PoetryGirl

Yep! Spot on- my kind of marathon.

a badass sticker brings you unmitigated joy

Haha. That is funny. but I like the way you all fantasize. Did Mission Control rattle the halls during Dark Star?

To quote Phil from Taft 71, “ Well, well. What.”

So was it a case of using what you have and experimenting at Alembic? Innocent question and limited experience in musical instruments : if Jerry was looking for a country sound, wouldn’t a Telecaster served his purposes? https://www.fender.com/articles/gear/iconic-mods-how-jerry-garcias-alligator-strat-earned-its-claws

We went to the old Asheville Civic Center that holds 7500 and saw Billy Strings open for Umphrey’s McGee. Stellar time. Highlight was Billy Strings jamming with UM to Voodoo Child!

Smothered covered chunked diced and chopped!

Dates are associated with your favorite shows played on that day.

What a sandwich!! 😵 what is a go to favorite? I love the Dream Bowl 2/22/69. Went to sleep listening to it last night

Ha! Who’d a thought it’d be the 1993 show instead of the 73 elective?! I thought for sure til I saw the set list it happened in Ashland. Well now we know why! What a gem of a show on paper; I know it was a paper airplane to you all who saw it.

Happy Valentines! My love of DSO, where I really got on the bus to stay, began 6 years ago tonight. I was at the Charlotte show and lightning struck me at the core close to the first of the second set. I kid not when I say there was an earthquake in Edgefield County, SC , where my 4th great grandfather settled in 1801, that night around 10:23 or so after leaving Surrey County Virginia where my 6th great grandfather- 8 generations ago- was born 9 milea from Jamestown in 1667. Sign comes in powerful ways and I’m glad I paid attention because my life has been enriched deeply since then to say the least. Have a beautiful day and ❤️ to you all!

Lots to feed your head there, no doubt!

73 style Ejective 😍💪🏼

Spectacular! Acoustic guitar is such a beautiful thing. Does anyone here know the type guitar Eaton and Mattson play? I heard a rendition of Dark Star a Spanish guitar player had recorded through Golden Road Radio hour. It was AMAZING!! I tried to find him but to no avail.

Here’s the show! https://archive.org/details/dso2020-02-06.akg483.flac24

Paramount Theater set one Casey Jones, Jack Straw, Sunrise, Brown Eyed Women, El Paso, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Let It Grow, Deal set two Samson & Delilah-> Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain, Finiculi Finicula, Playin' In The Band-> Drums-> The Wheel-> Truckin'-> The Other One-> Wharf Rat-> Sugar Magnolia, E: Johnny B Goode

Hey man, who sang that Wild Thang!? 🤩

and what would be the answer to That particular answer man? Looks like Cats Under the Stars. Did that ring his bell?

Wolf and Alligator together in SF https://jambands.com/news/2020/01/31/dark-star-orchestras-jeff-mattson-will-play-two-jerry-garcia-guitars-in-san-francisco/?utm_source=Relix+Daily&utm_campaign=9cdaa4b9f6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_31_04_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_486e6e4b54-9cdaa4b9f6-26066101&mc_cid=9cdaa4b9f6&mc_eid=d22789da73

The guy in a full ER? He’d broken his leg badly and was waiting to see a doctor. The doctor came in and was going to give him something for pain and wait for it to take effect, which meant more waiting. The fella said, Listen Doc. Go ahead and set it. I have already experienced the most unbearable pain, TWICE! The doctor concerned but interested ask how it came about. The fella said well, the first time was when I was camping and accidentally sat on a bear trap. And the second?? Right after that.... when he ran out of chain.

Skip on Tom Thumbs Blues: I started out on Jameson, and soon moved to the harder stuff Everybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough But the joke's on me, there wasn't anybody there to bluff. I'm going back to room 927, I do believe I've had enough.

One of my favorites- if you have the patience and time. Parable of The Little Soul .... by Neale Donald Walsch There once was a little soul who knew itself to be the light. This was a new soul, and so, anxious for experience. "I am the light," it said. "I am the light." Yet all the knowing of it and all the saying of it could not substitute for the experience of it. And in the realm from which this soul emerged, there was nothing but the light. Every soul was grand, every soul was magnificent, and every soul shone with the brilliance of MY awesome light. And so the little soul in question was as a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light- of which it was a part- it could not see itself, nor experience itself as Who and What it Really Is. Now it came to pass, that the little soul yearned and yearned to know itself. And so great was its yearning that "I" one day said, "Do you know little one, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of yours?" "Oh what, God? what? I'll do anything!? The little soul said. "You must separate yourself from the rest of us," I answered, "and then you must call upon yourself the darkness." "You may choose to be any Part of God you wish to be," I said to the little soul. "You are the Absolute Divinity, experiencing Itself. What Aspect of Divinity do you now wish to experience as you?" "You mean I have a choice," ask the little soul. I answered, "Yes." You may choose to experience any Aspect of Divinity in, as, and through you." "Okay," said the little soul, then I choose forgiveness. I want to experience my Self as that Aspect of God called Complete Forgiveness." Well, this created a little challenge, as you can imagine. There was no one to forgive. All I have created is Perfection and Love "No one to forgive?" asked the Little Soul, somewhat incredulously. "No one," I repeated. "Look around you. Do you see any souls less perfect, less wonderful than you?" As the Little soul twirled around, and was surprised to see himself surrounded by all the souls in heaven. They came from far and wide throughout the Kingdom, because they had heard the little soul was having an extraordinary conversation with God. "I see none less perfect than I," the Little Soul exclaimed." Who then, shall I have to forgive?" Just then another soul stepped forward from the crowd. "You may forgive me," said the Friendly Soul. "For what?" the little soul asked. "I will come onto your next physical lifetime and do something for you to forgive," replied the Friendly Soul. "But what? What could you, a being of such Perfect Light, do to make me forgive you?" the Little Soul wanted to know. "Oh," smiled the Friendly Soul, I'm sure we can think of something." "But why would you want to do this?" The Little Soul could not figure out why a being of such perfection would want to slow down its vibration so much that it could actually do something "bad." "Simple," the Friendly Soul explained," I would do it because I love you. You want to experience your Self as Forgiving, don't you? Besides, you have done the same for me." "I have?" asked the Little Soul. "Of course. Don't you remember? We've been All Of It, you and I. We've been the Up and the Down of it, and the Left and Right of it. We've been the Here and Now of it, and the Now and Then of it. We've been the Big and Small of it, the Male and Female of it, the Good and Bad of it. We've been the All of it. "And we've done it by agreement, so that each of us might experience ourselves as The Grandest Part of God. For we have understood that..... "In the absence of that which You Are Not, that Which You Are, is NOT. "In the absence of 'cold,' you cannot be 'warm.' In the absence of 'sad,' you cannot be 'happy,' without a thing called 'evil,' the experience you call 'good' cannot exist. If you choose to be a thing, something or someone opposite to that has to show up somewhere in your universe to make that possible." The Friendly Soul then explained that those people are God's Special Angels, and these conditions God's Gifts. "I ask only one thing in return, " the Friendly Soul declared. "Anything! Anything," the Little Soul cried. He was excited now to know that he could experience every Divine Aspect of God. He understood, now The Plan. "In the moment that I strike you and smite you," said the Friendly Soul, " in the moment that I do the worst to you that you could ever imagine---in that self-same moment....remember Who I Really Am." "Oh, I won't forget!" promised the Little Soul. "I will see you in the perfection with which I hold you now, and I will remember Who You Are, always." "What is this darkness, O' Holy One?" the little soul ask. "That which you are not," I replied, and the soul understood. So this the soul did, removing itself from the All, yea, going even onto another realm. And in this realm the soul had the power to call onto its experience all sorts of darkness. And this it did. Yet in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out: "Father, Father, why hast Thou forsaken me?" Even as have you in your blackest times. Yet I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready to remind you of Who You Really Are; ready, always ready, to call you home. Therefore, be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not. And forget not Who You Are in the moment of your encirclement by that which you are not. But do you praise to the creation, even as you seek to change it. And know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph. For the experience you create is a statement of Who You Are..... and Who You Want To Be....

If you know me, you my know occurrences tend to happen in my life that can have big portent or lovely serendipity, or both! Let’s just say when I create, it can be big and this was one with both. I listened to a show from 1972 opening with GSET on the plane ride down and this opener got my attention immediately! Jeff in the far left queued me that it was a later 70s KaD show. (There are these great shirts about with Donnaholic written on them, floating around the show) Too good. Incidentally, I was also beginning the Deadology book on the flight and read Oct 19th entry, or Chapter 1. Guess what is next- 2/17. 😂 Had The GD had nights as inspired as this night in 1978, we might not have had Brent come on the scene as soon as 4/22. The book says no matter the crazy times of late 1979, Jerry and Kahn touring were always a constant. Their show on 2/17/80 had some lovely gems. “That’s Alright Mama”and “After Midnight-> Eleanor-> After Midnight!” We got both!!!! these gems - it was pirates booty in Jamaica. A full chest of it! A beautiful day and I can’t tell you how happy it made me to be in Jamaica on the 29th anniversary of my dear best friend, good natured, genuine love Zephyr’s death. It felt good to have redemption songs fill my head as I have climbed mountains. i have been waiting for a Jack A Roe and it was lovely!! The Lazy Lightning -> Supplication was juiced, and just spun to a blistering end. The Shakedown was completely right on time and totally unexpected and the energy sizzled all around. LLRain was beautifully harmonized with the swaying palms and lapping pf the waves. From the Heart of Me epic. Gosh, Lisa you bring the angels close, bending in to hear. As I said, it was so good. Hard to quantify but these combos work and really make for a lovely evening under the stars. thank you everyone! You made my night

It was everything just like this whole set list. Let’s say the set was a Dagwood sandwich piled high with all the goodness. The kind that has staying power and you savor not wanting to lose that good flavor. Although the whole setlist wouldve been nuclear scotch bonnet with Dew and Lost Saint etc

Half step minglewood ramble on rose BTW Loose Lucy @ Tom Thumb’s Blues @ gilligans island @loser Cassidy She Belongs to Me BIODLT Day Job @Pete Lavazolli drumming with JGB sat in Set 2 corrina touch unbroken chain St Stephen alligator DS Dark Star SOTM GDTRFB Encore 1st verse Frozen Logger Brokedown Palace Melvin and JGB Jan 15 afternoon show How Sweet it Is Cats down under the stars Senior Breadbox Like a Road Money Honey Midnight Moonlight Brothers and sisters Deal