Masons Child

Well Bama dropped to 3. Georgia back to one. Ohio St getting some respect. USC dropped a spot. That confuses me. Clemson jumped Michigan to 4. Given their schedule I might have them ahead of Alabama right now. Wins over number 10 and 21. Bama has one ranked win and several narrow escapes including this week to A and M. They don't hurt the Texas QB they probably lose that one. Ewers can toss the rock. Don't get me wrong Alabama has games coming up where they push themselves back up to number 1. Tennessee is benefiting from SEC bias. They have beat some rank teams but all of those teams have proven a bit suspect. Tennessee still has Alabama and Georgia remaining we shall see how good they are after those games. They need to win at least one or their ranked too high.

Looks like Kentucky may have been a little overrated and I don't see how Alabama can hold on to number one ranking after this week but Saban like a the little weasel he is escaped another one. Ohio State Clemson USC deserve some more respect.

Kentucky goes down.

We missed you Jeff. We also understand. This festival turned into the Stu Allen celebration. And he was a great fill in in a pinch. The California heads love it for sure. Stu is there guy. I enjoyed it but I have to admit something was lacking for me. Stu has such a pretty voice and plays well. But doesn't come close to what I feel from Jeff. Vocally Jeff isn't as pretty. But the emotion for me is much stronger. I feel it. I feel he lived it. It's not just for show or money. We used to play for money now we play for life. These songs are his life. The movement that is the Grateful Dead. The most loving movement since Jesus and Christianity is in his blood. Is not for for show is not for money. Is out of love. I can't express how much this festival made me appreciate Jeff even more. I once openly expressed that I wanted DSO to pick stu Allen as the guitar player after shows in Solana beach. His voice is beautiful it's majestic and mesmerizing. I even expressed this opinion on the forums after I knew the band had made their decision on Jeff. It created strife between me and one of the bandmates in DSO among other things. Hearing stu sing some songs created some cynical feelings on me I care not express here. I can't truly say how he feels or what's going on in his heart or mind. But I can truly state that I know Jeff knows about the planted flag and understands the loss of war. That Jeff truly knows about August West. That Jeff truly knows about the pains of addiction, loss and death. I feel it in his voice in his expression. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate Stu and hope to see him play music again and connect with him more but I value my connection to Jeff and his expression on the same level I appreciate jk and jk is the biggest factor in why I live the life I do. He connected me to this music and fostered my connection to Jerry. And no one has impacted my life more than Jerry Garcia other than my mom my dad Whitney Tophlynn and Delilah. I'm binging October 89 right now. Gonna drop big on Monday night. I'm off work Monday Tuesday. They drop the shakedown at the spectrum. Love it. There must be some way out of here.

I will say more later. What a an emotional and incredible journey. The history. My own personal loss. The music. Such an incredible time. I have to say that the recreation was magic BUT Europe needs DSO 2022. We need to go back with the freedom to do our own thing. To recreate. To create. They need Europe 72 material but they also need Terrapin. Help slip frank. So many Roads. I will take my family back with or without DSO to some of these cities but they need DSO to bring the true Grateful Dead experience. I think us Americans showed we will come if you play. I don't know for sure how ticket sales were but I know that many from the states did the whole ride and several that live in Europe. My mom is now in Terrapin. Europe deserves it too. I love you DSO. And I love the GD. I'm on a GD binge right now. It's the only thing keeping me from truly losing it and breaking down. I shed tears every day and I'm not sure when that's gonna stop. I know I need my next show as much as I ever needed it. And I know help is on the way and we will crawl climb fall fight our way to Terrapin. The train has put its breaks on. Special thanks to Rob B. Love you brother. I'll never forget this trip.

Lisa was here in Europe. She also caught the tour flu and had to sit some nights out. We hope your feeling better Lisa. I agree that as much as I like Europe 72 it would have been awesome to hear an elective or two but contractually I don't think that was an option. This was sold as the 50th anniversary of Euro 72. If they play a 72 on the next tour and I'm there, I may just have to walk out haha. I don't think I could really do that but you have to understand the sentiment. We will see you at several stops in November.

Milan a tough town during fashion week. Couldn't get a cab from hotel to venue had to walk damn near 2 miles and arrived late. Couldn't get a cab after the show so we rented motorized bikes and rose home. It's all part of the European adventure.

Recreated 5/3/72

Paris time!!

Realistically I see us making 5/6out of these shows. Milwaukee. Chicago. St Louis. Penns peak and Huntington. I would love to do 7 of those but you know how they saying goes. You can't make them all.

Definitely have to do penns peak and if I do penns peak I will do New York as well.

Lots of high ranked teams going down week 2. This could be an interesting year for college football.

What a lucky and dirty ass win by Alabama. They don't intentionally hurt Ewers and they lose that game. You know it I know it everybody know it. Should be a new number one next week.

We were at the hotel. It all starts with the wagon. Glad I didn't hear wake the fuck up yells. Dude woke my kid I may have responded poorly I knocked the dude the fuck out. And nobody wants that. have to remember there was a day of camp inappropriate and I may have been the dude yelling wake up and rage. I need adult supervision. Still miss you herdy.

You weren't at jubilee that year they did the monster 69 show?

I'll miss you in the NW but we got the days between festival coming up and we are stoked. If you like dead music, the line up is incredible.

I like that original GD show. Nice shakedown.

The bluebird. So the first time I saw DSO there and it may have been only time although I think I did make it back once or twice after that but Frank and I were on DSO tour. We pull into town and show says it 21 and over. I'm 21. Frank well he just 20. I head to a bar across the street from the venue with a friend. Frank he heads into the venues bathroom. He proceeds to spend 4 hours in a bathroom stall. The lights go down in the venue and Frank emerges from the bathroom. Makes it through the whole show no problem. Man I'm getting old. What fun we had.

Would love penns pre thanksgiving New York post.

That looks great and I agree Tea. Only the shakedown doesn't fit.

We are in Wisconsin. Both kids. End of summer event. Sounds beautiful.

This was epic for me. Lost myself in the music and I loved the cave floor to dance on and the ambiance of the cave. I know others have posted that it was too wet for the equipment and not enough ventilation for the band. I personally loved the slightly wet smoothed and mostly flat cave dance floor. The outside venue had too much slope and uneven ground where our tickets were. I would imagine and outdoor show with no partitions would lead to the flat ground being very crowded and in my opinion loses the magnificence of the cave magic. We would of course try to go inside or outside but only inside the cave is this a must do show for me personally. And as we all know you can't make them all. Of course the band has to do what the band has to do but I will never forget the 73 I caught in the cave. Thank you DSO for bringing the magic to life.

No filler. Both kids rocked out to Samson and Delilah it was magic.

Scott crushed it. So proud of my friend.

Koritz Lisa and Eaton and several members of the crew have come into contact with the dreaded Covid. The novid band made the best of it. Another successful night in the Cave.