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considering it’s only an extra hundred bucks to not have to carry your gear up and down that hill, it will likely stay that way. If they do the $1000 vip like other fests, I’ll get an electric wagon and go GA.

That game hurt me. 6-2 last 8 and we gave up a 14 and 17 point lead or undefeated. Bix was there in person for the collapse. The worst part was we should have had a 1st down in OT but it hit the receiver in the chest and bounced into a DB for a pick 6. Wtf

Messi has been amazing all tourney. He pretty much single handedly won the tourney for Argentina.

At 1st they didn’t want to say anything but eventually I guess it got to a point where they needed to but it’s not like anyone heeded the letter. I have the newspaper somewhere about the Memphis Pyramid spring 95 shows. They estimated there were 50k people there and only 15k had tickets. They said it was the biggest external gathering of people outside tennessee for a concert ever. We got tix an hour into the phone sales and prob got near the last ones as we were the furthest you could get to the side of the stage up high. But what I remember is 10’s of thousands outside holding up a finger. 35k without a ticket trying for the probably 500 extras if that many. After we went to the madhouse that was Beale Street. 10k tripping peeps roaming. BB king was playing at his blues bar but you couldn’t get in but Bo Diddley was playing at a packed club but they opened the doors so we could hear. There were 200 or so people all getting down on the street. Was pretty cool. As the night wore on we realized one of us was gonna have to drive back to a buddys place and we weren’t sure exactly where it was. I don’t know how we ever found it. I guess back then you really had to pay attention to where you were and now you pretty much have no clue b/c we mindlessly follow Waze directions. In the day if you went somewhere once you’d know how to get there again. I’ve been to the Pageant in St. Louis a bunch and couldn’t tell you how to get there.

The RV passes do sell out but not sure when. You can always sell it later as they are the 1st thing to go. VIP has also been selling out a month or so before. The new VIP RV area is set up very nicely now with the graded packed gravel section. If it’s muddy and that’s a big possibility with a fest right before, you have zero issue with mud in that vip area but may in the GA top of the hill.

Every time I see Deadco I’m thinking the sound is horrible. JRAD adds insane delay to the whole show which really pisses me off. It gets to be a muddled mess even though I love seeing them. Cotter just needs to run sound for everyone. He keeps it clean and you hear every cymbal hit crystal. There are times at JRAD where I can’t even hear Russo’s drums. Hyryder always has really clean sound. If they didn’t we wouldn’t go see them. The dead is about crystal sound. They had so much attention to detail on their sound and the best dead bands make sure they have that clean sound. At summerfest a few years ago we got there for the Phish tribute before DSO. The sound wasn’t good. I was all stressed out thinking maybe it was the setup. Nope. Once dso comes on it sounds amazing.

I don’t believe new potato caboose plays dead. Looked them up on Apple Music and they play originals. Dso doesn’t get other dead bands to play besides Melvin or would love to see Hyryder there on that big PA one year since they are right down the road. and the car pass doesn’t let you in the bowl. It’s the same as every other year besides charging for a car vs one included in the price of a ticket. Every other fest charges for a car so figure they wanted a new revenue stream. At least it’s not $500 like skull and roses eek.

Note this year you need to purchase a car pass separately. It’s no longer included in the ticket price. Inflation….

That place is old and back then they didn’t worry about someone being an idiot and falling and them getting sued b/c the railings were too low. We were in this opera type box seeing dso in I think Boston and the rail was about 18” high in this 8 person box and I was scared to death my shin was gonna hit that rail and me flip over. It was so low that the rail actually made it almost more dangerous than no rail at all. I put a chair between me and the rail. It was nerve racking.

Under the balcony you can’t see the PA speakers so you can’t get the sound besides these tiny old mounted bookshelf looking speakers. When we have those seats we go up to the upstairs dance area behind the seats which is super cramped. Being 6’4, under the overhang, I have to duck just to see the bands faces. The balcony at the Ryman is the spot to get seats unless you can get 1st 8-10 rows down low.

Yeah that sounds pretty epic. We got to do Billy strings Christmas spectacular in 2018 with 300 others in a tiny joint but it was all Billy joined on stage by the McCourry’s and a bunch of other Nashville peeps. Don’t think Billy still does 300 person shows. I can’t believe he sold out 2 Bridgestone arena shows in Nashville. He’s getting rich lol. But I found out that many bought tix to Bridgestone to get in the lottery for the Ryman show lol. Hilarious the peeps selling tix to Bridgestone on CoT saying they just bought them to get a shot at the Ryman. Lol

Every song played was in backwards chronological order starting with Samba and ending with Cream Puff War. Set 2 they played Go to Heaven in order so that was the exception. interesting concept. I verified the dates 1st played in the annotated Grateful Dead lyrics which lists the dead original performance. They made sure every song was 1st played before the song before. I didn’t realize it at the time just being in the groove. i don’t think anyone we talked to at the show wasn’t going to skull and roses. All those Indy peeps are going out there to enjoy a fest and support Hyryder. Like every person we talked with lol. I was making a comment in the bathroom how I wish there was the dance space like DSO in Atlanta Roxy a year ago and dude next to me said that was an awesome weekend. He was one of the few that showed for shows at that epic venue. It’s a small world in the dead scene. Having a deadicated dead bar in Indy really helps to build the following.

Was barraco on keys? Warren Haynes?

Hyryder @ Vogue 12/10/22 Indianapolis, IN Set 1 Samba in the Rain, Easy Answers, Liberty, Picasso Moon, Foolish Heart, Hell in a Bucket, My Brother Esau, Throwing Stones, Touch of Grey Set 2 (Go to Heaven) Alabama Getaway, Far From Me, Althea, Feel Like a Stranger, Lost Sailor> Saint of Circumstance, Antwerp's Placebo, Easy to Love You, Don't Ease Me In (Bonus Track) Jack-A-Roe Set 3 Shakedown Street> Estimated Prophet> The Music Never Stopped> Let It Grow> Eyes of the World> He's Gone> Drums/Space> The Other One> Alligator> The Golden Road E. Cream Puff War A trip backwards through time of all dead originals. Set 3 is as good as it gets musically. They post SBD with vids of every show. Their visual peeps are fantastic. 1 guy with the oil and water with a bowl projecting combined with a really trippy projection behind the band. Check out this shakedown to start set 3. Wow. Whole set 3 was a wow. https://m.facebook.com/hyryder

Getting to do Hyryder at the Vogue theater in Indy Saturday. Much better place to dance than the mousetrap which is THE worst designed music bar in the country. Entrance door at front left of stage. Bathroom at front right of stage. From outside to pee makes you have to walk through the 1st few rows of dancers. Then to the bar you have to walk through the middle of the dance floor. You can dance for 15 secs before someone is coming through to pee or smoke.

Christmas is the one time of year that the college kids all have weed money but the parents don’t lol.

Georgias weak spot is at DB. They really have no other weakness. OSU will have to get the ball out fast to their playmakers and let them work. Marvin Harrison Jr is fantastic. If it ends up Georgia v Michigan that seems like a bad on paper matchup having to run against the best DT in football the last 2 years in Jalen Carter is no easy task. He will likely be the 1st non QB drafted next year.

PG is going I think

Here’s the playoff 1 Georgia 2 Michigan 3 TCU 4 OSU bama is better than TCU but Bama didn’t have a playoff game to have a chance to lose so I’m keeping TCU at 3 b/c Michigan shouldn’t have to play OSU game 1 even though OSU is the 2nd best team after Georgia. Michigan had like 4 scores of 65+ yds. Defensive breakdown by OSU. They are just badly coached with all that elite talent plus playing the Rutgers type teams makes you lazy. that’s my call. Plus if you put Bama in, you’d have to make them the 3rd seed as no one wants rematches

Gonna suck for Georgia to have to play OSU 1st playoff game. That’s a brutal one. Michigan will get a cupcake game 1 with TCU assuming they win. If TCU loses do you make Bama play Georgia and Michigan play OSU?? Or do you put Georgia vs osu and Michigan vs Bama for a more interesting semis??

You need a deadbase. The internet sucks in comparison which is really weird. Ask for one for Christmas.

lol. John beat me to it after searching deadbase. In 76 it was fairly common set 2 but after 76 it was only played 1 time again in set 2 7–7-81

I’m not saying who deserves in. I’m saying the best 4 teams are osu Michigan Georgia and Bama. Bama was kicking for the win against tennessee. They missed with 20 secs. Tennessee made a pass and kicked a 50 yarder. It’s football. Things happen. Bama doesn’t deserve in but that doesn’t mean they aren’t one or the 4 best. Same with OSU. they stunk on degense. 4 monster plays allowed. Inexcusable. But they are a true top 4 team.

LSU had a nice season in the brutal SEC west but they weren’t gonna beat Georgia. Upsets happen but when you have a defense like Georgia, they get a lot rarer. Georgia isn’t the type of team that allows monster plays. Too much talent and speed but that talent is so well coached by the best D coordinator in football in Kirby smart. He led those amazing Bama defenses and now he can recruit the elite guys who want to be on insane defenses. If you aren’t willing to dedicate yourself you won’t see the field on Georgia D and that takes a different mentality. Many will transfer out, but those are the guys Kirby doesn’t want. It’s like those 2000’s Ravens teams that kicked 2 FGs and won. The defensive guys who lived for laying hits on guys prayed they would end up there. Georgia is gonna have to find a QB for 2023, but that defensive foundation has been laid. Georgia Michigan TCU USC there’s your playoff. The best 4 in the county are Georgia Bama Michigan and OSU. if you look at the FPI they are way way ahead of the pack. TCU and USC aren’t close to top 10 in the metrics but it is what it is. I’d love to see Georgia vs OSU and Bama v Michigan. That’s some advertising dollars but some weak schedules sneak in and that’s ok too. Georgia is number 2 if they lose to LSU. They have been the most consistently dominant team in the country all year and no way any 1 loss team has any shot of jumping them.

Clemson QB 8/29 99yds 1/1 DJ’s gotta go. But your conference is so soft you were undefeated in conference.