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Looks like Furthur has a new web site Furthur.net and they added a bunch of fall dates....some very close to another band we know who are trying to give them their space.....my good friend Herbie Greene shot their new family photo's in the media section of their website check them out....Dr. V

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Well, I don't know if it's just me... but in the beginning of all of this there was a lot of criticism that they were being shown to much as Bob Weir & Phil Lesh featuring.....

this website is a lot more Furthur... as one band, together.

Maybe Phil reads the DSO forums and got a clue. I was one of those who found it rather inapproriate that Furthur seemed to treat the other bandmembers as sidemen to Phil and Bobby. Furthur is working in a way that all other post-Jerry projects of these two haven't because of the complete package.

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$70.00 per ticket for the Furthur coliseum show in Cincinnati. 'nough said. as Tony Rice sings the Gordan Lightfoot song "COLD ON THE SHOULDER.........." and you know that we get a little older ever day......." sorry for the post. :wacko:

I've yet to see Furthur and was looking forward to going to the Baltimore show, but at $50 / $70 a ticket the issue of me going may be in doubt.

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It just keeps getting worse... :rolleyes:

I ain't picking on nobody......But, We need to embrace the music while we can & anything Phil wants to do to take the mu$ic FURTHUR is..........All good!

We should all get out there & buy as many tickets as we can to help fill up all the venues that the Grateful Dead sold out in a matter of minutes thru the 80's & 90's!

See 'Ya on the Road,

Rob

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From the JK entry of About the Band at the Furthur website:

"While most of the bands he played with wrote their own music, in 1997 John co-founded the group, Dark Star Orchestra, a band exclusively devoted to playing the well-documented actual setlists of the Grateful Dead. Originally started as a side-project house band for some of the best local deadhead musicians,

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From the JK entry of About the Band at the Furthur website:

"While most of the bands he played with wrote their own music, in 1997 John co-founded the group, Dark Star Orchestra, a band exclusively devoted to playing the well-documented actual setlists of the Grateful Dead. Originally started as a side-project house band for some of the best local deadhead musicians,

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Except DSO is NOT " a band exclusively devoted to playing the well-documented actual setlists of the Grateful Dead".

Hmm....

That's a very interesting observation you noticed, which I had overlooked. I had assumed that JK wrote his own bio, and I was giving Phil and Jill credit for not getting uptight about giving DSO some publicity and letting them be described positively on the Furthur site. Now that you mention it, it does seem odd that JK would have used the word "exclusively" to describe DSO's setlists. I would assume that JK wrote his own bio, but perhaps there was a little editing afterwards?

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I'm impressed!! Kudos to Phil and Jill for letting JK's bio include the facts.

Except DSO is NOT " a band exclusively devoted to playing the well-documented actual setlists of the Grateful Dead".

Hmm....

That's a very interesting observation you noticed, which I had overlooked. I had assumed that JK wrote his own bio, and I was giving Phil and Jill credit for not getting uptight about giving DSO some publicity and letting them be described positively on the Furthur site. Now that you mention it, it does seem odd that JK would have used the word "exclusively" to describe DSO's setlists. I would assume that JK wrote his own bio, but perhaps there was a little editing afterwards?

I agree that the description is inaccurate, and it is unlikely that JK wrote it. Some of it seems taken from his Wikipedia entry and part from an interview. It's the sort of misconception one sees all the time in media depictions of DSO, and I suspect that is was written by a publicist or other Furthur employee. But that's not the point. The point is that by delineating the list of well known musicians who have played with the band, it is a favorable, though inaccurate depiction of DSO. And that this came out of the Furthur organization surprised, and pleased me.

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