Rude

Sneak in airplane bottles of booze if you plan to drink at a show. All venues have ridiculous prices. At live nation venues I won’t spend a penny if I can avoid it. Others I don’t mind buying a beer(on top of a few airplane bottles). I also check if we can bring in sealed bottles of water and bring the liter ones. It’s the principle of the thing. I’m there for the band and they get my money with a ticket sale, but don’t want to shell out 1-2k a year on Venue concessions. Plus it’s also a principle of a being a good deadhead to sneak things in. I think many of us pride ourselves on thumbing our noses at authority to an extent.

1st time played. Wow.

. I learned a foreign language for nothing. 😂

Pisgah jubilee will be like regular jubilee in that I prob won’t see any bands until 8pm . This is my hangout weekend with friends. Won’t be sitting at pisgah all day long.

Meili thinks your story of meeting during a Terrapin is the most romantic story ever. Before seeing 100 dead related shows she wouldn’t have thought the same lol. Before she remembered your names she would reference you as “the really happy couple” and I knew exactly who she meant . Congrats and here’s to 25 more!!

We were in aurora and I said hey bro are u having trouble keeping up as a joke.

Dishwasher blonde? Is she wearing a hair net? Think you mean dishwater 😜. You’d used to see MC dancing a whole show but he has begun to slow down, but he still gets it for a good hour a show. I’ve decided I’m going to really super attempt to maybe try not to dance every second of every show to save my body maybe? I gots no self control when Dead is played loud and it’s takinh its toll. Maybe MC just sees lots of broken down dancers and he doesn’t want to join the club. Smart move. I’ll maybe possibly attempt to try to curtail my enthusiasm, at least in 2020 or 2021, well at least by 2035 or tone it down on uneven surfaces or just boot up and pump it up really tight. On that note I’m pretty much fully healed and it makes me scared to get crazy considering it’s taken 16 months to repair. I’m susceptible now but what can you do. Maybe don’t listen to Dead or see deadco. At deadco you can bob your head and be one of the hardest dancers. No peer pressure there plus maybe I need a slow tempo music I don’t feel inclined to need to dance to. It’s not like the furious Dso crowds where the floor is slick from sweat flying. I tried my hardest but never built up a sweat over 3 shows this summer seeing deadco. Geez.

I bet you were seeing more than hazy then.

I remember us having a hotel and someone saying we need to leave this comfy hotel at 1am and arrived at the floor we were sleeping on at 6am. Maybe fatherhood is taking its toll on you or just Father Time.

U healthy enough for BM? It took me until the 2nd year to understand you and now that we can finally communicate you had surgery. (Insert poetic fate line here(and not a lyric from simple twist))

Pop on some Netflix to do with what the doctor gave you if they still do that any more. Broken back? Here’s a script for Advil. Umm I have Advil at home. These are double strength. Umm I can just eat 2 of what I have at home. Yeah I’m going to wait at the pharmacy for an hour for Advil. What’s weird is there is a drugstore on every corner now but it takes 2x longer to get prescriptions as it did when there were fewer drugstores. I guess the recurring payment model of monthly “ADD” and “pain” meds worked well for the huge pharmacy chains. You don’t like to be at work? You have ADD. Thread drift completed.

I don’t drive show day unless leaving a show town. Night 1 I’m already there now. Have to take off a day early b/c driving 5+ hours then night 1 of tour kills me. After I sweat out the life toxins that 1st night I’m ok driving next day but the contrast of real life and 4 hours of dancing continues to be tougher and tougher as the years go by. On a pleasant note it means I get to spend an extra day in the mountains somewhere and also in Colorado

We didn’t have natural half pipes like the big cities and I still say stoked. I think I even got a text from some people who said they are stoked about BM.

Skateboarder magazine was almost impossible to find at the news stand. When you finally got one it was like amazon. I ordered a Lucero deck and built a quarter pipe. Of course back then young kids would build that shit themselves. It was a horrible ramp. It had 2 bends in it you had to contend with and 98% of the time it led to disaster. But I’d jump on the electrical box in our yard and land perfectly in the grass from 5 feet up. Landing on concrete was a completely different animal. I was a great tic tacker. I could do that for a mile without having to push. An Ollie? No way we thought about shit like that. A fakie on a friends ramp was a pro style move back then lol.

You know most of us look at 45 minutes as a local show. Heck I haven’t had a show closer than 120 miles in 150 shows. Those are my 10 minute commute shows. Didn’t you not miss a California dead/Jerry show for like 8 years?

Seems like 15 minutes is your limit considering you wouldn’t go to Petaluma. If I recall correctly you were like it would take you almost an 45 minutes to an hour to get there. Guess we should have an in remembrance for the John A who moved to the bay because New York didn’t offer a sufficient amount of dead shows.

We’d need wet suits to go in water west coast. Oooh. You could vend Chuck. Wetsuit rentals. Early july fest near the bay sounds perfect. Little chance of rain. 75 degrees in the day. 65 at night. Heaven!!! Wherever it is, it needs to be where the climate suits my clothes and a rain jacket or 95 degrees doesn’t suit. how bout somewhere in the sierras!!!!!! Let’s do like that tech billionaire and take over a redwood forest and cut down the trees to create the party area. A backwoods isolated fest like where pagans sacrifice virgins in the forest type of area would be super cool. Generators would be needed for the band but that wouldn’t be an issue. We could use the redwoods to build the stage.

For 6 months in 2005 I carried my 25 pound house with me headed to Maine. I’d have no problem doing a minimalistic west coast jubilee with a backpack vs a ton of gear packing the car for jubilee jubilee. It seems to get more and more packed in the car every year. Before I know it there will be a recliner in there. I need to get back to basics and a west coast jubilee in the summer seems like a perfect testing ground.

Eek that sucks. They are a solid dead band. They have filled in a few schedule gaps with some fri/sat Indy shows.

Wow so Scott wasn’t there? That’s rough losing keys and one of your most talented members. He is an organ guru. Think I’ve decided no more outdoor activities besides swimming until BM. This heat is fucking brutal. 97 with high humidity. Feels like a sauna. Last night went to an indoor show and went outside at 11pm and was 81 with 84% humidity. Water instantly condensed on your skin. In 5 seconds you had a coating of water on you. Said 88 heat index. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky all day and the humidity was that high. If it somehow cools down and the gf is off next weekend we could possibly go but all day music ain’t for me right now.

Mike, theres way more advanced stuffing now than socks and potatoes. I use a large prosthetic Johnson in my banana hammock. Plus these are all the rage these days. I’ve been trying to get Ellie to sell dark star ones for the last year!! Only .99 plus 2.99 shipping on amazon. Get them while you can

I prefer not camping in summer. Gotta check the gfs work schedule but that could be fun if it’s not 100 degrees.

Well waited too late. This place is booked along with everywhere else near. Seems like canoeing down the black river is the thing to do in mid August. Found a place 30 miles (1 hour away)..... that ain’t happening. Did find an Airbnb $500 a night that’s 10 minutes away but would have to pack it up. Not sure if the weekend b4 BM would make foot sense anyway.

Think we are gonna try to do this. Canoe down the river during the day. Shows at night. Looks like fun. Gotta find a cabin with a/c as camping in August is a no go for me. 2 nights of jakes leg sounds fun.

So normal rain to this date from January 1st is 27 inches. We are at 48. July so far 4.5 and normal is 2”. 10” last 45 days and this is summer........ This is a pic I just took. They are everywhere