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One drummer, Rob K. playing drums. Enjoyed the Barraco treatment of Good Lovin, out on a four day creep, etc. Dark Star was excellent, got really cool and dissonant after the verse, with Skip pounding out and strumming huge, loud chords and Jeff doing the meltdown style fanning. The Eyes was also good, with the band doing the intense repeating early style ending jam after the Skip solo and bass drop. Interesting song selection, lots of shorter stand alone songs and stuff I haven't seen them play before. Lisa brought down the house on You Ain't Woman Enough and Hurts Me Too. Enjoyed the venue and the area. Looking forward to tomorrow night, my last one until fall.

Elective: Cold Rain and Snow Mama Tried They Love Each Other (early style) You Ain't Woman Enough Mr. Charlie Gommorah Pride of Cucamonga Silver Threads and Golden Needles Brown Eyed Women Good Lovin (Barraco) Set 2: BIODTL Sitting on Top of the World The Race is On Box of Rain Hurts Me Too (Lisa) Bertha Chinatown Shuffle Dark Star Drums Eyes of the World China Doll Johnny B. Goode Encore: That's What Love Will Make You Do

Filler: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Hard To Handle Why Don't We Do It in the Road The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)

Great show, second set was as good as it looks on paper. Morning Dew was really strong, great dynamics from pin drop tender to thunderous. Skip started off on gingerbread in Tom Thumb Blues. Grateful that the rain for the most part, held off.

I really enjoyed that extended jam after Terrapin, and the jam after drums was also cool. Nice venue, nice that it was an early show too.

Rockng first set. Highlight for me was Cumberland, but strong throughout. Second set Shakedown, Samson, high dance energy. To Lay Me Down, ripping Let it Grow, drums, He's Gone, smoking Other One, lovely Stella Blue. Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, more heat, and Ripple to bring it back home. Really nice venue, overall.

Starlight Theater, Kansas City, MO (8/3/82) Mississippi Half-Step Franklin's Tower New Minglewood Blues Peggy-O El Paso Cumberland Blues Althea Cassidy Big Railroad Blues Man Smart/Woman Smarter Might As Well Shakedown Street Samson and Delilah To Lay Me Down Let it Grow drums He's Gone The Other One Stella Blue Sugar Magnolia Casey Jones Filler: Ripple

For some reason, not all the tracks from this recording are showing up on the relisten app. Kind of frustrating, because it shows up fine on the relisten and archive website. It is also working fine on the etree app if anyone wanted to stream it.

Here's my recording of night one. Lots of fun to record the band, my first time taping after picking up all the gear this summer. Was grateful for a little fenced off area the crew put aside for us both nights. https://archive.org/details/dso2018-07-27.dso2018-07-27.nak300cp4.flac16

https://archive.org/details/dso2018-07-28.nak300cp4.flac16/dso2018-07-28t04.flac

There is a recording of this concert up on the archive. I also recorded both nights and will get them up on the archive as soon as I can figure out all the computer stuff involved.

Astounding performance by Dark Star Orchestra tonight. First set highlights to me were Looks Like Rain and Greatest Story. Second set high energy throughout, China/Rider and Samson brought the energy high. To Lay Me Down was lovely and tender. Playin had some excellent extended playing, nice grooves. Drums was powerful and loud, great audience response, with Rob and Dino continuing to play the beast during Nobody's Fault. Lost Sailor/Saint was rocking. Black Peter had great delivery by Jeff, with some strong peaks in there. Sugar Magnolia brought the energy up high yet again, just some absolutely ferocious playing in the end and the audience was brought to one final, frenzied peak. Brokedown was the perfect encore. Lisa and Jennifer Markard of the Zen Tricksters came out to join the rest of the band in a fine rendition of I'll Be With Thee. Top notch performance tonight.

The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (5/4/81) Don't Ease Me In Beat it on Down the Line Jack-a-Roe Little Red Rooster Cold Rain and Snow Mama Tried Mexicali Blues Althea Looks Like Rain Bertha Greatest Story Ever Told China Cat Sunflower I Know You Rider Samson and Delilah To Lay Me Down Playin' in the Band drums Nobody's Fault But Mine Lost Sailor Saint of Circumstance Black Peter Sugar Magnolia Brokedown Palace Filler: I'll Be With Thee

Have you tried deadhead archives for Android? Similar interface to relisten.

Agreed, pumped for Hampton!!

Congrats MC!! With plenty of advance notice, we all hope. Already wearing down the wife, saying they sold the place out, they'll hopefully be back... Her first GD related concert. She enjoyed it 😎😎

Thank you to the band for such an amazing night, and for allowing me to experience such a magnificent venue. I would probably never have gone there if it wasn't for you guys. The music was wonderful, high energy throughout. Agreed that row 25 had fabulous sound, gr8fulpair. We must have been neighbors, I was around that row behind the board. Really proud of the band for selling the place out. Hopefully they'll get you guys back next year 😎😎

Recordings of all three nights of DSO along with the DSO/Seals Garcia band set are up on archive/relisten, good sounding recordings. Thanks to the taper, Toaste, for recording them and getting them up so quickly. Nice to see several audience members taping at the festival.

Nice review, and I agree with all points. Excellent DSO concerts, along with the Garcia band set with Melvin Seals on Sunday. I otherwise pretty much stayed out of the sun, conserved my energy for the night time, and enjoyed the music from my camping area. The RV section was nice, and the maiden voyage to camp in my truck cap was excellent. Kind people throughout, no overboard shakedown craziness, lots of families, really a lovely time. Met Lagerandgospel at the final show, although we did not know it until after the fest was over. Would have liked to have met more of you folks from on the forums here, but I am sure some of us passed each other or interacted in some way or another. A little afternoon drinking with plenty of time to sober up and pack before Sunday DSO allowed me to hit the road after the show, no traffic, no cops, smooth sailing as long as I could drive, made for another decent ride home Monday. Took Tuesday off from work without realizing it, showed up and they asked what I was doin there, lol. They put an easy day together for me, not a bad reintegration into the real world. Definitely going to be trying to make it here next year and beyond.

Supplication after lazy lightning, full weather report suite also before Casey Jones to close out the first set. Highlights for me were Skip's huge bombs during the other one, Eaton teased wharf rat before the second verse. Tender Stella Blue. Frantic build up during viola Lee. Great show, packed up before the concert and got 200 miles behind me before I was too tired to drive.

It was instrumental, no drums , after space, before saint Stephen. Had a feeling that the dew was going to be the answer to the answer man. Excellent show, lots of strong numbers, China/rider, terrapin, and the dew of course were my favorite parts of the concert 😇😇

Buckeye Lake Music Center, Hebron, OH (Friday, 6/11/93) Jack Straw Foolish Heart The Same Thing Lazy River Road Tom Thumb's Blues Masterpiece So Many Roads Promised Land Eyes of the World Playing in the Band -> Uncle John's Band -> Corina -> Drums -> Space -> The Wheel -> Watchtower -> Black Peter -> Sugar Magnolia Brokedown Palace The Weight

Gotta jump on here again to say how outstanding this recording sounds. My only gripe I ever have with DSO is that Rob Barraco can sometimes sound a little quiet in the mix. That is not the case in this recording. He is at a perfect volume, can hear lots of great piano backup, and his leads are nice and loud, without losing any balance in the mix. Excellent job by the taper, Bill Goldberg. If you're reading this, thank you 😁😁

Man oh man, these guys sound astoundingly good on this recording. Eaton's tone is so so good on the early 70s stuff, maybe my favorite of his tones. Up to Bird Song right now and they are on fire. Sorry to have missed this show.

There's a recording of this show up on the archive already. Great sounding recording and the band sounds hot.