!

Last year Chuck the vip car camp area had 12” deep tire marks from cars coming in. A few got stuck near us. We put down a tarp to walk on as your shoes would get stuck in the mud and come off your feet. It was pretty brutal. No grass of course or there would be roots. We were joking that you could tell vip people because they had mud up their legs and GA peeps where no cars destroyed it were pristine. We went barefoot to set up camp as it would ruin your shoes.

We need to pray for no more rain at least for next weekend. Legend valley has 3 straight fest weekends of fests which destroyed the vip camping area. This weekend they are getting wet. Just need it to stay dry for the grass to grow. Cars driving is the culprit as the bowl camping was dry and mud free.

AC I think the SBD that bootleg Craig does is all you get. It seemed like a bad chord output that would pop and get better then slowly over 20 secs get worse again. It was either the output Jack in the SBD or the chord.

Hyryder def goes deep but evidently they became friends with Bill and he wrote that set 1. Unfortunately their SBD broadcast had technical glitches so the sound was a bit messed up. I love that they do every show with a FB stream with SBD audio. It’s just a friend who does it on his own for peeps at home and you can see ammagalim crew dancing last weekend. Teas always watching but hasn’t hit them live yet. We got PG to go during covid for a fun weekend. well I saw your post after I posted. I thought Charlie said bill wrote the setlist. He said bill obliged them with this setlist. It will be fun. It will be weird. I assumed he wrote it all

i think the fans are all in the seats or dancing in the concourse behind it. When they played that Charlotte stadium, they had a little bit of area on the field ropes off to dance but it was too packed but pretty sure you can’t in Rochester this needs to be clarified. Usually with 2 shows it says 2 nights. It also mentions just recreating 1 show. I actually do see it on the FB message that it’s 2 days now.

Tea did you see that on Hyryders 1st show post skull n roses that bill Walton wrote their 1st set setlist and it was pretty weird. here it is. Hyryder @ Mousetrap 5/5/23 Indianapolis, IN Night 1 Set 1 Don’t Ease Me In, Bright Side of the Road, Greatest Story Ever Told, All Along the Watchtower> I Need a Miracle> Positively 4th Street, Scarlet Begonias> Touch of Grey, St. Stephen> The Eleven> Standing on the Moon Set 2 Help on the Way> Slipknot!> Bertha> Queen Jane Approximately, Crazy Fingers> Franklin’s Tower> Throwing Stones, Evangeline, Hell in a Bucket, Twilight>Fire on the Mountain> Saint of Circumstance

The Watkins glen poster shows dso recreating the 50th anniversary show. It doesn’t say 2 nights. They should probably make that clear. It’s showed 3 total bands but didn’t mention dso playing 2x