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That’s our plan, hopefully we’ll be able to put a nice compound together, hope you guys spend your festival downtime over with us. The hotel is gonna be great for the family.

We’ll be there, gonna be our first trip in the camper, excited to see everyone!

I like seafood salad, the imitation crabmeat kind. Someone must have eaten some at the Ithaca show the other day, and I kept smelling this sweaty, mayonnaisey odor near me, it was gross. Now I’m out driving around at work, thinking about getting some at a place that makes it, and I am getting grossed out, hopefully this isn’t permanent 😅

Shakedown Street > Corrina Might as Well Broken Arrow Lazy Lightning > Supplication Lazy River Road Lost Sailor > Tangled Up in Blue Sugar Magnolia> Bird Song> Truckin’> Sunrise> Drums > Imagine Space > Don’t Let Go> Throwing Stones > Don’t Let Go Visions of Johanna> Sunshine Daydream E: Piece of My Heart Inspired elective, amazing sound, killer Tangled, tremendous bombs during Truckin, lots of loving audience interaction during Imagine, great ending sequence post drums, had some good space down in front, in a grand old theater on a beautiful spring day 😃

You forgot >Space> between all the Cumberland and Big Rivers😄 DSO Big Rivered me the other night when I thought for sure it was Cumberland. I think those are my top two for a killer dance song.

Boston Garden, Boston, MA (5/7/77) Bertha Cassidy Deal Jack Straw Peggy-O New Minglewood Blues Mississippi Half-Step Big River Tennessee Jed Music Never Stopped Terrapin Station Samson and Delilah Friend of the Devil Estimated Prophet Eyes of the World drums The Wheel Wharf Rat Around and Around E: U.S. Blues F: Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu Well, that was quite a fun night! Good sound and venue, good space in our little corner, went down to the floor for the last few songs. Lots of fun, great company and sore feet, can’t ask for much more 😄

I had a dream last night that Dark Star Orchestra, the entire band and crew, took the stage riding a gigantic costumed circus elephant, it was quite the spectacle 🧐

Just looked up the Picasso guitar, what a bizarre looking device!

Baby Kennel 🤣

I think it’s awesome that Bob wanted to sit in with the band, and of course DSO, I am sure, was thrilled to have him. I think the bottom line is, if you made a career playing this music, and Bob Weir wants to sit in for a few songs, you let him, and he’s in charge for whatever he wants to do. I think it was gracious of Eaton to step aside to give Weir the space in the music he’s carved out for himself and is accustomed to occupying. It was probably cool to watch his hero sit in in his position in his band, and I’m sure it was a treat for the audience!

That was a killer jam, thanks for the recommendation, gotta check out the rest of that show now.

That looks like a pretty good time 😁

One time, I got myself into a full blown panic, when the phrase “full blown panic” got into my head, gently at first, but with increasing intensity until I was convinced I was heading off into the storm. Gathered up my foul weather gear and was ready to fly through the night until I realized how silly the situation was. That has nothing to do with this, just wanted to share🤡⚡️😁

Snow-globed, a great description 😃

Wow, what a great second night last night at the Cap. What amazing generosity from Grateful Guitars and everyone involved to deliver such a beautiful guitar to Jeff. The back of the guitar is inlaid with an epic scene of two wooly mammoths locking tusks in battle. I thought it was so cool that the guitar was not only a replica guitar of the finest quality, similar to Rosebud, but not a direct replica, as it was outfitted with beautiful inlay artwork to be Jeff’s own. J.Mattson inlay at the end of the fretboard. The general buzz surrounding the second night was palpable, wondering what they would do to top night one, with the outside temperature dropping twenty degrees, and a sold out box office, it felt like a fall show. Tight crowd, and it got tighter as the night progressed. Had a good group of friends dancers and we shared the limited space. Box opener, followed by Johnny B Goode, which immediately launched us into orbit. China Rider had the mammoths doing battle, a thunderous sound. Music Never Stopped continued the high energy into To Lay Me Down, a nice breather and tenderly delivered. Jack Straw and Help Slip Deal kept the energy high to close out the set, giving us a welcome break. Setbreak found the area at the back of the theater we were occupying packed wall to wall with people, scrambling every which way for purchase. Second set Stranger opener, stuck around in tight quarters for better sound, and moved back to the relocation point during Cats. Kind of bounced around between locations. Found a good groove among friends during Scarlet Fire, post drums highlight for me was the Eleven. Overall, a great night, thanks to all ❤️

Great time last night at the Cap. First set highlights for me were the Cold Rain opener and Looks Like Rain. Second set was a killer throughout. Shakedown opener was called by Northeast, and it got the crowd moving. Just a great selection of songs for the second set. Sound was extraordinary in the theater, especially when I ventured up for a few songs. Skip kills me with his playing, he is just so good ⚡️Pretty packed house and a fun group of dancers. Left with sore feet, gotta gets me sea legs back. Ready to do it all over again tonight 😎

Today’s the day 😄

It’s gonna be fun 😁

Skip played rhythm guitar with Cosmic Jerry Band in NJ this past Sunday. DSO streamed it on their Facebook page. I tuned in for a little while, they sounded good, cool to see Skip on guitar.

DSO just announced a two night stand at the Cap in Port Chester, NY. Gonna do my best to make it there 😄

Great review, PG ⚡️⚡️

Looks like a great time, nice review TB, hope to see more of them from you. Rocks are brutal on the feet, glad you all persevered and hopefully find some clearer ground tonight, have fun!!

Thanks guys, a lot to read, but if I make a review, I like to write down as much as I can so I can remember as much as possible 😀 I couldn’t find it, I’m sure it was good though 😀

This show completely floored me, and at the time, I felt like I had never seen them play better. I think this one will stand out in my memory as one of my best shows. We took up residence once again behind the soundboard, and the space held a great family vibe, surrounded by friends and strangers with smiling faces, playing children, and lovely cooler weather in the low 70s, with the 90 degree heat and oppressive humidity broken, a golden midsummer evening was setting the stage for a perfect night of music. The band began with Corrina, and it has grown on me, seeing it often as one of the band’s go to elective songs. It acted as a prelude for what really got the show going, Morning Dew, and it was great to see the unfolding scene bathed in the beautiful golden light of sunset. Jack Straw picked up where the Dew left off, killer. I called Tom Thumb’s a song early, pretty easy call as they seem to like that one for electives, too. Minglewood ripped, with dancers responding eagerly. Dupree’s was fun, and I came to the realization that it reminds me of ducks. I spent most of the song quacking and even doing some duck wing moves to amuse myself. Let It Grow was another high energy romp, and I figured it would be the set closer, but the band launched into Deal. It felt pretty standard, until maybe the third instrumental go round at the end. Skip began to dig in with some killer lines that cut right thru the mix at the end of that go round, with Jeff immediately responding and taking the band into orbit. They went thru it several more times, with Jeff ripping it and Skip fanning the flames, leaving us spent and gasping for air. Second set began with Scarlet >Fire, a welcome treat, and one we’ve been missing for quite a while, with our last one coming at Red Rocks 2019, a gap of 25 shows, so it was a lot of fun. Keep on Growing has really grown on me, love it now. Drums was a welcome breather, and Iko came in with a nice medium tempo, with Jeff adding a verse I’ve never heard: “see that girl all dressed in green (iko iko…), she’s got a pistol where you can’t see…” “see that girl all dressed in red (iko iko…) bet your life she’ll kill you dead…” or something similar. Jake called the Sing Me Back Home during drums, a great call and highlight of the night. I moved to the side of the soundboard to watch the band deliver the song, and while I’ve choked up at shows, I’ve never been as overcome with emotion as I was during this song. It felt like one of those times when the band was playing just for me, a memory I will treasure. After this tender rendition, the band closed out the set by shaking the earth with One More Saturday Night. I once again resumed twirling, running around in circles, pounding the ground with my feet, and just generally setting my body up for feeling completely hobbled the next morning. It was a lot of fun 😃

This show was fun. Excitement running high seeing the early style stage setup, figured we were in for a treat, and we were right. The band came out swinging with Casey Jones and half of China Cat, stopping abruptly and telling us to all seek shelter. Uh oh 😳😳. The rain delay was enjoyably spent in a little pondside gazebo, and really didn’t really get too weird, considering. It rained hard and we had a nice lightning show. Upon returning to the sounds of the band getting tuned back up, we took up residence behind the soundboard. We had plenty of space, although people were all walking thru trying to find their spot and despite the general weirdness of the rain delay, we had fun. Back to the campsite (it was close) to fortify ourselves, and to our pleasure and surprise, it looked like many people decided to stay at their camp for set two, at least in our area. Second set came on like “normal”, the screwy rain delay headspace I think we all occupied was gone, and we proceeded to get it done, band and dancers. The entire second set was killer. Such a luxury to camp and not have to leave, we went back to camp, some snacks and drinks, milled around, 3am cold shower (evidently they shut off the hot water at night 🥶), got to sleep around 5, overall it was a splendid time 😃