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Ammagamalin Crew

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Set 1

Alabama getaway

Wang Dang

Jackaroe

BTW

Cats

Used to love her

Candyman

Passenger

So many roads

Music

Set 2

Til the morning comes

Easy wind

Stranger

Help

Slip

Franklin's

Drums

Space

Last time

GDTRFB

Sing me back home

Good login

Encore

Let it rock

Finally room to move. Tired from a 12 hr drive.

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coooooooool!!!!! oh man, oh man, oh friends of mine…... this tour is coming right on time!!!! homies went out to surf this morning, we woke up as we have for a few weeks now in a sweet geodesic dome snuggled between mountains and the pacific wrapped around us.  malibu isn't quite the place for hippies (big lebowski quotes have been constant in our jibber jabbering lol) but most people are so lost in their fashionable world that they LITERALLY DO NOT SEE US which has made for some funny moments.  jasmine green tea in my cup and soon the sun will be high enough over the ridge for me to go meditate in the early morning ocean breezes and solar rays of warmth but ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS

 

tomorrow we hop on tour!!!!!!

 

this is the first time in my life that I will get to go on a tour that I have been on before (qualifying tour at more than 4 shows in a row and excluding festival-like settings) and when I think about "who I wanted to be" 5 years ago I realize that turning 30, returning to the specific tour that began the final cycles of my saturn returns, and living the life I love is exactly what I wanted to be doing since the moment I ended up at the Variety Playhouse that fated February night in mind states that no longer even require physical substance, but are instead rekindled by a simple run of notes or the memory of a real good time.  

 

I know I get a lil cheesy and overly sentimental when tour is rolling around for me, but seriously, THANK YOU DSO.  There is not a lover or friend in my life today that is not a direct result of touring this band and posting on these forums.  Through these forums I deepened my connections with a few of you and opened myself up to meet the rest of you.  We have shared so many moments together! From parking lots singing high time with terror coming by night and arrows flying by day, to sunny green fields and crescent moonlit nights, we sure have been through a lot together.  I am only sitting in this place in Malibu today because I met a pretty fairy boy during fall tour in LA 2 years ago that sparked my unicorn interest and now I feel like I am surrounded by lovers and friends everywhere I go, whether it is a first meeting or the millionth.  It always seems new.  Thank you DSO, you have made ALL of my dreams come true, because you put me on the right path, and now I don't have to stop to decide where I should go….. I just fucking ride.  And it is one nirvana of a wave.

 

Today Gabe makes the last few malas we have beads for and I finish the last few red and blue bangle slinky bead bracelets I have been working on since I finished the patches before we left Colorado.  Tomorrow we head out to San Diego to catch our first night and knowing YOU WILL BE THERE MANGO is just what my heart soars on right now.

 

Saturday we come back and go chill with Uncle Graham who I met with Gabe at DSO 2 years ago because Uncle Graham had recently decided that DSO was much more worth his time and money than other acts around today.  Walked into this guys house a week or so ago to plot tour (he and his girl who has never toured are doing LA-SF with us! hehe, yeah!) and we ended up chatting deadhead nonsense for hours with his roomie and at one point the gf was like, "wait, are you still just talking about this band," and though we wanted to explain we were talking about at least 3 or more bands at once (as Graham was showing me off to the roommate as an authentic star head that wisely chose to reach for the stars instead of just going a lil furthur) we just settled on sheepishly nodding our heads.

 

Then Sunday I get to go back to my fave venue down here, the Canyon Club, where we will be bringing the whole household we have been staying with (put me in a community environment for a few weeks and DARE ME to not bring everyone to the show closest to them heheh) and get to rejoin hands with so many of you that I know will be there.  Knowing the usual suspects and the local crew will be at this show has me more excited than I can politely express on here (though I know when I say this ya'll KNOW what I mean! lmao) so KISS KISS dear ones, can't wait to spin again!

 

Monday…. Monday we leave Malibu (sadder than I thought it would be!) to make ourselves headlights on the north bound train of fireworks calliopes and clowns.  I am so homesick for the bay and n cali that I can almost see the big trees on the horizon and taste the chill morning damp, heavy with the scent of evergreens and moss.  Going home, going home…...

 

see ya'll tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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Did some say sabbath? Warpurgis?? Please for terrapin nation. Pleeeeease.

Nihilists... Fuck me. Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism but at least it's an ethos.

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Ehh. TN would be fun but theres still so much GD material I need to hear again and again.  Took me forever to learn all these random GD songs and I still see many Ive never heard of.  Plus they have to advertise the TN show plenty early as I know if I was taking a bunch of 1st timers and didnt get a GD show we wouldnt be happy campers.

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I should refer to this recent West Coast run as the search for space tour.  After 2 packed nights in Boulder and a nice breathing room night at the sold out show in Aspen, the space was finally there for me to get a full on get down boogie on.  However, its not always meant to be and tonight despite some of our favorite elixirs, my legs wouldn't find the magic.  The space was more a mirage as I gave all I had but I so definitely wished I had more.  I hadn't done 12 hours in a car into a show in awhile and I must admit, I missed the open road.  I'm not talking about driving around the Northeast for some DSO shows.  I mean the OPEN road.  Cruise control.  Grateful Dead and probably more medicine than I should carry out of Colorado.  I will not be missing Dark Star Arizona shows.  The drive was beautiful and the venues left room for us to dance.

 

The show kicks off with feverish energy as Dark Star drops into Alabama Getaway and this continues through Wang Dang.  I love catching the rare Dark Star Wang Dang.  I start the show upfront unsure of where my place will be here in Flagstaff.  It has both its disadvantages and advantages pertaining to my own experience, but in places like Flagstaff, AZ I only know a few heads and their is no group I feel any obligation towards dancing with.  I get to be selfish and dance almost solely for my pleasure and delight.  I quickly realized that the front wasn't for me as the space closed in and I get that.  The band was grinning like the chesire cat and to everyone's delight, appeared to be in top form tonight.  If I didn't really want to dance, I might of felt that same pull towards their cosmic energy.  I must say that despite space issues at other venues the band seemed to be on it every night.  I can't get enough of this right now.  I get some local dead tomorrow night at the Little Bear and because this band has been killing it so much I know it will be a struggle for this local band not to completely disappoint.  I am repositioned in the back in front of merch by the end of Jackaroe and although I can spot two good friends back here, I am able to spin slowly and feel BTW.  The song is ripe with emotion for me and tonight is no different.  The energy and the dance spirit takes a dramatic twist as the band drops into Cats and the crowd energy picks up again.  From my perch on the raised level in the back of the venue, I was able to take in both the band and the crowd. I feel given the space this band will get any crowd moving and stomping their feet.  I believe SVT refers to something of this theme in one of her TXR posts, but there is something real special to see the music win over a crowd into dance.  The same person who talks their way through BTW cause they don't quite get it yet may be overcome with energy in the next song and dance out of their mind or their pants.  The initiated experience vs. the uninitiated.  At a place like TXR, where I stand, everyone dances or tries to through every song because there's a huge group of people there who get it and have gotten it for sometime.  The set ends with two emotional tuggers Candyman and So Many Roads and 2 raucous dance numbers.  Jeff's articulation of the candyman's story moves me every time; he really has the solos and the vocals down in this tune.  Jeff's So Many Roads used to honestly make me yearn for JK.  I still feel like JK very much is in control of this song and its always a pleasure to catch him perform it, but its refreshing to see Jeff's vocal delivery improvements and hear his other worldly guitar work on this song.  I no longer miss JK as I feel Jeff has very much improved in his control and comfort performing this tune.  What can I say about the dance tunes?  Dark Star is playing the best rock-n-roll dance party music out there period.  Passenger and Music both had the crowd stomping their feet.  We all owe so much thanks to DSO and crew for bringing us a dance party all over the U.S. and a few places abroad.

 

I love dancing to Till the Morning Comes.  I've only seen DSO perform it a few times and although I've listened to some Dead versions, the song has a fresh and new feel to me.  Great for big twirls.  Then, boom down and dirty dead with RB deliver his take on Pigpen's Easy Wind.  This is the Dead material I long for, that I thirst for.  After seeing the setlist, I feel I made a poor decision bailing on Seattle. The show only gets raunchier following Easy Wind with a Stranger popping up in a fresh 2nd set placement.  I wouldn't feel like a stranger tonight, but we all know this is a fun song to get down during. H>S>F is pure dancing bliss with Jeff's guitar playing darting, twisting, and careening in and out of your ear and mind.  For the first time since Jamaica, I would truly enter that space where everything disappears but the music.  I couldn't see the crowd or the band; only feel the sounds and rhythms undulating throughout my body.  I certainly wouldn't get back to that place tonight.  I was tired and drums kind of killed my energy.  I rarely dance through drums and after I stopped moving, it was hard to get moving again.  Of course given a GDTRFB, Good Lovin, and Let it Rock I would do my best to sway and swing through the rest of the night, but the real stand out here would be Sing me Back Home.  The death row story of missing loved ones and the acknowledgment of what was truly important at the end often moves me to tears.  Its important to remember that prisoners even death row inmates are people with feelings and love.  Remember the love.  

 

The lonely cheap motel and quick sleep would be in store for me tonight.  Thank you Dark Star.  It was worth every minute of that 12 hour drive.  More reviews to come, I think.

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