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I don’t drive show day unless leaving a show town. Night 1 I’m already there now. Have to take off a day early b/c driving 5+ hours then night 1 of tour kills me. After I sweat out the life toxins that 1st night I’m ok driving next day but the contrast of real life and 4 hours of dancing continues to be tougher and tougher as the years go by. On a pleasant note it means I get to spend an extra day in the mountains somewhere and also in Colorado

We didn’t have natural half pipes like the big cities and I still say stoked. I think I even got a text from some people who said they are stoked about BM.

Skateboarder magazine was almost impossible to find at the news stand. When you finally got one it was like amazon. I ordered a Lucero deck and built a quarter pipe. Of course back then young kids would build that shit themselves. It was a horrible ramp. It had 2 bends in it you had to contend with and 98% of the time it led to disaster. But I’d jump on the electrical box in our yard and land perfectly in the grass from 5 feet up. Landing on concrete was a completely different animal. I was a great tic tacker. I could do that for a mile without having to push. An Ollie? No way we thought about shit like that. A fakie on a friends ramp was a pro style move back then lol.

You know most of us look at 45 minutes as a local show. Heck I haven’t had a show closer than 120 miles in 150 shows. Those are my 10 minute commute shows. Didn’t you not miss a California dead/Jerry show for like 8 years?

Seems like 15 minutes is your limit considering you wouldn’t go to Petaluma. If I recall correctly you were like it would take you almost an 45 minutes to an hour to get there. Guess we should have an in remembrance for the John A who moved to the bay because New York didn’t offer a sufficient amount of dead shows.

We’d need wet suits to go in water west coast. Oooh. You could vend Chuck. Wetsuit rentals. Early july fest near the bay sounds perfect. Little chance of rain. 75 degrees in the day. 65 at night. Heaven!!! Wherever it is, it needs to be where the climate suits my clothes and a rain jacket or 95 degrees doesn’t suit. how bout somewhere in the sierras!!!!!! Let’s do like that tech billionaire and take over a redwood forest and cut down the trees to create the party area. A backwoods isolated fest like where pagans sacrifice virgins in the forest type of area would be super cool. Generators would be needed for the band but that wouldn’t be an issue. We could use the redwoods to build the stage.

For 6 months in 2005 I carried my 25 pound house with me headed to Maine. I’d have no problem doing a minimalistic west coast jubilee with a backpack vs a ton of gear packing the car for jubilee jubilee. It seems to get more and more packed in the car every year. Before I know it there will be a recliner in there. I need to get back to basics and a west coast jubilee in the summer seems like a perfect testing ground.

Eek that sucks. They are a solid dead band. They have filled in a few schedule gaps with some fri/sat Indy shows.

Wow so Scott wasn’t there? That’s rough losing keys and one of your most talented members. He is an organ guru. Think I’ve decided no more outdoor activities besides swimming until BM. This heat is fucking brutal. 97 with high humidity. Feels like a sauna. Last night went to an indoor show and went outside at 11pm and was 81 with 84% humidity. Water instantly condensed on your skin. In 5 seconds you had a coating of water on you. Said 88 heat index. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky all day and the humidity was that high. If it somehow cools down and the gf is off next weekend we could possibly go but all day music ain’t for me right now.

Mike, theres way more advanced stuffing now than socks and potatoes. I use a large prosthetic Johnson in my banana hammock. Plus these are all the rage these days. I’ve been trying to get Ellie to sell dark star ones for the last year!! Only .99 plus 2.99 shipping on amazon. Get them while you can

I prefer not camping in summer. Gotta check the gfs work schedule but that could be fun if it’s not 100 degrees.

Well waited too late. This place is booked along with everywhere else near. Seems like canoeing down the black river is the thing to do in mid August. Found a place 30 miles (1 hour away)..... that ain’t happening. Did find an Airbnb $500 a night that’s 10 minutes away but would have to pack it up. Not sure if the weekend b4 BM would make foot sense anyway.

Think we are gonna try to do this. Canoe down the river during the day. Shows at night. Looks like fun. Gotta find a cabin with a/c as camping in August is a no go for me. 2 nights of jakes leg sounds fun.

So normal rain to this date from January 1st is 27 inches. We are at 48. July so far 4.5 and normal is 2”. 10” last 45 days and this is summer........ This is a pic I just took. They are everywhere

This nonstop rain from the hurricane brings back fond memories of The Pocahontas show years ago. But it’s not 69 degrees and night and I’m indoors and none of my friends are turning blue. Those were the days. Only time I’ve ever seen people dancing in a literal foot of water. This is the rainiest year I can ever remember. It’s supposed to be 95 every day and cooling down in the pool. This year it’s taking 10 pounds of shock a week to keep the pool from becoming a pond. The spring frogs are still here because I can’t keep the chlorine level high enough to run them out for good. Oh and i have these frogs who are so loud that you can’t hear the tv inside at night. I’m afraid I’m going to get cited for noise ordinance statutes and I’m not kidding. The neighbors don’t say anything but I know they can hear them indoors. It’s deafening outside. And when it rains they really sing....So global warming is going to make my area a summer rain forest?? At least I’m on the Ohio and not the Mississippi. It’s mid July and the river should be super low. Craziness.

I doubt Dso is going anywhere but northeast on 2nd fall leg. Sorry desertdead. On that note I look forward to a possible Norfolk DC weekend with the boys if we can get another one of those. Always a good time.

7 look doable. Minnesota is getting the goods lol. A 2nd chance at Milwaukee. Slow and easy this time . Pretty sure we are persona non grata at the Aloft. Security told us to wrap it up as we sat in the courtyard at 4am. I did my I hear you but I’ll leave when ready wave. They made us pour out our drinks. I’m like wtf. Like ABC is coming to their courtyard at 4.

Filler was Box, weight, GSET. Currently playing 7/7/84 as it’s show time. Heres Eatons board from that 7/6/84 show. Better sounding board in 84? Doubt it. Tell me that 2nd set isn’t off the charts in weirdness. The whole show is rocket tempo and weird. Crescendos are almost never where expected. Bass drops not where expected. It’s flying blind bliss. The whole set I was jaw dropped. My neighbor was at the show. He recognized it several songs in and he’s like I’ve never heard a show this amazing. What was in their heads when they created this. It’s a must listen. Oh and John A, you only have an aud for this show. Need version 4.6.2.0.1 to fix that https://archive.org/details/gd1984-07-06.139531.sbd.pcm.miller-eaton.flac1644

2nd set start to finish intentional face melt into the triple filler encore of box, ugh(tbd) the weight. And they kept the full psychedelic style through the last second and I mean the 2nd set b/t cotter and the band was as intentionally psychedelic ot every version down to that wicked melter sugar mags. There was nothing that was just jam happy. It was melt from the 1st drop of 2nd until the end.. It was all moving sound circle and wickedness. Best show easily I saw this summer. These guys were on and the spot was as good as it gets. 60s and windy July 6. Thanks you guys. My jaw was dropped that whole 2nd. Bravo. All I could do was smile.

That and the strange space>drums>space was the only reprieve. That 2nd set was as hot as a set can be. Scarlett fire sailor saint franklin got the crowd hot. Found some Ice water to pour on my head after that. I knew I was overheating but what can you do. Pray for rain or a ballad and neither came

Great show. Hung out with lots of new friends. Great venue. We prayed for rain but it didn’t come lol. A few water douses did the trick. Was nice to see the band get to do a show with their friends and family. Up to chicago today. It’s meili and my 5th anniversary. Yay!!! 5 years wow. When we met she had no clue who the dead was. Now she’s a free range head at shows and figuring some songs before I do. I’ve done well

B4 the show I assumed from demeanor and appearance and unfamiliarity that Dso existed as well as other tributes that she wasn’t as familiar with the music. Her kids were there(30’s) and were really cool and went to jubilee so they got their mom to come, so by all that I deduced incorectky that she didn’t know the music but she did. Sorry all of you old farts that got offended. I guess I’ll have to hire someone who speaks in the pre internet language better write my posts and any more responses like that will get my spokesperson Sarah sanders denying I ever typed it in the 1st place.

I hope after these last 2 shows cotter doesn’t lose his hearing. The sound was as perfect as sound gets and also as loud as it gets. Love those huge outdoor PA’s. Such a great night. Fortunate to see friends we don’t get to see much pop up at tha show. Great venue and good times were had by all. Saw an old face who was seeing his 1st Dso show in 5 years that was doing the 1st New Years run I did in 2013. That was cool. Reminisced about that crazy time we had. By set 2 it was cool enough to full boogie. When there’s tons and tons of space, everyone gets down. A older lady next to us seeing Dso for the 1st time said before the show I guess u guys weren’t able to see deadco so you came here. I’m like we are here because this is the Grateful Dead to me. After a few songs she’s like this is the Grateful Dead. She’s like you can hear every instrument so clearly. She was definitely a knowledgeable deadhead in her mid 60s and was blown away. She’s like I see why you see these guys a lot. I’m like Tix are cheap and you don’t have to walk a mile to get to the venue. I also maybe talked several people into going to jubilee that didn’t know it existed. When the sound is that perfect everyone becomes a believer. Home for 2 nights then gonna finish off the mini tour. Dso is the only band at summer fest to have a 4 hour block. All others 2 hour max. That means I’m going. A phish tribute is playing right before them. Phun. At least it’s the proper order so you have the main course after the appetizers

River Front Coliseum, Cincinatti, Oh. (10/2/76) Primises land TLEO minglewood row jinny el paso tennesee Jed It's All Over Now Brown Eyed Women Let it Grow Might As Well Music Never Stopped Candyman Samson and Delilah It Must Have Been the Roses Big River Friend of the Devil Dancin' in the Streets drums The Other One Stella Blue The Other One Sugar Magnolia F: golden toad (to unlimited demolition)

I was epically tired and must have been grumpy when I posted some negativity in that blues thread about deadco deer creek b/c I really had an epic week finishing with the wrigley shows. Unfortunately I was quoted so my post will live in infamy. I met more kind people randomly than ever in my life. The epitome of the scene was this guy taking a header after the show outside and 5 people run straight to him to help him. We help this guy get to a stoop and a stranger says I got him and stayed with him on that stoop. It was like everyone was going out of their way to be more helpful and more kind than the next guy but not in a way of trying to be better than anyone else but just feeding off the love. So Saturday I evidently skipped the guy who scans tickets to get field bands but get them anyway so of course I’m like sorry babe we are sitting here until we see someone enter who would take advantage of a field wristband. Found a couple and they took our tix and got a field wristband. No way I was going to let unscanned field bracelets not get used. We saw them after the show on the street and that made their night and hopefully they will pass it on down the road. If everyone in the world had this mentality we’d live in a utopia. Oh and I went to the unsold sections behind home plate with the people who see space and hit it and I saw a familiar face who I met at deer creek, but he was also at jubilee, all of jazz fest and we had met before. I heard from him the most insane tour plan I’ve ever heard. All of deadco. All jazzfest. Around 8 fests, today he stayed in Chicago to see billy strings b4 heading east to finish deadco. Retired and just lives tour and 3-4 day fests. He tried to entice us into Eric Krasno and friends after the Saturday show but I was beat. It made me realize I should talk to more people. So many interesting people who do fun things. Everyone I chatted with had all these fun travel plans. I’m glowing. Regardless if the music isn’t exactly what I want, the scene is so large and full of multitudes of great people you can’t help but glow. Oh and on the field, we went in front of the PA’s that projects into the stands and you could get a foot away as it was on the ground. It was the loudest thing I’ve ever heard. You could stay there like 15 seconds and feel like you are approaching the sun and then need to move to not go deaf. Several people around us would dance into that sound for a few seconds then dance out and be like wow!! Unfortunately a field usher guarding his entry point was dead center of it 10 feet away with no earplugs. I don’t see how you wouldn’t have ear damage after that. It was made to project sound 300 feet away. I basked in it a total of like a minute over the last 4 songs and I could feel it today and the usher was there all night. That could be on worlds most dangerous jobs. There were 20 other acts of amazing kindness we witnessed and so many great people we met that I could write a book about it all but my ramble ends here.