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Guess the early bird gets the worm.

Yep. Just saw this as fact. Sucks peeps won’t get their money back. Eek. I know lots of the Indy townies scrape up cash to travel once a year to see hyryder. This will sting those guys who used all their disposable money for the year to support their band. More locals who can shell out $15 for a show vs the Dso die hards who won’t miss the money like in town peeps who like seeing their fav band on a big national stage and this was a luxury. I assume most peeps are cancelling their flights and plans.

Did the plan also include Maui before the fire?

Are you saying the eclipse wasn’t sponsored by the Taylor swift Travis Kelce sex trafficking ring?? She makes a billion and sex trafficking is at an all time high. Kelce wins the superbowl looking like he was jacked up on Hillary Clinton’s child adrenaline gland cocktail. Any reasonable person can put 2 and 2 together. And then there’s an eclipse a couple months later. Gotta look deeper bro. It’s in the numbers.

This was the 2nd total eclipse I’ve had in my back yard in 7 years. There’s not much like a total eclipse. Southern Illinois and western KY are in the x marks the spot double eclipse area even though this one was only 1:20 vs the 2:25 we had in 2017. The last few seconds before a ripple of light starts to move over the ground as all the light becomes from the flares. Then darkness out. At around 95% covered everything becomes surreal looking. A minute before it went total Jonathan wanted to look at it so had to take him inside to not get his corneas burned like the 500 people last eclipse. Your eyes don’t automatically close like with the sun out. But the 500 people with a tiny strip of sun burnt into their corneas after the last one will tell you don’t look. Once it went full brought him out to see. He’s a moon fanatic anyway. Any time a moon shows up in any movie you get the “daddy moon. Moon daddy”. Cheers. oh and you could see stars and planets during the full.

So I had to continue to bet UConn as they had covered every game. -11.5 vs Bama was a ridiculous spread and they still covered. Never saw anything like this in my life. 11 straight tourney games winning by 13+. They are favored over Purdue by 7. That’s nutty too but how could I get off them. The regret of not winning 6 straight UConn bets would overwhelm me. If they won by 4 vs Bama the spread wouldn’t be that high but eventually the spread becomes too much.

Knew you’d be there. Didn’t even bother to ask. Retirement is suiting you well. See you in Asheville or jubilee

Pass the whiskey round. Like serious. You drunk mother fuckers ate hogging it all. 4/29/71 is just too short. Sorry. 9 minutes isn’t enough to tell a tale. For non heads 9 minutes is extremism but it leaves too much on the table for me. on the 8/6/71 I have 4 sources from the John A mega drive but only 3 have the hard to handle as dicks picks volume 35 excludes it so I need to listen to all 3 but not sure 7:48 will do it either. Did the dead not play a 15 min hard to handle? Has Dso played an expanded one? I’m sorta confused. I thought there were many really long ones but I can’t seem to find any. I guess I never really think about the length of a few songs. Good lord I need to listen to more shows again but I get “no dance daddy. No dance”. We aren’t dancing. I’m playing music. “No dance daddy!!!!!!” Peace. Bed calls

Dso plays several songs the dead never did in spots other than just filler. Oh darling is one. Also don’t think the Grateful Dead as that unit ever played take a letter Maria. I actually didn’t realize the dead played love the one your with in 83. It’s a lot of work learning the 1 off songs and if Dso does, they are gonna play them more than once

Was wondering if they were gonna pull out a 70 Hawaii show that was Dave’s pick 19 and go weird on the dark star

Well there’s a chance we won’t have anyone to take care of Jonathan. He’d love it at jubilee but he’d crash and burn at 9pm and be super pissed he couldn’t go to sleep. He’s slept through the night every night since 8 months. Epic sleeper. At the superbowl party we couldn’t find him. He went into the hosts bedroom and got in their bed to go to sleep lol. We’d love to share more with him but you don’t know our kid. Crazy independent. Does what he wants to do not what we want, not acting bad but he has a way he wants to play and we have to conform to his way. Hes not ready to chill yet. Hes ancy. Staying put isn’t for him. I don’t see him allowing his headphones so we’d have to go to the field. No way he’d let us go where the music sounds how we want it. It would be all about him all weekend and everything else would be secondary. You’re lucky MC with the older daughter which helps the younger ones follow her lead and gives them someone to play with. A solo wild man who just wants to dig holes and play in the dirt and put mud all over himself is awesome when we play at home but just saying you don’t really understand. He’s smart and knows it and is still in his terrible 2’s but with way more brain power. Jubilee would be so much work. I’m Mr mom all day Monday-friday 7a-9pm when I put him to bed. I need a break from this cute little monster and may not get it. There’s a thought to sell our tix as it could be just wayyyy too much dealing with his fits not getting his way. Just saying he’s this little evil genius.

AC will be there too but he’s Emmy Lou Fam. we thought about that but with doing Dso in Nashville Tuesday and the weekend before, we are prob gonna just get to the hotel near buckeye and chill. Those troopers can’t use your car smells like weed as an excuse yo search peoples cars leaving jubilee this year. Using those federal holiday keep highway safe bonus funds for overtime to pull over deadheads early in the morning vs getting guys going 100 causing wrecks should be over. They wrecked a lot of peeps lives terrorizing everyone leaving jubilee for years and they wonder where the bovine connotation came from—maybe dumping out everyone’s backpacks on the side of the road and just driving away if they didn’t find anything leaving the campers to clean up the mess.

Good read. 1. Dso needs to play a show in drag to show their support!! 2. I just saw a Dso show on YouTube of redrocks 2022 with Barraco wearing a baseball cap. In all my shows I’ve never seen him wear anything other than the “trademark bandana” besides maybe a sock cap in extreme cold. 3. It took them long enough to get to DSO. They mentioned JRAD, grateful shred and the drag queen band Bertha before a few paragraphs later Barraco saving the article and steadying the authors proverbial hand, keeping it from being a fluff piece and giving it some depth. I think there were some thoughts not really said that the author thinks Dso needs to up their game by either going drag, maybe doing a few shows as the Donna’s where they all dress like Donna, or they dress like the dead. Depending on the eras of keyboards, Rob will have hair and makeup ready to turn him into Pig or Keith or Brent or maybe Bruce. Eaton just needs to stock up on pastel izods and get some vintage short short cutoffs.

Dave’s everywhere!! Hopefully see you soon bro!! Rest in peace Joel. I’m sure he’d have been there with you.

Jonathan got his 1st and only show at 6 months but those were the epic drive in shows. We were pining for more of those as he could see set 1 then sleep in AC in the car set 2. Drive in shows. Drive in shows!!! Let’s hope your boy ain’t as cray as ours is. Yours has older siblings that can help luckily as he grows and he can follow their lead b/c if he’s as wild as ours, you’re not taking him unless you want to follow him everywhere b/c he won’t do anything we ask. He knows what he wants and knows what we want and they are usually opposite. He doesn’t say no. He yells it. He’s like bring on time out. Doesn’t phase me. He doesn’t walk. He dances around the store. If he’d just listen we could take him somewhere but he marches to the beat of his own drum. When he doesn’t want to go somewhere he hides my shoes and 2 days later they are found with the pots and pans. As you can see I can’t stop talking about him. He’s my world and everything else is just peripheral. It’s why missing shows isn’t a biggie to me. I ain’t missing jubilee. That’s our annual escape.

This Europe run is set up so much easier than last one. 2 and 2 with 2 days off allows you to enjoy Paris and London besides train, eat, show, sleep then train again repeat. You almost needed a tour bus with driver last one. At least DSO got to wake in the next city and be able to enjoy it all day as everyone else was driving or training.

precedent has been set. Willin’ it is

I used to be like “drop this kids wherever and come join us”. Now I get it lol. had no sympathy when I couldn’t get buddies to do a run with us. “Hey it’s just 2 weeks. California blah blah. Can’t you just go through the day care drive thru and see them in a week?” I had back to back 36 show years. I thought it was more but not when I just checked. But we also did jazz fest and did 3-5 JRAD a year and 3-4 deadco. I don’t have that energy anymore. I think covid aged everyone several years. Took us out of the routines that kept us young and the older you get, you can’t take any off time or it’s hard to get back where you were.

I’d love to do it. I’d have loved Hawaii if it was more than 2. When Covid struck and cancelled spring tour meili and I booked 9 days at the Ritz Carlton Maui plus flights and then they instituted a 14 day quarantine after arriving in Hawaii and closed all the restaurants so we had to cancel. Then we got pregnant with lockdown baby. Before that DSO was the main driver of our lives. Now a 3yr old is so gotta do the close ones but this all looks fun. Still haven’t missed anything within 6 hours besides that Tuesday Cincy show last fall but daddy day care didn’t sync up. After Birmingham through Chattanooga I wanted more more but she had to work.

I just don’t care as much about shows anymore. I think covid broke the addiction where any I missed I was hurting. If I get 15 shows a year now that’s epic for me and I’m good. Hell, not many peeps get that many shows a year. Her work friends think is seeing those 5 fall tour shows was a crazy amount lol. I had no balance before. He brings me balance even though right now he’s an asshole to daddy and there’s no balance. I don’t really like being away from him too long. But he and I are in a deep codependent relationship currently and spend maybe too much time together and he acts out against me b/c morning until bed I’m the disheveled housewife wearing the robe who’s husband is like why don’t you keep yourself up anymore. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. Hopefully if we have a Memorial Day in a few years where no one can keep him, he could come but he’s wayyyyy away from being able to do that now. If he doesn’t get his way he’s a terror. The terrible 2’s are still in full effect at 39 months and maybe worse now that he knows everything. Luckily you had girls who would listen to you guys. We ain’t got that. I had to carry him upside down leaving a parade that had ended b/c he’s like nope I’m hanging here for a bit.

I was referring to the chick not able to walk much less dance in those crazy high heeled shoes. I don’t go to “scope out chicks” but I recall we all had a laugh at her not realizing it was a 4 hours dance party and she had no idea evidently with how she was dressed. it’s not the money either. I can afford to do every show this year if I wanted to abandon my kid. It’s too hard to take a week off overseas. Flights are also rough b/c we have to head to the airport at 4am to minimize the time the grandparents have him. He’s a mega handful. It’s so tiring to hop on flights right now and with my parents gone Memorial Day, it made it a lot harder to figure the logistics of it. By the time jubilee is over we will have hit 11 DSO in 6 months plus 3 phish shows. Thats as much as we can do. She doesn’t have the vacation days to do Europe either. We allocate 6 for the beach and 10 for Dso every year. We’ve done several late night drives home after shows to save those precious vacation days. Before her hospital job we were on the road 12 weeks a year at our peak. If you remove the northeast we were doing 2/3 of the shows for several years and did every Colorado show for 3 straight years pre covid when the wall came down.

maybe one day Dso will want to do a vacation week in Wilmington NC in the summer with a 10 day residency. Hawaii, Europe, Jackson and next Wrightsville beach that many say rivals Hawaii. Only way to find out is to do 6 shows in 7 days. It’s no Stage on Bay in Savannah, but nothing rivals that venue. Stage on Bay. The views. Wow. Very few burnt out cars sitting there a decade. Not many venues have less than 2 burnt out cars with years of grass growing up around them. They only had 1. The razor wire was in great shape for the parking lot. You can tell they prided themselves in it. I love Dso bro. But I can’t do them all. Beats Omaha? What about the high heeled chick. You don’t see that at shows.

they changed the movie. Now Jonah Hill is playing John Mayer, the real Jerry. it took him 3 months to get the facial expressions of Mayer spot on. Plus he has to go to makeup for hours a day and wear a specially fitted corset to look like Mayer.

That looks cool. I just don’t know why they won’t speak American in France. We should have kept it after we invaded it. Why invade a country if you won’t keep it. But all they make is wine and croissants so we didn’t see the strategic interest in making it the 51st state since no one had the money in the 40’s to buy expensive wine. We could have taught them how to be real men like Americans and speak a real language not some made up one. There’s a reason Jesus came to America in the 1800s and talked to Joseph smith. Jesus was an American the whole time. I mean the Bible is in English b/c that’s what everyone spoke. But no. All the Louis’ decided to make up some gibberish language no one understands. Their marketing peeps are a very high level like Vegas making Paris “The city of love”.bravo marketers. I guess dark star is trying to teach the Parisians some culture. It’s like a mission trip to expose them to real art. It’s also hard to even buy tickets b/c you don’t know what you’re buying plus the weird money they use. Are the tickets $1 American or $1000. No one knows. Any country with 2 currencies is not to be trusted. It’s even worse in England. Quid, pound, euro. It’s all to scam foreigners and be careful in England b/c everyone throws acid on everyone and not the good kind. I’ll stick to the safety of Chicago and Atlanta where if robbed they just want dollars.

All we need to be successful is to draft what turns out to be the best player in the 1st 3 rounds and that once a decade 7th round pro bowler. Jerry jones is being sneaky signing no one who’s le letting starters leave. It’s deception and 4D chess. His horrible 2023 draft class will now become 1st and 2nd team all pros. He wanted them to all come along slowly and for the ones that are injured use his surgeon that will make them even faster!!!! He plays the long game. 29 years and back to the superbowl.