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20/10/31 Fairgrounds, Frederick, MD Till the Morning Comes, Hard to Handle, Mama Tried, China>Rider, Dire Wolf, Cold Rain and Snow, Me and My Uncle, Dark Hollow, Brokedown, Viola Lee Blues> Cumberland Blues>Uncle John's Band. Casey Jones, Sugar Magnolia, Next Time You See Me, Cryptical>Drums>Other One>Cryptical>Cosmic Charlie, Big Boss Man>Drums>Good Love>Drums>Good Love> St. Stephen>NFA>Goin Down the Road>NFA. E: Werewolves of London. Recreation of 70/10/31 The Gym, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook ,NY Both matinee and evening performances done minus a couple repeats in the evening show. Quite a lot to unpack from this doozy. Dark Hollow special and the transition to the Cumberland silky smooth. The ride in the second extensive and the Cosmic Charlie Big Boss Man twofer outer limits. Thank you band and crew for bringing the light to MD. Great couple of shows. Praise DSO.

Wow! Where do I begin? Such an adventure. From gathering the crew together, getting to the venue, to the time travel that the band took us on, back to 10/31/70. We played that game with trying to figure out the year of the show. We were thrown off by the combo of early tunes and two drummers. Crazy elective? When discussing at half time, we had to remind ourselves that there was a sliver of time when Mickey was in the band pre ‘74. Lisa’s absence helped us figure it out, gotta be pre ‘72. Lisa added harmonica on a couple of tunes but got to spend time on the sidelines being a fan, dancing and watching Dark Star Orchestra perform. I thought that was cool. Everyone in the band was tight, hot, and on fire! Nothing but fun from beginning to end. I really needed a show, been pressured, stressed lately, had a lot to shake out. It took all night, but I got that taken care of. Thankful that the band rocks as hard as they do for as long as they do. Another great night. Enjoyable set list. I like it when the band takes us back in time, before my time immersed with the Grateful Dead. Now it’s time to go ahead and say it. They’re not the best at what they do, they’re the only ones who do what they do.

From the opener I knew all to come would be awesome. Hard to handle, viola>cumberland, stephen, going down the road, all did it for me! The night was just exactly perfect.

What a killer show last night. Fun Day Tripper to start, followed by a rocking Alabama >Greatest Story. Roses was a nice breather and sweetly played. Sunrise was good, the only break from the 80s theme in set 1. Bird Song >Let it Grow>Bird Song let me get lost inside for a while, and the Bird Song reprise was a welcome surprise. Set 2 came on strong, with Help>Slip> Stranger leading the charge with waves of intensity. Ship of Fools was nailed by Jeff, as Zuck said. Truckin was fun, with big bombs. Low Spark eased its way out of Truckin, slinky and sneaky sounding, and was superb. My only notes from the night say “delirious spiraling keyboard” during Low Spark, really was enjoying what Barraco was doing. Imagine instrumental out of space was beautiful, with Jeff and Barraco leading the way, with Barraco using some kind of amazing sounding delay, full band eventually joined in and held the crowd spellbound. Season of the Witch was fun and spooky, Morning Dew was splendid as always. Had a great time hanging out with good friends and throwing it down last night. Made it back home for Halloween scavenger hunt with the kids, everyone have fun tonight and tomorrow 🥰

On the scene sunset report: I’m just the messenger from 3 time zones away. 68AD3C7F-6A3F-4189-835E-DF87AC8135C9.mov So far: Morning comes Hard to Handle Momma Tried China Rider I’ll stop here as there’s good stuff on TCM now and you all are streaming anyway. Vegas out.

Terrific show tonight! 10/31/70......I'll leave the setlist to others! Finally got to hang with some forum folks......Greg from Chestertown, BillK522, and Like Everyone......solid crew......what a gift tonight was......thanks fellas! Much needed!!!🤠😎

Now that was a show. Night 1 was cool but night 2 is why I drove 11 hours. That was one of the best shows I’ve seen. That was what you want in a Halloween show!!! You could hear the banter on stage of them talking about the original show. There were things like Bobby dropped out during this part and they did a 9 minute drums we are just doing 5 mins. Note that’s what I heard. The accuracy of that may be off but they were talking it out as they went. Made me realize it was a recreation. I wasn’t familiar with it. People kept saying 71 but the viola>Cumberland was completely foreign to me and I guessed it had to be 70. I was like did they play viola in 71? I don’t have my deadbase so can’t look it up. But oh boy. That set 1 was just a wild setlist. It made more sense that it was an early and late show as the set 1 would have been really weird for the 1st half of a full show. There were some legit heads that said that it had to be an elective right. It’s one of those reminders that the dead did so much variety it’s hard even for the most die hards to know it all. gonna be hard to top this one. Today’s show is gonna come early. At least we gained an hour with the time change.

Met new people danced whole show great big blue moon perfect weather Perfect 70’s halloween tribute Chill venue and vibe nothing like DSO show!!!! thanks band i really needed that and into tonight for those so lucky...

Famous early-late shows at my future alma mater. Saw JGB and Bobby and the Midnites at The Gym which was literally a high school type with pull out bleachers. DSO somehow finds more room in getting better and better....never ending