Greg from Chestertown

I love seeing Brokedown in the middle of a show, before it made it to the encore slot, and a second set Row Jimmy.

Pretty sure

There’s a sailboat on a mooring, down the street in Worton Creek marina, that’s named saint of Circumstance. There’s a Dire Wolf in the same mooring area.

I’ve heard him say that when going from Truckin’ into Black Peter.

I must say, I have those emotions now, reading these posts. Yup, DSO gives us Pride of Cucamonga. Caught Phil doing it in Camden circa ‘97. 3/23/86 was the date of Phil singing the first lines of the show for me. Yea, Thanks Phil, we’re so glad you made it.

it dawned on me today that all of the write ups that I read about Phil when he passed, they all talk about box of Rain , unbroken chain , St. Stephen, but nobody mentioned Pride of Cucamonga. Never played live, so …..that’s interesting.

My daughter’s Eagles just humiliated your Bengals, so, yea, my Raiders will be your Aiders this week.

I’m thinking, just like back in the day, when the Saints were known as the Ain’ts, we should all get together and start calling my Raiders the Aiders, since all they’re doing is helping everybody else win.

I am without speech. So many thoughts, though. He opened one Spectrum show with the line “ SO GLAD YOU MADE IT ! “, the stage went from black to that. They let Phil sing. Showstopper moment right out of the gate. Waited seven years for Box of Rain. Worth it. I had a cassette of, I think, spring tour ‘87, Spectrum, (there it is again) at the end of every song, while the crowd was screaming, Phil would play the lick from the next song. I don’t subscribe to the thought that the Phil Zone Is the spot in front of his speakers. I think the Phil zone is in the air. It’s everywhere. Especially now. Thanks for the memories.

His passing was easy to take because I had just caught my first Dark Star 23 days earlier. His keyboard work set Phil up to bring in the bass and get that tune going. I joined the band right after he did.

He had the toughest job in the world, keeping Deadheads musically entertained between Jerry tunes. He pulled it off, though. I’ll say it again, 3/31/87, Desolation Row. As good as any Jerry ballad I’ve seen.

Saw that man take a hack saw to a stretch of chain during drums at the Electric Factory many moons ago. That’s when I knew Dark Star was for real. Talk about recreating the Grateful Dead experience, spot on.

Sending vibes up into the sky for you on my birthday. Should land on you and your lived ones by tomorrow which is your birthday!

I remember when he went to the Phillies. It was a big deal. He was a difference maker. I was at the game when they won the pennant in ‘80. Their manager, Dallas Green was on the same high school basketball team as my Dad. Yes, the tickets were miracled.

We lost a good one. My favorite lyric of his, “ I’ll trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday…” Powerful stuff there.

…and if you did play Seastones, was that the first time played?!

I will never forget sitting slightly behind stage at one of my spectrum shows, Mickey is barely hanging on to his seat with his ass checks while all four limbs are keeping rhythm, in your basic spread eagle pose. Four drummers, one body.

I talked with my buddy who’s seen the Dead since ‘72, yea, Pat and Stan were there, had to push a green VW bug for the last two miles because the traffic was so bad. (?)

I was listening to Englishtown this morning. Funny how at the end of the first set, they tell everyone that they’re taking a little break, “don’t go anywhere.” I do believe that security was a ring of train cars in a circle, making it a venue. Growing up, we always heard advertisements on the radio for the drag strip there. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Raceway Park, !

Caught one of those up at the Ambler Inn? Up in Pa. It was impressive but I was a spectator, not familiar with those tunes.

Half of a hit for the airplane. I have heard it on the radio before.

I loved the harmonizing in the debut. We are Star… We are gold… of course, the bar is set pretty high, we’re talking Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

How was that version of Woodstock? I checked the dates, debut was playing in Lower, Slower, Delaware on the anniversary of original Woodstock concert. Planned?

Looks like I am headed back to the old Electric Factory in Philly. …got to callin’ it home.

So, my brother who’s two years older and I go for a walk one summer night in Ocean City New Jersey. There’s a girl who must have been babysitting her little brother, sitting on the stoop on the side of this house while some six year old plays with a toy truck on the sidewalk. We stop and start talking to this girl. My brother being two years older, was flirting with her while I was just kinda sitting there, listening. I’m like thirteen. We talked with her for about an hour. Beautiful brunette with long brown hair wearing a sundress, Definite hippie chick, probably my first encounter with a real one. Somewhere towards the beginning of the conversation, she said “ when you hear the song Woodstock, and they say, I came upon a child of God, that’s what we are. I am a child of God.” I did Mapquest satellite and that stoop is still there, on the southeast corner of 46th and West, in Ocean City. I must have driven past that spot a thousand times since, always remembering that stoop as where I met a child of God, circa 1975. Yea, that debut struck a chord with me. ….Lately, it occurs to me, ….