Brian NJ

I am sitting home wishing I was at Hampton Beach right now. Flashback to May of this year , looking forward to the Jubilee Red Rocks and rest of Summer tour... I should know better than to try to make plans. Jubilee comes up and find myself tight with cash so I figure Maybe I will borrow $50 so that I have money to get to work for the following week. that shouldn't be a problem I think I can go. A good friend of mine calls and tells me his brother committed suicide services are that Thursday. Come Thursday I'm thinking maybe I can leave early Friday morning make it to the Jubilee. Thursday night I get a call somebody I was trying to help get their life together overdose on heroin and dies, services on Monday. no Jubilee but at least I'll be at Red Rocks. A couple weeks before Red Rocks I go to get my monthly phlebotomy. for the last 4 years I've been getting phlebotomies every month because I have too many red blood cells. I go for the phlebotomy and they tell me we cant take your blood you're anemic. don't get me wrong Red Rocks was a blast But difficult being low on red blood cells and the altitude. okay well I'll do the best I can and make it to Hampton Beach. My Subaru has a wheel bearing that is just starting to go. I can't complain I have two hundred and sixty six thousand miles on the original wheel bearings. But not feeling like it's wise to drive up there without getting bearings done first and that will have to wait. Life is a fucking trip. Pints of blood work, I'm being scheduled to get a scope down my throat and up my ass, Aug 3rd dental appt to get estimate on having five teeth pulled one Crown put in at least one cavity fixed and denture or Bridge or whatever the fuck they do... ( no dental ins. Ouch) oh yeah almost forgot on Monday I have to schedule a CT scan on aorta to make sure aneurysm doesn't blow out. OK now that I got this fleeting moment of self-pity out of the way I need to say Fuck it, it is still a great day to be alive! I'll see you all in Asbury and Black Mountain...

I am sitting in the airport terminal waiting to fly back home. Congratulations to the band The Crew and everybody that makes this all happen and thank you. Thank you for a real good time, for keeping this music alive and well, for providing a place for like-minded spirits to dance and sing and have joy and thank you to the many many many beautiful souls I have met in this community... Darkstar selling out red rocks and perfection of the show they played was out of this fucking 🌎

I don't doubt this for a second! Dso... A band with integrity. I can say a whole lot more on this subject but I'll leave it alone.... I'm just happy that the band that is playing this music the best today and keeping the Dead scene alive is a band with integrity. Thanks and much appreciation Dso!!!

Sometimes we respect the dead with joyous dance, sometimes with quiet solitude.

Great show at red bank.. Had plenty of room for dance in front for first set and balcony for second set. Cool crowd .. They are expanding count Basie for the drinkers..

Best of times at penns band played great! Upstairs dance the best!

My wires have transcended across time barriers since 1974!

I think there was a comes a time after viola. Or was it a dream I still believe?

We will all be respecting the dead that day. Sorry for your loss doc.

Keep doing shows mojo... The music grows on ya. I used to hate corrina until hearing China cat segue into corrina at black mountain... I'm thinking this is a very funky transition into rider... Dso tricked me into appreciating corrina... I've been to my share of Dso shows in college or beach towns where it seems they have to play "that good song" ( its what I hear locals say. I hope they play that good song) ya know, touch of grey, Casey Jones, truckin, fod etc. Nothing wrong with those songs especially how skip brings bass to new level on truckin... Princeton was the epitome of a dancefest... Not sure where you were... Didn't I hear comes a time or was that a dream..

Jelly roll blues!

Thank you dso (band n crew) for blowing the roof off of mccarter theater!!! Superb set list played to perfection! I am beat up from the feet up! Could hear a pin drop during death don't have mercy, Jeff giving a soulful emotional rendition... not a single word was spoken in the house ... In the knock out box with the usual suspects I watched Rob and Dino during alligator and viola. They looked like they were a part of their drum kits, synconized like a fine Swiss watch all the time making it look like child's play. kUDOS!!! Knew it was special with opening Hard2Handle, Rob b bringing the energy of a very special night in Princeton. I could go on and on about tonight's show but need to crash... Oh yeah Lisa hurts me 2 and harp 😀 And of course Rob e doing what he does with perfection... This night was special! In my top 10 shows out of about 400. We will talk of this show for years like we talked of 5/19 rams head many years ago. Actually 5/19 is kinda pale in comparison...

Walking Blues super funky good... Watchtower on fire

Highlights...Eyes, easy wind. Steven/eleven- may be best I've heard Dso do. And I've heard many...

I am disgusted with myself for missing this show... To miss another black peter has me feeling like I should just pack my show days away as a fond memory...

I spent 45 min 630am Sunday moring in the cold drizzling rain talking to a homeless crackhead in dc that tried to bum money from me twice the night before. I asked why he was homeless and he was honest with me... I tried to give him reason to live life to its fullest. I think he heard what I was saying... At least I know he had hope for the day and he will remember our conversation.... I may not caution all......

I am a defender of the outcast in this world... Of the many people that love me today, if they knew me years ago they would not want to be on the same side of street had they encountered me. Chimes of freedom for the hurt ones....

Happy y'all got it! Sorry I missed it....

Dso played 6/14/91 beautifully... Stella Row jimmy hsf so good... Lisa on kazoo very special tonight... The Venue... Best sound ever and I think maybe best indoor venue I've ever seen dso play... Largest crowd indoors for dso show. 3000+ I think and still plenty of room to dance. Super cool staff... Security saw me sweating after hsf and asked me if I'd like a bottle of cold water. Thumbs up to dso, staff and venue👍

It has been months since I've posted. What a long strange trip... I had been in a situational depression for days when Thursday rolled around. I had changed my mind a few times and resigned myself to wallow in self pity when Mango called and I said fuck this crap, stay on the phone while I pack. Packed in 4 minuets and walk out the door not knowing how I would swing the weekend $ . I get by with a little help from my friends... This community is full of love and healing vibes... Arrive and set up vip camping trying to rise up from the emotional wreckage of my heart. Had a nice talk with a soulful woman (thank you PG) that put my spirit in the right place. Night one ... Help on the Way was just perfect for my state of mind. Slipnot franklins I started to really let lose. Feel like stranger was never a favorite of mine but was perfect when one feels a stranger to oneself... Run for roses.. Can I leave her standing there? I could not but had to... Expressway was flowing like water in the night. Corrine funk beat to put the funkiness of life in its proper perspective. TANGLED UP IN BLUE was the accumulation of all I had been feeling. I danced, grinned ear to ear and laughed all while frantically dancing away my blues... At one point something popped in my thigh but could not stop until I hit the rug. I made it to a chair but was not out for the count. I got up and finished the set. Set2... Box of rain. Can I find direction around some corner? Feel my way like the day or lifetimes before... Can I make it clear through to another day? Seen through the eyes of other lives I've escaped.. Mans World brought me back from a world revolving around the love of a woman... Cryptical is a constant reminder that we all have to die, sometimes to live again in this lifetime. This always puts things in proper perspective. Powerful other one. Eyes reconfirms that I am in my right mind and that all I need to do is live no particular way but my own... The rest of night one was spent nursing my leg listening to the beauty that dso brings to us all... night 2. At the first notes of CHIMES OF FREEDOM I bolted to the stage and Lisa delivered the most soulful powerful singing that was the catharsis of all I have lived... My emotional experiences of a life overcoming heartache too personal to tell, the law, the outcast that society labels me, the aching that cannot be healed, and the strung out one and worse... THANK YOU LISA !!!!!!! After Chimes nothing could be added to my 2017 jubilee experience.....