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you mean before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Ukraine was not part of Russia. It was part of the USSR. Putin wants to bring the economies of former Soviet Union countries under his control.

I don’t know why I thought this was a small venue. Isn’t there a small ballroom in Denver that DSO has played. I googled mission ballroom and realized it’s about 4k capacity. Looks like a great spot to get down.

He needs to stock up on black sweat pants and black tees with an occasional red tee thrown in there. He was smoking a cig so he’s got that part down. did Jerry ever wear a full tie dye outfit or is that creative license. I’m sure there will be a lot of that. A pure Jerry docudrama would likely be a tad boring or at least based on his last 15 years. Play show, hide out, go to Hawaii.

There’s been a bunch of dso shows where I begged for a ballad to take a breather. With the last couple years of fewer shows and a more sedentary life, I think we’ve all lost a step or 2 on our dance game compared to pre pandemic so I need a ballad or long tuning every other song. Play Freebird.......ballad style!!

I hope Eaton drops one on archive.

That’s a great Atlanta dead band name for sure!!!!

My uncle got his PHD in anthropology from Duke studying Lemurs in Madagascar and “consulted” on some lemur puppet show on pbs similar to blues clues. He almost died living in the wild for 4-6 month stretches in Madagascar, being in the hospital for malaria for multiple month stretches. (Don’t go camping in the Madagascar jungle). The lengths people will go to get degrees that don’t offer real world jobs. But hey, now he’s 60 and has all his student loans paid off but had to take a job at a middling state university to get tenured like a middle Tennessee state. The life of an academic was always appealing to me besides the having to write papers and show up for class part to get the PHD. I liked the never having to really work idea and hanging out at college pubs and dating the constant stream of grad students. “Guys my age are so immature, professor. You are the only one who understands me”.

Starting out with a 69 to begin tour in Tahoe is the way to do it. Haven’t caught a 69 since Louisville in 2018 but caught 4 Straight of their 69s over an 18 month stretch from ‘16-‘18. This was actually the 1st 69 recreation since 11/19. Ugh. I knew I should have called social services and said I need a foster parent for 2 weeks so I can fly out west to see some shows. Those foster parents only make like $600 a month so that’s pro rated to $20 a day. That’s some cheap babysitting and pretty sure they are available at a moments notice. The Baby Kennel chain is pretty expensive in our area at like $700 a week. That would add up after a long tour plus they only play Christian music all day long but they don’t allow dancing as that leads to fornication. The boss likes Talking heads followed by Dead, so that’s a nonstarter and he dances a lot so don’t want him getting lashed while we are away.

My buddy owned Two Keys in Lexington in the 80s and when he sold it he took the shuffleboard table and the pinball machines and Galaga with him. We played shuffleboard for hours and hours every night for a few years at his house. Late night party + shuffleboard is pretty awesome. You need a massive ice setup to curl but it does look fun. I have USA network on DVR and ive watched literally everything besides hockey and most of the curling. They need curling to fill out the time. Daddy day care works great with olympics. The only issue is it takes like 8 hours to get through all the events so I’ve gotta stay on my fast forward through commercial game. the craziest part of the 2018 games was the chick who won the gold in ski super G then wins gold in snowboard giant slalom. That’s nuts. Snowboarding was her thing but she pulled a massive shocker winning the gold in skiing. What’s crazy is you can’t really do both at most World Cup events as they may be at the same time. It’s not like the downhill, super G and slalom in skiing that have a few days in between so racers can do all. It’s sort of baffling to win gold in 2 different disciplines and it’s even more rare to see anyone not in the top 20 rankings to get any medal in skiing.

That is the worst analogy I’ve ever heard. Bobby being on stage didn’t cost dso a shot in the jam band finals. This is music, not a scored sport. The creator of this music sat in and for 40 minutes they played a slightly different style of music with a legend. You’d likely hate jazz fest as at 2am on Frenchmen St there are tons of collaborations where a member from 5 different bands come together to do something different. My suggestion is see more shows. The more you see, the more you crave something like this that’s a bit different. Gr8fulpair and I freaking loved when Donna joined the band in Birmingham for a Jerry band show. We saw something unique. Bobby has joined the band like 3x or so ever?

how many are you doing. Did I last see you in Utah or Asheville?

I’d be thrilled to see bobby join dso for 5 songs even if it is slow tempo. It’s Bobby FFS. The band loves it too. It lends credibility and the articles about Bobby playing with them get shared across dead sites leading to more potential ticket buyers in the future. It’s good for the fans and the band!!!! Eaton plays Bobby guitar. He’s happy to have a sit while his idol fills in.

I’ve always been a big Winter Olympics fan. I’m pretty stoked about killing 2 weeks of winter with the upcoming action. My favorite sport in the Winter Olympics is criss country skiing. I love the strategy and the pain and determination involved. To watch the best athlete do a breakaway climbing a 500 foot climb is just remarkable. You have to be a mental giant after 5 to 10 to 15 miles to climb a hill full speed to separate from the crowd. Unfortunately my fav athlete Marit Bjoergen retired. At 38 she dominated the 30k last Olympics. 15 medals over 12 years and when she retired she won the big one by over 2 minutes. It’s sort of like cycling. Do you breakaway from the pack and lose the ability to draft or do you try to stay with the breakaway pack and will you have the energy to sprint at the end.

well my friends are spread out over the country and we get together for show runs. Locally you’d be extremely lucky to get 10 friends to do anything much less traveling. I’ve probably got more close friends from dso shows than I have locally considering kids, life and jobs get in the way like you say after 40.

Boring

This chick was one of my favs from years past. There was this one video of this band playing in a diner with everyone sort of going about their business with the band members spread out through the restaurant that I thought was a neat one but I can’t seem to find it. It was prob 5 or so years ago

The current reality sort of discourages a whole tour. You don’t have many who are on the road too which takes a bit of the fun away and covid restrictions are a cherry on top of the shit burger that’s our reality atm. I’ve been pulled on whole tours with peer pressure. The more the merrier and without friends on tour, it’s not the same. If 10 friends were like Tahoe baby, I maybe would have snuck out there for the weekend, but alas no. I think the lack of pull from different friend groups really hurts attendance. If your local friend group isn’t going to a local show for whatever reason you may not either. We are pulling some St Louis friends to Jrad in the Lou right before a 3 show dso run, but if we weren’t going, they wouldn’t either as they need that peer pressure. I figure I’ve gotten friends over the years to purchase 400 dso tickets and one year we had 7-8 from my hometown pack up for jubilee. MC was a huge peer pressure driver of ticket sales. He was maybe one of the best dso promoters ever as he’d make peeps get in his car to hit the next show. I was nrver like that but I put my share of peer pressure on friends be it local or far away. I think that’s sort of gone since the start of the pandemic. Turn and face the strange ch ch ch changes

So you have the right to spout your views but those musicians can’t. Talk about being a snowflake. Oh no. A musician pulled their music for their beliefs. I’m going to lose my mind. Joe Rogan can do what he wants but they can’t. Got it. It’s the mind of the right wing. They want to cancel anyone who doesn’t think like them and don’t understand the hypocrisy of their stance.

It was sad to see him have to be golf carted in and sadder to see the golf cart get stuck trying to turn around to take him 4 feet closer to the stage. You just don’t survive severe obesity into old age like that. You don’t want to see talented people like that die. A human body can survive most things into old age, but severe obesity isn’t one of them. He’s 68 years old. That’s pretty much a miracle and not to be morbid, but making it to jubilee at that age with that health condition is in no way assured.

saw him at the caverns earlier this year. I don’t think he’s long for this earth sadly. You get to a point to where you either decide to make a change to live or you don’t.

St. Louis vs cincy in the SB Mahomes had an epic collapse starting with 5 secs left in the 2nd Q. Crazy. It looked like he forgot how to throw. He was putrid after a hot start. then Stafford tried to lose and had the easiest int of the year dropped. Wow.

My buddy is like Burrow won the game. I’m like bro, Tennessee was driving. Your defense won the game. Burrow refused to throw the ball away and took 9 sacks. On at least 3-4 of those he should have thrown it away and he took a sack in FG range end of the game that forced a punt when it was tied 16-16. The only thing you can’t do at the 35 is take a sack. If your 1st read isn’t open on 3rd at the 35, you throw it away.

RV camping is outside the gates at the top of the hill. There’s really no reason to be VIP RV as regular RV is a great spot with a lot of good peeps and fun setups. The only reason to go VIP imo is camping next to car inside the venue. You do get showers with vip and a bit of swag, but if not for no longer wanting to pack gear, I’d just do GA. I assume the new VIP woods camping is the area in front of the normal VIP car camping where the woods is. It depends on how much gear you have. We’ve now gotten to where we have an SUV packed to the gills for 2 people because of the hundreds of camp decorations and lights.......so i don’t want to pack anything anywhere. I’d say if going minimalist, woods camping would work for you. We have EZ ups and tarps so we are shaded regardless.

KC can’t get to the QB like Tennessee. They also don’t have an inept QB like Tennessee.

that was a hot show both literally and figuratively. Stage right was empty as the sun was baking there while the river side with shade was packed. And that show started the best way a show can—-HSF lol. Had a badass house with a ping pong table that produced a few headers into the wall chasing balls. We found out Tea was a ping pong master. He trained in China for 6 months and only his wife getting pregnant ended his dreams of becoming US champion. She’s like ping pong won’t pay the bills. You will be a banker. Go where the money is. The rest is history. He still sharks people once in a blue moon at the smoky ping pong halls around the research triangle. He’s had to run for his life a few times when people realize he’s slick paddle Willie trying to hustle them. He’s had many a ping pong ball lodged into the side of his car as he races off with their money.