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Killer show last night, really enjoyed the Sugaree and Bird Song during the first set. Short first set at 6 songs and 55 minutes, but hearing that the band was playing really well left us with high hopes for a monstrous second set. The second set did not disappoint in the monstrous department, all the way through. Fat grooves on Shakedown and Women are Smarter, powerful Terrapin, Rob pummeling the theater's structural integrity with the low beam frequencies during drums, GDTRFB had all hands on deck and moving along. The setlist seemed familiar, and by the time Watchtower came I knew I had listened to this show a good bit, and had a good idea of what show it was, my first time guessing one correctly. The Dew was tremendous, and the Good Lovin sandwich let us all shake it out once more. Knockin on Heavens Door to bring us all back in for a soft landing, only to blow the doors out again with a juicy China-> Rider to remind us all, once again, who the reigning champions of the Grateful Dead music are.
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Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (9/18/87) Hell in a Bucket Sugaree Walkin' Blues Candyman Masterpiece Bird Song Shakedown Street Man Smart/Woman Smarter Terrapin Station drums Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad All Along the Watchtower Morning Dew Good Lovin' La Bamba Good Lovin' Encore: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Filler: China-> Rider
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Great WRS and second set. Was exhausted after only an hour of sleep from the night before, but rested up today and looking forward to whatever they have in store for tonight.
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The evening started off with Rob Eaton introducing that Jeff was going to be playing Wolf, and Jeff was positioned center stage for what had to be a great honor for him. The band delivered the goods, starting off with Promised Land, with Jeff ripping some extended leads at the end. Lisa came out for some lovely trio singing on They Love Each Other. Mama Tried and Mexicali got the place moving. Jeff gave a sweet vocal delivery of Peggy-O. Cassidy was excellent, Tennessee Jed brought the power, and Jack Straw to end the first set brought the thunder.
Second set started off with Half Step, with some nice peaks at the end. Franklin's Tower had the house rocking. They ripped through Samson and Delilah and gave the house a chance to cool down with Friend of the Devil. Playing in the Band got pretty nice and spaced out, drums finished with Dino really wearing the skins out good. Space was fun to listen to, with Jeff getting some really great tones out of Jerry's guitar and his effects pedals. Black Peter, to me, was the highlight of the night. The band brought the thunder on several occasions throughout the night, but they brought the entire house down to where you could hear a pin drop during Black Peter. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever gotten to witness at a concert. Playin reprise, Around and Around was ripping. U.S. Blues, White Rabbit and Werewolves of London to finish the night. Great playing by the band, great energy in the house, great to see Jeff playing Jerry's guitar all night.
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Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA (11/13/78) Promised Land They Love Each Other Mama Tried Mexicali Blues Peggy-O Cassidy Tennessee Jed New Minglewood Blues Stagger Lee Jack Straw Mississippi Half-Step Franklin's Tower Samson and Delilah Friend of the Devil Playin' in the Band drums Black Peter Playin' in the Band Around and Around Encore: U.S. Blues
White Rabbit
Werewolves of London
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Great setlist, love the Grateful Dead recording of this show. Jerry says "looky here" just off mic before delivering the "don't lend your hand" lyric, tough to beat.
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9 hours ago, Supplicated Velvet Thunder said:
He had never heard woman enough in his life and was amazed. Said the dark star NFA gdtrfb NFA was especially BIG
Then he called and told me he took the kids to the show, too, and that when he realized it was the full weather report he squeezed the breath outta his eldest yammering about what was happening and that the dark star just completely stole his face with a total internal space mission back into the real reality and that he kinda fell apart when it ran into NFA. Wish we coulda been there to bring the party back to his house, but I guess it's an all good things in all good time kinda deal.
Thanks for bringing the generations and the families together. DSO really keeps it alive for us in a way we can be proud and honored about sharing with those we love.
Kiss kiss, see y'all in May
Nice to hear this. I am bringing my brother to a show in May, not his first, but our first together, very excited. Hope to be able to make it out to more stuff together.
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2 hours ago, DesertDead said:
Doo, doo, doo, doo, da-doo!
name that tune
Uncle John's Band?
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1 hour ago, Tea said:
I went directly to the I'll Be With Thee first. That was indeed sweet.
Thanks to the taper and BOO to the jackwagons who were having their cocktail party when a DSO show happened to break out unexpectedly - geez. Their tickets costs the same as everyone elses I guess and more ticket sales for DSO ain't bad
Agreed, no idea how people have the energy to maintain a conversation at a volume that they can hear each other over the band for that long. Really frustrating at shows and on an otherwise great sounding audience recording like this one.
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There's a recording of this show up on the archive in case anyone wants to hear it. Nice to hear DSO's take on the JGB material, and nice to hear Lisa and Donna singing together on some numbers.
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6 hours ago, Joey Bagadonuts said:
It’s maybe double the size with a balcony. It’s a stone church built in the 1880’s with high cathedral ceilings and amazing hand painted stained glass. It has a top of the line PA and full bar.
Thanks, sounds pretty nice. Might have to make the trip up there. Really enjoyed this band. 👀
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50 minutes ago, Joey Bagadonuts said:
I will just place this here if anyone feels inclined. It’s sure to be one hell of a night in a unique intimate venue.
Thinking about trying to make it up for this. How big is this venue compared to The Acoustic?
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What a spectacular night of music. I went in with no expectations, as a way to break up the winter and see some of my favorite musicians before the spring northeast run. They played a few Dead songs, being Mason's Children, Scarlet Begonias, Bird Song, Not Fade Away. Perhaps one I'm forgetting.
The rest of the material was originals and covers, all of which I was completely unfamiliar with. A Jerry band song which was never played live. A song DSO wrote with Robert Hunter. Another one Jeff wrote with Donna Godchaux. Another that Phil Lesh recorded.
This was one if the finest times I have ever had seeing live music. I haven't been out to see any live music since DSO on Long Island in November, and they say that "hunger cooks a good sauce". There were times at the end of songs that my tongue was literally out of my mouth and I was about to keel over, heart pounding out of my chest from dancing and enjoyment. Again, most of the material was completely unfamiliar to me and the band absolutely nailed all of it, nothing short of top notch musicianship. Do not hesitate for an instant to see this band if you get the chance to do so.
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Listening to the recording of this show, killer playing and sound quality!!
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If a recording becomes available, I would be Very grateful as well. Pure magic, and the best I have seen them play. Would love to get a chance to hear it again.
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Dang, sounds like they really stretched it out on that one.
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They have their instrument tones and song arrangement so just exactly perfect, and really sound like the Grateful Dead. Jeff has the Jerry tone for this song nailed, and Rob and Skip also both have great tone, as always. Looks like a good time. My little two year old just walked up while I was watching this and said "daddy Jerry".
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Looks like a great time. Happy for all you folks who got to enjoy this night.
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Killer show, band was on fire. Chilly inside, but the band rocked the house and we warmed up in short order. Skip sang "started off on Nyquil" in Tom Thumb's blues, pretty funny. Second set was amazing end to end, freight train thunder during the China/Rider and Estimated, some absolutely transcendent playing during Eyes of the World, and Stella Blue out of The Other One was a sweet surprise, with Rob seeming to tease heavily at the opening chords to Wharf Rat during the jam before the second verse of The Other One. Absolute mayhem outside the venue, which had a large group of vendors, etc. who came over from the first night of Dead and Company in Boston. Kind of shocking to see outside of a DSO show. A night to treasure, for me.
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50 minutes ago, Michael Doc Watson said:
I'm behind everyone on things like this. OK, please explain TIGDH ?
Today in Grateful Dead history 😁
11/8/70 Capitol Theater, great Dark Star.
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3 hours ago, Tea for Texas said:
Like this excerpt:
"We watched many a pastel colored yuppie suck down frozen mixed drinks, oblivious to the seriousness of the first set. By the time Drums was hitting us, these poor folks were literally crawling up the aisles, covered in their own sick, trying to get out of the cauldron. A bizarre sight, but I am sure if had been partaking of anything psychoactive that night, I would have been right down there with them."
Or this one perhaps:
"If you want to take a journey into your psyche and see what associations lie in wait - fear not for the whole world is in this one Dark Star...tv static, racquetball courts, time-machines, medieval torture, insect communication, funeral horns of new orleans, buddhist scripture, worldbeat, witches incantations, ice-ages, wars, raga, muzak, volcanoes, black holes, peruvian indigenous sounds, crawling, creeping, gliding, seething ends, beginnings, and tight rope walking over some huge abyss."
LOL!
Oh man, I think it's time to give this one a play, right now 👀👽
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2 minutes ago, Tea for Texas said:
10/26/89 - Miami! The ‘scary’ Dark Star show.
Was heading over to post that one, such a good and spooky sounding Dark Star. Reading the reviews from this show is fun, too.
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4 hours ago, DesertDead said:
https://archive.org/details/gd94-10-05.sbd.unknown.6483.sbeok.shnf
Today's offering from the Spectrum. Pretty funny review by user Wang Dong at the very top of the comments section of the Archive page linked above.
Hahaha, that is a funny review. Something tells me he's using a pseudonym 🤔🤔
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On 8/4/2017 at 3:05 PM, August West said:
6 PM sharp.There are many great restaurants in Asbury, depending upon what you're looking for. Porta which is right behind the Pony, is an open air bar/ restaurant where most folks will be. Asbury has been revitalized, and is thriving. There is an retro pinball arcade there that is really cool. It's right on the boardwalk near Convention Hall. The beach is very nice also, but in Jersey nothing comes for free so there is a daily fee of 7$ Water temp is in mid 70's. Safe travels,.
http://pizzaporta.com/asbury-park-menus/
http://silverballmuseum.com/asbury-park/about/
Thanks for the heads up, looking forward to the show. Looks like this place has a pretty good capacity, huh? Gonna try to get down early from CT to attempt to beat the traffic, see how that goes.
Cap Theater 2
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He was filming the two Cap shows for the Relix streams. He said it was him along with five other fixed cameras throughout the theater, with a guy running them with a joystick and operating the feed. The DSO Facebook page has a few songs from the beginning of each of the four sets posted.