springFallandWinter

saw good ole close out first set with speedway at star lake 6/23/92. great 2-night run in burgettstown.

Hampton. and countdown begins...................... t minus..............................................

10/21/73 Omaha Civic Center, Nebraska Here Comes Sunshine, BIODTL, Loser, Black Throated, They Love Each Other, Cumberland, El Paso, Woman Enough, Weather Report Suite/Let it Grow. Playin/Mississippi/Big River/Playin, He's Gone/Truckin/Wharf Rat/Sugar Mag/GDTR/Saturday Night. (Piece of My Heart)

Original Jack, Weight, Big River, Deep Elem, Lazy Lightning/Supp, Arrow, Lucy, Blow, Essau, Chimes, Tangled. Box, Help/Slip/Franks, Not Fade/Drums/Low Spark/Ashes/Fade. Letter Maria

coulda sworn it was a norfolk themed really big shoe.

where/how can i get that dark star (45 record) t-shirt?

how bout drums/letter maria. now thats solid weirdness.

University of Oklahoma 10/11/77 Help/Slip/Franks, Jack, Peggyo, El Paso, Sunrise, Deal, Let it Grow. Dancin, Dire Wolf, Est/Eyes/Drums/Not Fade/Wharf Rat/Around. (No Encore) Filler: Mr Charlie, Take a Letter Maria

cant believe that show needs filler.

weir/lesh and co did donna dirty at fareTheeWell. she deserved better.

love love LOVE donna. she was sooo beautiful, cool and graceful on stage. and i guess i was one of the few that really liked her voice. one of my favs was jgb 78 warner theatre with maria muldaur. the two of them smilin, harmonizing was schweeeet. that was a rippin tour and lineup. love ya donna~

any1 seen this film? pretty cool sf '68 pic with julie christie, george scott and some interesting surprises.

btw cool band name. who came up with that?

to the east coast. just sayin.

-----Help > Slipknot > The Eleven > Dew. I'll raise you 100 call. and raise you help/slip/wrs/dew/let it grow.

yeah. got your attention. now that would steal my face. just sayin.

----- What about Help/Slip/Tangled? TUIB rox whenever and wherever. But Franklins Tower is THE Pot of Gold at the end of the Help on the Way/Slipknot Rainbow. (btw if youre in the mood to get tangled......... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru9efQketsA

----A big fan of Help/Slip/Stranger. no way. stranger is no franks.

fyi- morning dew was written by bonnie dobson. (its about the day after a nuclear catastrophe.) tim rose tried to steal it and he actually has joint writing credit on it in some places (thaz a whole notha slimy music biz story). but its all bonnies song. everyone from the allmans to zeppelin recorded it back in the day. BUT no one and i mean no one turned it into a transcendental moonshot until the grateful dead.

ive been iso morning dew for a long long time. there is no other song in the entire grateful dead catalogue which introduces itself with a more powerful 1 note signature explosion than morning dew. dark star? 4 notes and kinda mellow. help on the way? 4 chords. st stephen? 2 regular notes. but morning dew-- just 1 hair-raising reverberating hello crescendo. this is THE song. saw the grateful dead melt me with this. and saturday night in wilkes barre pa, the dark star orchestra layed down the law. this was the finest morning dew, ive evah seen them do. each musician was so in tune. this song at its best is PRIAML> and this was a knee buckling, hair-raising, eyes watering, head melting, goose bumps walk me out. everyone was one. skip was beating the sh*t outta his strings. robB was pounding and i mean pounding the keys. robE was cranking up the volume. and dino and rob were builing building building the smashing backbone. and jeff? well jeff was simply in another zone. if he was ever truly jerry, it was at this moment. pin drop soft, heart wrenching, nuclear--- it was everything. this was so powerful, the band didnt even segue into another song when jeff belted out the last-- i guess it doesnt matter ANYWAYYYYYYYYYYYYY. the band hit the last note and morning dew ended. the climax of two nights in wilkes barre pa which began with jack straw early friday evening and came to a rousing conclusion past midnight saturday night/early sunday morning. and then the band completely stopped. took a break. looked at each other, motioned to one another. rob walked around a little. and then with a few beats dso finished the night off with a rockin one mo saturday night, almost as a 2nd set encore (before returning for a true encore and an extra saturday night surprise ---lisa channeling mccartney on a rousing oh darling). really truly amazing.

FREAKIN MORNING DEW BABY~

if i told ya that dso recreated a show that was so long (4 hours) that there wasnt any time left for any filler, youd probably say-- musta been a ballin 72/73 affair. and usually youd be right. but not this friday night. and it would probably be awhile before you got to the year 1978. but man o man. what an amazing gd show. the gd came to play on 5/16/78 in chicago and the dark star orchestra came to play on this friday night in wilkes barre pa and did this masterpiece justice. gd 1978 is one of the bands most underrated years. it came on the tail of the majestic '77 conquest and preceeded the keith and donna exodus of the following year--feb 1979. but 78 has a multitude of gems sprinkled all over it--- check out 4/15/78 just to name 1 masterwork. but getting back to chicago, a blistering 10-song first set is just the appetizer for what was to come. the first set was long and sharp. so much goodness but ill just say jimmy was steppin. and i think peggyo had at least 5 lead runs. man it was pretty. and music never stopped was honey drippin. so what was to come? oh just a 24 minute soaring scarlet/fire to kick off set 2. followed by 2nd set el paso? thats pretty interesting and pretty unusual. then comes a gorgeous ship (cause all that could not sink or swim was just left there to float.) thats 4 songs right there. drums next-- right? hey ive seen a few shows and 4 songs before drums is pretty customary. ive also seen my share of 3 songs before drums, even 2 (scarlet fire/drums-- yeah really. so when song # 5 is a long estimated jam -- well thats just all cake now. definitely drums time. 6 songs before drums for 1977 on is pretty rare. happens --just not often. especially when youre talkin long jams like scarlet/fire, estimated etc. and then......and then followed by song #6--- hes gone???!!! are you shi**in me? 6 songs- an hour long before drums. thats a band thats havin fun. simple as that. and then to cap it off-- the exquisite comes a time because youve got an empty cup that only love can fill. this song can make you weep. and then the capper--the one and only bob weir masterpiece sugar magnolia---smokin. what a night. what a show. and if you think dso was havin fun, (aside from the shots being downed onstage), the drums party on this night was one for the books. i didnt even mention it here because it deserved its own thread it was so good. this was a special special special friday night wilkes barre pa show. we were all smile smile smile. the dso they just keep on deliverin. they just keep on keepin on. the dark star orchestra, the dark star orchestra.

so much to say about friday night wilkes barre (3/7/25) night 1---gd 5/16/78. but gotta start at the end----DRUMZ~ what a percussion party. friends and family plan. dino and rob were knockin it out when they were joined by rob b, lisa and a whole buncha assorted goodtimers on assorted percussive bangers. skip then wandered out to see what all the fuss was and he was sucked in by the great vibes and ended up on something. there were bongos and maracas and clackers and well anything that would make a joyous banging sound. if it was outside ya woulda called it a drum circle but it was more of a persussion gathering. and it was jamtastic. what a party. sounded, as tony the tiger would say-----GERRRRRAAAAAAATTTTTTE!

tasty nugget from an otherwise down year.

hotpockets for lunch?