Greg from Chestertown

Dark Star used to play longer fillers. I remember one Electic factory show went until ten after two in the morning. Might have been their first show there. Not sure.

What’s black and white and has fuzz inside? A cop car.

My one Radio City show, they played from 7:00 to 12:30 in the morning, obviously including set breaks.

Or the other end of the spectrum, ccatching a Saturday night show and you already know what the encore is.

Ship of Fools then Terrapin looks interesting. Two Jerry tunes back to back.

I know of one person in this country that those voices you hear are not representative of.

Now listening to exactly two years earlier, same venue, Reuben and Cherise. Crowd reaction sounds like a bust out. Cap centre feeling some love. isn’t that the spot they busted out Ripple for the only time after the fat dose of 1980 acoustic renditions?

That’s a great set list. Yea, praise DSO, as Bill K. Would say.

Was Don’t Do It first time played? I remember that tune from the Last Waltz. Barely though, I haven’t seen it in years. I watched it so many times.

Second set opener is interesting. No show stoppers but still looks like a great night of good ol’ Grateful Dead music. I’m guessing Lisa Was there for the filler. I wasn’t there. Plenty of reason to dance yourself into the dirt.

I never think about the story the original author was trying to tell whenever I have heard it. Whether it was delivered live from either the fat man himself, John K, or Jeff.

I was thinking about the morning Dew recently. My conclusion was that it’s the first Jerry Ballad. Been around since the beginning. Since before there was a Jerry ballad slot. That pace that others are dishappy about is what we love about it. That pace is Jerry at his best.

Thanks, I’ll relax now.

When I try to click on a heart and like any posts, a screen pops up that says “sorry, there was a problem reacting to this content.” I would like to participate but I do not have to.

I caught the original also. Dark Star seems to be hitting a few Spectrum recreations lately. That’s the real white whale, to catch Dark Star doing a show you were at. When I try to “like” someone’s post, a screen pops up that says we’re unable to handle that right now. So, you guys are great. ….. I tried to tell everybody but I could not get across.

….love will see you through.

I have been in said basement. After reading these posts, there’s nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.

Check out 3/29/87 for a nice wheel coming out of space. Bobby broke a string, ran backstage for a moment with his guitar. Jerry had to stretch it out.

This one sent me down a rabbit hole. The deadbase of my mind has some pages missing and apparently I don’t have all my ticket stubs. A search of Spectrum set lists has me at the show the night after the Dead performing this show originally. My one and only Crazy Fingers.

That’s right, the simple fact that they were back and pulling it off makes it an important year. Also, it’s the beginning of a stretch with Bobby getting into a lot of Dylan tunes.

What about the drummers? Yea, Lisa and Eaton for me but that’s ok. I always said that John K. Needs to hook up with Bobby and Phil. I don’t know if it’s because he’s that good or simply because he’s an exact replication of Jerry, save for a couple of blips in his playing. I wasn’t the least bit surprised when he left. I followed him and caught Further whenever they came around, Still kept up Dark Star shows. Further ran its course. There’s a level of fun with Jeff onstage that I don’t remember feeling with John K. It’s a vibe and it is important. It’s everything.

I have All of my Grateful Dead ticket stubs in a frame. Got snuck into Radio City so, no ticket stub but I have a 8x10 hand written xerox flier from a guy selling glossy photos of the band on stage. My roommate wrote the set list on the back of that. Good thing, because my handwriting sucks. I tried keeping up a list during shows but am not so sure I ever pulled off a whole show’s list. I found it to be a distraction during the show, kept me from getting lost in the music. Of course, we’re talking about my brain. If I didn’t write it down at the beginning of the tune, it would get lost to eternity. Recalling set lists sometimes would take days. Younger heads need to understand, word of mouth was pretty much it for information about the Grateful Dead. Keeping track of set lists had to be done. People would be lined up using pay phones at set break to call their friends and tell them what was played. I remember running into a high school class mate in the spectrum lot eight years later. The first thing he said was, “they played ripple in Baltimore”. People who didn’t make it into the show would swarm the people leaving the show, “What they play?, what they play?”. “Any show stoppers?”. If you had a list from the previous night, there was a crowd around you in the lot. The discussion would be happening. I didn’t know they had brought back Attics until I saw it on a flier someone handed me after a show that had all the set lists from that tour. I learned about Good Lovin/ LaBamba/Good Lovin from Pierre Robert at Wmmr in Philly. He talked about the MSG show that Dark Star Orchestra just recreated. I had tickets for the upcoming Saturday night in Philly. I was pretty sure that if we got a good Lovin in Philly, we were going to get the La Bamba. Sure enough… It was history in the making, it turns out. List keepers and tapers are why we have what we have now. Once the technology advanced, the resources were already in place. Especially with Dark Star’s live shows but also with the internet, I have been taken back in time, to shows before I got started and also conquering new horizons with original set lists. I had probably only heard a hundred shows before the internet. I now seek out a new show every morning, listen to the whole thing while I go about my day. Within the last few years, the number of GD shows that I have heard has gone through the roof. It also helps that the cassette player in my truck finally wore out. Strangers stopping strangers…just to see what they played.

I feel my white whale, master’s Bouquet, got lost in the great Covid abyss that consumed the Hamilton acoustic shows that were about to unfold in DC when the shit hit the fan.

Ravens owner has a zero tolerance policy. Remember the video of their running back in the elevator showing his girlfriend his imitation of Mike Tyson?

It looks like there’s a few missed extra points of Justin Tuckers that went unaccounted for a while back. Gonna have to add a handful to the total.