Greg from Chestertown

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.

Gotta be near last time played for Cosmic Charlie. I think. My dog ate my Deadbase.

That whole show is a Sugar Mags sandwich.

My resolution is to catch as many shows as I need.

9/13/93, Dark Star clocks in at 5:32. On the ride home, my buddy was like They played Dark Star !!! I was like, no, they didn’t.

Yet another stellar performance by the band. It’s just so much fun. Started the night right up front but had to head for space when Estimated started. I spun right up with that tune, twirled until the end. Aaahh, all better. They had a camel on stage that had its own microphone. Everyone was chill, Ollin Agreed was cool, got me right in the mood. Loser, miracle, Stagger Lee was a nice run. Jack straw got killed by Dark Star. Estimated on was just amazing. I can’t say enough good things about these guys and girl. Thank you

I was just a kid, but the talk at the time was of the generation gap. I can remember the Ed Sullivan Show, watching it with my parents and my older siblings. Hippiedom was going mainstream. The Airplane was more mainstream than the Grateful Dead. Even when I started in ‘80, you had to seek them out, they weren’t typical. There was everybody else, then there was Jerry and the boys. If you owned up to being into the Dead, the next question was about LSD and whether or not you had tripped before. So, if you’re Ed Sullivan and you’re trying to get the San Francisco sound to the entire country, I would imagine you would go with Grace Slick over scary, hairy Jerry.

I lost it when the put up the video of Jerry playing while they were singing Ripple, had him singing along. I do believe that clip was from 10/31/80. I thought that whole thing was more of a tribute to us deadheads.

Deep elem in ‘67? Really? Wow!

What’s Smokey the Bear’s middle name? The

Helpless, the Neil Young tune?

Post drums looks interesting, going from pin drop to blowing the roof off of the place.

I wish I was there.

Caught Jerry Band 11/12/91, that was the second song of the night and yes, It stoned me! I was completely satisfied after that and still had a whole night of music to be heard. ……not to mention fishing poles…..

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.