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It’s funny because you can listen to 99% of dead shows at home. But because he has that on CD then Dso isn’t allowed to play that one. If I was still on FB I’d have replied if they couldn’t play a show you can listen to at home, they would have under 100 shows they could choose from out of 2300. And that 100 is way too high. Prob 20 or less from 69 on that there’s not a source for. I’ve seen maybe 2 Dso shows where I couldn’t find a source. 1970 has a few missing.

So glad I’m off Facebook personally but saw on DSO’s site some dude said how upset he was and wanted his money back because he can listen to Dozin at the Knick at home. Different times we live in.

nice. 2 69’s on fall tour.

Lol I always think the same thing and just saw bobby and wolf bros do it and told the gf smokestack. I hate to say it but it’s one of those songs I click next when it comes on unless I’m in a long drive. Rooster is another I skip in the car. Not a big fan of the dead doing blues covers in a traditional blues style. But I never piss during truckin but if you do, do it during the lyrics and get back by the jam . Truckin jams are one of my fav things to see Dso do. That’s where u get to see Dso do their own thing.

Nice!!! The biggest biggest bass bomb I ever heard fromDso was the Days Between in Paradise but the whole song was the bass bomb. Had to move to the back during it. That being said I love Dso doing late Brent shows!!! I think that’s what they do the best.

56 now confirmed dead from the Camp Fire. There’s a scathing la times article today about how the city of paradise didn’t want to create gridlock and didn’t alert everyone at Once. And they could have used the emergency alert system on everyone’s phone but they used a voluntary signup alert system with only 25% of town signed up and still many of those weren’t even alerted to the fire until they were on fire. The other issue is their code red system can only contact so many people at once even if there was 100% signup so it may take 30 minutes to even alert everyone in town. This story just gets sadder by the day, knowing that some of these lives could have been saved by better decision making.

Besides the 30+ people who died another sad thing was reading about all the wildlife and pets who died stranded and burned. Many people weren’t home and weren’t allowed back to their homes to get their animals and were posting their address for people to kick in their doors to get their pets out. Unlike the humans the pets locked in had no chance at survival. Saw a guy talk about his 5 horses burned alive in his barn as well as his dogs he couldn’t get to. By the time people were even alerted to the fire it was already upon them. So many burned alive in their cars fleeing. Nightmare scenario. Was told the performing arts center was still standing which was surprising considering everything around it was burned. I wouldn’t doubt a benefit concert by Dso on winter tour is upcoming.

Wow "Pretty much the community of Paradise is destroyed, it's that kind of devastation," said Cal Fire Capt. Scott McLean late Thursday. "The wind that was predicted came and just wiped it out." holy fuck Conway lives in paradise, btw. Was such a cute little town.

That’s what happens when someone sprays you at a show. It’s like invisible ink at 1st

There are always lots of official and unofficial chemists at dead shows. That was right where we were dancing. No clue joe the chemist was really close to me. On a chemistry note, at the covington Dso show on Valentine’s Day 2015 there was a guy in front of us that also looked like a chemist. Well he had the molecular structure of LSD tattooed on his face, so I assume he was a chemistry professor. He must have taken pride in his PHD work at Cincinnati and gotten the tattoo to reflect that pride. It took up most of the right side of his face. I asked him what his LinkedIn profile was listed as and he said huh. I guess he didn’t want to talk about his job before a show. I don’t like to talk about work either.

Nice. So you did all 3 nights of their Hampton run. Hampton is definitely one of the dead central areas of the country. Nashville not so much. Maybe that had something to do with it. There’s always drunk idiots at most shows hollering so maybe I was just in the middle of that group. But I have been to several Dso shows where the crowd was pin drop silent. It’s such a rare thing that it’s super special. You def won’t get that with 10k person crowds. The law of averages will tell you that when you have a small town smashed into a venue there’s bound to be a few ultra obnoxious people but with 1000 people you have a small shot at a near perfect crowd. It’s rare but you can get a Stella where not a person makes a peep.

I need to find balance in the winter. Sitting at my desk in the house looking out at the green pool and leaveless trees with the long wait til life springs is so rough. The worst is now until a month after winter solstice. At least after that I can tell myself the days are getting longer. Think I just need a winter house in Palm Springs. We found out the hard way why every hotel in Palm Springs at the end of June is $60 a night. It would be reversed out there. U stay hidden in the summer and only come out after. I just need a balanced climate like Los Angeles. Well it’s not exactly balanced. It’s pretty much perfect all the time. Compton looks semi affordable plus you get free bars included on your windows in any house you buy and may live next to an aspiring rapper who gets his street cred by robbing you at gunpoint. I’d have a great story though and what is life without great stories.

That was pretty much the exact weather in my couple days in portland in February. If nothing else the weather is very predictable out west. Winters are joyous in SoCal and the kind that get you padded walls up north.

So after several shows I realized JRAD uses some filter that gives the arena type special sound like its bouncing everywhere. It creates a hollow type sound where you barely hear the high hats and cymbals. JRAD is awesome but wish they wouldn’t do that. Dso’s sound is direct and clear unless they decide to space it out at times but not the whole show. It sounds like a dead audience recording to an extent. The dead didn’t make the music sound like that. It just recorded like that from the bouncing in an arena but 30 feet from stage in a tall ceiling theater should be crystal clear live. At times all you hear are the toms. The highs don’t come through. I asked people at my 1st show what’s wrong with the sound. In the Anthem as well as Philly it was like that. That being said, they are a fantastic group musically put on a top notch show. We got to hang out with Tom Hamilton at the Philly train station, well he was next to us in line for the Train from Philly to DC for 30 minutes so we were interrogating him, and saw the rest of the band when w arrived in DC and asked them about Jazz Fest. Can’t believe the girls failed to get a pic with Oteill when we said hi. Really they should have gotten a whole band pic.

Yeah that’s a haul. Was hoping maybe for a 4 day weekend in SoCal. Did the northern portion in February and I can get dreary weather locally. Traveling in cold and rainy weather doesn’t get my juices flowing. Palm Springs>LA> San Diego would get me to pop a flight in February. At least that prob means a southern/Midwest run in April. Hoping for another Avondale brewery show outside to start the warm season.

I recall a quote from last weekend when you said wherever dso will be on 2-22 is where I will be. Hmm I was thinking that date in 69 was a 2 setter but only 1. I was hoping for a 4 show Key west run 2/27-3/2 or maybe a mini fest in the desert for 4 days celebrating all things 69.

Guess u will be in sandiego.

Saw Phish on Wednesday in Nashville. Amazing Pit tix. Pretty fun time. But....the phish crowd was not at all like a dead crowd. The panic crowd was half dressed in GD attire and most of the people were big deadheads too. Actually almost everyone I talked to at panic had seen dso within the last year or 2. The phish crowd was loud and obnoxious. Nonstop yelling and whooing. During quiet singing half the damn crowd was yelling at trey because their voice could be heard. If you think a dead crowd is a sausage fest, this was twice as bad. But they travel. Everyone I met was far from home. It was def not a southern crowd where everyone is chatting up their neighbors. There may be things I don’t like about the south but there’s no where I’d rather live besides Cali and who can afford to buy a place out there in today’s market. Abandoned properties in the desert are 200k and that doesn’t include a roof or windows or neighbors for 15 miles. That does include a metal fence though as all properties in the middle of nowhere are fenced to keep the cowboys out who are on the run heading to Mexico.

I didn’t know it until I heard Lisa sing it twice. Chimes of freedom in Portland right after trump took office was maybe the most emotional I’ve seen a crowd get even with most hearing the song for the 1st time. Masters of war is another powerful Dylan song and Lisa smokes it!!! At least in troubling times we these powerful songs to help us through as opposed to songs like “man versus bonesaw” or the new pat Robertson hymn “don’t kill an arms deal over 1 murdered person”.

Wait. Is that supposed to be me at a show??

That’s an epic start of a set for sure!! too much did u do the Louisville>Indy and ft Wayne>Columbus? U got the goods bro. That was an epic stretch. Just saw that. Every song transitioned into another. Edit: nvm. See they stopped after frank, but still the last hour was continuous

Raggy? (Scooby doo reference)

I tried to make this run work but I couldn’t. It’s tough missing Midwest shows. At least we have next weekend and I’ll prob do some phish in Nashville which won’t be the same.

Wow what a 4 show run. 69 pig, 79 Brent, 90 post Brent and original over these 4 days. You guys are ridiculous. You went through the whole spectrum of Grateful Dead over 4 days with the only repeat I think a 69 and 90 version of MAMU which are completely different anyway. I’m in awe as always even not being in Detroit rock city. I gotta see more shows obviously

That was a whopper of a 3 show run. You got it all. Can’t make em all and kicking myself for missing last night. But those 3 are about as good as you get in a row. But throw a 69 in any run and you can probably say that lol. Wonder what’s on tap for tonight? I’ll guess 92.