Ammagamalin Crew

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Melvin couldn't make his scheduled 9:30-11 evening show on Friday so Hyryder filled in after playing their earlier 5-6:25 scheduled show. Then we also got a third dose on Sat from 6:35-8 opening with St Stephen. The weather could not have been any better ~ low 50's for sleeping and mid 70's -80 during the day. We secured the absolute best camp site on Wednesday (although they tried to send us into the boonies) Thanks to Ducks eagle eye and Jedi driving we turned around and drove right up to the beach entrance from the woods. My first time back to the Ledges since Dark Star left , like 15 years ago. I forgot how intimately everyone there becomes best friends. 🤞🤞🤞🤞That DSO gets back there🙏🙏🙏

and where is Springfield?

You know they did. Touch comes out Scarlet easy and uplifting (8 according to the version of DB I got)but it's an awkward segue lead to Fire maybe explaining the stand alone second set opener for the Sunday afternoon Greek show in 86 after trying it out in Providence 85? I'm only seeing two (July 3 Starlight, Kansas ~which also had the stand alone Cryptical second set opener after it came back and and as it was leaving~ and the Greek 7/13 Where was was the third STF? I'm guessing Jerry was exploring (or cutting short in some cases) the after Scarlet jams but didn't want to disappoint folks that cheered the beginning of Scarlet anticipating a 🔥 to follow. Always considerate for others while keeping also the inspirational highlight lights on through the cool Colorado rain. Not much specific musical reviews going on with this tour. Glad for those that had their act together enough to get in and enjoy!

I usually picked up the girlfriends at Alpine having complete mail order summer tour tickets already and having to successfully score their tickets at each upcoming lot. SPAC 88 was the most difficult. There must have been 5000 fingers in the air on those hilly grass lots that day, but I caught an eye from an extra ticket holder way off that walked right up to me and handed me Amy's ticket. Your reply here puts in context your attendance at the Riverbend 85 recreation at Riverfront Live in 2022. Soooo glad you made it and looking forward to seeing you again at some more!

Especially this articular head ~ Reviewer: Augy - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - November 25, 2008 Subject: Where was Betty? My 4th show, 1st personally attended with a taper so we got it immediately! By the way, for those of you who are looking for a board tape of this, to my knowledge Betty didn't record this one very unfortunately; but like usual Dr. Rob Bertrando did a great job in the audience! Firstly, I don't know what you folks are talking about who mentioned missing tunes etc. It seems to all here to me! Secondly, a little explaining here about what may seem now to be unimportant, but if you'll bare with me; I think you can see that the following is very different from what later on was almost always the case. That is, a solid 3 hours + break, instead of them being the ones who, as many of you know, often were late! What I'm talking about is Weir saying, just before "Friend of the Devil" : "And next time we'll try a little harder to be on time". This is probably since the Forum in those days was rather strict about ending a show within curfew, ie. how else could they play longer than most bands and still make curfew. However luckily, unlike many including me (us), Dr. Rob Bertrando was in there ready to record the opener! I say this because we were far, far from being the only ones late. So rather than as some reviewers surmised who weren't there, that they felt as though they were tired after the East Coast, and perhaps they were. Or was it that much of the reserved floor seats were still empty after we got into the performance which had been going since 7:00 PM? In my (our) particular case, we were late mostly due to the adjacent Hollywood Park Horse Race Track getting out at the same time as we were coming in. I'd just graduated from Redondo (Beach) Union High. My friend John Redfern, who'd drove a bunch of us younger folks to the show, recorded most of this on a rinky-dink recorder from where we were (Loge on the right side); that is after we finally got thorough the traffic and inside midway through Tennessee Jed I remember I was handing over my ticket. Being in a group, naturally we had lame tickets. But alas, we tripped on that not so bad recording all summer long, being the first time I had a recording of a show I'd actually attended. Especially my all time favorite, yet short, but incredible rendition of, (yes, they played it much longer at for example, Winterland several times etc.); and despite the talking during the beginning : Fernario!! Check out how the drummers come thumping back to bring Jerry around for the next go round of the chord progression in the middle of the instrumental. (I didn't get my 1st copy of Rob's complete recording until some time near the end of the year.) And I didn't actually meet him until exactly a year later at the U.C.S.B. show, (also killer)! I had this feeling in the back of my mind that I'd heard the Terrapin ending theme somewhere before, (even though it hadn't yet been released on vinyl at the time of this Forum show)? I surmised at the time mistakenly that perhaps, it was similar to a classical melody or something like that, wrong! It turned out, the true answer to this feeling eventually was revealed to me when I eventually got an audience tape of my 3rd show at the Swing Aud. in San Bernadino 1977-2-26; (which was later burned down after after a plane crashed into it, two years later during which Grateful Dead played there again several times. Anyway, since that was a general admission show I was naturally in front and therefore I now clearly recall, what many of you now know, was the debut of Terrapin Station and Estimated Prophet! But in between time, my memory started to fade a bit naturally, since I still didn't have a tape of a show I had actually attended until this Forum show. Nevertheless, it still stuck in my sub-conscious for another 3 1/2 months. So visualize if you can what the band looked like at this and ALL of my first four shows, (that is, by coincidence they were all where the same clothes at each of these shows, not just Garcia in black), by looking inside the final vinyl double Warner Bros. collection, release, (ie. to fulfill the record contract), "What a long strange Trip" album. Inside there are good photos of my 1st show which was the second one with the Who at Oakland Stadium 1976-10-10. (My 2nd, the second one at the Shrine in L.A., 1976-10-15). The greatest of all these was the this Forum show in my opinion (even as fantastic as the first three were). Not only of course skinny Jerry in black with "The enemy is listening" sticker on his white Travis Bean guitar with the aluminum neck; but also Donna in her green dress and sunglasses, Phil on the bass with the 10 buttons, Bob with his maroon shirt and still with a beard, and Keith with the Grand piano, which from the loge at the Forum show one could see the big "thunder skull" on the piano cover. It also must be noted that The Forum was one of the most difficult venues to sneak equipment into, so I'd really like to know how Rob got his stuff in! Did he have a backstage passes or what? I personally, later managed to sneak in my gear for the Allman Bros. in 1979 at The Forum and even later with the help of a new found friend working security for the Eagles in 1980. Unfortunately, this relationship dissolved shortly thereafter, for other reasons beyond my control and obviously it was again difficult to get stuff in there. Moreover, Rob's recording has a lot dynamic range and a good drum and bass response. Except at the beginning which maybe is more a function of getting the P.A. tuned as is often the case! Healy seemed to be able to tune this venue; despite it's notoriously bad acoustics even though it was their first time there. I remember several concerts at The Forum besides those I've mentioned and only Genesis in 1977 seemed to compare in terms of sound! This was a totally energized performance in my opinion regardless of what those who thought they were tired say all the way through! There ain't many out of the approximately 211 shows I attended that I can say that about absolutely! To reiterate again, most notably the Fernario was in my opinion the absolutely greatest ever! Enjoy, Augy San Diego Thank you Augy and Dr. Rob Bertrando! I went looking to see if Mr. Eaton had recorded it, but only got as far into the reviews as this outstanding recollection

Hopefully there were some people there last night that were at the Forum in 77 Kinda like the April 89 Cincinnati show on the first night of Jubilee 🫠

Is what's coming up tomorrow

"Details of the plot haven’t been announced, but it’ll likely cover the band’s formation in 1965 through to the release of their debut album in 1967 – when they became key figureheads in the rise of the counterculture during the 1960s." Only covering 65-67 according to this source. Think we're going to have to wait awhile because supposedly Scorsese is now considering Frank Sinatra as his next project in development. Be cool if he gets back to Garcia seeing as it would be early years in the beginning with Pig and Hunter.

The day after Jerry's last show and the beginning of a 87 days hiatus. From 75,000 at RFK to 100 at the Stone.

"somehow ended up with solid dance space even in the sold out space…" During my daze of Colorado DSO runs, I heard that Boulder undersells DSO shows because they are conscientious of fans needing room to dance. A venue slated for 1000 only sells 700 for this dance accommodation. How true that is has yet to be officially verified. I can testify that my times with Dark Star Orchestra at Boulder Theater have always been spacious, relaxed and intensified by the caliber of inspiration the band receives from the muses when in holy iron flats territory. Really glad you made the trip and thanks for adding to my drab setlist delivery.

April 14, 1988 Rosemont Jack Straw, West LA, Mama Tried>Big River, Althea, Masterpiece, Birdsong, Promised Box, Iko, Est Eyes d/s Wheel>Gimme Some>Peter>Throwing, NFA Black Muddy River

Jack Straw Candyman El Paso Tennessee Jef BIODTL Peggy O Passenger Deal Sampson Must Have Been the Roses Dancin Space D/S NFA GDTRFB Sugar Magnolia E: US Blues F: Easy To Slip Mr. Charlie You Never Can Tell Box of Rain White Rabbit Wow! Kansas got treated to quite show and filler! Looks like a recreation but I don't know which?

Those surprise Scarlet Fires usually generate a lot of joy and a Wharf Rat from scratch, instead of trying to meander out of an Other One, can set up more depth to the approach of the story of August West (think of NYE 78's) kinda like a dew outta space (Richmond 85). Thanks Tea for those of us outside looking in with your consistent consideration for the curious.

https://archive.org/details/gd85-06-28.sbd.lemon2.5822.sbeok.shnf/gd6-28-85d1t01.shn Love the echo of Jerry at the beginning of CRS. What a grate soundboard especially for everyone who was in the down pour. Seriously it was raining when we pulled into the parking lot around 5, rained as we found tickets, rained, nonstop all day, all night with what had to be the longest set break, at least an hour+15 min. where we were all thinking they were waiting for everyone leave, but we didn't, still drenching throughout the second set then my first Morning Dew, got back in the car afterwards to get outta the rain and head straight back to Cincy, sleeping in the grass along the highway to be woken by a nasty spider bite on my lip that puffed up for the rest of the drive. Coming off the Riverbend, Blossom shows and looking forward to the upcoming RR afternoon shows. June 28th is Hershey 85 Day

Joni Mitchell wrote Woodstock, but I get your reference to CSN&Y.

Seems like there were more than 22, maybe because the labs you put together are huge and encompass a lot of ground. High Time remains elusive 😗 I remember trying to get tickets for one of the COVID labs, great work, inspiring, hopefully trend setting. Getting your twirls and swirls in shape for Tom's birthday show?

Marcus has got some serious backing behind him. Look at the huge band he travels with, horn section and all the trimmings. Dark Star is going to do what they do no matter where their place is in the line up They're Workingman's Dead and who could ask for anything more ⚡ shake , rattle and roll away the dew

Damn, that's way north! I just added the Friday the 13th One Stop Asheville show to my Sat the 14th Emmylou Anderson Music Hall Haiwassee, Georgia show and would love to top it off with this Dark Star Orchestra Sunday show, but that 12 1/2 hours north of Murphy, NC isn't as enticing as the Fri Asheville. I guess that's why it's the Borderland Festival and not the Mtns of NC festival 🙃🛞🇱🇷⚡🎶

Born Cross Eyed Moondance amphitheater Lexington, KY 6/7/24 (Perfect weather 7-9:10) Free weekly Friday shows Feel Like a Stranger Masterpiece Althea On the Road Again Candyman Cassidy Jack A Roe Passenger Loser Hey Pocky Way China>Rider Music Never Stopped Loose Lucy Ripple

Jeff was quite the trooper with his injured knee leaving the stage after the second set and coming back on for the encore. And I have to comment on Rob's Blow Away, he did a precise replica of the Brent rave up towards the end with the counting of the fingers and then opening up to let your heart out, pretty damn close to what Brent delivered that night. Thank you for studying the show and the delivery, it made it an all the more joyous that first night at Jubilee for folks from the Cincinnati area. That was a standout show on that spring tour, especially that Fantasy which fell flat in Pittsburgh, the energy level was off the hook in Cincytown during the China Rider inside of Riverfront coliseum that Sat night compared to the mellow Sunday show in Louisville with it's somber Stella Blue. I had forgotten all about the Box of Rain encore adding even more jubilee to the 5/24/24 experiment ⚡. The third night Birdsong clip esp moving as the woman that jumped in my car at Alpine 87, who I took all the way (and scoring her tickets to each show along the way in the parking lots, I had mail ordered my Tix for the entire tour) to the two Roanoke before sending her home as I headed up to Philly solo, Gina unexpectedly passed away on 5/23/24 and the text sent out to me and all her friends had those same lyrics Jeff chose to sing for the partial Birdsong that found it's way into the Other One. I really couldn't believe the band played that since it's usually a first set song. But Gina Defazzio's spirit was noticably with us all at Jubilee this year. I got the text of her death as I was leaving Emmylou in Lexington on Thursday 5/23/24, getting ready to head to Buckeye Fri morning. Unexpected death as she was planning on hitting the June 1st Hyryder show with me. On 5/25/24 she also visited the sacred grounds of legend valley during the drums>space>tomorrow 🕳️🕳️🕳️🪶🪶🛞🕯️🕉️🎶🇱🇷🐉〽️

Not seeing it on archives. My suggestion.... get to the next show you can as each one continues to be better than the last 🫠

got to party with Bill during the JGB 5 night run at the Wiltern in November of 1990. The guy next to him, next to me said: "here's some hash Bill brought back from the European tour" ~ he's joined the heavenly fold

When I asked a taper if he had recorded Holly Bowling's late night he said he did and it would be up soon. Night two sent us off with her keyboard performance sounding like a grand piano intertwining the cryptical and terrapin suites with Althea intricately weaving in and out of the garden of dead and phish songs also including a full treatment of Led Zeppelin's No Quarter. An exemplary ending especially after what DSO had conjured up for their second performance of a perfectly planned trifecta⚡🇱🇷💫

Dark Star played Dark Star