Forum MVP Supplicated Velvet Thunder Posted May 12, 2012 Forum MVP Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 Cumberland Blk throated Next time you see me Birdsong Greatest story Chinatown shuffle Sittin on top of the world Deep elem Good lovin (bitch dog in heat rap) 2nd Dancing Rag He was a friend of mine Easy wind Dark star>st Stephen>11>alligator>drums>alligator>attics>golden road Encore 2nd that emotion Bid you Soooo great thank you will review later or in the AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted May 12, 2012 Forum MVP Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 Sometimes you just have to lay down and take your rest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakada Posted May 12, 2012 Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 Cumberland Blk throated Next time you see me Birdsong Greatest story Chinatown shuffle Sittin on top of the world Deep elem Good lovin (bitch dog in heat rap) 2nd Dancing Rag He was a friend of mine Easy wind Dark star>st Stephen>11>alligator>drums>alligator>attics>golden road Encore 2nd that emotion Bid you Soooo great thank you will review later or in the AM in the words of Sakada: HOLY FUCK !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian NJ Posted May 12, 2012 Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 I think this was the best dso show I have ever seen. needs to be on CD. Highlights THE WHOLE FUCKIN SHOW!!! Chinatown shuffle Sittin on top of the world He was friend of mine and attics were specktacular also easy wind and... you get the idea all good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michelle Posted May 12, 2012 Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 what a great looking setlist ~ my ears are envious so it looks like approximately 1/3 of the songs were Barraco tunes ~ excellent ~ and this should happen more often, please ... and thank you very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Mango Posted May 12, 2012 Forum MVP Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 'HOLY FUCK' is right. They just rocked those obnoxious north-easters' fuckin faces off. I'm not really sure a town like New Haven deserves a show so psychadelic and sweet but you know what they say about the light and strang e places.... ...last night's show was very special for me. It was almost exactly seven years ago(may 30th 2005) that I saw my first show with barraco in the band, at Toad's of a places. Fresh off my first year of college and back in philly for the summer I managed to convince my friends to make the 3.5 hour trek to new haven. If my memory serves me correctly it was a weeknight, quiet for new Haven. What unfolded that night changed my life forever, more so than any show previous. Being a huge fan of 'live/dead' all I really wanted to see DSO do was 'dark star' and 15 or so shows into my career I had experienced none. This night would change all of that with a dstar/other1 vortex sandwich that completely melted my existence(literally, I nearly blacked out during drums(interestingly enough that section of the recording available on lama is missing....) but fortunately found a pillar to lean on while my vision went red and wasn't ejected from the show). It was one of those show experiences that completely shatters one's ego, leaving you to reasemble the pieces and maybe reconsider your whole life. Anyways.... ....Last night's show was very much in the same vain, only better for Jeff mattson's warlock touch. I can't help but think that there was some young kid in the crowd having a similar experience to myself seven years ago. In fact at one point I looked back into the crowd and saw a group of kids that looked just like me and my friends at that age. Made me smile huge knowing that another generation of kids who, like myself, never saw jerry yet who undeniably GET this music just the same as anyone who has. This stuff is just timeless. Everything about the first set had that 1970 feel but it was clear that we were witnessing some electivity(well to me at least, I get some real good laughs over what I overhear others predicting the show to be...). The whole set was a highlight reel but i especially enjoyed the electric deep elem and the racous good lovin. I'm not exactly sure what Rob was rapping about, something having to do with a bitch dog in heat....Rob, you are a sick man;) The second set pretty much speaks for itself. Loved the old school dancin to get things started...but seriously guys(and I'm talking to you rob b because I know you read this shit) ya gotta take that jam out further. For reference put on 6-6-70 and check out the 'hypnotized jam'...we need that juiciness and so do y'all:) Our friend had heard 'he was a friend of mine's during soundcheck so i half expected it but FULLY enjoyed it. I did at one point during it have to turn around to a young couple obnoxiously chatting in my ear and not-so-politely 'shhhh!' them but for once they actually complied. Darkstar-stephen-eleven has always been my hands down favorite jam and this one did not dissappoint whatsoever. Attics was beautifully sung with splendid harmonies. Jeff looked rather angelic singing this, barely even strumming his guitar as to devout his full attention to sweetly singing us back home....but we weren't home yet and we blasted back off into what was maybe my favorite version of alligator that I've ever seen DSO do. I was wagging my tail for sure, flailing if you will(its alright ducats I highly doubt you've made it this far into my review). Ok I just realized that alligator came before attics but its all good and too dificult on this phone to go back. Thanks so much for a fantastic show, another notch on the belt. Steph and i are skipping huntington tonight recoup and fully enjoy oneonta tomorrow. Much love! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michelle Posted May 12, 2012 Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 bitch dog in heat, eh? do tell ~ I love Barraco's Pigpen style Say, when's this show gonna be available for listening pleasure? pretty please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratefulDevil Posted May 12, 2012 Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 For all of us less than 60 years old (which is most of us who've ever listened to 2/3/70 or anything similar and thought "I wish I was older and could have gone to the Fillmore or Harpur College or etc....." and felt bad that you missed out on a great Grateful Dead period, last night at Toads was your chance. Its as close as it'll ever come. Incredible raw energy. Unbelievable show. Thanks guys (and girl)! For those of you who were there last night, you know. And for those of you who weren't, as they say, "You cant win if you dont play." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Tom Banjo Posted May 12, 2012 Forum MVP Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 I'll give the show an A. The venue F and the crowd a generous C -. Overall C+. Not a good grade compared to my usual Dso experience. I hope some kids we're reached because a lot of people there didn't get it in my personal estimation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted May 13, 2012 Forum MVP Report Share Posted May 13, 2012 I'll give the show an A. The venue F and the crowd a generous C -. Overall C+. Not a good grade compared to my usual Dso experience. I hope some kids we're reached because a lot of people there didn't get it in my personal estimation. Keep shedding that light, brother. You know the quote from "Cool Hand Luke" but you have to keep trying anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gooserider Posted May 13, 2012 Report Share Posted May 13, 2012 I'll give the show an A. The venue F and the crowd a generous C -. Overall C+. Not a good grade compared to my usual Dso experience. I hope some kids we're reached because a lot of people there didn't get it in my personal estimation. That's a very generous C-. Place was filled with drunk underage kids shoving their way to the front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Teacher Matt Posted May 14, 2012 Forum MVP Report Share Posted May 14, 2012 guess all the Yale kids stayed home and studied for finals ..... and those cutters from the other side of the tracks showed up ..... damn cutters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Supplicated Velvet Thunder Posted May 15, 2012 Author Forum MVP Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 So far this was probably the best performed show of the tour but the audience/venue collaboration of annoying overcrowdedness did detract a bit from what was happening on the stage. I lean towards thinking many of the young/new ones were tuned in and turned on though there were plenty of people of all ages (can I just say that annoying audience members come in ALL ages and look ALL ways- the cleanest 50 year old can be the BIGGEST drunk prick and the dirtiest 'lot kid' can be the kindest and until you open up to the vibes you won't know by appearance alone) that just plain did not belong, but hey, that's part of what it is all about.... transcendence through interference. By Chinatown Shuffle I realized that this was the best show of tour so far (I think I knew this at Cumberland but I gotta hold back and TRY to be objective) and those in the crowd that had not been moving def found their swing. With Sittin on top of the World right after and Jeff ransacking my brain for all sensible concepts and leaving them in the weirded space between my melting face and his beaming guitar I was having some trouble keeping myself within my skin. I managed and Deep Elem got really stretched and the man kept my brain in goo and my limbs nimble (despite the lack of space in the front). Good Lovin. Wow. Bitch dog in heat..... and that was just a little bit of it that I wrote down to remember the level of debauchery... What a dirty, dirty man. Not sure if I am referencing Pig who did it first or Barraco because he actually went for it but seriously you guys that had to be about the most jaw dropping shit to hear coming from that stage ever...... I turned to Mango and asked if he really just said what I think he said and he just laughed and shrugged and I knew I must be right. The whole song was superbly played but I have just never experienced such a hilariously raunchy drawn out rap like that..... was told it was from Europe 72 and I do remember hearing it before which is why I knew what he was saying and just couldn't believe it. Little baby really needed her daddy that night it seems. Hot damn. I will take an old school harmonic dancin that gets everyone doin that rag to open second set any or every day of the week. Rag was just especially breathtaking... and THEN He was a Friend of Mine which though we heard they had soundchecked its never a guarantee so WOW how lovely and powerful and moving! Just in time to sweep everyone down to the chain gang line in Easy Wind which I just always eat up because DSO just nails it every damn time. Heavenly Dark Star>st stephen>11 that had the whole place undone and then carrying the water to the children of the garden for this is the season. Alligator ate the faces of everyone in the crowd and I think now I finally like Attics. Doesn't do it for me on the tapes. Didn't do it for me when I've seen John play it in DSO and Furthur and didn't do it for me the one time I saw Jeff play it last.... probably had more to do with my own headspace, of course, but when they played it this night and Mango and I very slowly ended up in each others arms but facing the stage together we both almost cried because it was so sweet and soul flying and full of love and touched by angels. I really like Golden Road (mango teases me) so I plain rocked out to it after such a special moment and I am pretty sure this was the point where I felt a ton of kids in that room REALLY GET IT I mean really Really REALLY, man! Encore was just great with just Eaton and the drummers keeping bid you going along for the harmonies on top. Still probably goes down as 'the best music' of the tour because of the setlist and the way they played it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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