Greg from Chestertown

So, I’m confused. Is the monkey left handed or is the wrench for someone who is left handed?

‘We’re an American Band’, Grand Funk Railroad.

9/22/87, Spectrum, Hey Pocky Way show opener.

The beginning of the Brent era is the beginning of my Grateful Dead era. I was sat down and explained to by my roommate at college. The band had high expectations and great plans for the new keyboardist, probably combined with Keith and Donna leaving. I hear a new focus when listening to the first couple, few years with Brent. Some under the radar great shows in there. I think some of Jerry’s best is in this time. Maybe Brent refocused him. Also, the drugs and life hadn’t worn on him yet. I’ve seen shows where Jerry is just staring at Brent while he’s playing his guitar. To the point that we were commenting on it. Bobby loved Brent too. Hell, he even shared Little Red Rooster with him. Can’t not mention 100,000 Tons of Steel or Dear Mister Fantasy/Hey Jude. 7/12/90 RFK, my first Dark Star after ten years of waiting. They’re spacing out, noodling away out of Foolish heart, it was Brent’s keys that let me know it was coming. He was dead three weeks later. I was running a small marina at the time. People kept coming up to me and saying, hey, you had a death in your band. I was like, its ok, I just saw them and it was incredible.

Agree. I think the announcement might have something to do with the venue announcement. That’s a large geographic area to feed the needs of a lot of Deadheads. Gotta be more show announcements coming. Also, the second year at freeman stage seems to indicate that there’s no more Bottle and Cork. Damn, I’m gonna miss that uneven dance floor.

I’ve had my tickets for Selbeyville De for a while now. Go to freeman stage website. They’re available now.

I’m not sure who’s in charge of handing them out, but I do believe it’s high time someone gave Bill K his doctorate in Grateful Deadology.

4/08/72

Caught James Taylor, ‘Shower the people you love with love’ over the PA in the drug store the other day and thought it would be a good Jerry Band cover.

Amazing set list. Was Barney there?

His future is as doomed as Will Smith’s, their stock value has tumbled.

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.

Steely Dan, My Old School.

Another attempt to explain the unexplainable. - J. Garcia

Nice. Not too many rest stops on that journey.