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Sold out show. Happy for the band. There was no getting to the floor. Was oppressively packed. The crowd was full of vigor. Greg Allman finally got his revenge on barraco for abusing his antique piano bench. Who knew playing the keys could be so dangerous. Luckily Rob B didn’t break a hip. It may be time to get one of those life alert systems in case you have another bench malfunction while at home playing. What’s weird is it wasn’t some antique bench. It looked like a modern professional folding one and it straight up broke and looked like was replaced by a drummers stool. Looked like it stung. We were oh shit he left the stage. We started asking who up in the balcony could play accordion and switch to Bruce style original. All kidding aside, we had a great run and got to get a break for the 1st time in a while and see 3 fantastic shows. Sort of rare to get 2 originals in a 3 show run, but to be honest we were prob the only ones who did all 3 of those. We met several who had been on tour for a while. I’m like cool did you do cincy. No man. That’s a haul. The only longer drive I can remember with no day off was Minnesota zoo to St. Louis for a 6pm St. Louis show. Needless to say I think no one attempted that combo in 2019. Meili tried to explain to a coworker why she was seeing the same band 3 straight nights. They will do completely different shows and songs all 3 nights. Yeah but they will play their hits every night right? So do people get mad if they don’t play their famous songs? It’s sort of funny trying to explain this scene and music. The dead had no hits but every song was a hit with a few exclusions like samba in the rain and dso ain’t busting that crap out. cheers DSO. See you guys at Jubilee.

We saw Melvin and JK there last summer. It’s a real cave that holds around 1k peeps. Sort of low ceiling. Cotter will have a fit trying to get the sound right. It’s always a perfect show temp of 58 degrees. No clue about camping as that’s new.

Reagan is like 2 miles from the venue. I don’t think it will be an issue. Plus they are mostly doing about 2 hours of driving and read it’s not that big an issue. That poor peoples convoy. 1st the Ukraine war took over the news. Then they are protesting things that are pretty much nonexistent. Isn’t it more of the election was stolen and stop CRT issue now lol. Let’s protest high gas prices by driving a Semi in loops. That will fix it!!! Now there’s evidently a covid outbreak among them and several have been hospitalized and have to wear a mask. I sorta feel sorry for them like the QAnon people who went to Dallas for JFK to show up. Those poor 200 peeps showed up for nothing. My pillow kept letting them down for months and now all this. If that pizza parlor didn’t get rid of their basement where all the child slaves were hidden, the whole case would have been cracked a long time ado.

Luckily we are flying into Reagan so won’t be an issue. If they decide to convoy the Wharf then there’s an issue.

Saw a happy pic of you guys. Hope to see you down the road. Are you or Sammie doing DC?

Last night I was told we were doing this tour, but reasonable heads prevailed. Not leaving a 20 month old for 2 weeks. The way to do it is not doing all the shows. I’d do 4-5 shows to get some show excitement but enjoy Europe. That schedule would be ultra exhausting if you do it all and I’m sure several will or at least will try. I want to eat good food and not be rushed. I don’t even know if restaurants are open early enough to eat nice before a show. We ate at 10p every night in Spain. I don’t think those places even opened until around 8. my fantasy itinerary would be Fly to London 9/11 9/11-9/13 London. See London show 9/14-9/17 Paris. See Paris show 9/18-9/23 Travel to Italy and explore. See Milan Show 9/24 go to Florence. See Florence show 9/25 Fly home. I’ve been to Germany. If skipping a section, that’s the one I’d do. I love Spain. It’s so chill there. Pretty much everything is decriminalized there. It would take an extra travel day to go that far south so on my fantasy itinerary, I had to leave it off. Any place on the Riviera, be it France, Italy or Spain would be so much fun to go to.

Unfortunately it’s the last 8 shows over 9 days. Can’t really do anything besides hop a train, check in, eat dinner and see a show. Rinse repeat. The dead did like 3 shows a week on their Europe tours. I get that it’s expensive for the band so they gotta knock it out but that’s a lot of train action. We’d have prob done it a few years ago though. It’s technically a Europe tour but you will see about as much of Europe as you do any city in an American tour. 15 day Eurail pass $341

Here’s an idea how many bands are playing at the same time at different venues. Saturday 4/30. All of these shows are a 9-10pm start time at different venues Ween Lettuce Greensky Bluegrass Voodoo dead Dumpstaphunk New Orleans Suspects (Little Feat) dirty dozen brass band note that 40% of clubs haven’t yet announced their schedule. That’s how nutty it is during Jazz fest. In 2018 or 19 Phil and friends was at same time as JRAD and Oteill and friends. There were literally 3 dead bands playing at the same time one night. It makes it tough to make decisions. Our 1st jazz fest was 2017 when DSO played 2 nights. Across the street Govt Mule was playing. That was before I knew about the grid site. I thought it was weird dso and govt mule were playing same time and had no idea that was just the tip of the iceberg. It’s really hard to sell out the big theaters because there’s too much at once so the small clubs make the most sense. You play jazz fest to have fun, not make money. For most bands it may pay for your hotel and a little food, but you probably aren’t leaving with a chunk of money. If you ever want to check it out, I suggest paying the extra money for an Airbnb right off Frenchman St. Being within a couple blocks of all those clubs makes it easy. We stayed in a super cute place with a courtyard that was literally 300 feet from Blue Nile and dba. If you can tell, I’m pining for the next time I get to go. It’s just that much fun!!!

I can’t seem to find where I saw this posted but Mattson, Eaton, Lisa and Skip are playing 2 after party shows this year. Since I can’t seem seem to find it I forget the rest of the lineup. We saw them in 2019 and they put on almost a 5 hour show each night. Was a lot of fun. Meili wants to go but no way we can get away 3 long weekends in May this year. Jazz Fest is the best time on the planet. If you can get away I highly suggest hitting 4-8 days down there. There’s 1-3 dead bands every night plus all sorts of all star collaborations. You get to eat at the best Oyster restaurant on the planet, Felix’s as well as hundreds of other great places. Music is 10a-5am every night and the 2a-5a bands are the wild collaborations. Besides the 1 day of doing actual Jazz fest which is like 11a-7p seeing Panic and lots more we mostly stuck to the 9-1a and 2a-5a schedule. here’s jazz fest grids. It will be updated a lot more but you get an idea. These will be completely filled in a few weeks. http://www.jazzfestgrids.com/second_weekend/

Saw JRAD at the pageant. I like these guys besides their sound. I was trying to figure out how best to describe what comes out of the PA. When they are all shredding, it becomes one sound. You can’t hear the cymbals or drums hardly at all. It’s like a muddled loud sound. It’s like turning up a bad stereo way past the level you should. Think about when you go to an arena and walk towards the bathroom. You can still hear music but it’s all muddled. But that’s the sound dead center in front of the PA. At my 1st JRAD show I kept asking people what’s wrong with the sound. I thought it was the venue. But every show is like that. Listening to dead and Dso the cymbals and high hats are all crystal clear. It’s like a stereo just just mids and no clean highs. Part of this is the sound delay they use constantly. It’s like creating an arena sound in a theater but in the part of the arena where the sound bounces everywhere. Every time I see them I get annoyed that this is the sound they are going for. I don’t get it. They do tons of cool shit but I want my music clear and clean. On that note, they started jamming Jessica in set 2. Thought it would be a minute then maybe 2 minute jam into a dead song. Nope. They raged a 10 minute full Jessica by the Allmans. Of course with their sound it’s hard to get the tiny details but it was rip roaring and got by far the biggest ovation of the night and how can you not want to hear that song. It’s such an epic fun happy jam that makes me think of sunny warm days. set 1 Row Jimmy music never stopped sugaree Dancin(had been teased since MNS) franklins set 2 Black throated wind jessIca it hurts me too eyes minglewood morning dew E: Sampson. 12 song show. A bit short time wise. Started at 8:15. 40 minute set break and ended at 11:20. Miss my 4 hour dso show

That’s my house to yours plus a bit of driving. Do the caverns then Memphis instead. They never play Memphis. 1st time venues always excite me.

Check out this Cumberland big River mashup in set 2. 18 minutes of insanity. It does have a long run up which confused the crap out of me. We were at jazz fest this year and this was just a tiny piece of an epic time. note all of their shows on nugs are Free mp3 downloads so you can listen free https://www.nugs.net/live-download-of-joe-russos-almost-dead-mardi-gras-world-new-orleans-la-05-05-2018-mp3-flac-or-online-music-streaming/19989.html

Ok. There were some come to jersey, lots of penns peak anger. Come to Seattle so was a bit off on Oregon prediction. Come to Georgia which they did 2 nights of 3 months ago. Come to cali which they just did and are doing with the skull and roses again. evidently many won’t pop an hour drive and demand a true local show. I’m going to start spamming “Come back to Paducah”. And yes they were like the 3rd show at our badass 3k seat performing arts center. But the bands that thrive here are 70s bands who had 1-4 songs. America, Boston and the like. If you were a 3 hit wonder, you will sell out The Carson Center.

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that would be weird. Have to assume it’s the bands. I didn’t even know there was a Mac song named that. Considering the dead covered the band and played with the band id say it’s a 99.9 shot of the bands version lol.

that’s where JRAD comes in. If you want something crazy like Cumberland>big River>Cumberland>big River>Cumberland>big River>Cumberland> big River that’s what they do lol. On that note I get a JRAD show this weekend as a warm up for cincy>Richmond Dso. Should be a good way to get my feet under me before a lot of travel with winter rust built up.

That’s one of those songs that’s not really ambiguous. its not a bust out but would be 1st time since 2014

Wonder if barraco can do a British accent. If so he definitely needs to do Be My Girl—Sally by the police, just the spoken part while playing around on the keys during a tuning or an equipment issue. :))

ummm you and him were up until 9am and you guys decide to finally sleep without telling anyone and assumed Ed and I would make sure this 4yr old didn’t go break windows out of cars to steal a juice box. No one was asked to watch him. It was a why do you have no parents around. No one asked us to watch you. Ok. We will keep you alive and the thanks we got was a kid kicking us in the shins. on that note we may go. The deal is she deals with the overnight while I sleep. If he’s uncontrollable the car can provide. Fuck you peer pressuring peeps

Wasn’t that your 1st show toomuchfun?

Umm car camping. Would you guys care if boss happens to wake up and scream middle of the night. He’d love camping as we are free range parents—you know that controversial method of parenting how everyone of us fucking grew up but if you do it now you get social services on your ass. Chris you need to handle 4a-8a duty. You’ll prob be up until then anyway. Don’t be twisting my arm or I may accept the peer pressure

If you take that 7/4-5 slot you have to sell it out. I don’t know how ticket sales are going to be but have to assume they are down a bit. Not sure if DSO could command those 2 days and would think Red Rocks would go with someone they know could sell it. Now say if you do DSO then JRAD or some combo of 2 dead bands you have a shot at it if they both agreed not to book a competing show the other ones night. That could be cool. On Dead50 weekend, DSO sold out July 2nd before it started and we did the July 3rd Dso show and it was empty b/c everyone was at dead50. Then we capped the weekend with the July 4 show which was so fun. Another issue about July 4th is it’s on a Monday. That would be rough to pull off a sellout.

Just announced. Playing in the cave. Personally I like the outdoor amphitheater better. Indoors is packed and sound bounces everywhere. But….this is the weekend before Jubilee which makes it tough for the regulars to be gone the weekend before we head out Thursday for 4 days for jubilee.

I’ve never really liked dressing up. Not a fan of halloween at all. Feels too stressful. We were with Dr B one weekend and he has the most amazing closet of super cool vintage gear and was trying to give us stuff to wear. Unfortunately I was just a bit larger of a size to wear any of it. Having a 6’5” wingspan being a shot blocking machine, anything less than XL will result in being ripped at the seams like the Hulk. There was a vintage scarf, but I thought I’d be just a bit over the top and my fragile self esteem couldn’t take it.

You’ll be easy to find. Most of us wear business casual all the way up to black tie on the final day of shows.