Greg from Chestertown

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…….

Speaking of that, weren’t we supposed to get a couple of acoustic shows at the Hamilton in DC? Right before COVID hit? Somewhere over here, near my house?

Musta been the roses

To lay me down

I overheard one usher tell another at Radio City, ‘80; “ they told us you’re going to see people smoking but don’t do anything about it.”

I caught Dead and Company the summer before last up in Philly and had the time of my life, Top five show definitely. Went back up last summer because it was the last time. Set list, performance, crowd vibe all spot on the first time. Second show, Bobby was barely there. His voice was shot. I had to listen to the first song while standing in a huge line as there was only one gate if you were down on the field. After a while, a venue employee walks out and yells that this line is for the field only. About seventy five percent of the line leaves. Cool. I flow into the show, make my way down to the field to be told that I need a wristband to get down to the field. I go back up to the concourse, ask an employee where the wristbands are. She tells me they’re at gate 110 and points to the complete opposite side of the stadium. So, I ran there. Ask an employee there, I tell here that I was told to come here. She tells me that I was lied to. She says follow me, I will take you where you need to go. She walks me about a hundred yards to what appears to be the official Dead and Company T-shirt concession. She says that they can give me a wristband. After waiting about five minutes while a few people decided which tye dye would be best. Finally, it’s my turn and the gal has no idea what I am talking about. At this point, I just go find and entrance gate and ask the nice old man where the wristbands are. He points to a booth that looks like it’s from a carnival, has big letters across the top, WRISTBANDS. I walk up to the booth and say I need a wristband. She says, you have to go over there, and points to an alcove where they’re actually handing out wristbands. I got my wristband and be bop down to my seat in the back of the front section. Settled in with my neighbors who happened to ride up from their boat ten minutes down the road from my house. Half time comes and I go get a drink of water. I go to get back in my seat and for some reason, my ticket wasn’t coming up on my phone. She won’t let me back to my seat which was five feet away. She had yelled for me to get back in my seat the whole first set. So, I have my wristband, I am allowed on the floor, but if I stop for a few seconds, an employee tells me that I have to keep moving. There wasn’t any dancing area to go to. This is too depressing. Yea, I’ll never go back

I’m digging ‘round and ‘round as a show opener. Makes sense with those lyrics

I feel Eaton’s pain. The word Parasite comes to mind. From now on, I am only blowing next week’s grocery money on balloons from hippies. Seems like the least I could do.

First DSO, Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, OCNJ Music Pier, 2002. Third song, Peggy O. Tears, hair on my neck standing up. “ I can still go to shows”. life saving

Same thing happened to me, brought to tears, right about the same time. Finding Dark Star Orchestra around some corner, where they,ve been waiting to meet me, got me back to where I belong, post Jerry.

12/15/86, first time played for both tunes

So, isn’t the original show first time played for Black Muddy River and Push Comes to Shove? Somewhere about then.

That’s the best review I ever read. Thank you, Desert Dead. I think.