Greg from Chestertown

The stars go fading one by one…..

The version of the spooky old Tree done by the Berenstain Bears is better than any hard to handle. My favorite book to read my kids back in the day. ….back in bed!

I found a website once that had the songs that the Grateful Dead played listed in the order of number of times played, from Drums/Space, Me and My Uncle right on down to quite a few that were only played once. The end of that list is quite intriguing. Some are associated with one off benefit shows with other artists on stage with them. Some, like the Master’s Bouquet are from spontaneous acoustic shows. I’m fascinated with the songs they tried and decided to shelve after just a few attempts. If I Had the World to Give is kinda the holy grail with Jerry giving it three tries. Woulda been nice to see him get that worked out like he did with Visions of Johanna. Late in the game creaky voiced Jerry would have done that one justice. I think. That’s what’s so beautiful about Dark Star Orchestra. We get to have these songs. It Makes No Difference would be sweet to catch.

That’s what I thought. I guess Dark Star could cover it in the filler spot.

Did the Grateful Dead ever cover Willin’ ?

Back in the day, I had a bootleg album of a show from Santa Monica ‘82 that had the same blank white album center and album cover.

I maxed out at seven shows a year for both Dark Star Orchestra and Grateful Dead. Fortunately for me, Dark Star played a lot of mid Atlantic area shows back in the day. We got New Year’s in Philly and Baltimore. They played my home town and summer home town, more than once. I swear they were following me.

Is there tax on condoms? No, they stay on by themselves.

Kinda weird, working on the Eastern Shore, looking across the bay and not seeing an entire bridge that’s always been there on the horizon.

That’s the best set list I have ever read.

Yea, gimme that or any other elective show any day of the week. How else you getting Pride of Cucamonga?

Many times as show opener also, if my fried brain serves me correctly. Dark Star had a few Bertha>Good Lovin’ combinations in their set lists a little while back which triggered some investigation on my part. Bertha rocks, one of my favorites, going back to my beginnings. Always loved watching the crowd bounce to that one. ….and Good Lovin’, come on, that’s Bobby channeling PigPen. Even a blind man knows when the sun is shining, cuz he can FEEL it…..!!!

I enjoyed the part about sneaking taping equipment in. Always enjoyed seeing from the Blue line back at the spectrum full of mic stands. The Grateful forest.

More irony; I was envisioning Jeff delivering it.

It’s the best thing you’ll ever do and it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do.

Oh, I got it! Loser.

It went over my head like a sweater.

I can’t even guess. It’s Dead and Company. They don’t follow the rules to keep it random. I don’t see the Grateful Dead set list patterns transferring over. Yea, it’s different. I totally dig Dark Star Orchestra’s elective set lists. They move the music forward. My last show, Dead a Company opened with Da Wimen ah Smatah. So, yea, you could get a Deal opener. Did Jerry ever do a deal opener? Did they ever play Deal in Vegas? Knowing Jerry, he was going to make us wait sixteen years.

Go back to where you found the one point and look again! It sounds like a spot that might go back to paleo. Look for broken rocks, straight edges and odd colors. Bring a stick so you can give ‘em a flick without having to bend over. You’ll look at more potential finds that way. Morrow mountain and Hardaway style points originated from your area. I read 1491, nice read. There’s a lot of spirituality involved with their ceramics and the crafting of the points, tools. Bannerstones are supposedly related to one individual for a lifetime. 9 out of ten that are found are broken, many repurposed into other tools or ornamentation, used by the descendants of the original user. I have a Adze that was repurposed as a sinew stone. Darrin Lowery told me that was really special to someone. ( It’s a hand me down….) A small flat stone with various grooves along the edges and a wear area near the distal end. They would run deer Sinew through the grooves to make it into string for their bow. I started looking closer at all the broken rocks on the beach and a LOT of them are actually expedient tools that were used for processing food or working with wood. A bunch of flakes with a worn edge or a cobble with an abrasive edge. It’s like they were scaling fish. Maybe I will learn more tomorrow during the full moon low tide. Hang it up, see what tomorrow brings….

Back in the day, my roommate told me he and his buddies were listening to Terrapin and his buddies dad popped his head in the room and asked what they were listening to. Dad told them it was some orchestra or some classic piece of music. He had recognized it through the walls. That’s all I got.

I can’t figure out, if it’s the end or the beginning….

Some of the artifacts are absolute works of art. Enough of the thread drift. Bet they open up with Gimme some Lovin’. SO GLAD YOU MADE IT !!!!!!

I’m totally immersed in the Native American culture, studying them here on the Delmarva Peninsula. There’s projectile points found here that match up to ones found in caves in Spain and France, Solutrean style. One of the unsuccessful peopling of the Americas 23,000 years ago? I work on a farm that’s on the Chester River, near the spine of Delmarva. There’s a buried bog on the farm with a spring running into the Chester. There’s a Native American site there that they let me surface hunt the beach. In 14 years, I have found 476 projectile points, 47 tools ranging from full groove axes, Bannerstones, Sinew stones, Pestles, Hammerstones, game ball, scrapers, oh, and the bowl from a native clay pipe, about 245 significant potsherds representing at least 18 different containers. Another 3-500 smaller potsherds Diagnostic point styles show continuous visitation to this site for 10,000 years. Grateful Dead music is one of my hobbies. This is the other one.

I have a version on a mix tape that fell in my lap in the early nineties. No idea date played.

Many thanks. Row, row, row…….