Shippensburg show time

[Mango]

Does anyone know the actual showtime? On their website it just says 7 with no mention if that is doors or showtime.

 

 Any help is appreciated- gotta plan our leave time!

[Rounder]

I can’t make it but my brother is planning on a 7pm showtime.

[DrJ]

Does anyone ever get a heads up about setlists before the show? We live near Shippensburg, and I'm trying to talk my dad into getting out of the house and coming with me. I thought maybe a GD setlist date would help me seal the deal

[Ammagamalin Crew]

Hopefully you went. If you follow the course of the tour you can get an idea of what might be played. This question has been asked before and I believe that's a hard no. Did the Grateful Dead ever tell you what was going to happen during the show? The past few years of attending Dark Star Orchestra shows each new performance continues to be the best one I've ever experienced. I look forward  reviews when I can't make it.

[DrJ]

I talked him into it, and it didn't disappoint. I think the venue has a hard cutoff or something, so the setlist didn't seem to replicate an old GD show due to time limitations. They did smokin' versions of Deal and Uncle John's Band. They started out with several 80s tunes, which I didn't really expect but they were good. Overall an awesome show.

[Erock]

Fantastic time. My GD fire has been rekindled

[Mango]

On 3/13/2025 at 11:00 PM, DrJ said:

I talked him into it, and it didn't disappoint. I think the venue has a hard cutoff or something, so the setlist didn't seem to replicate an old GD show due to time limitations. They did smokin' versions of Deal and Uncle John's Band. They started out with several 80s tunes, which I didn't really expect but they were good. Overall an awesome show.

The show was as long or longer than most GD shows ever played with the exception of 72-73

[Ammagamalin Crew]

Just off the top of my head, without any data bases, I'm thinking Winterland 12/31/78 and all the Warfield, Sanger Theater and Radio City Music Hall 1980 shows? Possibly 7/13/84? 12/31/84 is a monster along with 9/15/85

 I know Dark Star's 4/8/89 recreation at last year's first night of Jubilee was longer than the Grateful Dead's show in Cincinnati.

[Greg from Chestertown]

My one Radio City show, they played from 7:00 to 12:30 in the morning, obviously including set breaks.

[Mango]

That’s three sets

[2muchfun]

I have zero hard evidence, but I “feel” like several of my early GD shows in 77 and 78 were slightly longer than the almost every night solid 3.5 to 4 hrs (depending when they hit the stage) you get with DSO. 

Of course there’s the GD shakedown which must be considered part of the show. The one part of the GD experience which for better or worse is not recreated at almost all DSO soirées.

[Greg from Chestertown]

Dark Star used to play longer fillers. I remember one Electic factory show went until ten after two in the morning. Might have been their first show there. Not sure. 

[2muchfun]

Agree there were several scattered longer DSO shows throughout the 26 years I’ve been lucky enough to be a participant.

[Rude]

I saw DSO play 8-12:15 at Busters in Lexington with no one there. Parking lot was an ice rink. 74 show I think. Never saw Dso play 4:15 since.