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DSO Acoustic Show In VT.


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Tue Jul 17 - Tupelo Music Hall [White River Junction, VT]

Address: 188 E Main st.

Special Acoustic Show

8:00 p.m.; All Ages

While not free, you can bring in your own cooler!! I heard this venue may be closing... :( . Not sure if true. Enjoy while you can!! It'll be special for sure!!

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I always had a dream (more like fantasy) of DSO playing my living room with a room full of my friends. Well that dream came true last night in a most quaint/funky/people-less town in middle Vermont. White River Juncture reminds me of a town whose main purpose is to provide a 'juncture d' train service and station to the folks and perhaps small business during days gone by. In fact there is an old steam train displayed next to the tracks as a trophy - very nice! There's a church and a food co-op and of course a train station that still operates (I think). Near the station, there is a long line of wood stained buildings that I imagine (and feels like it) was once part of bigger train related services in the old days. Tupelo is part of this line of wooden structures. The venue was 20 seats across and about 12 rows long. Three 2-foot wide aisles on both sides and in the middle. The DSO sound guy was in the back and that was all that can fit in the room. At the opposite end of the long wooded structure there is a Twilight Zone experience that can be had by anyone in the area. There is a bar/restaurant that when we stepped inside, we felt like we entered a restaurant in the middle NYC. It was set break, it was 10pm (give or take), it was a Tuesday night, and this classy establishment was 3/4 full with people well dressed and seemingly on dates. The bar was full of patrons seemingly not from the show, but within minutes that would change. You know, one of those twilight zone scenes where someone is in a mid western town and then steps into another dimension. The first set may have helped with that experience. The name was Elixir. ... Hahhh - it is a "freight house" http://www.elixirrestaurant.com/ ! The menu looked very fine and my wife and I are sure to return there to dine. Folks more local to WRJ need to bookmark the event page of the Tupelo and frequent the venue - we need venues like this to stay with us (as band members shared last night). A night out to dine at Exilir and a show at Tupelo is a great evening to put on your radar. All my friends in Hanover, Lebanon, Randolph Center and even Burlington will all learn about this well kept secret - although the secret needs to not be that anymore.

I need to leave the set-list up to the kind person who regularly lists on the website. The band declared last night to be an evening of "Stools and Stories" and that it was. Constant interaction with the band between every song the entire night. If you spoke to the band last night between songs you were nearly certain to get a response. I loved the Brent tune, "We Can Run" - a tune that feels to me like a stadium type song performed last night in....in....in "my living room" in White River Juncture Vermont. Lastly, the cooler policy was VERY nice! What an evening.... pure magic and dream like. I am now an outreach spokesperson for folks in this section of country. It needs to survive....rare and dream like.

Again, I apologize for lack of setlist, hopefully soon to be posted on the website. Peace.

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You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination...

That sounds incredible! That does seem like a venue that needs to stay in rotation...in the Dark Star Zone. Thanks for the update!

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Very good review of the vibes and character of the venue, Frank. We definitely need smaller, more intimate venues like this one, and I'm sure they help the band relax and stretch out, too. Glad you had a great time, and I can't wait to hear about the actual music, as well as some of the banter that was shared between band and audience.

Topher

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Set 1:

The Race is On

Mississippi Halfstep

Big Iron

Jack a Roe

Operator

On the Road Again

Positively Fourth Street

Dark Hollow

Dire Wolf

It Makes No Difference

Sitting in Limbo

Monkey and the Engineer

That's Alright Mama

Set 2:

Heaven Help the Fool

Iko Iko

A Voice from on High

We Can Run

Standing on the Moon

Cassidy

Palm Sunday

Wake Up Little Susie

Ragged but Right

Walk in the Sunshine>

The Wheel>

Oh Boy>

Deep Elem Blues

Encore:

Frozen Logger

Ripple

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Holy cow! That is a classic set list! Love the Big Iron>Jack a Roe (can't get enough of that); Pos 4th St always a plus; It Makes No Difference is beautiful; what can you say about SOTM...Palm Sunday!

Oh all right - the whole damn show looks like the dream from the Zone! Unreal!

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