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What’s crazy is with the most insane dance songs the dead does, music, dancin, Sampson and HSF all in 1 set it felt like we had no time to catch our breath but there was a slower dancer in between each. It felt like it was continuous 140 bpm heart rate but I guess we got just a slight reprieve. After the show I said wow no ballads that whole set lol. That’s what it felt like. Was a perfect night too. What a way to cap off jubilee. I’ll ride this high for the whole week. Now that jubilee is over I feel like I’m in great shape to do jubilee lol. All those times clinging the hill plus the monster cardio workouts but nothing to use it on. Jubilee should be a whole week!!!! Maybe DSO and 1 other band Monday-Thursday then the full fest starting Friday. I’m in!!!

That was a smoke show. Curious how many times they had played bucket and throwing stones at this point. No deadbase on me so no clue. They also played touch. 3 songs that wouldn’t see an album for 4 years. i was thrown off by Lisa on stage. I don’t remember seeing her on stage besides doing pig harmonica in a all boy show so I was like 80’s style original with Lisa harmonizing and didn’t think it was a show. That 2nd set was crazy. Epic show. Dso crushes the 80’s. That Touch was a bass lead song. Interesting twist with skip leading the way with the guitars being 2nd fiddle for most of the song. The band sounded so tight. Was an epic show.

Scott!!!!! Sml make an appearance on the boards for all your fans!! Luckily stardom didn’t go to his head and he made an appearance at our camp site and we talked about the show. He rocked it. Full Bobby rock star on sugar mags. He’s got some chops too and has Bobby down and that’s a hard guitar to play. There are tons of Jerry’s but not many Bobby’s. The finger dexterity to play all those chords is crazy. Love you brother!!!! Proud of you!!

There we go. I added a message to put the setlist at the top lol.

Set Type JGB Style Set List Set One: How Sweet It Is ; Catfish John ; That's What Love Will Do For You ; I'll Take A Melody; I Second That Emotion ; Mystery Train ; Tough Mama ; Box Of Rain Set Two: Cats Under The Stars ; The Way You Do The Things You Do ; Hard To Handle ; Mission In The Rain ; Midnight Moonlight ; The Harder They Come ; I Want To Tell You > Don't Let Go > Tangled Up In Blue Encore: My Sisters And Brothers Show Notes Band was Jeff Mattson, Rob Barraco, Skip Vangelas, Dino English.

Bill wrote it down. I thought it was a fools errand as it was obviously a jgb show from prob 76-78. It was just dead on that era until the 1st set encore of Box. Some dude in the bathroom was like I want a terrapin. I said bro you have a 0 percent shot of that. This is a Jerry band stow. That was right before Box so the chances became higher than 0%. 1 guitar terrapin would be different for sure. Besides hard to handle and box everything played was played b/t 76-78 live. They gave barraco and skip a chance to sing. Can’t wait until Dino busts out vocals on a The Band song and has Levon dead on!! Levon was actually on a top 10 boy name list. The issue was everyone was like oh Elton John. I’m like no. Levon helm!!!! So that name got nixed

Someone’s got miracle tickets on CashorTrade if anyone needs

I’ll put an ear to the ground bro. Glad you are gonna come.

Obviously you all have covid. I’m keeping my distance. The good thing is 90 degree heat and the sweat lodge tents you will be in Friday should heal you. You should sneak into the mouth of the cave and drop your sleeping bag to get some sleep

nice!!! You are getting a lot of music lately!

He’s not selling her ticket. I gave you the clue 😜

or you’d want to make sure it was NOT a physical ticket just for safety reasons etc.

Here’s what my thoughts are on the tour schedules being a bit different than pre pandemic. During covid with everything up in the air, DSO booked a lot more festivals than they usually do. With those July Vermont gigs it forced them to be up north. They also committed to daze between a while back forcing them out to cali. I think Tour is going to become more normalized after they get back to adding a fest that will work at say the end of a tour like summerfest than the festival being the scheduling driver of the tour. The Midwest pretty much got the shaft b/c of the festivals dso committed to a long time ago. It’s gonna be pretty awesome when we get to add 2 days of DSO at Chris’ house right after the black mountain weekend in a few years. It would be the perfect time…..or we get DSO to play the Wednesday and Thursday right before BM since he’s only 30 minutes away. That’s the ticket!!! They could be in Asheville area 4 straight shows so missing a day off Wednesday for a private party would be no biggie. Let’s do it in 2023 Chris!! I’m sure we could pull 100 friends who do the BM shows to pitch in. Semi private 2 day fest. Includes primitive camping. Recommended donation 100-300 pp. vip comes with a daily shower. Ultra vip comes with an inside bedroom and runs 500 pp double occupancy. The ultra VIP experience includes a short private show of barraco playing jazz keys for meili singing Ella and for the finale they duet “dream a little dream of me”. I’m sure barraco can pull out a Louie Armstrong falsetto.

I heard from a reliable source that even though this has weird stuff like copyright 2021 Swati Music, that this is actually from a 2004 DSO show from the Norva with Scott on keys. The other day meili said dso has a 2nd song besides the talking heads cover they did for a tribute album on Apple Music that was just released. So at least part of the mystery solved. The 2021 swati music is still a mystery plus there’s a picture of a staircase as the cover art.

Initially I thought it was a Brent vocal track with DSO doing the music, but it doesn’t sound as much like Brent later on like the falsetto was stressing the singers voice but it’s pretty dead on Brent’s voice. Someone solve the mystery!!!

Lol I know the song and who Brent is. What I’m saying is there’s 1 song on Apple Music with dso and you can hear Eaton but the main vocals sound like Brent. https://music.apple.com/us/album/we-can-run-but-we-cant-hide/1597562433?i=1597562434 Dark Star Orchestra • We Can Run But We Can't Hide https://open.spotify.com/track/46AXVEAOablio8tqpWSJJh

It’s projected to be 90 High 70 low at the caverns next weekend. May just eat my camping pass and get a hotel. It’s 90 degrees now at 11am and it’s too hot to get a cig outside.

So there’s a 2nd DSO song on Apple Music: We can run but we can’t hide. It was released 10/6/21. There’s no album associated with it. No details. I thought it was a dead song mislabeled at 1st b/c it sounds like Brent. It’s not Barraco singing unless he developed a serious falsetto. Anyone know what this was from?

i think it was more of a metaphorical take on the state of world during the Cold War and a condemnation of the military industrial complex.

Looks like they’ve been adding more Allmans which is always a good thing. Saw them do a 10 minute insane Melissa in St. Louis. Assumed it was just a jam that would go into dead but played it big into a hard stop.

taking a baby to Europe at 18 months? That flight would be torture. Everyone would hate us and we’d hate it. We have to split the trip to the beach over 2 days because more than 8 hours and he’s a mess. He won’t sit still 30 secs at home. He’s wild. No way he could sit in my lap on a plane for 8 hours. You know better than anyone, you can’t really enjoy a show when you have to watch kids. You guys hardly get to finish a show when you have them. It seems like work and I tour for fun. In a few years when he’s older, we can do more stuff but it is what it is now. I don’t miss not seeing as many shows. Mei misses it more than me for sure. She wanted to take Jonathan to the caverns but talked her out of it. No way he’s gonna sleep in a tent and the shows at 8 and that’s past his bedtime. He would be a terror and wake everyone at camp up several times not being in his own bed. My mom’s keeping him Saturday and we are driving down for night 2. I was hoping somehow dso would have 2 Wilmington shows between the 2 Vermont shows July 4th week and we’d bring him and my parents as that place has 6p start times but shows are staying up north it looks like.

Looks like a blast. Just won’t be away from the little boss for 2 weeks at this age. The last 3 show run I felt guilty leaving him and he didn’t want to sleep for my mom. She aged 3 years in the 3 days she kept him not sleeping through the night away from home. Are you bringing taping gear? That would be tough to lug around and could see it becoming like a job lol.

nice. Shooting for them all. Thats like an iron man triathalon. Too bad the 3 day break isn’t mid tour instead of after show 1 when you don’t need it. Are you guys booking a hostel/hotel every night or using the train as a hotel a few of the nights? I knew a few of those legs were going to be tight getting to the next one. I’ll just live vicariously through you guys. Is it you and your brother doing the run?

They have an interesting take on Just like heaven by the cure. My best buddy was big into alternative in the 80’s but I couldn’t really get bands like Sonic youth. I dug Depeche Mode and the cure and others but I need a melody. Without a good melody I can’t really get a band. It’s why I despise Radiohead. You play your weird math rock but most of your songs lack a basic melody. I’ve tried to get them but I can’t. Friends are like they are brilliant so I kept trying to listen. Nope. Don’t get it. They had a few songs like creep, but that’s an outlier that almost sounds like a song their label bought for them. Then you see Rolling Stone call OK Computer a top 20 album all time and I tried again. Nope. Don’t get it.

Here’s an archived link to dso. Unfortunately it cuts off with dark stay still playing. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1171529586952788&id=1433767186951245&m_entstream_source=timeline