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Oh boy Dire wolf Bt wind Rosalie 2 souls (barraco/lisa) Bobby mcgee Thrill gone Cucamonga Viola (slow syrup groovy orig) Dark hollow Masters of war Bird song Mtns of moon Operator No she dont yes she does Green green grass Fotd Broken arrow Cassidy Deep elem Weather report> Let it grow Sotm Midnight moonlight Ripple

It was a swift kick to the junk for sure...I wasn't surprised but I will still shocked if that makes any sense. It took me awhile to really enjoy other music since I couldn't connect to it like I wanted to - like I had. I accepted 'IT' was gone forever and then I found DSO - that was one holy crap moment!

It’s not so much that Dark Star Orchestra is recreating the Grateful Dead experience as they are picking up where the Grateful Dead left off. This set list shows that.

This show was everything I thought it would be. Tremendous birdsong, mountains and midnight BIG time highlights. Show was super powerful. AC on the way.

Sigh. Lovely. Wish I was there. Woulda been my 10 year anniversary show from my first festival when I bought my first car..... 6 months later I found DSO and a year later I left my corporate smut peddling job to tour DSO and vend feats full time. Long strange trip and all that. Dude I used to work for just gave us a ride to get us on a bus home. I sure have met lotsa folks in these last 10 years. Clothed in tatters always will be........ i miss y’all a ton. Tried to make providence but got stuck at the only fest I’ve been to all summer. Weird times we live in. Really odd. but back to the battle grounds for me- see y’all on the flip side of bullshit when we can spin together again.... might appear at a black mountain if we get miracles beyond just the usual extra ticket..... never can tell. Kiss kiss I love you!

On this day in 1995, I was about to walk out the door, take my kids to Valley Garden Park. I think it’s some DuPont family members old back yard, Brandywine Valley. My buddy called me. He said I just wanted to let you know Jerry Garcia died. I let out a moan of sorrow and said, ok, let me go. I continued on to the park with my children. When we got to the park, there was a car in the parking lot with the back end covered in dead stickers. Someone sitting behind the wheel, quietly, window down. I didn’t say a word. I just let him be. My young children and I went for a walk through the park, just lolligagging along, taking our time, enjoying the ride. It was just like any other day that’s ever been, just a little sweeter.

What an awesome show. Finally caught a WRS

Two Souls!

Why is Black Peter special to me.... Listening to BP from Europe (I think) last night I commented to a friend how this is probably the best blues song ever... This song has a way of putting all that life and death is into its proper perspective. I had spent a couple /few years listening to BP multiple times a day because the lyrics and bluesey groove was my life... "all my friends came to see me last night, I was layin in my bed and dying" 48 staples closing me up and coming back to life while a priest is giving me last rights and the friends that came to see me. "Just want to have a little peace to die and a friend or 2 at hand" my mantra for two to three years of nothing but the horror of what I had become... Wanting to die but " one more day I find myself alive tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground" This was a comforting thought... See here how everything lead up to this day and it's just like any other day that's ever been. The pain of knowing the life your living will be the life you die from and having no hope it could ever be different... The people may know but the people don't care that a man can be as poor as me. Take a look at poor Peter he's lying in pain... poor in spirit and extreme physical pain but the physical was minor in comparison to the spiritual pain. Black Peter brings me back to a life I was dying by and forward to the grateful life I live today... See here how everything lead up to this day and it's just like any other day that's ever been... 😀❤️😀