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I recall a quote from last weekend when you said wherever dso will be on 2-22 is where I will be. Hmm I was thinking that date in 69 was a 2 setter but only 1. I was hoping for a 4 show Key west run 2/27-3/2 or maybe a mini fest in the desert for 4 days celebrating all things 69.

Guess u will be in sandiego.

Saw Phish on Wednesday in Nashville. Amazing Pit tix. Pretty fun time. But....the phish crowd was not at all like a dead crowd. The panic crowd was half dressed in GD attire and most of the people were big deadheads too. Actually almost everyone I talked to at panic had seen dso within the last year or 2. The phish crowd was loud and obnoxious. Nonstop yelling and whooing. During quiet singing half the damn crowd was yelling at trey because their voice could be heard. If you think a dead crowd is a sausage fest, this was twice as bad. But they travel. Everyone I met was far from home. It was def not a southern crowd where everyone is chatting up their neighbors. There may be things I don’t like about the south but there’s no where I’d rather live besides Cali and who can afford to buy a place out there in today’s market. Abandoned properties in the desert are 200k and that doesn’t include a roof or windows or neighbors for 15 miles. That does include a metal fence though as all properties in the middle of nowhere are fenced to keep the cowboys out who are on the run heading to Mexico.

I didn’t know it until I heard Lisa sing it twice. Chimes of freedom in Portland right after trump took office was maybe the most emotional I’ve seen a crowd get even with most hearing the song for the 1st time. Masters of war is another powerful Dylan song and Lisa smokes it!!! At least in troubling times we these powerful songs to help us through as opposed to songs like “man versus bonesaw” or the new pat Robertson hymn “don’t kill an arms deal over 1 murdered person”.

Wait. Is that supposed to be me at a show??

That’s an epic start of a set for sure!! too much did u do the Louisville>Indy and ft Wayne>Columbus? U got the goods bro. That was an epic stretch. Just saw that. Every song transitioned into another. Edit: nvm. See they stopped after frank, but still the last hour was continuous

Raggy? (Scooby doo reference)

I tried to make this run work but I couldn’t. It’s tough missing Midwest shows. At least we have next weekend and I’ll prob do some phish in Nashville which won’t be the same.

Wow what a 4 show run. 69 pig, 79 Brent, 90 post Brent and original over these 4 days. You guys are ridiculous. You went through the whole spectrum of Grateful Dead over 4 days with the only repeat I think a 69 and 90 version of MAMU which are completely different anyway. I’m in awe as always even not being in Detroit rock city. I gotta see more shows obviously

That was a whopper of a 3 show run. You got it all. Can’t make em all and kicking myself for missing last night. But those 3 are about as good as you get in a row. But throw a 69 in any run and you can probably say that lol. Wonder what’s on tap for tonight? I’ll guess 92.

Lol. I thought he was your oldest because he’s so tall.

Likely. But when I was hanging with you guys last night I was perfectly in my element. Forgot you just got out of a show!!! Logistics didn’t work for me doing St. Louis with home town friends. Love that venue in Indy though. Dancing on carpet is nice. All the space in the world.

He actually said what do you think it is. I’m like it’s a 69 style original with maybe a 2nd set elective. He’s like I think it’s an 80s show. I was like cool and said have a great show. This forum is PHD level GD commentary so I knew people here would get a kick out of it. I didn’t want to burst his bubble at the show. The second I walked in and saw 2 drummers and the 2 red Gibson’s, I got so excite knowing it was 68-70. Ducks son who I brag on for being raised right texted him after seeing the setup before duck arrived that we were getting a 69 show. That’s gotra be proud papa stuff lol. Having an 18-19yr old who’s stoked about a 69 show is pretty cool. It’s hard for kids to get into dead at all with their peers overwhelmingly listening to hip hop and harder still to appreciate the old school style and harder yet for them to want to hang with their parent at a concert. No way at that age I wanted to be in public around my parents at all lol. At age 46 was the 1st time since youth I saw a show with my parents and took them to Dso and was excited for them to go with us. Maybe dead culture is just a superior culture. When we were 14-18 we’d crack on people who went to a concert with their parents(my low self esteem obviously) but at dead shows there were lots of teens who went with their parents and there wasn’t any stigma involved. Plus my parents would intentionally embarrass me saying things like she’s cute. You should go talk to her at a level the girl would hear and turn around and smile and I wasn’t socially confident at that point to do anything but turn an embarrassed red. Ramble ramble ramble. Can you tell I’m still on a show high . Thank you Dso. I’m beaming as I lay in bed exhausted physically but revived mentally.

A 69 then an early Brent show b2b. What more could you ask for. It was like a different band. The styles were so different. It was mind melter, shredding feedback 2nd set in Louisville. Last night was a happy groovy 2nd set. How they can do that so perfectly with limited practice boggles my mind and do it so different every time. So many songs over the 2 nights were played so differently than I’ve heard before. It’s like they get more and more creative every time I see them. On I think it was TOO, skip was coming in at unique times on his bass licks. Eaton was getting a kick out of it. They were having a blast and the music was fresh. Once the crowd thinned out at 11, the energy level got even higher. When the talkers leave the dancers flourish and after 3 hours of sweating, the crowd switched into a higher gear. I love everything about a Dso show. Hell we may do New Years run even though I’d prefer to go where the chilly winds don’t blow after Christmas. Miami or Dso New Years. One lacks warmth and the other lacks Dso. I guess I’ll see which I need more at that point. On a selfish fan note when Rob K’s cute son Levi came out and grabbed his hand as he was doing show announce in St. Louis, it reminded us that Dso won’t be retiring any time soon as they have families to support. I know rob b has said before that he chose the musicians life and this is what he loves to do and has no thought of stopping. The road is tough but the job satisfaction level has to be off the charts. Plus Rob B get to continue channeling pigpen and he still wont care if you are only 17 years of age even when he’s 90 .

That was your 1st pageant show wasn’t it. Little far from your territory. It’s a great venue. The no alcohol area always has lots of space with great sound. They usually remove most of the tables on the side tiers but this year with a weekday show they left them all in. That was a little bit of a pain but stacking chairs and moving tables worked well. I told the people next to us that once the show gets going, we can move these tables. They looked at me like I was crazy. They actually used the table and I think the girl was frustrated that we were dancing in front of her sitting. Oh well. If only they would open the balcony it would be wide open. I think this is the 5th strAight show I’ve seen there with it closed. My 2nd or 3rd Dso show ever was on a Saturday at the pageant with the balcony open. The pit used to be a no alcohol area which made it wide open for dancers. Last year they made the pit 21+ which gets it packed.

I think the gf has more fun at shows than I do now. She’s ear to ear grinning the whole show and I can no longer keep up with her when at 1st she danced very little. The more and more familiar she got with the people and the scene the more she could just let go and release the inner freak. I’ve had a couple friends who let go fully at their 1st show but they had really high self confidence. Her 1st show she didn’t dance for most of the 1st set just watching them play. Now she’s spinning and listening and watches the band less than I do and I may only be watching 1/4 of the show. During that 69 show I stopped dancing and just watched the band playing and interacting during a lot of the 2nd set and it just reaffirms how great these guys are. Their transitions are flawless. All 6 guys can transition perfectly together and make it look so simple. That’s where Dso is just heads above every other dead band. Heck, the most famous dead band no longer transitions songs with more than 2 members. The drummers or guitars will drop out on almost every transition to a new song and once the drummers establish the new beat the rest will join in or the guitarists will transition to the new song and the drummers will join in. Swapping in Phil would make a big chemistry difference but don’t tbink he wants to play Casey Jones at China doll pace.

Got to hang with lots of my peeps last night. Good times dancing with friends!!!! As you see some less and less, these times seem to mean more.

I had no clue the dead ever brought big boy Pete out in the 80s. I learn something every day. Last night I learned that no exercise for 6 weeks then hard exercise will make your calves so stiff you literally walk like a pirate with a peg leg. Edit: I had to modify my dance. Now I don’t let my heels touch the ground and stay on my toes. My feet feel good today but my calves are like wtf was that last night. In 4-5 days they should be good lol. What a drag it is getting old. Duh nuh nuh. Fuck it. This is what I love and I’ll do it until the wheels fall off. Wonder if I can pick up more shows on this run. I’m jonesing already.

The guy next to me called half the 1st set from tuning. He called the doin that rag because they tuned it 2 songs before. He’s like we will get it now. He was brilliant. Always nice to be next to a Gd mind superior to your own. I’m of the mindset that you should surround yourself with people at least as smart as you if not smarter.

At set break a guy in the bathroom assured me this was a 1980’s set list. He’s like they will open 2nd set with hell in a bucket. Always get a good chuckle in the bathroom at setbreaks. The audience was confused at times but really energetic. Took several home town friends up there and there was a convo about did dead ever play heavy metal. Last night at many times, I’d consider that heavy metal music. At least for 69, it was as heavy metal as there was at points in that second set. The really intense, loud, feedback points made the crowd frenzied and people were looking around with huge smiles thinking are you believing this. My new dead buddy heard a style he’d never heard and loved it. Hearing a 69 on cd vs live is a completely different animal. They played loud. And I had the audacity to bash the Mercury ballrooms sound. This time though we were middle up close and it sounded phenomenal. Dancing upstairs dodnt hsve the sound even though this year they didn’t let us upstairs unless you paid an extra $30. So glad they didn’t let us up there because the sound was down low. I thought they were going into caution 2x. I even wrote down caution at one point then had to erase it realizing it was stilll Jan from the song. Outstanding. The funny thing was early on the gf, now understanding eras to an extent, was praying for an eleven nonstop as it’s her fav current song to Dance to. I’m like it will probably be followed by a Stephen so the second they started Stephen it was on. I was so fatigued but not in any pain. That’s reallu good news. Only doing 2 Midwest shows seems sinful. Next year will be my year!! But I did get that one. That was a doozy. I think I’m on a roll of like 6 of the last 8 69’s or something close to that.

Think there was going to be an encore but they said they were out of time at 11:45. Were you guys gonna do a Viola encore? It was still mic drop worthy. Thank you!!

Louisville got the show of the tour. Lucky they treated us to a 69!!!!!!!! Boo yah.

Mercury ballroom 10/3 Original set 1 Ew orleans Dire wolf Big boy Pete Hard to handle Golden road Mama tried Doin that rag Me and my uncle Alligator Chiba cat i know you rider 2-2-69 Schoolgirl Dark star Stephen William well Eleven Death don’t Cryptical suite Loveloght

If Dso only did recreations there would be soooo many songs you would never hear. Eliminate unbroken chain completely since they don’t do 95. Forget about all the songs the dead played a few times like mission in the rain. You would have to see 500 Dso shows before you got one. Forget any Jerry band songs. The shows would become stale if they did only recreations. It’s just a recreated setlist anyway. I like it all but without original setlists we’d rarely ever get so many songs I love.

The latest I’ve seen Dso start a show was at 8:20 for an 8pm show. It was a sold out show where security was having a hard time getting people in. But I’ve also seen sold out shows with hundreds in line outside start right on time. My 1st Dso show ever was at the Vic Chicago and I was shocked that they started right at 8. What band starts at showtime was my thought? My gf at the time at the start of encore 2 of 3 said are they ever going to stop? We had to leave to catch our train and missed the last song. I was in heaven. She was in hell. Needless to say we didn’t last 6 more months and I needed warmer weather.