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  1. Terrapin/Minglewood connection

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    OK, hear me out. The first set of 2/26/77 as a story. Terrapin as an overview, Minglewood giving some backstory on the sailor. They Love Each Other as the relationship blooms. Estimated Prophet, the sailor develops some kind of messiah complex. The Lady has had enough of the sailor’s insane ramblings, leading into Sugaree, the break up. The sailor is feeling down and out after losing it all, gets into trouble, as described in Mama Tried. Deal, a cautionary tale, but at least they gave it a shot. Playin, a summary, with The Wheel sandwiched in between as a reminder that we may be at the mercy of fate, with the chance of redemption at every turn of the Wheel. A stretch, maybe? 

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  2. Terrapin/Minglewood connection

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    7 hours ago, Ammagamalin Crew said:

    Make for a good Jerry Bobby opener, evening thoughts and thanks for all your taping!

    The plot thickens! The only time (I think) Terrapin was played as an opener was its first live performance, on 2/26/77, and it was followed by Minglewood. Pretty cool, wonder if it holds any water or they were just playing songs. Taping was fun, made some dear friends, and it was a fun way to experience shows. Thanks back to you for all your taping!

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  3. Terrapin/Minglewood connection

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    Was listening to Minglewood this morning, and it dawned on me that it shares a couple things with Terrapin, namely, the lion’s den and implied love triangles in each song. I wonder if Hunter was inspired by this at all when creating the lyrics for Terrapin. The sailor could have been the guy from Minglewood, who, being raised in a lion’s den, held no qualms about entering the lion’s den in Terrapin to win the Lady’s favor. Maybe the Lady knew it, and chose the sailor this way with her action of tossing the fan, while letting the soldier down in a graceful manner.  Morning thoughts, hope you all have a good day. 

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  6. Your Early Influence Shows

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    Everyone has those shows that bring you back to your earliest days of discovering the Grateful Dead. You know every note and vocal inflection, maybe haven’t played them in years because you’ve listened to them so much. Been listening to some of mine lately, they’re like going home. Yesterday was 12/31/87, the Ticket To New Year’s video release, my first GD video I had on VHS and I played it a LOT. Great show. Today is 9/20/70, got on a blanks and postage offer on the rec.music.gdead newsgroup, another great one. What are some of yours?

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  7. Wtf are these popups

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    I don’t think people really pay attention to them. I see at the bottom of the page, that it’s powered by invision community, probably a forum template that has features like this built in. From one Master Poster to another, I don’t think it’s anything to worry about 😛

  10. Capitol Theatre - Nite 2

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    Wow, what a great second night last night at the Cap. What amazing generosity from Grateful Guitars and everyone involved to deliver such a beautiful guitar to Jeff. The back of the guitar is inlaid with an epic scene of two wooly mammoths locking tusks in battle. I thought it was so cool that the guitar was not only a replica guitar of the finest quality, similar to Rosebud, but not a direct replica, as it was outfitted with beautiful inlay artwork to be Jeff’s own. J.Mattson inlay at the end of the fretboard. 
     

    The general buzz surrounding the second night was palpable, wondering what they would do to top night one, with the outside temperature dropping twenty degrees, and a sold out box office, it felt like a fall show. 
     

    Tight crowd, and it got tighter as the night progressed. Had a good group of friends dancers and we shared the limited space. 
    Box opener, followed by Johnny B Goode, which immediately launched us into orbit. China Rider had the mammoths doing battle, a thunderous sound. Music Never Stopped continued the high energy into To Lay Me Down, a nice breather and tenderly delivered. Jack Straw and Help Slip Deal kept the energy high to close out the set, giving us a welcome break. 
     

    Setbreak found the area at the back of the theater we were occupying packed wall to wall with people, scrambling every which way for purchase. 
     

    Second set Stranger opener, stuck around in tight quarters for better sound, and moved back to the relocation point during Cats.  Kind of bounced around between locations. Found a good groove among friends during Scarlet Fire, post drums highlight for me was the Eleven. Overall, a great night, thanks to all ❤️
     

     

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  11. 11/13/21 was 4/6/82 Port Chester night 1

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    Great time last night at the Cap. First set highlights for me were the Cold Rain opener and Looks Like Rain. Second set was a killer throughout. Shakedown opener was called by Northeast, and it got the crowd moving. Just a great selection of songs for the second set. Sound was extraordinary in the theater, especially when I ventured up for a few songs. Skip kills me with his playing, he is just so good ⚡️Pretty packed house and a fun group of dancers. Left with sore feet, gotta gets me sea legs back.  Ready to do it all over again tonight 😎

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  16. Atlanta, Roxy Theatre, Nov 26-27

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    12 hours ago, Greg from Chestertown said:

    I heard they played some VFW in Jersey this past weekend, not sure which exit. Shared the stage with some other band. 

    Skip played rhythm guitar with Cosmic Jerry Band in NJ this past Sunday. DSO  streamed it on their Facebook page. I tuned in for a little while, they sounded good, cool to see Skip on guitar. 

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  18. DSO please don’t get political

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    57 minutes ago, Rude said:

    This is the most important part, I think. The band and crew go to work and make their living in the highest risk environment, (why do you think theaters have been so slow to open up?) a packed house of 1500-3000 dancing, heavily breathing, shouting, singing, drunken, high, etc. fans. They are just people who want to safely go to work, and provide all the fun and entertainment that a concert goer demands, have cohesive and cost effective tours so they can make a living without bouncing all around the country, etc. If they were saying “fuck the vaccine, have fun, you only live once “ or “climate change is a crock of shit” how would you feel about their politics then? 

    57 minutes ago, Rude said:

    And why do you have the right to tell anyone that they can’t have an opinion but you can. Should we say to you stop getting political. Just do your job. Because they play music they can’t care about the health of others? Wanting people to be hospitalized is a non partisan issue.

    Sorry for the mixed up order, messed up on Rude’s quote. 

  23. One word song hints

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    3 hours ago, Greg from Chestertown said:

    Can’t Halloween also be nobody’s child? 

    I haven’t heard that one, but it’s not what I’m thinking of. 

     

    3 hours ago, Dharmada said:

    25. Lungs

    26. Countenance

    27. Oregon

    26. Jack-a-Roe

    3 hours ago, Greg from Chestertown said:

    Can’t Halloween also be nobody’s child? 

    I see what you’re getting at, you got it right. She Belongs To Me. I think both of those words gotta be in other songs. 

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