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We had the best time. Jubilee is just the best. Everyone from staff to vendors to the patrons are just top notch. I’d like to also thank the weather. It was also 5 star. We adopted a staff member with a golf cart to join our camp. He’s like I asked what to do and they said we will radio you if we need you and they never did so we met a new friend with benefits. Having a driver up and down the hill is sweet. He figured why not give peeps a lift to help if nothing else to do so we made a new friend. He was jamming with us during dso in his yellow jacket in the crowd lol. But every staff member had a smile besides maybe the overnight wristband checker at the gate. That’s a rough gig and he was the only staff that ever turned down a swig of good whiskey. I’m like bro you’re the one that needs it more than anyone at 3am in the chill. one of my favorite shows was Mattson and friends. Lisa, Jeff, skip and rob b and tom b with koritz popping in once in a while. It was such a fun setlist. I love hearing non dead songs done dead style. During masters of war, I couldn’t hold back a tear with Lisa singing it so angry. She really put her hatred of the senseless war and death into her singing and I was choking up the whole time it was so powerful. The last time I couldn’t control my emotions was Lisa breaking out chimes of freedom in Portland 2/2017 but that whole place had tears streaming. Skip singing the Kinks I’m an ape man is just perfect. He brings the fun to it. Rob b smoked the vocals on Dig a pony. I hadn’t heard that song in years. I was like holy shit they are playing deep cuts. here’s the set list Jeff Mattson & friends 5/28/23 Bright lights I want to tell you Ape man Body parts Take a letter Maria say that I am Carmelita Dig a pony Senor Masters of war 3/5 of a mile in 10 secs

Well, what an amazing weekend and this night was my favorite of the three. I’m gonna agree with Rude’s assessment here and go with all the superlatives. High energy first set and the band came back and topped it with their best set of the weekend. Easy Wind was indeed killer with many friends ripping it up on the dance floor. The Other One began softly with Eaton beginning the first verse out of a quiet part without the usual walloping bass kickoff. The jam ensued, finishing once again softly, followed by an enormously high energy, walloping intro into the next verse, which maintained the energy until coming in for a smooth landing into a sweet Stella Blue. Walrus kicked ass, it was cool to catch the first one (not the first! Consulted starbase and it was played 3 other times in 2007, two Terrapin Nation shows along with a soundcheck)😀

3/5 is quintessential Jubilee as is Jessica 💫

that night 3 second set was as ridiculous as you can jam dead. There’s no one who can do what DSO does. All 7 musicians are working the interplay masterfully. They are the best in the biz and it’s not really even close. Then add in Cotter to make sure you can hear every instrument perfectly and you get the best dead band in the land and a band who can play dead as well as the dead did it. I don’t want to compare them to the dead since they created it and then there’s Jerry, but some of the jam segments were played as well as the dead ever played if not better.

Was an awesome weekend for sure. Night three I staggered up to an opening in the crowd to get ready for DSO and looked around and was just surrounded by forum folks. Putting some more faces to names is always fun (even if I won’t remember the names). I feel bad sometimes for people who chase other dead bands and don’t know how good it can be. We are spoiled. This weekend is evidence. As long as I’m able, I will continue to not miss a jubilee

My favorite set was first night second set...short but comes with that particular time stamp....the scarlet > fire was WOW! However, the dancin may have been better...black peter was just as good...whole weekend was really FUN!! Thanks for the late time visits Rob k and Cotter....great having you both there!!! PLUS, most of our awesome DSO family ...they come around!

If you fly to see every show, many songs get old but you see more shows than anyone likely. I’ll take all the Beatles that the band wants to do dead style. And you had to know we were getting a love the one your with and oh darling this weekend.

That set 2 was a face melter. The help>slipknot was out of this world. I don’t actually know if the jam was end of help or if it was all considered slipknot but it went dark and was like you were in an evil trippy jazz club. The Franklins was more melt than just happy dance. I caught myself standing still with mouth agape several times during that pre drums segment. They really jammed those out deep. Easy wind is a top 5 dancer for me but it too was off the chain psychedelic and was very different than old school ones. It was one of those what could have been if dead jammed it in the 80’s. Pre drums many of the songs left the building for large segments replaced with jams you probably couldn’t identify if you didn’t know what song we were in and I love that!!!! Give me all dso originals from now on. A funny part is I think this is the 1st time dso did 2 originals at jubilee. It’s always 2 recreations and an original so we were like when did the dead ever open with UJB>the wheel. Then blow away comes up and we are like well that’s that. its been a minute since we’ve seen dso and I forget just how good they are with no weak links. It’s really rare to have a band where everyone is so so good and so in tune with each other at all times. The complexity of the jams were so ludicrous. We’d look at each other like this is perfectly brilliant. Now it’s time for the band to add another semi and travel around with those Meyer sound PA’s. Yes the buildings may crack open but that’s why venues have insurance. The ceiling collapsing would be the worry. Maybe another semi with steel netting to protect from falling debris would alleviate that risk. and I can’t forget that drum segment. Dino was looping rhythms then moving the sound everywhere and rob was on some trippy sound machine doing the same. We were in a bubble with the sound flying all around us. It was really such a badass drum jam taking advantage of the best PA they play on all year. Someone told me for the lost lands festival at buckeye lake that on the main stage they have 3 of those arrays on each side instead of the 1 10-speaker Panther array on each side at jubilee plus no telling how many additional bass stacks. Now that would be insane to see dso on before we all were forced to learn sign language.

Send a copy to my lawyer, gonna start a new life its cool to hear fun songs like that done jam style. Back at camp we tried to put the setlist together and were pretty close besides a Mattson tune and another we didn’t know and a few switched orders, so this was the corrected version from rob. Everyone usually dances at 30% capacity early in the day, but you couldn’t help but get down at 50% during this. Then we got Bruce and by the end of dso my legs were jelly. I told mei we need to push it as hard as we can and leave nothing here and we did. Now to reap the benefits of all that cardio exercise for a few weeks. After the music Sunday we were reminiscing how we became these dancing machines when doing a whole tour back in the day and we could go as hard as we wanted without tiring and would push the pace to give energy to others. This wasn’t that lol. We were beat. You know that feeling Chuck where you are dancing on air b/c you are living 4 hours of dance a night. Those cardio days seem like a dream lol. About 5 minutes in to a dancer I was on the struggle bus having to slow it way down lol.

Say I won't be coming home, gotta start a new life… Take me to a circus tent Where I can easily pay my rent Those are two fine selections right there. I remember some deep tracks at JM and Friends in years gone by. I am happier for you all than I can tell.

Listen to the stagger Lee on the original show 2/7/1979, then compare it to the stagger lee a week before. I’ve never heard Garcia so slow before or after. DSO did a fantastic job, but the set list they played was: Set 1: Don't Ease Me In ; Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues ; Jack-a-Roe ; Looks Like Rain ; They Love Each Other ; New Minglewood Blues ; Stagger Lee ; I Need A Miracle > Bertha Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain ; Dancing In The Street > drums > Black Peter > Good Lovin' Encore: U.S. Blues Filler: Love the One You're With

Happy for any other Jubilee experiences, impressions, stories, reviews that folks can recall. Happy for the band and crew that Jubilee was again successful! I tell myself I'll get 'back to the garden' again - the annual son's birthday conflict will be less impactful since high school age is now here. Gonna be tough to beat that weather ! Glad it was perfect

I just want to say thanks to the band, Tim Walther productions, and everyone of you I met up with-I had a spectacular weekend, one of my favorite Jubilees yet. The shows each night were perfect, the crowd was perfect, and that Waffle House in Jeffersonville, Ohio on the way back home to KY was perfect (as always-its the standard by which all WH should be judged). As long as Jubilee's continue, and as long as I can, I'll spend my memorial day weekend there. Thank you!