Franklin Music Hall 12-30-2025, Philadelphia, PA

[PoetryGirl]

I will do my best to reconstruct what I can as I was in TSA line, the longest I’ve ever seen. Rivals none. 
 

i walked in missing the start. Dedicated to Brian Tenzin. 
 

Scarlet 

Birdsong

Chinatown Shuffle 

Booby McGee 

You Aint Woman enough

Cumberland Blues

Dancing in the Streets (with the Super Mario super star charged interlude)

Sittin On Top of the World
Pride of Cucamonga

Hard to Handle

He’s Gone

Saint Stephen

Drums ( Dino single drummer show)

Saint Stephen

William Tell

The Eleven

Death Don’t Have No Mercy

NFA->
GDTRFB->
NFA 

 

E: Woodstock (Barraco)

 

greasy as promised 😉

 

 

[Greg from Chestertown]

Operator in the first set. 

[Greg from Chestertown]

U S Bluz

[Greg from Chestertown]

The race is on

[Rbarracoph]

Mr Charlie

[Mango]

DSO 12/30/25

Franklin Music Hall

Philadelphia, PA

Elective Setlist — Dedicated to Brian Tenzin

Set I

Scarlet Begonias

Mr. Charlie

The Race Is On

Birdsong

Chinatown Shuffle

Me & Bobby McGee

You Ain’t Woman Enough

Cumberland Blues

Operator

Mama Tried

U.S. Blues

Set II

Sittin’ On Top Of The World

Pride Of Cucamonga

Hard To Handle

Dancin’ In The Street

He’s Gone>

Saint Stephen>

Drums>

Saint Stephen Reprise>

William Tell Bridge>

The Eleven>

Death Don’t Have No Mercy>

Not Fade Away>

Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad>

Not Fade Away

E: Woodstock

[PoetryGirl]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 
For it all!! . This trip for materialized on Monday!!

Soaked up the time, the music and the chance to have a hug/ dance fest.  It lifted me up! We all got lifted up, I could see it, the heads surfacing above water and maybe full whale breach, playing  in the musical waters and that is the real juice . I have to agree with Glory that Brian was celebrating his graduation. Danced with everyone’s spirit in remembrance and in real time and it was selfishly rejuvenating.  I needed the respite. 

 

I didn’t think I would have spaced a Mr Charlie or even the race is on!  I walked in on Birdsong. 
 

so glad i made it! 
just wish i had met Greg. 
 

love you all

 not fade away

 

 and happy new year to you!

[Greg from Chestertown]

I couldn’t agree more. I had a feeling that it was going to be a special night because of Eaton being back. Rob on keys announcing beforehand that every note of tonight’s show was dedicated to Brian was just like telling us that the cake we smelled baking in the oven was going to get chocolate icing. I’m just going to assume that I knew him. I was up front all night. Surprisingly, plenty of room to dance. Such an enjoyable set list. The musicianship that I was fortunate enough to recognize was simply incredible. I pretty much stopped dancing and just watched. Operator was a showstopper for me. Lisa’s gentle harmonica playing, whispering in my other ear, towards the end of that one, was priceless. It’ll turn your head around. The singing on the race is on/birdsong, US blues buried in a set list, Pride of Cucamonga and it’s rubber stamp of an elective set list, Eaton’s playing on Hard to Handle, Dino on the snare drum at the beginning of his solo, Saint Stephen on, obviously , Woodstock indoors,  all worth mentioning. Skip’s bass,  somewhere in the home stretch, well, I could feel it in my feet. The set list coming back to me the way it did is the ultimate barometer for trying to put into words the experience that I had. Given a couple more days or weeks, I would have remembered Mama Tried. Clearly, with the energy and musicianship, there is no end in sight. 
   So, I have been eating a lot of crab cakes lately. That got me knowing the young man serving me these in the grocery store. He asked me how my Thanksgiving was. Long Story short, he bought his Dad a ticket for the Philly show for Christmas. They were there.

If you’re ever stuck behind a tall guy with a shaved head at a show in the future, it’s all my fault. Dad had never even heard of Dark Star before. At half time, he told me he gave the show an 8 1/2 out of ten. I told him, you’ll be ten out of ten by the time they’re done with you. I didn’t see them afterwards but I am certain that he had it done to him by the Dark Star Orchestra. I know I did.

[chuckvegas]

My thanks to Scott Bixby for the videos he sent me sharing glimpses of the magnitude of that show. There were a lot of familiar faces dancing in the Death one. Beauty helping to ease the deep, deep sorrow.

 

If I had the world to give I’d gladly be with you all. But since I don’t, I will wish each of you a Happy, Loving, Joyful New Year. You are stardust…

[PoetryGirl]

Twas 

i would have brought a rug for you to dance on , Chuck. 
💗

[chuckvegas]

12 hours ago, PoetryGirl said:

Twas 

i would have brought a rug for you to dance on , Chuck. 
💗

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Greg from Chestertown]

We’re going to have to carpet that place. I just got back from the grocery store and talking to the crab cake kid. (I’ll learn his name later. It’s not important yet) his eyes were popping out of his head, still this morning, after the Philly show. He couldn’t thank me enough for turning him and his dad onto Dark Star. He said his dad gave it a 9.9 out of 10.(dad saw 42 shows from early eighties on.)  One tenth of one point taken off because he had to stand on concrete for four hours. True story. Dad was also looking up tickets for his next Dark Star show before the encore. 
                        Love is real

                      not fade away