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Drove 30 min. out of Cincy for the first quarter through total at 3:08, then left fairly quickly after having experienced the 20 hr drive home from the last one when we went just outside of Nashville 😳. Got home in 25 min this time 😎. There was a plane that timed it perfectly, flying across it right before the sun was completely blocked. Weird how it's been rainy and cloudy up until today and then the forecast shows going back to rainy and cloudy after today. Today was remarkably clear
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Encouraged and somewhat challenged, I started with the 5:10 min from 3/15/69 and the last 7:32 from 8/26/71 and listened going back and and forth from these bookends quickly realizing that you two have found the most enjoyable H2H's. (I'm open to any others from the mega drive search)Thanks for the lead though because I got to see how quickly Keith came in to play and understand the introduction of the 5 new songs in consideration of Pigpen's lost material. The five new ones became as paramount from 71-79 as pigpen's were from 65-71 and then similarly with Brent's new material from 79-90. Not so with Vince's 90-95.
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https://archive.org/details/gd84-04-06.sbd.willy.10159.sbeok.shnf
Fortunately I was able to catch my 3rd show because someone decided not to go at a Friday night house party in Laramie, Wyoming and I took my friend Tim up on the suddenly available Sat night Grateful Dead ticket for the Aladdin Theater in Las Vegas. This adventure was about the road trip. 780 miles each way and having to be back in class by Monday morning. My first two were about seeing the Grateful Dead and were only in Morrison, CO, 9/7 & 9/8/83 a mere 2 1/2 drive from UW. My fourth show was about both the road trip and the excitement of seeing the band again in Syracuse fall of '84. By then I was enrolled in college back in Cincinnati in the professional drama program CCM offered @ UC. As you listen to the end of this show picture Bobby sitting on the edge of the stage swinging his legs back and forth during SSDD🎉🎶🔥⚡also a real drippy space only a week before the last Dark Star for five years. I didn't get my first HSF until it was revived by the Warlocks in '89, even then it took me until 1990 having not gone to 9/6/83😞. But now all is good with DSO keeping things in progress! This here is an outstanding DSDB. Give a whirl without looking at the setlists... there's an unusual surprise after d/s
(Edited 4/8/24)~ the comments under this archive recording tell about how closely the band was connected to the audience and illustrate the dedication of the audience to the scene and the band to the audience)
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I was at band practice last Thursday night when a friend showed me one of his bootleg dead albums asking if I could find out what show it was from. Both albums had blank white labels on both sides and the cardboard cover was also blank white. He really wanted me to listen to the Little Red Rooster (with both Jerry and Bobby playing slide at the same time) declaring it possibly the best LR Rooster he'd ever heard! One album side was LR Rooster, China>Rider (sounded 80ish, so we figured that was the end of the first set) , the second album side had: Playing>Comes A Time>Playing (figured outta drums), third album side was EST>Eyes> drums, and the fourth album side was 0+0>Alabama Getaway (which we figured the AG to be an encore). Well tonight I looked into Deadbase quickly identifying his 4 bootleg album show to be Uptown Theater 8/19/80
after finding out Comes A Times was only played 7 times in 1980. Turns out he was kinda correct about that LR Rooster as it was the first one played since 1965. Give the 8/19/80 Rooster a listen to hear it before it became Bobby's slide song.
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Emmylou's playing on her 77th birthday on Tuesday with special guest Jerry Douglas. I think this is the first time she's played on her birthday and it's a benefit for her dog rescue Boneparte's Retreat and a homeless shelter in Nashville. City Winery, free parking (which is a big deal in Nashville). I hoping for a
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Any updates on this???
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From the second night at the '86 Greeks > RFK and most of all '87>90 I stayed sober until after each show. Those big shows (NYE, Frost, Greeks, RR, Chinese NY, Mardi Gras, ect) folks would come in from all over the country bringing their finest stash and share with everyone. That first night at the Greeks it seemed like wrapping gauze around my head with everybody's best. That's when I figured I would save the chemical buzzes for when I was at home starring at the carpet and not in the presence of the master. Driven too far and waited too long between shows to not have my full unadulterd mind and body present. The live performances trip me out more than anything else, esp listening through the concert sound system. But when I get back in the after show parking lot, game on! Good for you getting back in tour mode with the upcoming Jubilee run⚡🎶🔥🐉
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You get the goods when the songs are few. Very happy it happen for the band and you all. Thanks for the spirited field report
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I'd really like to hear some long distance running experiences from folks here there and everywhere or at least some highlights?
I know we all have set out on Americas great roadways for one or three shows back when gas was under a dollar. And I've also been fortunate enough to hear travels with Dark Star through these forums and in person with you kind people. I think my longest and most trying was the Eel River 3 set show on August 29,1987. I went up and back without stopping. 21 hours to get there a half hour before the show, scoring my ounce of the prized Humboldt and to get the batteries and the blank tapes situated with my taping gear, great show then directly back in to my 79 collora right after to get back to Laramie for Monday morning class. Needless to say I had to find another recruit for the next excursion. I really went through lots of friends that wouldn't do it again. I always had the 3am-8am driving shifts and of course paid for their tickets, food, beverages, everything even a lay at the Mustang Ranch outside of Reno. Sounded good to the college kids of Wyoming when I asked if they were up for an all expense paid trip to California for the weekend (courtesy of the 40 dollar sheets) until they realized I meant only 3 days. Earlier in 87 was 32 hrs for the JGB Lawlor Events Center in Feb Totally worth getting my first Dixie Down equaling happy trails through the desert back to class for Monday morning, Wiltern March 13 and 14 also 87(couldn't miss a Friday the 13th after what happened at the upcoming recreation in Berzerkly on Fri the 13th in '84. The Alladin theater was when my cherry popped for 4/6/84~24 hrs RT one hell of a ChinaRyder and spaced into Eyes,with Bobby sitting on the edge of the stage swinging his legs during SSDD. Syracuse 10/20/84~ 22hrs RT,that town was decked out and all the houses seemed to have open doors for travellers to crash and got jack strawed...I could go on and on about 87 because the darkness of Jerry in a coma of '86 put a lot of people in "glad he's back and tjd the gotta see every show mentality ramped up when he recovered and returned. Please share some tales before you or this forum disappear.
am interested ime other folks tales of highway hypnosis if got in you to share?
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Scarlet Fire rewarded all the folks that did the drive. It would have been 8 1/2 hours each way which stopped my inquisition. Maybe this could be a new Random thought.
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Praise DSO 🫠
There I said it.
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Come up to Dayton on the 22nd. Looks like a great venue
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NFA>Jack Straw
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Thanks for posting the setlist. There was a time in Crazyfingers that I forgot what started the jam, they were that far out there. Then landed us back on the ground with I Know You Ryder, Roadrunner and Promontory speaking appropriately to those that travel for music. Visions was an unexpected marathon encore. Everyone at the Mousetrap shows are super fun, so glad you made it. ⚡🔥🎶
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Maybe it's the last time played being in a great space spiritually, physically, emotionally and technically to finalize? I kinda heard some practice leads in the proceeding PITB jam which tried to transition until China Doll intercepted. Jerry makes it clear SHE BELONGS here. He then does deliver the verses correctly if going from most important being: "She's nobody's child" descending to least "She wears an Egyptian ring". PITB>China Doll ended up being played right back at the Kaiser the first show of 86 two and a half months later. Seems like Jerry tripped out with the Comes a Time & SBTM options in 85 and didn't want them to become routine. The final cap to the wonderous 85 experiment. New Year's was kinda blah for me after listening to all the other new years up till then, also only a two nighter. Mighty Quinn saved the day!
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looking forward to it John A, you write with insight and integrity to provide thorough and enlightening context that is appreciated when you make it happen 🙂
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Helps me get through the days between knowing that "all we ever wanted was to learn and love and grow..."
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Be nice if this one was streamed
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Wow! That's so nice. Just acknowledging this show and then announcing it will be played again is very generous. If there were ever dark star to play this, it is the current band. A step in the same propensity as when 6/24/85 was gifted. A Saturday night just one kind day away from the Fri the 13th original. Thanks for the announcement⚡ Good luck everybody!
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A "let Blair sing chant" (up in Indy~ homebase) resulted in my only Operator. Haven't heard him sing a song since which is weird. Barraco sing those two?
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Yeah, you're absolutely right. WTF's up 4 CDs not being the four sets that were played?
I felt similar when the Down Hill From Here DVD had the first and third Alpine shows as one DVD. That ruled out releasing all songs from all three shows.
I think the Hartford 77 official CD release has a weird, stupid break of songs from different sets like this Frost 85. Encores, yes; however, each set should be it's own entity. Esp when these Frost boards have been around since 87. This merits a rant
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It's been good to hear they're at 100% better (this was the first year I didn't go, saying enough is enough already💤boring). Now I hope they'll take this 100% better approach and integrate it with the Sphere's concert delivery environment allowing the 2024 audience to go to places we got to go to with Jerry. Kudos to those that get in. Looking forward to reviews and details of shows. This is the year I'm finally cutting back as I say each year and never dew. Passing on this isn't as distressing as trying to give up Phish and BMFS. Those two now end up being big concert $ drains. Dark Star, Hyryder, BCE, Emmylou and Del McCoury merit my concert dollar more than D $ C and Phish.
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Live Nation is being sued by the DOJ...
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Another ticket raising culprit that's embedded in the music's scene is "Platinum Seating" with it's $300-500 single seats further validating today's standards of $185-900 to see a concert. Recently in Cincinnati Coney Island pool (gathering watering site for thousands of locals for many, many years) got demolished to build a new concert venue. Understand this is right next to Riverbend Music Amphitheatre and PNC Pavilion making it essentially not needed because Riverbend and PNC are hard pressed to sellout their current line ups. I know groups of friends that have looked forward to summer each year to get season passes to Sunlight Pool at Coney Island. It's been a big part of socialization for the Cincinnati community and now being replaced with the new money making industry of concerts. The middle man triumphs once again and also reinforces the phrasing of "the good old days" for concert goers who got in coliseum shows for under $10 all the way through most of the '80s. The local news is not reporting that it was the Cincinnati Symphony that destroyed this social pool venue. I dew believe I'm near the end of going to concerts, or as phrased by Bob Dylan in the first verse of Going, Going, Gone.... "it's the top of the end"