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  1. 23/03/11 Palace Theater

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    LOMO

     

     looks like a good one. After night one I stayed up all night and then drove home 4 hours. Slept all day, ate dinner, slept all night. I’m beat! Thank you DSO, I always forget how good you are until I’m there. Looking forward to summer tour ~

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  2. 3/9/23 Red bank

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    Oh yes they did

     

     an absolutely exquisite I’ll Take a Melody

    Mr Charlie

    shape I’m in? Or one of those band songs that skips sings. The one that makes you bounce

     

     great show. Wow. I forget how good DSO is…

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  3. 2023-02-11 @ Mission Ballroom, Denver, CO

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    On 2/12/2023 at 10:43 PM, Rbarracoph said:

    Strange Man

    Love The One Your with 

    encore 

     

    To any detractors about how much we play love the one your with:

    B3 orgasm

    thats all I have to say ;-))

     

    has anyone else other than me commented on this? or are you just busting my balls? fair game. 

     

    in the words of a wise man and grate dancer....."Praise DSO"

  4. 2022-12-31 - Capitol Theatre - Port Chester

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    Posted

    wow, it really is dead around here (no pun intended)...so I'll say something.

     

    I went to DSO New Years in Port Chester, NY.

     

    The Cap is a highly acclaimed venue. In my experience, as someone who identifies as being a Deadhead and Dancer, is that the Venue is waaaaaay overrated. I don't even like it. Slanted GA floor? Really? And this is a venue run by Deadheads for Deadheads? Tear that floor out and put 2-3 flat tiers in. 

     

    The first night I spent a fair amount of the show dancing in Garcia's. They have the soundboard feed playing at high volume and a nice, flat, wooden dance floor. Some gawkers come with the territory but we let em gawk. On NYE I stopped by Garcia's and the volume was way down. Other parts of night 1 i spent in the back, under the balcony. The 1st set closing of 1/2 Step>Franklins>TMNS was deeply excellent, definitely one of my highlights of the weekend. 2nd set was good, I especially enjoyed the rockers at the end and of course Skip killing it on the encore ( can't think of the name, a song by The Band). 

     

    NYE was a different story. I was very excited to see Jeff play but was super bummed when I realized that DSO was only doing 2 sets. Been to almost every new years since 2005 and I can only think of a couple times that it wasn't 3 sets (2005 Higher ground comes to mind). The 1st set I was in my head and couldn't settle into a dance zone anywhere until Scarlet>Fire took hold. That was really good.

     

    My friends convinced me to go way down front left for 2nd set. It was actually really fun, a bit tight but it was loud and we were IN IT. somebody said to me that this night was the loudest the sound has ever been at the CAP. I believe it as my head was ringing afterwards (also a common side effect after a 69 rager.....no resolution, ya know?).  Everything was going great until the ballon drop. PLEASE DO NOT DO THE BALLOONS AGAIN. FUCK THE BALLOONS. What a mess. I was swimming in balloons. I must have popped upwards of 100 and it did seemingly nothing. I had to retreat out of the pit and into the back but it felt weird there so I went back in. The Viola Lee that came out of the NYE countdown was, IMO, pretty weak by DSO standards. which is to say that I've come to expect them to climax into tearing a small hole in the space time continuum and then depositing us back on our feet. This one barely seemed to climax at all...I blame the chaos from the Balloons. FUCK THE BALLOONS. The remainder of the set was good, not great. Dupree's>the Eleven was utterly fantastic. Overall the night was good but I've had so many NYE's be 'best night ever' material and this one just didn't make it there. Maybe it was just me....who knows? 

     

    Okay one more complaint. Oh Darlin>Love the One you're with has been done 3x as in Encore in the last 2 months. I saw it at Penn's Peak. It was so freakin cool that time. Then I saw that they did it in Long Island and I thought, 'hmmm, that's weird.'. now it feels totally played out. just my opinion, take it or leave it~

     

    Thank you Dark Star Orchestra band and crew. You deliver the best product on the market and I will be back.

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  6. A band I saw last night

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    4 hours ago, Rude said:
    Hyryder @ Vogue 12/10/22 Indianapolis, IN
    Set 1
    Samba in the Rain, Easy Answers, Liberty, Picasso Moon, Foolish Heart, Hell in a Bucket, My Brother Esau, Throwing Stones,
    Touch of Grey
     
    Set 2 (Go to Heaven)
    Alabama Getaway, Far From Me, Althea, Feel Like a Stranger, Lost Sailor> Saint of Circumstance, Antwerp's Placebo, Easy to Love You, Don't Ease Me In (Bonus Track) Jack-A-Roe
     
    Set 3
    Shakedown Street> Estimated Prophet> The Music Never Stopped> Let It Grow> Eyes of the World> He's Gone> Drums/Space> The Other One> Alligator> The Golden Road
    E. Cream Puff War
     

    A trip backwards through time of all dead originals. Set 3 is as good as it gets musically. They post SBD with vids of every show. Their visual peeps are fantastic. 1 guy with the oil and water with a bowl projecting combined with a really trippy projection behind the band. Check out this shakedown to start set 3. Wow. Whole set 3 was a wow. https://m.facebook.com/hyryder

     

    That's a ballsy 1st set!

  7. Did you hear the one about......?

    in Comedy Central

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    On 11/30/2022 at 8:19 AM, gr8fulpair said:

    A woman stands nude in front of the mirror noticing all of her sags and wrinkles. “Honey, say something good about me to make me feel better about myself.”

     

    ”Well,” he says, “seems your vision is spot on!”

     

    She might tell you that your memory needs to be checked because you posted the same joke a year ago (and told it better that time 😃).

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  8. Penn's Peak

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    Here's what i can recall:

     

    China>Rider

    Black throated wind

    Ramble on Rose

    Mama tried>big river

    Reuben and Cherise

    BIODTL>Big railroad blues

    Tom thumbs blues

    Feel like a stranger

     

    Shakedown

    Run run Rudolf

    Sugar mag

    Terrapin

    Drumz

    Throwing stones

    Uncle John's

    China Doll

    Sunshine Daydream

     

    Oh Darling (you probably didn't do it for me,  but thanks anyway!)

    Love the one you're with (song name?)

     

    Freakin phenomenal show and dance party... Penn's Peak delivers yet again🤙

     

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