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The Ryman is my least favorite indoor venue. It is impossible to dance in those church pews. The back of your leg is touching your pew and the front of your leg is touching the back of the pew in front of you. If you are unlucky enough to be in one of the back 8 rows on the 1st floor you cannot see the PA’s which means you can’t hear them and you get your sound from these tiny little speakers hanging from the balcony which is maybe 10 feet above your head. The only place to dance in the Ryman is in the balcony behind the seated area. That place is made to sit and watch music. The sound is great in the balcony area. There’s a tiny bit more leg room in the balcony vs downstairs where there’s none. I saw Bobby there and was 2nd to last row lower level and I had to duck down to see his face as the balcony obstructed my view being 6’4”. Ever since that show every time at the Ryman we just go upstairs. Saw panic accoustic there with Billy strings joining them. That was cool. Then Billy came upstairs to watch the rest of the show and he was hounded walking to his seat. I’m like let the guy enjoy the show for god sakes. Panic was playing and he was surrounded by people trying to take pics with him with music playing, not even during a break. Geez. Price of stardom I guess. The furthest I’ve gone as a star fucker was nodding my head to Phil who was 5 feet away during jazz fest in a small club. Peeps need some peace. That shit helped contribute to Jerry’s death.

it’s a nice novelty but it’s always wet and dripping from the ceiling and that board DSO uses has no replacement. It’s a one of a kind. Cotter protects that thing like a newborn. Dew and condensation is not its friend. He takes it apart and cleans it a lot to keep it alive, but I think there were only 25 of those made or something like that. Maybe it’s 25 left in existence. Conversations over time become blurred but the overall take was that it can’t be replaced. and that’s not even mentioning stage equipment. They were finishing up making a permanent outdoor stage when we were there. Outdoor seems the way to go.

At jubilee I spoke with someone associated with the band who said they personally never want to play indoors there again. It’s nasty and wet and no ventilation. I have 0 interest of going indoors there again myself. Got sick as a dog doing Melvin and jgb there and half our friends caught covid and had to miss jubilee. Nice to know you caverns.

To answer my question it looks like Touch had been played 20 or so times, throwing stones around 30 and it was the 13th bucket and was around the 4th or 5th time all were played same show. In this digital age, we can only find this stuff in a book. Weird.

What’s crazy is with the most insane dance songs the dead does, music, dancin, Sampson and HSF all in 1 set it felt like we had no time to catch our breath but there was a slower dancer in between each. It felt like it was continuous 140 bpm heart rate but I guess we got just a slight reprieve. After the show I said wow no ballads that whole set lol. That’s what it felt like. Was a perfect night too. What a way to cap off jubilee. I’ll ride this high for the whole week. Now that jubilee is over I feel like I’m in great shape to do jubilee lol. All those times clinging the hill plus the monster cardio workouts but nothing to use it on. Jubilee should be a whole week!!!! Maybe DSO and 1 other band Monday-Thursday then the full fest starting Friday. I’m in!!!

That was a smoke show. Curious how many times they had played bucket and throwing stones at this point. No deadbase on me so no clue. They also played touch. 3 songs that wouldn’t see an album for 4 years. i was thrown off by Lisa on stage. I don’t remember seeing her on stage besides doing pig harmonica in a all boy show so I was like 80’s style original with Lisa harmonizing and didn’t think it was a show. That 2nd set was crazy. Epic show. Dso crushes the 80’s. That Touch was a bass lead song. Interesting twist with skip leading the way with the guitars being 2nd fiddle for most of the song. The band sounded so tight. Was an epic show.

Scott!!!!! Sml make an appearance on the boards for all your fans!! Luckily stardom didn’t go to his head and he made an appearance at our camp site and we talked about the show. He rocked it. Full Bobby rock star on sugar mags. He’s got some chops too and has Bobby down and that’s a hard guitar to play. There are tons of Jerry’s but not many Bobby’s. The finger dexterity to play all those chords is crazy. Love you brother!!!! Proud of you!!

So if it’s anyones 1st time at jubilee you need to know 1 thing. 1. Never leave jubilee with anything that can get you in trouble. Throw your bowls in the trash before you leave. The state troopers have a spotter and they pull over dozens of people a year Monday morning on the interstate. They only pull over festival goers. We see them ransacking peoples cars. We’ve had friends get arrested the day after jubilee. Leave it behind. Don’t be stupid. On a busy interstate, 3 miles down the road a trooper pulls out of the median behind me going the speed limit. Stays on my tail for 5 minutes then veers off—-Spotters at the interstate entrance. Several years we’ve seen 3 cars pulled over going east with cops emptying backpacks at every car. 2019 was the only year I didn’t see this of my 8 years. If they pull you over they are gonna find it. Have your 3 days of fun and freedom and toss it Monday morning. cheers

This hurricane on land just isn’t freaking moving. Looks like it could be rainy Friday or it may not rain at all. Depends on if this 1500 mile wide blob happens to be over us or just a small band going through. Luckily it will be gone Saturday and should just be light rain Friday even though could be all day light rain.

vegas jubilee is being planned for late June next year. It’s gonna be on this gorgeous patch of desert. No rain for sure. Heard there’s gonna be a danceathon from 10am to 8pm. Whoever keeps dancing for 10 straight hours wins a Sports bottle and a coozie and an ambulance ride!!

There we go. I added a message to put the setlist at the top lol.

Set Type JGB Style Set List Set One: How Sweet It Is ; Catfish John ; That's What Love Will Do For You ; I'll Take A Melody; I Second That Emotion ; Mystery Train ; Tough Mama ; Box Of Rain Set Two: Cats Under The Stars ; The Way You Do The Things You Do ; Hard To Handle ; Mission In The Rain ; Midnight Moonlight ; The Harder They Come ; I Want To Tell You > Don't Let Go > Tangled Up In Blue Encore: My Sisters And Brothers Show Notes Band was Jeff Mattson, Rob Barraco, Skip Vangelas, Dino English.

Bill wrote it down. I thought it was a fools errand as it was obviously a jgb show from prob 76-78. It was just dead on that era until the 1st set encore of Box. Some dude in the bathroom was like I want a terrapin. I said bro you have a 0 percent shot of that. This is a Jerry band stow. That was right before Box so the chances became higher than 0%. 1 guitar terrapin would be different for sure. Besides hard to handle and box everything played was played b/t 76-78 live. They gave barraco and skip a chance to sing. Can’t wait until Dino busts out vocals on a The Band song and has Levon dead on!! Levon was actually on a top 10 boy name list. The issue was everyone was like oh Elton John. I’m like no. Levon helm!!!! So that name got nixed

Sorry bro. We got lucky last night that we had Jeff, skip, barraco and Dino to drum. Anything less and there wouldn’t have been a show.

We really dodged a bullet on jubilee weather. If it was this weekend it was gonna be highs around 90 and lows in the low 70’s. That would be brutal and peeps would be falling out. Luckily it’s looking like highs around 70 and lows around 55 next weekend. That’s pretty much ideal. Would be nice for it to be a little cooler overnight but can’t complain about that weather!!

Someone’s got miracle tickets on CashorTrade if anyone needs

I’ll put an ear to the ground bro. Glad you are gonna come.

Obviously you all have covid. I’m keeping my distance. The good thing is 90 degree heat and the sweat lodge tents you will be in Friday should heal you. You should sneak into the mouth of the cave and drop your sleeping bag to get some sleep

CashorTrade is the shit!! Unfortunately it’s spammed with phish peeps wanting to trade Friday for Saturday night shows etc. during jazzfest it’s really good. So many have these grand plans but by the time 9pm rolls around they are done. There were hundreds of JRAD tix. Peeps couldn’t get rid of them for $10 a ticket. Scored sold out voodoo dead down there for next to nothing. We got into an impossible ticket for Billy strings Christmas show at tiny 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville. Place holds 340 when they do seating like that show. That was fun. Getting to see phil and moe for a 2pm Sunday show at the beach park was a score in the middle of dsos 2018 west coast summer run. It’s a great site!! I pay the 25 a year for gold membership but it’s paid for itself with 21x I’ve gotten or sold tix.

There’s a single RV VIP on CashorTrade. Pretty sure you can just camp with the cars as it’s near it.

nice!!! You are getting a lot of music lately!

He’s not selling her ticket. I gave you the clue 😜

or you’d want to make sure it was NOT a physical ticket just for safety reasons etc.

Seriously set a CashorTrade notification and be fast. I’ve never failed to get tix for sold out show like this if you start early.