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  1. Brian NJ

    Penns Peak

    I am not sure if fentanyl can be smoked... I do know that in the manufacturing process if heated too much it changes the structure into a grug that will leave you permanently paralyzed.. Sounds like a bad scene at that show...
  2. Accident coming home from BM a few years ago. Older couple sees us get out of van and asks "how do y'all know each other" ? I reply "we are from all over and meet up in BM every year for a spiritual gathering". When they asked "what faith do we belong to"? I replied  " It's spiritual enlightenment through dance and song" Great shows as always at Black Mountain! Thank you band crew and management!
  3. Brings back fond if somewhat embarrassing memories as a teen all geeked out and talking endlessly till the sun came up about how we would save the world.... We couldn't even help ourselves... Not saying you guys are geeked or anything else. Just recalling memories of the ignorance of my youth...in part we were actually helping to destroy the future of humanity through dispersing very antisocial elements that had no real value to anyone... In retrospect on the other hand psychedelic indulgences had a deep impact that has forever change how I view the world and I believe has an ongoing benefit to those I am in contact with today... Saving the world by helping to expanding the consciousness of one individual has an exponential effect as they go on to do the same... Just some random thoughts 🤓
  4. Looks like THE show of the tour sorry I missed this one!
  5. Fun time with threatening sky. Whole show great. Highlights ... Pocket Way. Shakedown. LLR . LL. Tom Thumb (ginger ale not bread). Give me loving. Hard 2 handle. BMR superb!!!
  6. Brian NJ

    Atlantic City

    Rick, you weren't there?
  7. Brian NJ

    Atlantic City

    Great show fantastic! highlights, Good Lovin, Scarlet fire (35+min) There was ecstatic dancing by The Usual Suspects) eyes of the world, notable mention looks like rain very good. Sugar mag niiice !!! The place was on fire great venue it was a rainbow full of sound. One wild eyed crazed fan came running up the stairs orgasmically shouting top 15 he's ever seen!!!. We say somewhere between the top five and ten would be more accurate. Dictated from the backseat...contributing critics August West and pearly :-)
  8. Why is Black Peter special to me.... Listening to BP from Europe (I think) last night I commented to a friend how this is probably the best blues song ever... This song has a way of putting all that life and death is into its proper perspective. I had spent a couple /few years listening to BP multiple times a day because the lyrics and bluesey groove was my life... "all my friends came to see me last night, I was layin in my bed and dying" 48 staples closing me up and coming back to life while a priest is giving me last rights and the friends that came to see me. "Just want to have a little peace to die and a friend or 2 at hand" my mantra for two to three years of nothing but the horror of what I had become... Wanting to die but " one more day I find myself alive tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground" This was a comforting thought... See here how everything lead up to this day and it's just like any other day that's ever been. The pain of knowing the life your living will be the life you die from and having no hope it could ever be different... The people may know but the people don't care that a man can be as poor as me. Take a look at poor Peter he's lying in pain... poor in spirit and extreme physical pain but the physical was minor in comparison to the spiritual pain. Black Peter brings me back to a life I was dying by and forward to the grateful life I live today... See here how everything lead up to this day and it's just like any other day that's ever been... 😀❤️😀
  9. 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...
  10. 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 🌎
  11. Brian NJ

    Ojai, CA

    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!!!
  12. Sometimes we respect the dead with joyous dance, sometimes with quiet solitude.
  13. 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..
  14. Brian NJ

    Penn's peak

    Best of times at penns band played great! Upstairs dance the best!
  15. Brian NJ

    Princeton

    My wires have transcended across time barriers since 1974!
  16. Brian NJ

    Princeton

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

    Princeton

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

    Princeton

    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..
  19. Brian NJ

    Princeton

    Jelly roll blues!
  20. Brian NJ

    Princeton

    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...
  21. Brian NJ

    Cap Theater 2

    Walking Blues super funky good... Watchtower on fire
  22. Brian NJ

    Port chester

    Highlights...Eyes, easy wind. Steven/eleven- may be best I've heard Dso do. And I've heard many...
  23. 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...
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