philly

[Tom Banjo]

The Terrapin dew could change your life.

[Weather Command]

to add to his comments >>

winterland 6-7-77

 

1st 

bertha jack straw tenn jed ll rain fenario el paso ( jennas favorite ) fotd music

2nd

this is where the fun began

scarlt > fire good lovin candyman ( uh huh )  est > hes gone > dr > samson> terrapin > dew > r&r en uncle john  us blooze

filler mr charlie

[gr8fulpair]

Holy shit batman! That second set went KAAPPOWWWW!!

[Taper Ron]

Did they do Funiculi Funicula tuning before El Paso and/or Jingle Bells tuning before Scarlet Begonias?

[Tea]

Not much else to say other than DAMN! It's all gravy from here.....

Reviews appreciated!

[chuckvegas]

And let me thank you all for the live action updates. Thoughts and love back to you!

[Mango]

Now that was a grateful dead dance party! Let's do it again!!

[GoingBackTo Where....]

Did they do Funiculi Funicula tuning before El Paso and/or Jingle Bells tuning before Scarlet Begonias?

 

Nope, not from what I heard.

[GoingBackTo Where....]

Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

What a wonderful night!!!!

 

Many highlights, but it really is getting more fun as we go!!!!!   

 

got to meet some  more of you forum fellows!!   Keep getting more impressed the more I meet.  You all are some genuine characters:}!!!

 

Feels awesome to get this amazing sound, but than to get to share with amazing smiles and amazing people:}!!!!!

 

Does not get any better!!!!

 

Well wishes, and c yall in NY!!!!!

 

Terrapin/Dew did change my life!!!!!    Fucking amazing!!!

[Cosmic Mike]

Man what a fantastic fucking show last night!

Last year's Philly show was my favorite of the previous new years run, and last night they really rocked that place out all over gain. The best part of last night was the space!!! Thank God there was an eagles playoff game last night, leaving plenty of room for even the most wild flairlers. The Bertha was a decent opener but I thought the show didn't truly take off until jack straw and from then on it was just straight fire.

As one would guess the majority of the recreations I've seen by DSO have been '77, and last night's show was one of the best '77 shows I've yet to see. Lisa was really killing it last night. I mean that woman has always got it and really lays it out, but last night I was just loving here singing, particularly on MNS, and throughout the rest of some shows she added in vocal harmonies smooth ass hell and just pierced right through my soul leaving me with big old grin all night.

On a side note, way to go DSO on embracing the eagles game. Came out wearing eagles jerseys and really showing their support. It had to be awkaward having the crowd erupt with cheering at moments not for the music but for the game.

Second set as always really got whole crowd grooving. Man was that transition in to fire smooth! Just pure euphony from start to finish. Candyman was absolutely beautiful and worked as a good rest from the high energy scarlet fire good lovin. The drums was short and went into a just killer samson. That is probably my favorite samson I've heard from them yet. They ripped right into it full force. And then there was that terrapin dew. That dew at one moment was brought down to a whisper leaving the crowd the most quiet I may have experienced. Everyone was into it as Jeff hauntingly sung the verse before the final solo screeched with wild fury as Jeff tore into it full force. Never has that song felt so real and chilling to the bone!

Loved Lisa on around & around. Thank you woman love u.s. blues and ujb great spirit to those songs, truly as any.

So many familiar faces at the electric factory, thank you guys so much for just adding to the great spirit of conviviality. I saw a ton of you guys jamming down below on the left and it sure made me smile. Really always love my spot at the top of the stairs right behind the DSO VIP.

Looking forward to round 3 tonight, my friends!

Sorry for an egregious misspellings in the post. A little trouble to edit/type on my phone.

[Tom Banjo]

I will definitely review this show when I get home. It was an emotional roller coaster of self realization and epiphanies back into darkness and then again to some form of light. I laughed, I cried, I sang, and I felt truly alive. I experienced a whole array of core emotions in one night. It was truly an amazing experience for which I owe DSO the most tremendous of honors.

[found]

Last night was amazing and magical. Stellar show by the band. So great to see all of you. Plus one on the terrapin dew changing my life

[jamminOnThe1]

wow....show sounds amazing

[redeyedbert]

I got too drunk.  I’ve lost some weight recently and didn’t factor that in.  We left Detroit at 9am.  Rolled into Philly at 7:30.  A small sandwich and 3 stiff drinks and….woops.  Now I wasn’t falling on the floor or a slobbering, babbling drunk.  Just a bit too drunk to have much of a memory today.  I did have a great time.  I danced hard.

 

I met a couple of people and danced in the "DSO forums zone" during estimated but spent most of the night at the front left rail.  I was with my wife and once I find her a comfortable place I don’t usually move.  It was roomy up there.  I was surprised at the roominess but I guess that makes sense that the game would cut down on attendance vs last year.  

 

Anyway I’m excited about tonight.  My wife isn’t going so I’m gonna find the forums dance party and hang there.  No booze tonight.  

 

Its fun being on the east coast.  I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to come for a New Years run.  

 

Sorry, not much of a review.

[Rude]

Ok. It seems that I'm in the minority here but I dont see how the Richmond show can be topped. I always said I preferred 70s shows but that 80s style original show in Richmond had me saying WOW after every song. That show was pure DSO putting their spin on the music and they were stellar. But to be fair I was exhausted for Philly. They were dead on in Philly. Was easy to recognize that was a may or June show. 1977 is so smooth but Richmond just challenged my sanity. Richmond was the best 1st set of DSO I've seen. I've never seen Jeff go off like that almost every song. It was like they had been rehearsing and experimenting and figured out a perfect formula.

[Taper Ron]

Show available for download on archive.org.  Link in A/V section.

[dsostar]

I used to feel conflicted about comparing DSO to the old GD days.  Now I feel no guilt believing these folks bring it as well, and honestly at times…Better.  Amazing.

 

That dew at one moment was brought down to a whisper leaving the crowd the most quiet I may have experienced.

 

 

’77 was known for epic Dews…and as Mike observed, the monster that arose from the quiet blue lighted water was fierce.

[Tom Banjo]

Like rudedogggg, the reflective discussion about the shows following the 31st led me to believe that I was squarely in the minority.  As others have mentioned, it is incredible to me just how subjective these opinions can be.  I didn't care much for the experience in Richmond; I would rank that show last for music and for the experience.  The show definitely had some highlights, but for me, nothing, including the 3 set new years experience match the show in Philly.  I almost want to do what Buffalo Mike did and put Philly first for music and then bump up one of the Paramount shows to the top spot for dance experience.  The dancing was definitely better both nights Huntington than the night in Philly, but at the end of the day, the music defines my experience and I would keep my top show musically as my top experience.  My list is as follows.

 

Music and Experience

 

1. Philly

2. 2nd night Huntington

3. 1st night Huntington

4. Richmond 

 

Jimmy Valvano famously said "if you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day."  I would apply that to my show experience.  If all I do is laugh, smile, and dance, the show failed to touch the entire spectrum of my emotions.  I go to DSO because it is one of the few places in my life I feel comfortable going into the dark quieter spaces of my mind.  It may be the only place I can publicly shed tears.  I was very much raised in America's version of male stoicism.  A true man doesn't show tears and stays strong for those around him.  I think this ingrained emotional behavior is bs and stunts the growth of many, but it is unavoidable for me.  It is after all how I was raised.  My dad never really showed any emotion.  Very few tears, very few I loves yous, and very few hugs.  The GD community has tried to help reverse my mentality and help me experience the whole array of human emotion.  The show in Philly would be the only show this run that I felt truly touched all of my emotions.  

 

The first set was fairly standard 77 for me.  Bertha opener into Jack Straw got the crowd moving and gave us a high energy launch pad to start the show.  Following the lack of sleep after Richmond, the high energy was well appreciated.  Tennessee Jed and looks like rain served as a short reprieve for me to get myself together, although LLR always pulls on some heart chords.  The Peggy-O and FOTD contained lots of heart felt emotion and starting pushing the show towards getting truly emotional for me, but the big break didn't occur and the Music allowed us to dance and smile and enjoy the energy of those around us.  The Philly show always brings out some of my closest GD family for the shows.  Even more so than maybe New Years as some have family and life obligations of which I applaud them for addressing.  Anybody can be a tour kid; to be a husband and a father and a provider, that's something special.  I love you guys.

 

Like crazydigits said, the 2nd set was really where the fun or at least for me, the emotional roller coaster began.  The Scarlett > Fire was transcendental.  It may be the best S > F I've heard DSO do since on the water front in Huntington, WV.  That show in WV changed everything for me.  I finally stopped pining about the JK departure and embraced that DSO and not Furthur would continue to be my band.  The place I go when I need to dance, laugh, and cry.  The Scarlett > Fire was that good.  I definitely recommend a listen.  The candyman was special and I began to find my legs and feet.  I retreated to more open dance space to enjoy this number.  It was great to have friends in several places holding down precious dance space.  After really spinning for Candyman, I returned to raucous dance of the main floor for Good lovin and enjoyed the slow psychedelic build of Estimated.  Although many probably hoped for Eyes, I really appreciated the appearance of he's gone.  The flood waters broke and the emotions became uncontrollable as I swayed and sobbed myself through this song.  By the end of he gone, I definitely needed the mental break of drums to collect myself and my emotions and remind myself of the love abound in this room tonight.  He may be gone, but I am still surrounded by so much love.  I should be forever grateful.  The Samson was high energy and really got the bones moving, but with the highlight to follow, its simply remembered as a dance tune.  The Terrapin > Dew was life altering and I could go into a long diatribe about how it does matter and that we desperately need a new peace movement, a real one.  Things are so bad right now we need new peace leaders of the level Jesus Christ and Gandhi to help curb whats going on here.  It does matter and the War machine must be stopped or before you know it, you will be looking down on your loved ones still on earth, great grandchildren, and you will cry at the barren wasteland of which they live in.  You will know that in some ways its your fault.  We stood by and did nothing while the US pursued an economic policy of countless and continuous open and shadow wars around the world.  Its not for your safety; its all about the money.  I'll stop now, but know that this moment of the show was life altering and consciousness expanding.  I felt it was without a doubt the highlight of the run.  I'm not sure I have ever heard a crowd in Philadelphia listen to a band so intently to a band as they did to DSO during the epically quiet space during the Dew.  Around and Around always a good dance number but I went to get a beer and luckily returned to the larger dance space for UJB as I did my most true dancing and spinning.  I must thank others for consciously, subconscious, or hell even accidentally getting out of my way so I could truly feel the music rush over me.  This is the biggest reason I go to Jamaica for the exclusive DSO party.  Its the only place I can dance like that for the whole show.  

 

Wow. What a show.  What a life changing experience.  Next year following Thanksgiving when we decide to forget everything we have to be grateful for and engage in wasteful spending on new things to replace those things we have to be grateful for, please try to remember what Christmas is really about and what he would really want us to be celebrating and moving towards.  Not the created commercialism of a Holiday that as all but lost its true purpose, but peace, the spreading of it and the celebrating of it.  Whether you believe in Christ or not, I know many who celebrate Christmas that do not; I would hope that you can reengage yourself in the actual message and remember to spread love wherever you go.  

[Tea]

Nicely done Rick.

 

As much as I'm focused on the music and how each song progresses, I fail to sometimes convey the impact it has on my spirit, my life, my feelings, and my choices.  You do a good - no great - job at describing how the music weaves you in and out of pensive thoughts all the way to almost careless rocking, and then back again.  

 

Those pensive times don't always sit easily with me but that's just because the truth hurts and I'm much more of hedonist than I care to admit.  The great thing about DSO's expression is that I'm mostly powerless to stop the particular emotions that each of the songs evoke.  It shines a very bright light that even illuminates those spots in our minds/spirit that we try to close off from ourselves and others.  There is no better catharsis I have found yet.  This music has reset my paradigm more than a few times.....

[JacksonPollockDancer]

alright so I definitely needed some time to gather my thoughts, and it's also been a busy time.

 

I mainly just want to talk about he's gone

 

Probably my profound experience of the night, was he's gone. You always hear about "finally hearing" a song, or how the song evolves into a different experience as you grow older and (hopefully) wiser. I've had two completely different interpretations on he's gone so far, and the emotions involved with either of those original two were mostly negative, sad, lonely, confused, not good. This night my headspace allowed me to have a completely new perspective on this song, and it was wonderful. 

 

This night after wandering around and exploring and dancing all night, I settled into a seat for he's gone next to an extremely kind woman I met earlier in the evening. We put our arms around eachother and swayed for the entire song. For this rendition of he's gone, I considered "he" to be a version of myself. I've been to really bad places, as others here may or may not have been. For a long time though, I've been growing and bettering myself trying to rise above and beyond the places I've been to. So basically this was a song about cleansing for me, at this place and time. The person who was gone was the uglier human being I used to be, and we were waving him a jubilant farewell. Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.

 

So me and this kind woman I met swayed together, sung real silly, and scatted and rapped at eachother, and it was just a really special beautiful moment for me.

 

And though one moment of clarity doesn't actually transform a person completely, I'll always have this shiny memory stashed in my pocket to take out and reflect upon at any point while I'm traversing this wacky winding road of life.

 

PS. the terrapin>dew. woah.