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Nice to meet you and hang out Joel and Dharmada. You guys made it later than me. I Pulled a cab at 12 and hit the sack. My body thanks me right now for that lol.

they generally say above 8k feet you start feeling the altitude. Venue looks to be around 6500 feet so shouldn’t be an issue.

flying solo to Utah.

Epic time with great friends. Utah then cincy. Gonna finish this mutha out!!

the start of set 2 was as fast a start as you can have. Easy wind is a fast dancer then put maybe the fastest Jerry tune in mystery train in the middle. I was gassed after that start. The 6pm start time was rough. Long travel day then 1st set trying to stay in the shade. I took it a bit easy. I usually try to get a week of cardio into each show and I got that week during the start of set 2 but also took some breaks. With limited shows, I’m not in the same shape I used to be getting 40+ shows a year so taking a break is nice for a few songs. The rocks were a pain. We may try the mulch tonight. I miss being able to have dinner before show with all our friends but the early start time makes it impossible but makes for a fun after party. See everyone tonight

That sunset was insane!!! For some reason I can’t post direct to here with the link but you can click the link for the sunset. https://ibb.co/CWr5jCW

My cincy buddy Danny is having his annual birthday show this weekend and hired Airshow to play his house this Saturday. 1 set of dead and a set of originals. 6-10pm lol. Same as Dso. So we are in a pickle.....

I wish. That would be a blast but it’s right after Asheville. We discussed the possibility of one of us doing it solo but decided to pass. Plus after going to The Stage on Bay in savannah a couple years ago, nothing can compete with the beauty of that venue and location. Picture gorgeous savannah and then the name the stage on bay which you would assume has a stage overlooking a marina with luxury yachts and palm trees all around you, and then picture no water near, a metal warehouse type venue surrounded by barbed wire fence because it’s in the projects with boarded up windows and a gas station next door with burned out cars that have been there for years and security walking the blocks of street parking because if they don’t you will get broken into guaranteed. Once you see heaven like that, the charms of a mountain town have very little pull.

wonder if there’s a private party hooked with that. Long flight for 1 show.

yup. 4-2-89 all over then we can run. So my theory is debunked

Melvin and JGB with JK The Caverns, Pelham, TN 8/8/21 Setlist: I Feel Like Dynamite Run For The Roses Cats Under The Stars Tore Up Positively Fourth Street We Be Jammin' Rhapsody In Red Señor In The Midnight Hour -/- Ruben & Cherise > Eyes Of The World > Drum World > Hey Pocky Way Forever Young Midnight Moonlight Someday Baby Everybody Needs Somebody Deal had a blast doing an afternoon show in the caverns. Show was 4:30-7:30. Made it a semi easy up and back same day show which was perfect for us. Crowd was crazy high energy. Loud crowd. Like cover your ears after song loud. The cave makes for some echoey accoustics. Lots of space to groove. Saw 3 different groups of friends that do Dso shows. Always good to see friends. Saw a buddy we hadn’t seen in over 4 years from tour. They had this smoking area way up at the top in the 90 degree sun but with this crowd we stayed close to the mouth of the cave to enjoy the free A/C. It stays under 70 degrees about 50 feet from where you have sky above your head then walk another 10 feet and it’s 90. It would definitely be a cool camping spot in the middle of the summer. The security guy at the top of the hill said If there’s a low pressure front the natural A/C goes all the way up to the top. I was just thinking how much they save not having to buy a massive commercial HVAC system lol. That shit ain’t cheap lol. Thanks Doc for the tix. We wouldn’t have gone prob until a free pair of tix landed in our lap. Have to choose our escapes wisely to not overwhelm the biological babysitters.

Lol. I caught like a minute of the stream. Heard all over now and saw the Bean and was like gotta be like a 77 lol. That setlist is all over the place. Lol. Did any of these songs ever play back to back? Did Dino make a list where no songs had ever been played next to each other? without consulting the deadbase I’d guess maybe only Lucy and BTW had a shot to be next to each other and maybe Stella>jbg but that’s it. I’m going with not 1 song on this setlist was ever played by the dead next to any other song.

Fucking covid

I bet you are right bro. 50 year shows will be on the docket I bet heavy next year unless the iota zeta variant turns us into goo and lets the cockroaches rule earth again.

It’s nice to see friends getting shows. Been a rough 16 months for music. The last year has been the year of the local tribute band but the death for the national touring acts. Things were looking up for a while and now shits getting stupid again.

3 show run at Brooklyn bowl. We could only do 1 but we were impressed for sure. He mandated vaccine cards for entry and masks if you were on the rail. No one besides the rail peeps wore a mask.

Phil and friends 7/29 Brooklyn bowl Nashville with Grahame Lesh, nicki bluhm, and the band Dawes. unfortunately even arriving an hour before show we see there’s a AA baseball game going on that’s connected to the venue. After 3 full parking lots we end up a half mile away. If you aren’t familiar with Nashville, the parking sucks and is expensive. We decided to bowl a game pre show. $40 later we pop into the concert area. This is such a super cool new complex (opened worst time ever 3/20). The sound was so bad we spent the 1st 20 minutes finding a place that you could actually hear the cymbals. Note it onlu holds 800 and prob 500 total were there. Hit the balcony about 10 feet from the hanging PA ang we achieved liftoff. Crystal clean sound. The 1st set we were just getting our feet under us. At setbreaj we went outside to the smoking area deck. It overlooks the baseball stadium. Watched 20 minutes of baseball and headed back in. The security guard next to me said he was tired of telling people to quit smoking weed and had given up. I’m like you do know this is a dead crowd right. He said cops could come in and we are a new venue. I’m like none of that is happening bro. Set 2 starts and we take our spot 10 feet from the PA. 2nd somg comes unbroken chain. Holy shit they took the middle jam and played with that funky dance beat for 8+ minutes. I was drenched keeping that pace. 2nd set was so so good. This Dawes guy sang one of the most beautiful Stella’s I’ve ever heard. He had this angelic voice. Most of the songs were sung by Nicki bluhm and she delivered. Had a blast. Blown away. Besides a hiccup here ang there you wouldn’t have known this band hadn’t been together for a while. We had a great 2 hour drive home post show basking in the light of that performance. I was so in the now I didn’t take 1 pic of Phil lol. The next day I’m like wtf was wrong with you not getting 1 pic of phil.

The debate is scheduled for 4pm that Saturday. We have a panel of 3 moderators. Each of you will have 90 seconds on your question then the other will have a 30 second rebuttal period. Be prepared for a 90 minute debate. The moderators will all be freshly prepped on the 2 shows in question. If either of you pull a “Sir, you are no__________” you will be penalized.

My 2nd Dso show was an accoustic show in Bloomington in 2012. Everyone but me was seated. I was on the rail. The seats were 20 feet from the stage so the pit was just mine. He told everyone to get out of their seats and come up front which they did. Was a very intimate show. The band talked to each other and made jokes all show as it was all accoustic. They even joked with the crowd. I was so new to the Dso scene I didn’t appreciate the intimacy and the banter at the time. Haven’t seen them talk with the crowd or each other like that in the 150 shows since.

Great. Now we won’t get those out of principle. Good job guys. There’s 2 of the 2300 likely ruled out unless me saying they won’t do a request gets them to say screw it, that sounds like a great show and we are going to do it just because he said we won’t do it. Lots of psychology and reverse psychology in my analysis so working both angles. So now dr b has to show as he can’t risk getting that show and not being there. He’d never recover.

We used to stay at the executive inn Or the Galt house for state tournaments in high school. Our goal was to roam the halls and pick up chicks from other high schools but we never successful.

The executive inn is long gone. Maybe he meant in 1989. And bill wasn’t there or hed have been back with us plus he’s impossible to miss. We are both beacons at shows. It’s easy to locate our tall asses.

Lol I have these JRAD tickets for St. Louis for 15 months originally 4/2020 and its the same weekend as these Dso shows. Now have to sell them on CashorTrade......gotta get it with my peeps. Meili isn’t happy it’s same weekend as she has sisters in the Lou who babysit for us. I want 2 weekends 😭

Duck’s super deadhead college son called it after he heard desolation and foolish. He said it’s got to be the Louie Louie Louisville 89 show. No googling. He’s like they never did a set that finished desolation foolish besides this. Proud papa moment for duck for sure. He raised the kids proper . Hoping Jonathan will be on the bus when he gets to choose as he’s gonna be forced on it starting 2023. He’s gonna sell water for the things he wants to buy. In Nashville at ascend there are 3-4 guys with huge coolers selling water since you can take 1 bottle in and everyone buys from them. Let’s see if he will have a bit of hustle to him.

We went up high in the back stands and wow the sound was amazing. Much better than up close. You could hear the sound moving around so well and the light show was sick. The lights matched the show. Dark and evil much of set 2. That set 2 was hard rock psychsdelic Jazz. With 1 drummer the band made so many crazy hard transitions and very unique ones. Dino was constantly slowing or speeding up tempo. It was a heavy metal face melt in the eyes transitions. From playin>playing it was the band showing how tight they are and how creative they can be. And Dino’s shortish drum solo was just showing off. Wow he’s fast. I’d never heard an other one played anything similar to that. Set 2 was soooo melty. Wow what a show.