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Hey, Jerry-- what's happening? I caught your funeral. Weird. Big Steve was good. And Grissman. Sweet sounds. But what really stood out -- stands out -- is the thundering silence, the lack, the absence of that golden Garcia lead line, of that familiar slick lick with the uptwist at the end, that merry snake twining through the woodpile, flickering in and out of the loosely stacked chords...a wriggling mystery, bright and slick as fire... suddenly gone. And the silence left in its wake was-- is-- positively ear-splitting. Now they want me to say something about that absence, Jer.Tell some backstage story, share some poigniant reminescence. But I have to tell you, man: I find myself considerably disinclined. I mean, why go against the grain of such an eloquent silence? I remember standing out in the pearly early dawn after the Muir Beach Acid Test, leaning on the top rail of a driftwood fence with you and Lesh and Babbs, watching the world light up, talking about our glorious futures. The gig had been semi-successful and the air was full of exulted antasies. Babbs whacks Phil on the back. "Just like the big time, huh Phil." "It is! It is the big time! Why, we could cut a chart-busting record to-fucking-morrow!" I was even more optimistic. "Hey, we taped tonight's show. We could release a record tomorrow. "Yeah right--" (holding up that digitally challenged hand the way you did when you wanted to call attention to the truth or the lack thereof) "--and a year from tomorrow be recording a Things Go Better With Coke commercial." You could be a sharp-tongued popper-of-balloons shit-head when you were so inclined, you know. A real bastard. You were the sworn enemy of hot air and commercials, however righteous the cause or lucrative the product. Nobody ever heard you use that microphone as a pulpit. No anti-war rants, no hymns to peace. No odes to the trees and All things Organic. No ego-deaths or born-againnesses. No devils denounced no gurus glorified. No dogmatic howlings that I ever caught wind of. In fact, your steadfast denial of dogma was as close as you ever came to having a creed. And to the very end, Old Timer, you were true to that creed. No commercials. No trendy spins. No bayings of belief. And if you did have any dogma you surely kept it tied up under the back porch where a smelly old hound belongs. I guess that's what I mean about a loud silence. Like Michaelangelo said about sculpting, "The statue exists inside the block of marble. All you have to do is chip away the stone you don't need." You were always chipping away at the superficial. It was the false notes you didn't play that kept that lead line so golden pure. It was the words you didn't sing. So this is what we are left with, Jerry: this golden silence. It rings on and on without any hint of let up...on and on. And I expect it will still be ringing years from now. Because you're still not playing falsely. Because you're still not singing Things Go Better With Coke. Ever your friend, Keez

Set 1: Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) ; Big Boss Man ; Big Railroad Blues ; Me And My Uncle > Big River ; Broken Arrow ; Loose Lucy ; Mister Charlie ; You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man) ; Bird Song > The Music Never Stopped > Bird Song Set 2: New Speedway Boogie ; Uncle John's Band > Estimated Prophet > drums > space > Uncle John's Band reprise > Saint Stephen > Death Don't Have No Mercy > One More Saturday Night Encore: Piece Of My Heart

Original Recipe Set 1: How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) ; Cats Under The Stars ; Stop That Train ; Mystery Train ; I Second That Emotion ; Who Was John? ; Don't Let Go ; Tangled Up In Blue Set 2: The Way You Do the Things You Do ; Rubin And Cherise ; Mission In The Rain ; That's What Love Will Make You Do ; Strange Man ; My Sisters And Brothers ; The Harder They Come ; Stir It Up ; Lonesome and A Long Way From Home > Tore Up Over You Encore: Midnight Moonlight Notes: JGB Elective. Rob Koritz on drums. Rob Eaton out on medical leave.

Original Recipe Set 1: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo > Greatest Story Ever Told ; Dupree's Diamond Blues ; Black Throated Wind ; Ramble On Rose ; The Race Is On ; Hey Pocky Way ; Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow > Going Down The Road Feeling Bad Set 2: The Music Never Stopped ; Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues ; Estimated Prophet > Terrapin Station > drums > space > The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys > I Need A Miracle > She Belongs To Me > Sugar Magnolia Encore: Touch Of Grey Tom Circosta sits in for Rob Eaton (out on medical leave)

JK's final performance as a member of DSO or the legend of Gabriel's Gate? https://archive.org/details/DSO2009-12-05.aud.PPALD1.flac16

1987-06-21 @ Greek Theatre - Berkley, CA Set 1 Alabama Getaway -> The Promised Land, West L.A. Fadeaway, Walkin' Blues, Far From Me, Cumberland Blues -> Mexicali Blues, Box Of Rain, Don't Ease Me In Set 2 Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Crazy Fingers -> Saint Of Circumstance, China Doll -> Playing In The Band -> Drums/Space -> When I Paint My Masterpiece > Black Peter -> Throwing Stones -> Not Fade Away Encore Brokedown Palace Filler Oh! Darlin, Love The One You're With

I have no idea other than it was a ‘69 show. Awaiting details……

Happy Birthday, Jerry! Sharing your gift has inspired and enriched my life! Thank You💖 "People need celebration in their life. It's part of what it means to be human. We need magic and bliss and power, myth, and celebration in our lives. And music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it." - Jerry Garcia

Im sure it was all great but that China Cat Sunflower > I Know Rider, Stella Blue, Eyes of the World, Sugar Magnolia Just Yikes ❤️

1973-07-28 @Grand Prix Racecourse, Watkins Glen, NY Set 1: Bertha ; Beat It On Down The Line ; Brown Eyed Women ; Mexicali Blues ; Box Of Rain ; Here Comes Sunshine ; Looks Like Rain ; Row Jimmy ; Jack Straw ; Deal ; Playing In The Band Set 2: Around And Around ; Loose Lucy ; Big River ; He's Gone > Truckin' > Nobody's Fault But Mine jam > El Paso ; China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider ; Stella Blue ; Eyes Of The World ; Sugar Magnolia Encore: Sing Me Back Home

1992-05-12 @ Compton Terrace, Tempe, AZ Set 1: Let The Good Times Roll ; Hell In A Bucket ; Sugaree ; New Minglewood Blues ; Tennessee Jed ; Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues ; Candyman ; The Music Never Stopped Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain ; Estimated Prophet > drums > space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Black Peter > One More Saturday Night Encore: The Weight Filler: Piece Of My Heart

It might not but shit helps flowers grow and thrive. Just trying to recognize Beauty even if stuff around me is in flames

It’s been a tough road lately. Lotsa valleys - more than I can take some days. BUT - sometimes life deals you a hand that makes you smile inside 😇 When those times come - live in the moment and dance a little jig Celebrate even when you don’t feel like it

7-25-74 @ International Amphitheater - Chicago, IL While not the only time it was done, I love the Slipknot! ditty (best description I can think of) at the end Dark Star. Nothing insane about this show other than it's wonderfully tight

It cooked -! One setters are a different animal and often come with a higher degree of difficulty. Wish we got a SBD patch but got a jolt anyway. NLQP❤️

8/8/12 Set One: Hell In A Bucket, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Cassidy-> Althea, Blow Away, Lazy Lightning-> Supplication So Many Roads, It's All Over Now, Foolish Heart-> The Music Never Stopped Set Two: China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Sunrise, Man Smart (Woman Smarter)-> New Speedway Boogie-> drums-> space-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Positively 4th Street-> Turn On Your Love Light Encore: The Weight 8/9/12 Set One: Let The Good Times Roll ; Shakedown Street > Little Red Rooster ; Brown Eyed Women ; Mama Tried-> Mexicali Blues ; Row Jimmy ; Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again ; Deal Set Two: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain ; Looks Like Rain > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > The Other One > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > Sugar Magnolia Encore: It's All Over Now Baby Blue Filler: Mister Charlie

My favorite! He knows what he's talking about! Why not have dinner at 430p too! Oh Wait - that was a very common occurrence for the salt of the earth crew

(ALC Foundation Benefit) 1976-06-27 @ Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL Set 1: Cold Rain And Snow ; Cassidy ; Brown Eyed Women ; Big River ; Ship Of Fools ; Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication ; Friend Of The Devil ; Looks Like Rain ; Might As Well Set 2: Let It Grow > drums > Let It Grow > Wharf Rat > Samson And Delilah ; Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower > Sugar Magnolia Encore: U.S. Blues Filler: The Shape I'm In ; I Am The Walrus

Elective (dedicated to Sam Cutler) Set 1: Jack Straw ; Althea ; My Brother Esau ; Lay Down Sally ; Blow Away ; Big Railroad Blues ; Chimes of Freedom ; Walkin' Blues ; Crazy Fingers ; The Music Never Stopped Set 2: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider ; Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Foolish Heart > drums > space > Box Of Rain > Visions Of Johanna > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away Encore: Overseas Stomp (Lindbergh Hop) ; New Orleans

Elective Set 1: Iko Iko ; Mister Charlie ; Peggy-O ; Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again ; Broken Arrow ; Cumberland Blues ; It Hurts Me Too ; The Other One* > Bird Song > The Other One** > Bird Song Set 2: Uncle John's Band > Playing In The Band > He's Gone > Saint Stephen > drums > space > Uncle John's Band reprise > The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys > Saint Stephen (reprise) > China Doll > Playing In The Band reprise Encore: Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) ; Piece Of My Heart * 1st verse ** 2nd verse

Gonna guess we talkin Alpine 💖

SSIA. Lived a few lifetimes it seems. Godspeed 💖 ^^^ I borrowed this one 😁, Thanks, Jennifer!

Anthem at least for me. Too bad Live Nation is doing the ticketing - 30% of the ticket price in fees. I've seen worse and I know it's sometimes a necessary evil to see the band that I love, but damn! How does a cartel like TM avoid anti-trust challenges to it's monopoly? One word: Corporatocracy. Sadly, we did it to ourselves....

1st set closing sequence looks bonkers! Any show with an Alligator is a good and welcome sign - why not toss in a Mountain Jam for good measure? Ok - a Dew too! Looks like the peak of fun 🤩 Thank you, Hardpan ⚡️

I have no clue 🤪. Embedded reported had better things to do ⚡️! Post it when you have it, please!