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It was a true literal family drums with kids and grandkids up there playing. I’m not sure who’s son/grandson it is that’s probably 8 yr old that’s playing with sticks up front but he was so fun to watch at red rocks and now here. He’s going off beat improvising when 8 year olds shouldn’t be able to create like that. If many here put their young kids up there it would be a jumbled mess. I guess having pro musicians as parents helps lol.

IIBilly strings played until 2:18. I was curious how much he went over so looked at phone. Billy strings blew my top off. Anyone who didn’t stay for that missed what I believe was the best show of the day. Every song was a face melter. Definitely more psychedelic that I’ve seen and heard from him. He’s such an insane talent. I don’t know how to describe what I heard. It’s like a super fast playing psychedelic jazz band decided to use bluegrass music as their conduit into what they really do. We looked at our friends every 30 secs with dropped jaws. Even at that insane playing speed he has such volume control when he jazzes it off beat. I’m seeing that dude next time he’s within 4 hours. I love when a band knows their audience and he played dead festival style. Didn’t play any dead songs which was completely fine with me considering he was giving us the goods. Well he did have to follow dso so that prob led to a more psychedelic style. Not sure I’ve ever seen the late bight band have that many people down there either. It’s also rare to see that many people I know who usually just see the dso guys stay down there and boogie. Dso is going to always bring the goods. This was very unexpected and they made use of the big PA vs smaller clubs where they can’t make the sound move hundreds of feet. Definitely the most psychedelic show of the fest. Oh yeah that 78 dso show was on fire too. My fav show of the fest even though Sunday was my favorite dance party even though the fire people tried to distract people from the music. They are 20 feet from the left PA and took up prob 600 sq ft of space that about 30 of us had on lockdown. I would just tell people don’t look. It’s a trap to distract you from your mission to get down and boogie. It sort of reminded me of that Charlotte Fillmore show where they wouldn’t open the curtains and were forcing us all into undanceable space until enough complained. Unfortunately our complaints weren’t heard here. I mean dso is the focus of the fest. You don’t put fire spinners between the crowd and the stage. They used to be way up the hill or on the grass but they had an area bigger than most indoor venue pits roped off. Regardless it was magical!!! The happiness level of everyone seemed off the charts. Didn’t know it could be any friendlier but this year took the cake. I think we need 1 of these every 3 months!!

I was fully convinced we were getting the 5/23 modified slightly and then the 50yr 5-24-69 2nd set after I saw the Gibson’s. But a 69 night 1 would have been tough as day 1 is draining. But I think once the thought of what show was gonna be played spun through my head for the day it became fact and I was expecting dark star to open the show . But I got a dark star Stephen eleven and what more can a man ask for than that combo and it was fantastic. I think this 50yr anniversary year also makes me look to see if there’s a 69 on the date of the show which you wouldn’t so as much last year as 49 yrs isn’t that gold anniversary milestone. I used to never look at dates until the 50 thing is now convincing me every good show with a 50yr is going down that night lol. It’s wishful thinking at least for me, but conversely if they weren’t as rare I wouldn’t treasure those experiences quite as much as the every 25 shows or so one gets busted out. Ramble ramble. Electronics off.

More blasphemy!!! Do you hate the “drugged out” 60’s shows too. /threadlock

The General way to tell them apart but not always is that aiko has a longer intro than women are smarter. Aiko usually goes around 1-2mins of instrumental 1st when the others go into the song quicker. The dead did do an aiko>nfa where they did verse 1 of aiko then switched to nfa. Songists say all dead songs sound the same, and it’s sad that people live their lives with those hateful stereotypes.

Tell Dylan that to his face next time you see him. Lots of blasphemy being spewed today. I’ll pray to the music gods for your souls. Not sure if that will be very successful b/c Jerry has become a vengeful god. If you didn’t notice he made bobby think that he’s actually playing fast tempos and think that Mayer would be a perfect replacement.

It’s because they are afraid of love

Blasphemy!!! Blasphemy too, PG. The end made up for the rest. And the answer to the song question is crime.

Dso plays what you need to hear that day. Accept what’s offered and know that they know best

At least your 1st marriage was to a girl with a great memory.

Ask tea how to balance school and dead. My dog ate my car. I had surgery and unfortunately email doesn’t exist yet to provide proof. Did I tell you my dog ate all my shoes and the cabbie said 15 minutes then never showed up. It’s sad that someone *69’d a bomb threat. I heard on the radio that it was a snow day. My Hawaiian tropic bikini calendar was misprinted and it said the 17th was Saturday. Pretty sure those all would still work.

My buddy Sam, who’s a big boy himself, started quoting big boy Pete lyrics after that show lol. He was like i got a .45 to keep me alive; seven bullets on my side. I’m like what is that from. He’s like big boy Pete. He had no clue that is an ultra rare song. As far as he knew the dead played it a lot and wanted to learn the lyrics.

My buddy’s 1st show was Louisville for that 69 and he knew no dead and thought it was amazing. But he was engaged fully.

LOL on facebook someone said if DSO keeps doing shows like that they wont have any fans left and another said they had seen 300 dead type shows and this was the worst one they ever saw. Maybe its all those "original" dso songs they did last night. Its weird that you only get those kind of posts from 1 area of the country..........one of the only places where people will attack what they love. Get 3 hits then strike out and you are a bum. At least the bleachers didnt throw beer or batteries at the band.....The gf saw that setlist and drooled and even though she is the least combative person I know, wanted to post something like so sorry they didnt play touch of grey or something sarcastic. Its one reason why I left facebook. Id for sure have got into an online fight with those fools. The gf had never listened to almost any 69 stuff when she saw her 1st dso 69 and I figured she'd have a tough time with it, but instead she loved it and the eleven became her current fav dance song. I get that 69 may not be someones favorite dead but to post those posts is just being an asshole. And there I go being being a hypocrite and making a snide remark about the northeast after saying how people should keep negative comments to themselves, but then again Im not a northeast-head and follow the northeast around the country and when the northeast has 1 day of weather I dont like, I bash it.

Had a nice little win betting on maximum security. Haven’t seen the payoff yet but watched it at a bar and was like sweet he won and then went to hit a music club. That $20 bet should pay near $100.

Last year they sold out but think it was Saturday.

I’m not a big taking pics guy. The gf is and I’m glad she is. She has all these great albums on her Mac of each of our tours and it brings the memories back to life. I sort of chastise her for getting on her phone taking pics but after last year’s jazz fest and Cali tour I’m so glad I have those great pics. Most of the pics aren’t people but we have a pic of almost every marquee. I also have to accept having 1 pic per show taken of us by someone. But it makes her happy and even though posing is torture for me it’s something I have to go. But in the winter with nothing to do, streaming those albums through the tv snaps me out of the winter duldrums. And we never take pics of any compromising situations. Almost exclusively dinner pics and venue pics with people in it.

JRAD 3 miles away and skipping it....decided on just stumbling down Frenchmen tonight. The only reason I’m on a phone is our apartment literally 400 feet from Maison has no air and their tech will be here in 30 minutes. Hypothetically they could have their own Mardi Gras in our place if not supervised. Considering it’s night 1 of 8 they could have a lot of fun and I don’t trust them lol. By night 7 they can have at it.

I see my 1st year camping neighbors several times a year at shows. We all survived that weekend with just minimal injuries. It did rot my tent but I submitted a fema claim and they sent 3 contractors to assess the damage. They billed the gov $1200 and just gave me a sewing kit they valued at $500 but Walmart has for $2. Of course that’s not a real story besides the neighbors part. We do see them at Dso shows and saw them at bobby and Phil.

I don’t think I’ve hardly seen a show in the last year you weren’t at. I love how you’ve picked up the pace, not that you ever really slowed down.

If you watched the masters it’s how you make America great again. No phones allowed. We are missing the peace associated with tuning in. Tech is going to lead to the next evolutionary step in the homo sapien and it will be a fast jump as society all stares at a screen hours a day. Babies will eventually be hardwired to be able to stare at screens 16 hours a day. Our eyes and thumbs will evolve. I predict an additional thumb joint to make texting easier.

I go with friends but we all do our thing. Heck me and the gf go different spots now. She knows to find me at the back plus it’s hard to miss me. I’m the beacon. If I stand on my toes I look like a mic stand.

You’d need a good jazz band to do the Saunders and Jerry stuff. I’m a fan of traditional jazz and that’s as close as any of the boys got to doing it. Some of those 73 Jerry and merl shows had 20+ minute segments of instrumental traditional jazz. They went deep. On etree there are a bunch of 4 song shows here and there. I’m guessing many of the reels just disappeared and that’s all they dug up.

You flying solo means no Jerry band ;). Sort of surprised Dso not doing a Jerry set this year. Those noon shows are a great way to start the day. Every Sunday at home we make a big breakfast and put on Jerry band and it’s the perfect way to start a lazy Sunday. Unless....Dso is doing a Jerry band show for one of theirs??? Gimme!!

Missing this whole tour besides a 1 off Nashville show was rough. Had to help the gf with her masters thesis and today got the news that she passed. Omg my stress is over. Did not like missing a whole southern tour like this but it feels like I just graduated too. Yes I’m pretty much spamming and screaming it from the tree tops but school is over for this household. The nonstop stress over the worst thing ever, school, is over. Team America fuck yeah!! My living room is littered with fucking national institute of health research studies and so much other shit that’s going in the trash today. I’ll never set foot in bowling green again unless dso plays there. Typing this is making it real to me. I literally asked if I was dreaming this morning as we’d been watching the OA last night as well as inception. I couldn’t be sure if I was or not. Literally slapped myself lol. The nightmare is over. No more tuition payments!! Lol.