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Cheesy, I know. You have all been privy to my personal love sagas here on the forums, so I want to say up front this post is not about ME.  

 

How do we meet people? Bars suck, social networking online can be weird, and we are all uber geeks for this music! Going to see DSO today, and I'm sure many of you found this touring GD, opens us up to meeting ALL KINDS of KIND people! Every now and then a little light of a sweet love story is shown in the strangest of places when you look at it right.

 

Last night a buddy shared a very sweet story from the Boulder shows from this past tour with us and I feel compelled to share it cause it is freaking adorable!

 

So our buddy goes to the show on Friday and is pretty indecisive about whether to go on Saturday cause he is a busy guy.  He has a vision saturday morning in which he is informed that he will go to the show, stand with his finger in the air, refuse the first ticket offered and then get a miracle.  He was STILL on the fence, but with a little help from friends ended up enacting exactly what happened in the vision.  Once in the show, he feels a pull to the front (this is where we all dance together but we were not there, as we were in Malibu already!) where he sees a vision of loveliness.  She is writing in a notebook all through the first set, so he makes it up to her and starts doing the "you are writing in a notebook dance" (whatever that is, lol!) but she doesn't notice so he finally talks to her as set break begins.  He asks about her writing and she kind of shrugs off telling him so he says, "I get it, inspiration move me brightly!" and she DOESN'T get it and he lets it go.  

 

Second set.  They play Terrapin.  Buddy is across the room from lovely until this point and as Jeff steps up to the mic to sing, "INSPIRATION, move me brightly," they lock eyes and lovely is overwhelmed by this moment in her life when weird guy has just quoted something she didn't know was a quote then they play it for her so she GETS IT.  

 

After the show she asks for his number.  He writes a mantra on her notebook and walks away.  She hollers after him, "Hey, you didn't give me your number," he keeps walking.  She goes after him and repeats herself and he says, "Well, I don't think you are really gonna call me," and she promises to call after the show so he gives her the number.  They have been hanging out.  Who knows where it all leads, doesn't matter anyway, the point IS, THAT is a cute story! 

 

Thanks DSO, I know it may be a little silly, but you really do help me and ALL of my friends find love in the miracles that happen every day!!! LOVE and KISS KISS!

 

do YOU have any sweet stories to share from tour?  I know most of you are dudes, but I also know most of you have some pretty romantic streaks, so come on, get the mother rolling!

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Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl. Maybe they live happily ever after, maybe not. Shake up gender and other societal norms to suit. But it is still the second greatest story ever told.

Good topic, Steph!

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See lyrics to Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel - that about sums it up for me.

 

Nearly every girl that I hung out with whilst on tour (short list, other lifetime) ended up wanting emotional support more than lust/love.  They'd drift away....come back like a bolt of lightning....and then roll away like the tide.  Lovers come and go....

 

There was this ONE girl though.  She could take the dark outta the night-time.....She was lyin in the grass, laughing and I had to see what was making tears roll down her face.  She looked in my eyes and asked me if she could read my palm.  I of course obliged and I don't think our hands unlocked for a couple days.  She was bat-shit crazy (so was I) which only enhanced our short time together.  Just like that she faded into the sunset.  Good times - Great Topic Steph!

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I maybe a little too young and haven't been seeing the music enough to have any sweet GD love stories. Regardless I have met some wonderful ladies at DSO shows, mostly because DSO shows are just such wonderful places. Yesterday. I hung out with this girl who I first met at a DSO show at 9:30 club. When she told me her name was Cassidy I thought she was messing with me for sure, but nope! sure was the truth. Tea may remember. The real sweet GD love stories are yet to come!

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Like Steph says, the shows bring together "ALL KINDS of KIND people!" Everyone lets loose and people become close. It's a total shared experience! People feel less like strangers at shows (no pun intended). I have great memories at shows groovin with people who were complete strangers beforehand. I'm sure it's happened to us all.

 

Outside of shows or as some call it "real life", people are definitely of strangers. Sometimes I forget that, but getting into a strange woman's car at 1:30am in downtown DC can be quite an adventure.

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shaking ones confidence is probably a GREAT thing. as confidence comes from a false sense of the ego clinging to permanence, to be shaken is an opportunity to be rattled free of all conception.

shake it, take it, sugaree.

Excerpt from my poetry

Without pause.

Without cause.

Without expectation

Of returned summation.

We do things from the heart, without attachment to the outcome. Lol spell correct got me.

Traveling light is the only way to fly.......

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When I'm at shows I'm zoned into the music and everything else is trivial, but I had a funny experience last year.

 

It was my 41st B-Day and a me and a friend go out for drinks.  Of course after catching a big buzz on my bday I tell my buddy that we are going to the strip club.  I see this cute girl sitting down reading in the back of the club.  She has these fake dreads in her hair and I start to chat with her.  I didnt realize she was a dancer at 1st.  We start talking and the Grateful Dead comes up.  She shows her festival wristbands from the previous summer(This story is in March).  She still had her Dark Star Jubilee bracelet on.  I was like holy shit.  I didnt think anyone from my area was at Jubilee 1.  I mean it was a ghost town anyway.  So we clicked b/c of the dead and start hanging out and at Jubilee 2 she was my festie date which was a disaster, but she was super cute so it sort of compensated lol.  We didn't speak on the drive home and for 3 months after.  We are just friends now and still chat occasionally.  Chalk up 1 for old men!!!!

 

Oh and btw in honor of my bday she had them play Music never stopped and got on stage and hooped!!!! 

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Great story.  Nothing like strippers and dead.

Hmmmm.

 

What GD song would be perfect for 'dance' songer for a stripper......errrr.......entertainer?  Cats Down?  I'm guessing the lap dancers would have to charge mega bucks for the 30-minute PITB and would prefer Mama Tried or Don't Ease me In.

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I have an experience that I think is worth sharing..I have extremely mixed emotions looking back at this as I'm sure you will understand...so I live in Nebraska and I take a yearly trip out to San Fran every April to see friends and catch DSO as it is tough to get to shows as they don't get too close to home...I usually catch the band for three nights at the Great American Music Hall but could only get to one show as we were outside the city for couple nights...so half way through the first set this girl approaches me...she is from the east coast and I was wearing a Red Sox hat on and she inquired where I was from...so we immediately hit it off, have all this crazy shit in common and watch the rest of the first set together and then decide to go up to the balcony to take in the second set...we have an absolute blast, dancing, making bets as to what song will be next etc...we go for beers and good after the show, we meet up the best day, which was one those beautiful sunny SF days...spend this whole great day together

So while on this trip I had decided I was going to move to SF. Done deal. I had made plans with one of my best friends who had been living in SF for about 2 years.. I was going to save up, move out to SF in 6 months...best trip of my life, had figured some things out, had wanted to get out of Nebraska for awhile and the wheels were in motion and I was so excited...

Turns out that was the last time I saw my dear friend. About a month later, during Bay to Breakers parade in SF, he tragically and accidentally fell to his death off a four story apartment building...absolutely devastated, life turned upside down in an instant....

So I put my plans on hold and am still in Nebraska. When I look back at that week I remember meeting this amazing person, getting to see my favorite band ever play and I can't do anytjing but smile...but it's really really difficult to not think about seeing my friend for the last time...when I left SF to go back home I had ye chance to hug my friend, tell him I loved him and I am so so thankful I got to do that. I'm so thankful for this music bc it helps me every day. Bit of a rant there but it means a lot to me and it's funny that this topic was started almost exactly a year to my trip and his death.

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Great story. Nothing like strippers and dead.

Hmmmm.

What GD song would be perfect for 'dance' songer for a stripper......errrr.......entertainer? Cats Down? I'm guessing the lap dancers would have to charge mega bucks for the 30-minute PITB and would prefer Mama Tried or Don't Ease me In.

schoolgirl. Duh. Pigtails. Plaid skirt. Make it rain
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I know there have been dancers/entertainers/entrepreneurs who have graced the pole to the sounds of Shakedown.

Hopefully the studio version and not 10/25/79.  She's need some Wheaties to get through that monster  :headbang:

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I think this thread drift here is very funny although not altogether unexpected.  It starts with a heartfelt story of 2 kind souls finding one another and veers into strippers and G-Strings.  We are lucky that SVT continues to post in this suasage-filled community.  Dork Stars Indeed :)

 

We need the ladies here way more than they need us :rofl:

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mine is probably bigger than all o' yours.  at least metaphysically speaking.  love and g strings will ALWAYS go hand and hand (or other body parts to other body parts).  but thanks for the concern, Tea, you are a true gentleman  :rofl:

 

if u were looking for ladies, take your hands off your KEYBOARD and go find one you wanna take home with you.  tell em pig said it's ok.  duh!

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mine is probably bigger than all o' yours.  at least metaphysically speaking.  love and g strings will ALWAYS go hand and hand (or other body parts to other body parts).  but thanks for the concern, Tea, you are a true gentleman  :rofl:

 

if u were looking for ladies, take your hands off your KEYBOARD and go find one you wanna take home with you.  tell em pig said it's ok.  duh!

Hey SVT:  Never forget that we all love your box-back nitties :wub:

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