8/17/2024 @ Freeman Arts Pavilion, Selbyville, DE

[Tea]

5/1/1977

The Palladium
New York, NY

 

Might As Well, El Paso, Ramble On Rose, Cassidy, They Love Each Other, Lazy Lightning-> Supplication, It Must Have Been The Roses, Estimated Prophet, Tennessee Jed, Sunrise, Samson & Delilah

Dancin' In The Streets-> Brown Eyed Women, Beer Barrel Polka-> Playin' In The Band-> Drums-> The Other One-> Comes A Time-> Playing in the Band

 

E: Brokedown Palace

F: The Way Tou Do The Things You Do, Woodstock*
*Debut

[Rude]

!!!!!!! Saw a vid of them debut Woodstock laying in bed a min ago. Mei said what is this. Took me 5 secs as was verse 2 and I was like oh shit Woodstock!!!!!!! Epic!!! Great closer!!!!

 

anyone have a vid of the whole song?? Heard Barraco doing verse 2. Who did verse 1 and 3? When we were living on tour I heard them do low spark 2 person space through full band instrumental like 10x thinking this is it 3-4x but missed the bust out. I was upset lol. I did get the love the one your with and Oh darling double bust out in Milwaukee. Very cool getting 1st time played stuff. 

[Greg from Chestertown]

Skip sung the other verses. The energy was unbelievable. There is a crater, smoldering, in Selbeyville, where they busted that tune out. I was front and center for the night. My knee cap is screaming at me this morning from stomping my foot to the beat, on that row of tiles they have running back to the mixing board.  Apparently, I really needed a show. Just a really great, easy day that left me not dancing but just standing, watching it all unfold. This band is just so enjoyable. Their playing is mesmerizing. Jeff on Comes a Time was swimming deep. Never better. I lost control of my limbs while dancing to the jam in Dancin’ with some hippie chick I remember from a few years back. Afterwords, another girl standing there said, “you have some energy”. I said  “I just worked a lot of shit out”. “I am cleansed!”. The sign of a successful show for me, I shake out the angst and recharge the batteries. Mission accomplished last night. Brought to tears twice, Comes a Time and Brokedown. Fitting lyrics for me. To end the show with “gotta get back to the garden” Christ, I’m a gardener. 
   Woke up to rain on the roof, drove through rain to get there but things let off and the skies cleared for the show. Ran into a rainstorm on the ride home too. I went early and swung by the Nanticoke Indian museum in Millsboro on the way. They have a nice collection of artifacts to check out. Nice appetizer before the show. 
  Perfect break from the daily grind, so appreciative for the entire band and everyone behind the scene. These people are dedicating their lives to us. Fortunately, they’re having just as much fun, getting just as much out of it. Thank You. 

[Rbarracoph]

37 minutes ago, Greg from Chestertown said:

Skip sung the other verses. The energy was unbelievable. There is a crater, smoldering, in Selbeyville, where they busted that tune out. I was front and center for the night. My knee cap is screaming at me this morning from stomping my foot to the beat, on that row of tiles they have running back to the mixing board.  Apparently, I really needed a show. Just a really great, easy day that left me not dancing but just standing, watching it all unfold. This band is just so enjoyable. Their playing is mesmerizing. Jeff on Comes a Time was swimming deep. Never better. I lost control of my limbs while dancing to the jam in Dancin’ with some hippie chick I remember from a few years back. Afterwords, another girl standing there said, “you have some energy”. I said  “I just worked a lot of shit out”. “I am cleansed!”. The sign of a successful show for me, I shake out the angst and recharge the batteries. Mission accomplished last night. Brought to tears twice, Comes a Time and Brokedown. Fitting lyrics for me. To end the show with “gotta get back to the garden” Christ, I’m a gardener. 
   Woke up to rain on the roof, drove through rain to get there but things let off and the skies cleared for the show. Ran into a rainstorm on the ride home too. I went early and swung by the Nanticoke Indian museum in Millsboro on the way. They have a nice collection of artifacts to check out. Nice appetizer before the show. 
  Perfect break from the daily grind, so appreciative for the entire band and everyone behind the scene. These people are dedicating their lives to us. Fortunately, they’re having just as much fun, getting just as much out of it. Thank You. 

Skip and I Trade off in first two verses and Lisa joins us for the whole third verse 

[Rude]

Gonna try to pull 6 or so shows on fall tour so hopefully that should get us one in a filler. 

[Greg from Chestertown]

Volunteer parking lot attendant told us that they’re going to rebuild that place. (Might as well, now that there’s a crater) they’re going to grade it into a bowl, or , I don’t know, a crater? Turn it so the stage is facing the entrance to the venue, the parking lot. He said they’re going to have a thousand seats under roof, permanent bathrooms. 

[Rude]

It’s taken a few years but looks like things are getting back to normal. Pandemic baby changed our trajectory but still trying to get 15 a year which feels like nothing to us but to her coworkers it’s insanely excessive. She doesn’t tell them about the 26 month stretch with 9 flights, 100 Dso shows plus the jrad, deadco and 3 jazz fests in the mix. Sorta makes sense I got injured and never quite fully healed in that stretch. Fucking after party bands like 4 hours isn’t enough. Let’s see another dead band and dance 2 more hours. 
 

glad to see lots of you getting your fill last week and sounds like the band is on FIRE!!!

And after the Woodstock bust out I’ve been playing CSN/Csny all morning. That band was a monster for 2 years. What if they got along. 

[Island Bro]

Would love to see them rip Woodstock! Another welcome non-GD tune to the mix…so fun!

[Greg from Chestertown]

So, my brother who’s two years older and I go for a walk one summer night in Ocean City New Jersey. There’s a girl who must have been babysitting her little brother, sitting on the stoop on the side of this house while some six year old plays with a toy truck on the sidewalk. We stop and start talking to this girl. My brother being two years older, was flirting with her while I was just kinda sitting there, listening. I’m like thirteen. We talked with her for about an hour. Beautiful brunette with long brown hair wearing a sundress, Definite hippie chick, probably my first encounter with a real one. Somewhere towards the beginning of the conversation, she said “ when you hear the song Woodstock, and they say, I came upon a child of God, that’s what we are. I am a child of God.” 
     I did Mapquest satellite and that stoop is still there, on the southeast corner of 46th and West, in Ocean City. I must have driven past that spot a thousand times since, always remembering that stoop as where I met a child of God, circa 1975. 
  Yea, that debut struck a chord with me. ….Lately, it occurs to me, ….