PoetryGirl

My heart is heavy and I am still in disbelief and shock that he’s gone. Aaron was a close friend, instigator of the best kind and always ready to bugaloo which to know me was instantly endearing. I say Aaron because he admonished me after years of friendship that he had real name, lol. There was never a question to what was on his mind; when I first met him at Black Mountain shows in 2014, he told me he thought I’d be ugly and frumpy with a handle like Poetry Girl. This is hard to write because it makes it more real. We have had heart to hearts, pulled all nighters together, gambling or traipsing around NOLA, riding scooters around Indianapolis, laughing easily at his absurd assertions or funny ideas. He had such a big heart. I was so happy he made it to St Louis and texted him so, hoping the night filled him up, getting his head above water for a little while. The past year or so he had a heavy heart, lost zeal. I think of him every show really, always missing his dancing, competing with me for steps, which I won, haha, and missed him in Asheville during Music Never Stopped, watching the crowd really bust loose and get down, knowing he would be in heaven. When he hurt his foot and wore a brace, we maximized it in ADA in ATL; you know he would have had it no other way. Aaron lived life hard, harder than I ever could. Alas, desolation row. Starheads make the best community. I love you all very much. We lost a good one and damn, I wish I could have talked to him Sunday. I hate it for so many reasons, not the least being, for his son. Remember, it is a wonderful life. Bittersweet, but wondrous all the same. ❤️

Damn. I’m so torn up. Incomprehensible. Floored. Sad. Mad.

The song so celebratory a feel to dance, all goodness breaks loose.

Says 2muchfun

Why are we in jail? 😩😂

So I can’t react to any posts for some reason. Anyone else?

This venue was fabulous! 15 min drive from the peninsula pf downtown Charleston along the banks of the Cooper River. We took in lovely breezes this time of year with ample space for good visibility. Picnic blankets, cane creek chairs and happy people littered the lawn in front of a fabulous stage. oh where to begin! I took my daughter to her first DSO show, though she has a little deadhead resume seeing the Jerry’s birthday celebration at Red Rocks Bob Weir put on and some southern D&Co shows but she really loved the scene that is DSO. We hullabaloo’d last night! And i t was a real unexpected blast to see Vince and Sue!! The band gave us he psychedelic download and we walked in the transitive nightfall of into diamonds. The Dark Star was so crafted, spinning crystalline sound folding in again and again like orgami. The guy bothering us durimg Lovelight finally got the message we weren’t there to meet him, in the middle of a song!! and rather dance and hear the music. The sweet people up front folded us in and there was a real dance party going on. Nothing to me caps a show like William Tell and the Eleven. No more time to tell how This is the season of what Now is the time of returning With our thought jewels polished and gleaming! When Lauren and I were leaving, a lady stopped us. It was her first of a Grateful Dead kind of show. She said she took in the scene and was figuring out what it was about. She said watching us dance and really express the music made it make sense. Wow! What a compliment. May the golden road bless us all. Mama tried. 🤣

Reminded me of all the glory at the Armory in Ashland. 😻🌹

Set 1 Elective in the style of Set 2 early and late shows Avalon theater 4:4/1969 Set 1 China Rider Hard to Handle, Dancing, Hurts Me Too, Easy Wind, Green Grass of Home, Alligator, ( Mountain Song- Donovan) Caution, Morning Dew Sst 2 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Doin that Rag, Cryptical ->Drums -> TOO-> Cryptical Death Don’t Have No Mercy Happy Birthday Skip! (6/02) Lovelight, Dark Star, St Sephen, the Eleven, Feedback. Filler: White Rabbit 💥💵🎰😍 AND the Dark Star was really, really quite pristine. Very special. Really so special. Thank you so much.

Great show! Touching for Asheville, Box of Rain, Let Me Sing your blues away, and the crowd really cut loose to Music Never Stopped. It was a beautiful thing!! So many changes. Everywhere. Nothing like a good show to reiterate true north. The power or music to bring people together is where it is at. There was a gentleman juggler in the crowd that juggled expertly while I danced to Estimated that was pretty much everything!! The height of fun!! And surely, we all need fun! Fabously spring, Asheville brought sweet breezes as the sun peeked in and out of the clouds, just like familiar faces peeked in and out of the crowd. Thank DSO and crew! A good time had by all. And what Tea said. 😄

You make my Earfquake. 😂

Asphalt would be a great hot sauce brand name.

Where did you watch the show? The balcony?A private room? &nbsp sounds like a fine time!! 🌹

Now, that’s how I like it. Rockin the Tabernacle. It would have been sooooo much better than the emergency vet with my daughter’s cat last night.

Oh and the lion and Samson never got in attack… 20,000 dead by the end of the song with verse doibled. And still fabulous… 40,000 Headmen couldn’t make me change my mind.

What an easy escapade to Charlotte! The Amp amphitheater opened in fall of 2023 in the planned mixed use area south of Charlotte. After work we drove up through some pretty significant weather. It has been a very rainy May, dumping lots of rainfall at a time, but it didn’t stop the show! Very easy parking. I had dinner outside one of the restaurants and listened to the first set, cooling my heels after a long day of doctoring, avoiding getting drenched, not that it mattered much. But for a while, it was luxury to dine and take in the music. The rain stopped pretty much second set with a light cooling mist every now and then. 😃 We got an upgrade to pit while checking in as a kind man gave us his extra. Astroturf might just be my favorite outdoor ground cover! Funny, I felt most comfortable on the springy fake grass! It gave heavenly cushion, no nasty beer spills to avoid, good footing! Scored all night in the endzone! We had great dancing all around. I’m sure the sound was better on the lawn. I couldn’t hear Barraco as much in the mix where I was. The spirit of a dead show hovered around as St Stephen dropped. That old familiar feeling came knocking. Groovy NFA with very nice percussive moments in first half of NFA and Eaton and Mattson trading licks and pushing the music further in the interplay, clearly delighting Eaton. Truly, the HSF sandwich with all the extra stuffing delivered a meaty, sonically tasty meal. The slipknot fomented in second half, Skip booming deep bass riffs. Yes, may the four winds blow us safely home in this crazy world! Meanwhile, might as well celebrate like a Saturday night- grab the sunshine when you can- smell the roses- and forget the tribulation of the world. US Blues never sounded so right. 💃🏻🕺🏻🌹 Excited for Asheville and Charleston. First filler, Don’t Do It. yes, dontcha break my heart.

Yowzah! That’s topnotch!!

“Becoming Led Zeppelin” is worth the watch. They really carved their own path!

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! The spirit of shirking off the status quo in the face of creativity is everything! A fascination with the Beatnik movement and how it impacted American culture to normalize the freedoms we inherently should embrace and throw off the prejudices and fear of Puritanical morays made me the person I am. Robert Hunter, the Grateful Dead and others like Dylan fomented this movement and gave its voice. Dylan had his finger on the pulse of it all, voiced it and struggled alone with his genius, I think, trying to reconcile the complexity of our culture and the impact of what he saw, how he was received and where it went from there. Ah, the tortured artist…

It was an incredible weekend! So perfect and fitting for you two!! One of the best wedding celebrations! Such joy! I love how you roll your love to one another. 😃.Many happy days await you grounded in your love. It is everything!! So happy to have been there to celebrate it. ❤️❤️❤️ What memories…. Precious. Laissez les bon temps roulez.

Right on! Looks quite perfect. 😻!! That was quite a show.

Happy birthday to you!! Libra is the best sign. Haha 🥳🎉❤️ The region from Eastern TN through WNC was just many funnels of 40 trillion tons of water, enough water to cover the ENTIRE state of NC with 3.5 ft of water , the equivalent of 699 days of water flow at Niagara Falls . It was expected for instance one person said that the French Broad would rise 3 ft,; it went to 27 ft. I don’t believe anyone expected how bad it would hit as the system stalled and went further east that expectex. I got power for my birthday!!🥳 so

Phew. Where to start? I just thought I would check in and say we are ok. Pins and Needles as things came online worried about people. Gr8ful Pair is ok. There is catastrophic loss and damage here. Awaiting power to return with 96% loss in my county ; however there are pockets open. Coordinating to run supplies up to Black Mountain and Asheville to help those who have nothing. The need is dire. Grateful for sunshine and cool temps. Send your goodness and vibes our way. If anything is clear, it is that self sufficiency is required in these days and the ability for self reliance essential. Society just without power hangs by threads obvious in the people I saw jamming the fast food/ gas stations trying to get there next meal after power loss.

Gotta love a 76 dancin