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I bet you were seeing more than hazy then.

I remember us having a hotel and someone saying we need to leave this comfy hotel at 1am and arrived at the floor we were sleeping on at 6am. Maybe fatherhood is taking its toll on you or just Father Time.

U healthy enough for BM? It took me until the 2nd year to understand you and now that we can finally communicate you had surgery. (Insert poetic fate line here(and not a lyric from simple twist))

Pop on some Netflix to do with what the doctor gave you if they still do that any more. Broken back? Here’s a script for Advil. Umm I have Advil at home. These are double strength. Umm I can just eat 2 of what I have at home. Yeah I’m going to wait at the pharmacy for an hour for Advil. What’s weird is there is a drugstore on every corner now but it takes 2x longer to get prescriptions as it did when there were fewer drugstores. I guess the recurring payment model of monthly “ADD” and “pain” meds worked well for the huge pharmacy chains. You don’t like to be at work? You have ADD. Thread drift completed.

I don’t drive show day unless leaving a show town. Night 1 I’m already there now. Have to take off a day early b/c driving 5+ hours then night 1 of tour kills me. After I sweat out the life toxins that 1st night I’m ok driving next day but the contrast of real life and 4 hours of dancing continues to be tougher and tougher as the years go by. On a pleasant note it means I get to spend an extra day in the mountains somewhere and also in Colorado

We didn’t have natural half pipes like the big cities and I still say stoked. I think I even got a text from some people who said they are stoked about BM.

Skateboarder magazine was almost impossible to find at the news stand. When you finally got one it was like amazon. I ordered a Lucero deck and built a quarter pipe. Of course back then young kids would build that shit themselves. It was a horrible ramp. It had 2 bends in it you had to contend with and 98% of the time it led to disaster. But I’d jump on the electrical box in our yard and land perfectly in the grass from 5 feet up. Landing on concrete was a completely different animal. I was a great tic tacker. I could do that for a mile without having to push. An Ollie? No way we thought about shit like that. A fakie on a friends ramp was a pro style move back then lol.

You know most of us look at 45 minutes as a local show. Heck I haven’t had a show closer than 120 miles in 150 shows. Those are my 10 minute commute shows. Didn’t you not miss a California dead/Jerry show for like 8 years?

Seems like 15 minutes is your limit considering you wouldn’t go to Petaluma. If I recall correctly you were like it would take you almost an 45 minutes to an hour to get there. Guess we should have an in remembrance for the John A who moved to the bay because New York didn’t offer a sufficient amount of dead shows.

We’d need wet suits to go in water west coast. Oooh. You could vend Chuck. Wetsuit rentals. Early july fest near the bay sounds perfect. Little chance of rain. 75 degrees in the day. 65 at night. Heaven!!! Wherever it is, it needs to be where the climate suits my clothes and a rain jacket or 95 degrees doesn’t suit. how bout somewhere in the sierras!!!!!! Let’s do like that tech billionaire and take over a redwood forest and cut down the trees to create the party area. A backwoods isolated fest like where pagans sacrifice virgins in the forest type of area would be super cool. Generators would be needed for the band but that wouldn’t be an issue. We could use the redwoods to build the stage.

For 6 months in 2005 I carried my 25 pound house with me headed to Maine. I’d have no problem doing a minimalistic west coast jubilee with a backpack vs a ton of gear packing the car for jubilee jubilee. It seems to get more and more packed in the car every year. Before I know it there will be a recliner in there. I need to get back to basics and a west coast jubilee in the summer seems like a perfect testing ground.

Eek that sucks. They are a solid dead band. They have filled in a few schedule gaps with some fri/sat Indy shows.

Wow so Scott wasn’t there? That’s rough losing keys and one of your most talented members. He is an organ guru. Think I’ve decided no more outdoor activities besides swimming until BM. This heat is fucking brutal. 97 with high humidity. Feels like a sauna. Last night went to an indoor show and went outside at 11pm and was 81 with 84% humidity. Water instantly condensed on your skin. In 5 seconds you had a coating of water on you. Said 88 heat index. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky all day and the humidity was that high. If it somehow cools down and the gf is off next weekend we could possibly go but all day music ain’t for me right now.

Mike, theres way more advanced stuffing now than socks and potatoes. I use a large prosthetic Johnson in my banana hammock. Plus these are all the rage these days. I’ve been trying to get Ellie to sell dark star ones for the last year!! Only .99 plus 2.99 shipping on amazon. Get them while you can

I prefer not camping in summer. Gotta check the gfs work schedule but that could be fun if it’s not 100 degrees.

Well waited too late. This place is booked along with everywhere else near. Seems like canoeing down the black river is the thing to do in mid August. Found a place 30 miles (1 hour away)..... that ain’t happening. Did find an Airbnb $500 a night that’s 10 minutes away but would have to pack it up. Not sure if the weekend b4 BM would make foot sense anyway.

Think we are gonna try to do this. Canoe down the river during the day. Shows at night. Looks like fun. Gotta find a cabin with a/c as camping in August is a no go for me. 2 nights of jakes leg sounds fun.

So normal rain to this date from January 1st is 27 inches. We are at 48. July so far 4.5 and normal is 2”. 10” last 45 days and this is summer........ This is a pic I just took. They are everywhere

This nonstop rain from the hurricane brings back fond memories of The Pocahontas show years ago. But it’s not 69 degrees and night and I’m indoors and none of my friends are turning blue. Those were the days. Only time I’ve ever seen people dancing in a literal foot of water. This is the rainiest year I can ever remember. It’s supposed to be 95 every day and cooling down in the pool. This year it’s taking 10 pounds of shock a week to keep the pool from becoming a pond. The spring frogs are still here because I can’t keep the chlorine level high enough to run them out for good. Oh and i have these frogs who are so loud that you can’t hear the tv inside at night. I’m afraid I’m going to get cited for noise ordinance statutes and I’m not kidding. The neighbors don’t say anything but I know they can hear them indoors. It’s deafening outside. And when it rains they really sing....So global warming is going to make my area a summer rain forest?? At least I’m on the Ohio and not the Mississippi. It’s mid July and the river should be super low. Craziness.

I doubt Dso is going anywhere but northeast on 2nd fall leg. Sorry desertdead. On that note I look forward to a possible Norfolk DC weekend with the boys if we can get another one of those. Always a good time.

7 look doable. Minnesota is getting the goods lol. A 2nd chance at Milwaukee. Slow and easy this time . Pretty sure we are persona non grata at the Aloft. Security told us to wrap it up as we sat in the courtyard at 4am. I did my I hear you but I’ll leave when ready wave. They made us pour out our drinks. I’m like wtf. Like ABC is coming to their courtyard at 4.

Filler was Box, weight, GSET. Currently playing 7/7/84 as it’s show time. Heres Eatons board from that 7/6/84 show. Better sounding board in 84? Doubt it. Tell me that 2nd set isn’t off the charts in weirdness. The whole show is rocket tempo and weird. Crescendos are almost never where expected. Bass drops not where expected. It’s flying blind bliss. The whole set I was jaw dropped. My neighbor was at the show. He recognized it several songs in and he’s like I’ve never heard a show this amazing. What was in their heads when they created this. It’s a must listen. Oh and John A, you only have an aud for this show. Need version 4.6.2.0.1 to fix that https://archive.org/details/gd1984-07-06.139531.sbd.pcm.miller-eaton.flac1644

2nd set start to finish intentional face melt into the triple filler encore of box, ugh(tbd) the weight. And they kept the full psychedelic style through the last second and I mean the 2nd set b/t cotter and the band was as intentionally psychedelic ot every version down to that wicked melter sugar mags. There was nothing that was just jam happy. It was melt from the 1st drop of 2nd until the end.. It was all moving sound circle and wickedness. Best show easily I saw this summer. These guys were on and the spot was as good as it gets. 60s and windy July 6. Thanks you guys. My jaw was dropped that whole 2nd. Bravo. All I could do was smile.

That and the strange space>drums>space was the only reprieve. That 2nd set was as hot as a set can be. Scarlett fire sailor saint franklin got the crowd hot. Found some Ice water to pour on my head after that. I knew I was overheating but what can you do. Pray for rain or a ballad and neither came

Great show. Hung out with lots of new friends. Great venue. We prayed for rain but it didn’t come lol. A few water douses did the trick. Was nice to see the band get to do a show with their friends and family. Up to chicago today. It’s meili and my 5th anniversary. Yay!!! 5 years wow. When we met she had no clue who the dead was. Now she’s a free range head at shows and figuring some songs before I do. I’ve done well