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2/26/16 Taft theater I was there too but don’t remember shows

there was a year I was betting 1-2 games every week and lost 70% of them. But if you reversed them would they really be reversed or is that thought in your head as you pick.

After yesterdays destruction of the Vikings, cowboys nation is on cloud 9. Wow that was so much fun that CBS decided to switch over to another game in the 3rd quarter.

TCU is the luckiest team ever. You don’t go 5-0 in games you are losing 4th Q. I saw a bet that was 30-1 for LSU winning the national championship. It’s not a bad bet but they would have to beat Georgia in sec championship then Ohio state maybe and Georgia again. But they would have needed TCU to fall. But at 30-1 that would have been worth a $10 bet. The reason you don’t want yo face LSU is defense. They have a good one. OSU has ultra deep talent on defense but no clue what their problem is. They should be shutting people down and they aren’t. Georgia just gets a lead and lets the defense shut you down.

we saw a video and looked like you could actually move and dance unlike the Saturday show in March that was so packed it was literally impossible to get to the floor.

The Fat Angel is on the track listed St Stephen even though Jeff, skip and barraco played the whole song.

The lunatic has been leashed up longer than that. You were pretty subdued the last few times I saw you making me worried you had an obscure foot disease but i didn’t want to be rude and inquire where the classic Bill high step went. I remember when we built the wall at the Anthem to protect the dancers by keeping the standers snd talkers out by scaring them that they may leave bloodied trying to get through. Good times.

A&M has the top freshman class that money can buy but Jimbo fisher is horrible and they have no QB. I expect lots of those guys to transfer even though they all got $1mil for signing at A&M

sorta like the Jerry band run when Eaton was off tour for a week. JGB Shows were short so they brought out a percussion kit for the other drummer and did some unique versions of songs in those 3rd sets. Was sorta cool to see dso go off script and play non traditional versions in the fillet sets.

The Vic is the worst. They have updated their PA though. Used to be a bunch of old $500 horn PA’s stacked to the ceiling. I know Cotter hated that setup and if you weren’t FOB, the sound was trash. The sound was better last time I was there with the new PA though. The Vic in 2011 was my 1st show. We tried to get down to the pit that show but was impossible so went upstairs to the bleachers. Never missed a Vic show after that until this year. I still remember the smell of stale beer and cigarette smoke as employees and patrons smoked in the downstairs bathroom and of course the basement bathroom floor was a pool of urine. I’d rather be stuck in seats at a theater than there. We always got in line early for the shows to get on the rail of the 1st elevated tier. Didn’t have much room to dance but got a good view and sound.

Wow what a filler!!

if pac 12 got the respect SEC does??? Why does the SEC get respect?? Players dude. Pac 12 doesn’t get them. Sec gets 5-6 of the top 10 recruiting classes every year. 1/3 of 1st rounders every year are from the SEC bro. Last year the top 3 recruiting clssses were SEC. The classes are ranked based on player rankings and average star rating before they are recruited. It’s not some dude saying yhat class is the best. Every player gets a point rating. Bama and Georgia get 5 of the 30 5* guys a year. Ohio state gets a bunch too. Over the past few years the SEC has gotten 2/3 of the rivals 5* players. Why would the pac 12 get respect with only 2 teams in the top 20 of recruiting every year. Geez

I’d guess it’s a bit different in an arena than in a small theater. Sorta gotta stop the dancers if someone’s about to die. At this point there’s a lot of older people at the shows(I just for an AARP thing in ine mail) so gotta adjust with the times. In 1975 peeps we’re having babies at shows. 50 years later it’s heart attacks.

Or Barraco’s jubilee rap. After the song Eaton made some joke about how we try to keep this family friendly….. lol

I was with 1 1st timer from home. He didn’t know half the songs even though he’s listened to a decent amount of dead. 1st set had 4 rare songs plus piece of your heart. Hell I learned masters of war, keep on growing and lindy hop from seeing dso a lot. I also had never heard the rare Keith song sing your blues away until saw dso do it more times than the dead did it. I also had to google Fat angel as I listed the song initially as Fly Jefferson Airplane. 1st time I’ve heard a space actually sung that didn’t have the whole band coming back on stage. I always like being stumped. Doesn’t happen much anymore thanks to dso going crazy deep in the setlists but it happens.

Evidently Mattson decided to sing the Jefferson airplane song out of the blue during space. Whole song.

11/12/22 Dso pageant Piece of my heart Shakedown Btw Loose Lucy Keep on growing Jack a roe Masters of wat Lindy hop New Orleans UJB China Rider Let me sing your blues away Corinna St Stephen Drums Fat Angel space w/ jeff on vocals (Jeff barraco skip) St Stephen Mission in the rain The wheel GDTRFB OMSN Quinn the Eskimo

USC has yet to beat a top 20 FPI team. In fact the highest rank team they beat was 30th. They finish playing 22md UCLA and 15th Notre Dame but snuck out close wins vs some bad teams. I’d say if 12 team playoff you’d have Georgia, TN, LSU Bama and maybe Ole Miss if they finish strong. Texas is a 7.5 point favorite over TCU LOL. But Texas is rank 6 in the FPI and TCU around 14th. The FPI has Texas as a 5.5 fav over TCU on a neutral field. if you wonder how spreads are made use this tool. Subtract one teams FPI number from another’s and that’s the spread. https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi

I was just thinking about the struggle when they left chicago and hit the road for several years playing before very small crowds. They crashed on peoples couches in towns and struggled to put gas in the tank. They had a dream to play Grateful Dead and it took years to build it up where they could make a bit of money. I’ve been to several 50-100 people shows and know people like Chuck have been to shows with 10 people or less way back in the day. I’m sure there were times they thought about hanging it up but kept on and now take care of their families touring. It’s nice they have runs like Jamaica where they can make their nut. I like it for the band when they sell out 2000 people. I also enjoy it for myself when there are 300 peeps but that won’t pay their bills. Cheers DSO. Here’s to another 25. In 16 years maybe my little guy takes off with some buddies for a summer tour. Prob he will chase skirts at EDM fests which seem to be very visually appealing. Well I don’t think you could call it chasing skirts b/c girls don’t wear that much clothing. Maybe chasing thongs would be more accurate at EDM shows.

see you in the Lou. We’ve got 2 cars of friends coming up from KY. Should have had more than 6 coming up but a few had to back out. I wanted to bring up a dozen. Usually for the St. Louis shows I round up 8+ friends but peeps get older and lazier including me. Didn’t feel like the 6 hour chicago drive for 1 show. Did Milwaukee instead of Chicago so it works out.

the 12 team playoff will fix some of this. Tennessee has the most brutal schedule in the country and then you have a team like Illinois that could get to the conference championship who doesn’t play a top 25 team all year. A few years ago all 7 teams in the SEC west were top 25 FPI. Ohio state is always a legit team but they pretty much just have to win the Michigan game or Penn state if Penn state is decent that year. It’s almost worst in the ACC. Wake forest? NC State?? Come on. Those teams don’t have the talent to battle decent teams every week and then you get a monster blowout and you’re like umm losing by 25 to a 3-5 team?? Yeah they are really the 7th best team….. 12 team playoff fixes all that crap.

If they play the Pabst opera house, it’s a must see show. The riverside is a beautiful theater but the Pabst is immaculate. The railings have red felt. The carvings on the ceiling are amazing. You will spend 30 minutes gawking at the walls and ceilings. On the 2nd balcony you are looking down at over a 45 degree angle. Your stomach will be in your throat at times. There is no seat in the venue I believe more than 70 feet from the stage and the accoustics are perfect.

Dude Bama misses a FG to beat tennessee. LSU went for a 2 pointer to win. Bama would be at least a TD favorite over everyone but georhia and OSU and those would be Pickems. You can’t compare the record of Illinois with Bama even though they are the same. Bama could easily be undefeated but they aren’t. The 12 team playoff would be bad news this year as no one would want to have to play Bama. OSU was one of the best 4 teams a few years they didn’t make the playoffs but 1 loss plus weak strength of schedule didn’t get them in. Doesn’t mean they weren’t one of the best 4 teams b/c they didn’t make the playoffs.

Just got home and decided to put on Hyryders Saturday stream on FB. 2nd song was hey pocky way. I told meili that this was the 1st song I ever saw DSO play and I didn’t really know it. Then I realized how many dead songs that dso exposed me too. So many 1-5x played songs that are almost impossible to know unless you listen to every dead show multiple times. But dso gives us that deep dive. Now there are a few deep dives like keep on growing that I don’t mind sinking to the bottom, only b/c I think I caught like 8 of the 1st 10 ever played, but so many songs were learned through dso. Hyryder also goes crazy deep and teaches people lots of dead.

the sport is cyclical but programs like Texas, Georgia, Florida, LSU, OSU, Clemson, Florida state are capable of assembling monster rosters. Alabama could be mediocre for a few years but they will always be a true top 20 team at the very worse. They lost to TN b/c they missed a FG and LSU went 2 point conversion. Alabama won’t likely make the 4 team playoff but they will be better than several who do. Our hotel was 200 feet from the venue so at setbreak we hit the hotel. Walk in and it says OT. Got to see everT play of that OT. Nutty finish. Was awesome. Got to watch most of the 1st half before show. Lsu has a lot of talent like always and night games in Death Valley are about as hard w place to play as any. It was a great setbreak for us lol. Cocktail and end of game then back to show 2 mins before dso took the stage you had 17 4-star freshmen come in and the 6th ranked class. You actually had a better class than Clemson.