Greg from Chestertown

I found it interesting that there aren’t any actual Brent tunes in the set list.

11/02/85

Work got in the way for me. Dance in my space.

Gotcha. That’s hilarious. Yea, now that you mention it, the Bad Company tune is I feel like making love to you. I guess that explains a lot. There’s a big difference between I just want to make love to you and I feel like making love to you. With one, it’s penetration and nothing else. No foreplay, cuddling, and/or spooning. With the other one, it’s about feeling like it but not necessarily any ambition.

So, I have heard the pigpen version from the early years but I am drawing a blank (?) that must mean the Bad company version is a cover and not one of their original tunes? Their version was mid seventies. The confusion has returned.

So, I just had an interesting point of concern brought to my attention. How in the fuck are we going to get to the Anthem if this ‘people’s convoy’ is jamming up the roads around DC? I’m not trying to be a Debbie Downer but anybody have any insight on this?

I love that set list. DSO beating the Grateful Dead at their own game. Lost sailor>Tangled up in blue is such a great idea. Visions of Johanna on the anniversary of my favorite Visions, 3/18/95.

It’s gotta fit the vibe of the sixties. Born in ‘61, I saw it from my older siblings. Basically, we have a better idea for the planet than what our parents and leaders who didn’t get shot are showing us. Peace, love, and flowers. Not necessarily in that order. As far as the story about listening to the radio on the limo ride to the show, I bet they were hoping the DJ would play some Dead. …sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own…

Gotta be the band, that tune fits with the type of tune the Dead covers. That was my first thought, which flows right into another thought I have had for decades. I think the tunes that the Grateful Dead cover have to fit, sound wise, lyrics and ‘theme’ also. That’s why you never hear them cover certain times and why some tunes just don’t hang around. Its gotta fit the overall vibe of a Dead show. Jerry Band ventured out with Shining Star but he made it his, changed it up. That’s why day job got dropped. I think the sound fits but the lyrics didn’t. I never cared for ‘I fought the Law’, didn’t think the band should be covering it. Just my opinion. How’s that for a conversation starter?

Your grandfather is a pip? So cool. Thanks, Northeast. Looks like a latter day set list except for never can tell and St. Stephen. See you at the Anthem.

So, I was thinking recently about all of this unattractiveness towards Dead and company, Bobby singing Jerry tunes, how slow they play them, etc. I think the bottom line to all of this is nothing more than a testimonial to just how great Jerry was and how much the fortunate of us that got to experience his performances really do miss him. He really was that incredible. You had to be there. He wasn’t the best at what he did, he was the only one who did what he did.

I can remember every word he ever sang but not why I walked into the kitchen.

A wise, intelligent man explained to me the other day that Putin, in his heart (if he has one), thinks that Russia should be back the way it was, geographically, before the dissolution of Russia. That’s his motivation. I’m not so sure how you can negotiate with how a man feels in his heart. Disclaimer; I just got home from a colonoscopy. I am under the influence of drugs at this time.

Steely Dan, My Old School.

Another attempt to explain the unexplainable. - J. Garcia

Recreation?

Nice. Not too many rest stops on that journey.

What about one from the night before. Acoustic.

It is quite the compliment to Dark Star Orchestra to have Bobby join them on stage. It’s not like he’s doing that for other bands. It reminds me of the story when Dylan was playing the Warfield when his career was in a slump in the eighties. Ticket sales were down. Jerry joined him one night and the place was sold out. At Jerry’s funeral, Dylan told someone, can’t remember who, ‘he was there for me when no one else was.’

I mean, it is Bobby, come on, but yea, watch the crowd bobbing and weaving at the beginning of Shakedown and towards the end everyone is kinda standing around. Even Lisa looked a little lost. I couldn’t agree more with the earlier post about Bobby singing Jerry tunes. It’s just not right. I think he butchers them. Haven’t heard much though, don’t want to have to unremember them. Bobby should just retire. The torch has been passed.

Nice set list. I like the encore slot for Mission. Nice treat to have Bobby join in. Was Lisa in on any of those tunes?

Interesting, Bill Graham bought the Warfield theatre so the Grateful Dead could play there for two weeks straight in 1980, acoustic first sets. 40 some years later, we have Dark Star Orchestra playing the Warfield, acoustic first set. …all the years combined, they melt into a dream…

Wow! I wonder if land of the Navaho is a first time played. So cool. Or even the hobo song. Nice!

I think the first couple/few years of the Brent era are underrated. A lot of gems in there, I think.

Dey sure are fun to watch