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I wish my team would put the ball in play instead of striking out 15x a game, be game aware, and support their pitcher with button up defense. Go Brewers. Go Rays. Go Guardians. Dodgers, not so much. Praise DSO.

80/10/14 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA Acoustic: Dire Wolf; Dark Hollow; It Must Have Been The Roses; Cassidy; I've Been All Around This World; Monkey And The Engineer; China Doll; Heaven Help The Fool; Bird Song → Ripple Set 1: Alabama Getaway → Greatest Story Ever Told; Friend Of The Devil; Me And My Uncle → Mexicali Blues; Candyman; Little Red Rooster; Tennessee Jed → Let It Grow → The Wheel → The Music Never Stopped Set 2: Scarlet Begonias → Fire On The Mountain; Estimated Prophet → Terrapin Station → Playing In The Band → drums → space → I Need A Miracle → Uncle John's Band → Morning Dew → Playing reprise → Good Lovin' Encore: U.S. Blues; Brokedown Palace Thanks Gratefulsets. Have been paying attention to these lists with the looming Reckoning recreation at the Anthem. It will be a full night of music in DC. Can I interest you in LIG>Wheel> Music close to the first? It was 46 years ago today. Praise DSO.

Spun this one on yesterday's bike ride. Stunning. Band locked in from the jump. A Star for the ages. Praise DSO.

I have yet to dance in the sand. Count down those days. Praise DSO.

You're a stud, Bill. I flew out for the Del Mar and Wiltern shows in 2024. I'm guessing 5 shows for you this time. Awesome! And quite impressive after your lengthy northeast run. I like your style! Jamaica for me in Jan. so I can't make these..................but you never know! 😉 Mark

Giddy Up!!

89/10/09 Hampton Colisuem, Hampton, VA Set 1: Feel Like A Stranger; Built To Last; Little Red Rooster; Ramble On Rose; We Can Run; Jack-a-Roe; Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again; Row Jimmy; The Music Never Stopped Set 2: Playing In The Band → Uncle John's Band → Playing reprise → Dark Star* → drums → space → Death Don't Have No Mercy → Dear Mr. Fantasy → Hey Jude Finale → Throwing Stones → Good Lovin' Encore: Attics Of My Life** * First time played since 1984-07-13 ** First time played since 1972-10-28 Notes: billed as Formerly The Warlocks Thanks GratefulSets. The 45 minute stretch from the opening notes of the Star until the conclusion of the Death Don't the most mind blowing sequence I ever experienced at a Grateful Dead concert. Praise DSO.

My Apple Wallet is stuffed with West Coast shows. Praise DSO.

Jerry's second show back was at The Stone on a Sunday night: Think Heaven's Door They Love Run Released Gomorrah> Deal Harder Melody How Sweet Lucky Old Reuben> Midnight Moonlight

Blossom might have tipped the scales. As it is now ~ 20 cds for under $200 is $10/cd which is reasonable. Adding Cuyahoga would have put it over a threshold that might have reduced consumption. My hope would be a Video from the Vault. That was one where it didn't rain!

Yeah, what about Blossom? That's a curious omission.

LA>SLO. Not much travel for five shows. Just saying. Praise DSO.

Waking up with D/S from Saratoga and coffee. Cheated yesterday and did 85/07/01 Merriweather for the bike ride. How about Dancin, Duprees to open? Is that any good? Second set S>F, Playin'>Uncle's--chunky. Improved sound quality, everyone in nice balance and the performance itself first rate. Boy did we get spoiled in MD/DC. Praise DSO.

Go west young man! Dig the triple double header…now we’re talkin! Solid looking tour 🤠

Daytripper on the hill

Hmmm....retiring at the of the year...hmmm....wonder what amtrak has along this line? Killer starting in Denver and closing in Oakland ~ that's some incredible planning...be nice to have the time to do a full tour, back to the basics Tickets, time and distance

Riverbend show officially released in the 30 Trips Around the Sun box set. The miss for me is Blossom, which I hope is being held back for later release. Praise DSO.

The golden child left out? Through the years 6/24 has been my go to along with Hershey. Guess 3 Comes A Times would be too many? Or maybe a part two with Alpine and Blossom?

You have inched ahead of me, I wrapped the Greeks yesterday. Looking forward to SPAC, had a cassette of set two back in the day. Praise DSO.

Summer Magic update: The Saratoga double encore is all that. JGB gets nice and soft toward its conclusion with Brent adding beautiful low level vocal parts. Then Jerry announces he's very much not done yet, launching forcefully into Baby Blue. He confuses himself a few times on the lyrics, but it's powerful throughout, and when he nails vocals he totally means it! There are 3 double encores in this 7 show release. The Boys were having much fun.

I'm through the Greek run and into Saratoga. They really got the impact and bloom on Phil's bass dialed on the remastering. But with the cassette boards Healy was running in that era you can only do so much. '85 is such a unique beast. Surprises around every turn. The return of Stagger Lee. Dupree's. Comes A Time. China Doll, coming off a heavy 1984, in relatively heavy rotation. The introduction of the monstrous She Belongs To Me. Double encores. Songs showing up all over the shows in surprise slots. Jerry's voice mostly back from the '84 period. The huge bust out of Cryptical, although that ranged from tepid to outright weak. I can see why they dropped it. That said, Bill's "uneven" descriptor couldn't be more spot on. It's quite evident even in the highly respected Greek run. I will say that 6/15 set two is an absolute work of art. Looking forward to revisiting the Merriweather shows.

9/24/1976 College Hall @ William & Mary Wliamsburg, VA Promised Land, Deal, Cassidy, Sugaree, Looks Like Rain, Row Jimmy, Big River, Tennessee Jed, Playin' In The Band-> Supplication-> Playin' In The Band Might As Well, Samson & Delilah, Loser, Minglewood Blues, Help On The Way-> Slipknot!-> Franklin's Tower-> The Music Never Stopped-> Stella Blue-> Around & Around E: U.S. Blues F: Werewolves of London Notes: Sold Out!

Philly show on a Wednesday. Very work schedule friendly. Praise DSO.

Still riding the high of these shows a week later. Amazing music and people. Praise DSO.