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Late--but joining the crew that knows this place is about all you do!!!! Thanks for bringing to us more than a forum!!

My old stomping grounds for at least 8 years. Can't belive I missed DSO in Salt Lake...to busy being a wanna be scholar. Would love to get these shows. See some old college bros. Teach em how to dance well...to let loose. I find the area to be very into themselves. Awesome for the self absorbed....I fit in well....least used to. Praise those who get these shows. PC is a awesome place. With the mass migration out of California and little Hollywood with the new tech valley, the billionaires now pushing out the millionares.....regentrified. so jealous of you heads that can afford and have the mobility to tour. I want the music now so much more than ever. Spent 3 hours at a trampoline park with kids yesterday. My legs are strong, but spine compressed. Wonder if they may play SLC? That would be awesome!!!!

Super awesome---what a great picture. Love you brother---congrats---you two look beautiful. We all wish you two the very very best!!! You look so good in a suit brother-----love to see you dance in that get up!!!

We talked about that show this last weekend. I was blue. Hypothermic for sure. Ron nearly died and has never been to a show since. That was Virginia State officials at their finest. Another one of our fine companions was taking to jail with no charges. I think that was the last year of that Pocahontas. That place was my first show in May of 2012. I hopped on the bus and wow, what a long strange trip its been since. I have lost weight since Fredericks last year Rude. I would of been fine then, but at that time, I was no body fat. That rain literally knocked me out. I was blue. I stripped down and crawled in my sleeping bag cause we gave bunks to elders and women---right? Was Meli with us? I know Rebecca was there. Cosmic--Mike--you--I--Rebecca--T(?). Please fill in. I do compliment your memory. You are a bit more quicker than I, especially when I was blue and close to collapse. That walk was horrid. I cant believe they did that to us. They could of drove us right to the campgrounds--instead,,,they dropped us off at the entrance to the park. Were you not staying with us that weekend Rude? We had a cabin. We had a cabin the next year with a AC. I remember AMY had a cabin, but you for sure was staying in our Cabin. No? Follow up... I have started a journal to document the past decade and the decade to come. Tired of forgetting all the fun!!!

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Brother, I love you dearly. I only tease those who I care for. I want 300 shows. I am green with your appearances. Jealousy is not always a bad thing. Envy is not always a bad thing. I am both when it comes to your experiences. So much so, I incorporated your dance into mine. The only thing I latch to is the feelings I have for those who brought me in. Enjoy the weekend. Trying right now to get out there. Super last minute. Be safe----and experience does matter. Its why i have no problem looking up to someone younger and unfortunately cause of covid--smaller. I got fat!!!

Her hair is harlow gold, her lips sweet surprise----Kim Carnes is my third love. Oliva my first---GD/DSO second. Wrote her letters as a child. Bless my mom for sending them--maybe. Not even sure I am hitting your mark. Your opinion counts because your Vegas. I am sure there is nothing that I know that you do not already know and have reflected on for hours. Maybe seconds. I just assume what takes me years to understand you get immediately. I am completely ok knowing a legend in their own time. Thanks for being good to people in Frederick. Was not in the hot tub, but if I was, I comfortably would have sit next to you!!! Admiration runs deep. There was a time I name dropped Vegas in Jamaica. It was beneficial!!!! I am ok as a male to be part of your fan club!!!!

It is refreshing to read words that include self reflection. Bridget agrees you are a egotistical asshole!!!! I am so used to it that I was blinded by the words you shared that morning in Richmond. Oddly, Rude put you in check and made me look and feel like the little man I was for not sticking up for my girl. Granted, she tried to put me in jail the previous night, but we forgive those we love. Just as I forgive you and have grown to absolutely love your EGO ass. I know why your EGO is as it is. Events we experience creates who we are. Building emotional walls---tearing down others. Its ok----I know---and love you the same. I say this despite asking me to install flooring when I was out in CO recently. I just wanted to buy your family dinner!!! You know I am giggling. Its fun to remember. I also know you do not believe that half the people left because the music was bad. They left because a 68 show is confusing----people that wear tye dies and love Touch of Grey thought they may have showed up the wrong night? I am positive that some who left were hoping for a Corrina. Who am I to complain about the other half leaving a "shit show". Some people at shows have yet to learn about the layers of the music we all love. Our love for this stuff is always in development--at times cryptical---at times obvious. All that being said--brother---you know damn well I have not done 300+ shows. Your response is greatly appreciated, but it's conflicting. I know you appreciate my words---They were written in a way you had no choice but to respond---again--I know your EGO!!!! I have danced in the halls of Hampton to both JGB and GD. I missed Further because Warren Haynes sucks and delayed my DSO venture for several years by how bad he sucked at George at the Gorge with Further. I refused Further thereafter--but eventually found DSO with JM. I freely admit that I have elders. You are one of them for me. Although, I was seeing shows when you were in diapers, I am ok that you have far surpassed my knowledge and show going experience. This family needs you brother and your EGO. We all have our place. You fit yours perfectly!!!! I love you for it. All that being said, I knew you would respond to my claim about 12-01-2017. We were both in Boston for that 69. Music was good, but it was not Jubilee 69 and Jubilee 69 was not 12-01-2017. I am a late 80's early 90's child. I still have not got a Desolation from DSO, but I am trying. I would persevere through a Day Job to get a beauty parlor filled with sailors ..... because I am part of the act when the circus is in town. So are you---we are all acts in this circus. I was just lucky to be part of the greatest act of the century 12-01-17. Subjective----ok----but its only ok to make you feel better about it. I do not have 300+ shows--- to discount my witness to absolute glory because I lack numbers is your EGO glowing. You do not need Bix to step in. But..if he did, I would give Bix the respect as a elder in our family deserves. I look up to many of you even if you do not know it. Its why I would give up my previous music for you and others to have witness pure energy in its finest. We have shared dance space brother----I understand and appreciate your EGO block. I loose my EGO when the music plays. How else can I dance like fool and not care what others think. Every show my EGO is left at the door. I pick it up when I leave. I freely admit I now incorporate one of your dancing features into my own. I call it the "Handcuff shuffle". Love you brother. Driggs, ID-----Hurts me too I was not part of that act. That is where my body belongs. Happy you got it. Happy you get everything you go after. Happy you were one of the first to challenge me in this community but one of the first to welcome me in with arms wide open. I remember the first minutes we met. "It looks like your in two sets deep". It was the 2nd song of the night--Black Mountain--- You, Mango, and I all knew who we were with out knowing who we were. The best nights are always the nights I am with family. The best production of GD in this century was and is still 12-01-2017. You are so right....the best is yet to come. When you get it---and the probability is high you will get it-----I will celebrate--even if not there. I will celebrate those who got it----hopefully--half the show leaves because they don't get what we spend decades searching for. Miss you brother---miss that EGO. Miss hanging out with a Freudian delight. I hope we cross paths soon. Hopefully Red Rocks. Maybe Soldiers. I am working on plans. Thank you for taking your time to come to me in Hampton B. when She belongs to me started. I was near tears. You did the handcuff shuffle over and shared how happy you were for me to get what I have been searching for. Brother, you are a egotistical ass. Which made your effort so very special for me. Thank you!!! Your words mean a lot!!! Many are routing for you---please know that. I am one of your biggest fans---brat!!!

I love you brother. I learn from the ole timers..There is no disrespect here..... None of you were at the 68 show at NORVA by DSO. on 12-01-17. Jubilee 69 was the best musical experience until this show came to be. Music is so personal--how does one judge? We judge by how we feel, who we are with, the exchange of energy between those we love----and the quality of music. I was lucky enough to have experienced people I love, in my home town, with amazing energy to a event that I am saddened many of you missed. You have seen hundreds of DSO shows. Thousands of hours of music. Yet, you and many others I care about missed the best musical production of the century. You are right. 5/8/77 was not GD's best show. It was one of the best recorded shows in history. It has moved people for generations. I still can not get over the Scarlet--Fire. The bass in Estimated. The Morning Dew---still gives me chills after the 2000 times I have heard. I do not know GD like many of you. You all throw out stats about GD like its a ESPN channel. At times I am embarrassed that I love something so much but know so little about compared to those whom I have toured and shared the music with. Where I am weak others provide me their strengths. I have deferred many times to my elders. Many times my elders were younger in age because they know the stats, they have witnessed amazing music. They also know the music in ways I never will. I concede I do not know as much about GD or DSO that you and many others who have my utmost respect know. I learn from you all!!! Yet, no one can deny that I do not feel, love, and embody the music I have no doubt that anyone who knows me would never argue that I do not get the music. I get it...at times...I do not even know how I get it. It is at times a curse. How much have we lost to gain for the satisfaction of hearing these sounds? I am a libertarian conservative. I should not belong here--I am trapped in worlds that polarize and confuse. There is a balance to life. How much we give and how much we get? There are sacrifices we all experience. I read your words Mason and I read through your tour-ment. Your words read like a tragedy. I am so sorry you and many were not there to be part of the best orchestrated music of this century. It hurts me too. I am left with the question----how many shows would I give up to have this one special night? I do not have the answer. I am unable to answer my own question----yet, I am able to say---with authority----12-01-2017 was and is to this date the best musical production of the century. I do not believe JK could of done this show. I have heard the AC, Rams Head, and Hilton Head. I wish I was there. Perhaps I would post something different if I found the DSO bus earlier; however, I am unable to be dishonest, and I am unable to agree with other post. Selfish perhaps, but I do not think so. Just lucky----and those who know me know I have not been lucky in many aspects of life, but I was lucky to get this one. I ask myself why? Why does DSO not do these shows more often. Why do they hold us back? Marketing? After first set, the crowd reduced to half. Many did not know what they witnessed. I got to witness the early magic with the Carolina Contingent blessed with some Kentucky Rude. The show was planned and my favorite podiatrist eased me in with his lovely muse. You all can debate, but I feel like a strong moderator in saying, there is no close second. I want to agree with so many of you. I want so many of you to have been there with us. NORVA is out of the way. Its a double decker Dewey less the northern edge. Not a place anyone expected to have the greatest production of the century. Questions left--why did DSO do it there and why was I lucky enough to get it? I did not deserve this show. Others who have tried so hard to get this sound over the past decade missed it. It was not fair to many, but it was a fair deal for me!!! I would for sure trade all previous shows if those who missed could of witnessed. Yep, I got it, you missed it........wished we all got it. Bragging rights----not here-----I wish for us all to get another---together!!! In essence---I was Charlie that got the gold ticket to the chocolate factory. I did not deviate, blow up, turn purple, but I floated so high I needed the fans to blow my body down. Do people apologize to their friends when they win the lottery? For me....I just wish I could of shared the winnings with more who frequent this place.

Chuck thinks therefore I am..........To be understood is to exist------Validation comes so easy with our community. YOU GET IT!!!!

I was way to thrown back by the weekend to complete a review last night. There is something in this music and watching those who love it in real time that makes one speechless. Trying to find words for feelings that run so deep is at times complicated. We all have individual constructs of what we see and feel as beautiful. Yet, as humans, we are able to share, relate, and understand the overlaps of our individual constructs. Its amazing when the overlap occurs in close proximity. The energy feeds, fuels, and opens up our minds to the thoughts and feelings of others with out speaking them. To communicate with out words is the most intimate of anything shared between people. Its something that I do not yet have the words to fully describe. I can only describe it as breathtakingly beautiful. It literally changes the way I see the world--both the macro and micro. May not be ready, but definitely encouraged to write the first book on Quantum Mechanics and Dancing Heads. Entanglement occurs for us as much as it occurs for the spin of a paired particle. I need more shows to research this phenom------Can anyone say tax write offs for research!!!!!! The last night In SC was more than one could ever ask. There were so many highlights. The people I got to dance with are some of the people I love most in this world. The music is the "Flavor" that brought us all together. The set list says it all. There were some things I never heard before. PG dead on----no bumps or no thumps before BIODTL. Rob just started singing. How fun getting one of the favorites with a change....it threw me off for a second. FOTD was fast--more western---and a delight!!! It hurts me too----thanks Rob----we felt it----its confusing for the mind to feel the pain yet be happy dancing to it. Who can honestly say the music does not make you grow as a individual. Learn about your feelings and how to manage the internal conflicts. Yes----its more then dancing to quality sounds. Its a reflective process that forces us to grow in front of everyone--In real time!!! China/Rider-----YAY!!!!! St. Stephen---always a highlight. Huge highlight of the night. Thank you DSO for hitting it hard!! Felt like I was dancing on air. Nothing no longer grounded my body---a arrow straight and narrow hitting every sweet beat. GDTRFB------Always played well. Tonight no different. But---to share it with people I love, again--special beyond words. Love light----I am unable to comment and share----I can say DSO did its job and put smiles, thoughts, dreams into hopes and wishes. Never underestimate the power of hope----Hope has moved mountains, cured diseases, and transformed lives. So nice to be able to share a brief glimpse of how a single show can have such big impacts on a individual life----because its so much more than music!!!---It is with out a doubt a rare and different tune. Thank you guys---thank you Lisa-----thank you for all those who I shared the weekend with. Now keeping a journal -- I never want to forget the joy you all bring!!!

I have never been so embarrassed for ignorance in my life. As a younger man, I might have had a talk with these guys. Wisdom comes with age----so I threw my self reflection vibe there way. It will take about a week. That redneck will be on forums with in a year begging for a WRS like they produced this night. It came out of a space that was so much fun. Skip was awesome during the night. So excited. So much chatter, but when he got involved in the drums during drum space transition, we knew from his facial expressions that they too are like us----kids in big bodies with talent!!!! Following up on PG's comment-----Strange Man was amazing. Lisa's vocals were so powerful I found myself no longer dancing but moving through a dense medium of vibrations that filled every molecule of air. Quantum mechanics pushed all that vibrational energy into our souls. To have all your cells vibrate with Lisa's powerful sounds is at the very least----spiritual. We are so lucky---

The night was super fun and jaw dropping. The weather report was so beautifully constructed, developed, and executed. We are all so lucky to have access this. More dance space than anyone could ask for. The company shared was top notch. Heart bending. The weather was perfect for the heat. The light rain fell on hot sweaty bodies just enough to keep the hot trot dancing cool. Why can't this happen every day?

See you soon Mike. Funny, you rooming up with strangers. Has not got you or T killed yet!!! Charlotte could of been very different on a bad day. Travel safe...flight comes in 12 ---- hotel a almost a walk away. We be boogie about lateral from soundboard. T and Flair have a special relationship. All I have to say is massages---one gets them, the other one watches!! Seen stranger things---like me making this 7am flight. Uh oh----Mason on board----maybe he will have a wood floor I can Install for him during set break. see you soon....please have your girl save a dance for me------ Be good, be safe, be wise

T, its amazing how much we grow when we lose. How much we gain through loss, how much loss makes us feel when those nuggets of joy are given for us to experience. Sorry about ruff times and the fate of life. At times it seems its never ending. Perpetual cycles of ups and downs or constant downs. Hits you harder when your down, then hits you again till you become numb to all the blows. From dreary and cold nights of winter comes the rebirth of spring, to the long days of summer, back again through the strange nights of fall. Life is seasonal, but not always on time. Sometimes those seasons last months, year, years, a decade or two. Not always sure time heals but it does offer reflection, growth, and a sense of peace going through the worse accepting the tides, being more cautious, and eventually being wiser and more accepting as you experience more of the same. Steps to make you stronger to face a always not so beautiful world. But---with out the darkness there would be no light. Peace be with you brother. You will certainly carry some load, but time will allow you to shed the weight. Just as a caterpillar sheds its cocoon. The experience is part of the change inside. Your a good soul, keep that to heart as you bear the burdens. Little bit of music certainly helps. Support from friends and Jerry/Hunter words that seem to already know how you feel. Keep dancing....glad you got some music. Hope you get more. Take time for yourself T!! The ones you love will be better off with the time you take for yourself!!!

"I am not a Dude, I am a New Jersey State Police Officer" Plus the 1st song escorted walk out at Further in Atlantic City----Vic---I am not getting any closer as you!!

That is for sure a star studded list. Wow!!! Three nights in the same gold circle. Glad to know your in the know. Scotty plays his ass off. Absolutely floored by how well he and mango--with others--performed at black mountain. I imagine Covid has only honed their inner talent. Would love a invite to come by and mingle for the after party. As a heads up---years have changed---not the same as I was when hopped on this bus. No worries about behavior. Rick on the other hand---Just Kidding!! Happy to hear the lord bought Velvet a Mercedes Benz. I am sure she had some work in it!!! That's awesome. Herdy is creeping out of the Laramide Orogeny uplift-----that's good stuff. Word travels fast when venues are good. Music at Frederick was kind and the sound impeccable for outside venue--for any venue. Early show at that. It will be day time when the shuttle lifts off!!! I have not danced in the day since last I saw you August. That was outside of DC---Wolf Creek I believe. Maybe a Jubilee----no matter, be nice to shake hands and give a hug. If Covid allows or the comfort be. They supplemented and ended with a kick ass Tangled that day at Wolf Mountain!!! I know the original crew talks, mingles, and keeps up with each other. There are two sides to everything and it is absolutely wonderful it continues. I often don't come around here no more, but every so often I need to jazz up and cause controversy. Cant have Rude always take the show. You guys are more than likely what helped start and keep the tradition with tour and dance. DSO is lucky to have you, as we are lucky to have them!!! Will always be grateful for the encouragement when there was no light. Not even a tunnel. I now know Fredericks is going to be lit up with good people and dedicated members of a bigger family. Warmest of Regards!!! Thanks for chiming in August. Sincere appreciation!!

Hmmm... Herdy Gerdy and Velvet Thunders b-days today. Have not seen either in a very long time. Guess Velvet is enjoying German Alps, while Herdy has dropped off the map. Two people who I know loved and supported DSO from its early days. Wish both a happy B-day. Hoping both are doing well and doing what they love. Remember Herdy Jam in the Sand-----all I can say is smurfs----nothing more funny!!! Except when Rob B saw me helping Resort security get into a balcony room. Nothing more awkward than security standing on your shoulders to enter a room. What happened to master key? Big place and not enough time to get in to make sure someone was ok. Some people find themselves in places they do not want to be but are there because they are the person who should be--at that moment. What a ride that year was. Velvet---always has had her own beat to drum. A friend tells a funny story of picking her up from airport in the south. Sitting on the corner playing a mandolin. The kind of scene you saw when the circus was in town. It was the time when DSO drawled me in. A semblance of when the original played. Not strange, but different was around. It was a always that safety net you felt. The excitement to know your brothers and sisters were around. Happy B-day to both!!!

Just bought third night. This is perfect and what I wished for. Things happen when you want them enough. Great venue-----hopefully in a good gold section. The sections can be very odd. Some gold are not as good as bronze or silver. I know, seems odd, but its how they park you!! Rude, you do not have a kid, you have a baby!!! But, are we not all babies one way or another. Safe travels for you and your family!! Look forward to another three day release!!! Super excited about the drive in. Learned a lot from last run!! Edit, I purchased a gold tic earlier today through ticketmaster---i believe....Checked email this evening to confirm tic.....no email. Checked website, as for some reason I can not go through DSO website, and tics for sunday night go on sale the 12th? Do I need any more strange in my life? Conspiracy in my crazy world. Or maybe I am crazy. I prefer the former. Hoping I did not buy two nights for saturday.

When one respires like I do---like all of you do, there is no one mask during a show. Mask replacement for each song. Mask get water logged. Respiration produces what? Water vapor. Simple glucose + oxygen → carbon dioxide + water + energy released----- Its a no brainer!! Common Sense. Depends on what DSO plays. Early GD or late GD. Bring 15-26 mask. Not mocking you brother, but you bring a good point up.

1.9 trillion. That's nothing. Who cares about zeros? We should spend 10 trillion and bring in Mexico and all of middle America. Non-violent cartels. Some think there was a insurrection with a couple thousand. Lets bring in millions!!! World is changing faster and faster. Pepe La Poo is now a rapist. Dr. Sues is racist, and Megan Markel is an African American though whiter than myself. Being under educated, I am simply a simple man. My lenses are blurred. Spent a year with Covid business interruption claims. Spent hours listening to small business owners cry because they lost their whole life's work. Some, phones disconnected. Could never finish the claim. Cuomo is fighting Me too-----Allegations for a politician is damning. Who cares if there founded. All you need is a media to tell us under educated people what is right and wrong. My mother who is 78 with underlying conditions has yet to get a call to be vaccinated. Happy smokers get in front of the line. Its the American way!! Small businesses who can not afford closing should be penalized. Large corporations who can afford government bond buys should be set to grow bigger. The world is set for electric cars----how do we get electricity? Fossil fuels? Any thought about next generation lithium batteries? Hopefully China can produce better and better solar cells. Hydrogen Fuel Cells---ocean is full of hydrogen and oxygen!! Wait, does it not take more energy to split covalent bonds than we get back. Thermal dynamics? Nuke power plants? Fast breeders?---Hopefully molten salts work out. Bill Gates worked with China on those projects. Damn Trump administration shut that down---China moved forward---- Something about intellectual property given access to the next Super power. China buying our agricultural industry, as a means to keep feeding Americans. Somehow I reflect back to Lola. Girls will be boys and boys will be girls It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola. I no longer extend my civic duty to vote. At some point, you have to withdraw from the game so your soul no longer has a part in the fall. Cop out----maybe---but would rather watch from the sidelines then have a hand in the mess. Ironic-----how far we all drive to see music. Fly to see music. Extend the resources the pollution, yet feel compelled to support green initiatives. All is good when we ourselves feel good. One side or the other, in the end, we have to look at ourselves. Our actions. Our complacency or our compliance. Mask do remove human expression. 90% of communication is body language. Simple domesticated dogs get that. Our loyal companion that assisted with the evolution of modern day society. Somehow we do not get that. So smart we are...our leaders even more in touch with our daily lives. We allow for hypocrisy---if its our side. Instead of wishing for the world to have a Coke with pretty endangered polar bears---who would bypass the coke, and just eat you if had the chance----I wish for individual thought that is not aligned with a two party system that has failed original intent. Self governance by "educated" people. I do not mean those educated by current institutions!!. I have enough of those degrees---but COMMON SENSE!!! Common has now become in its own right, non sensical. To busy to be common, to bullied to express "Common Sense". Common sense is now labeled---and if you are one of those labels, God Bless you---oops---I used God-----easier to use the parables from a book of common sense. Don's steal, don't lie, don't sleep around(you might get dieses), don't murder, etc..... Essentially a backdrop for common sense. Inclusion------why does DSO not have NWA open up for them--vice versa? Could we all mix together peacefully? Would it be peaceful? Hard questions, difficult thoughts, unless your media driven, and its all black and white. No pun intended. This post is only a mockery of ourselves and our nation----IT'S US BLUES!!!!!!!

To far--to little, but I bet those shows will be smoking. Hopefully some spring or summer drive in shows like Fredricks--Those three nights were awesome. Even more---I hope Eaton recovers with out missing a chord.

This one is for Rude Dog----and all the low educated people of America. I bought Game Stop at $84.00----sold this morning-----funny how uneducated collectives forced billion dollar losses for some Hedge Funds!!! Cohen will not have as much now to donate to the GOP!!!------But, Pelosi's husband did a great job on his insider trading shorts!!!! And people are in fear of Bo and Luke Duke. Maybe Daisey is the one we should all fear. She could definitely cause some insurrection in my life----then, not now!! All written with a smile a laugh----none of it matters to us little folk!!

Sympathy for the Devil The Highway Men 7 Spanish Angles The Gambler Coal Miners Daughter (Lisa Song) 16 Tons On the Road again Ring of Fire Cripple Creek I'll Fly Away Ballad of the Alamo The same old tale that the crow told me Jim Bridger----North to Alaska----Comanche In the Arms of the Angle---Not sure how they would do this one. JGB-----but the words hit as hard as they should ---- Comfort is not always a easy place to find.....but somehow easy among strangers dancing to beautiful sounds. Pancho and Lefty American Remains I walk the line Paradise--John Prine Fireball Mail FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN!!!! (Bluegrass Breakdown)--"Originally wrote by Earl Scruggs for Bill Monroe" Thats VA/NC music as its finest!!! Finally: Any song by Talking Heads for an Impressionable Ambassador Extraordinaire noted above!!!

Thoughts with you for your loss brother. Memories will heal the loss, but it will never be forgotten. Mothers are true blessings despite ourselves. Love between Mother and Son is probably the strongest in all of the universe. Take time between the sorrow and grief to celebrate the life and her impact on yours!!