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abcs · (#551)

Cow Palace on 1974-03-23

First Cassidy first Scarlet. good stuff.

Illuminati · (#552)

Hell yeah think i just got my ticket to burning man and am going to be going early to rage it up and help set up fuck yeah

**shai** · (#553)

Don't forget to pack some sunblock....after all, your pasty complexion isn't exactly ideal for playa living.

Illuminati · (#554)

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Originally Posted by shai (View Original Post)

Don't forget to pack some sunblock....after all, your pasty complexion isn't exactly ideal for playa living.

Well why don't you give me a call I just got two fire extinguishers I wanna go play with this week.
Also I'm not worried about the sun, I have it from good sources that, that little problem is going to be dealt with and we are no longer going to have to worry about the big ball of fiery death in the sky anymore.

abcs · (#555)

Boston Music Hall on 1973-12-02
for the playin->space->MLB->jam among others
no where near alive in 73 but its shit like this makes me almost wish
i dropped out of the 1st grade and caught 88-92

abcs · (#556)

late jerry lost some tone - 92 and on but early on the man was like butter shot with WD40. Will never cease to amaze me. 79-85 pissed off on stage half the time scowling. Rest of the band probably looking for any excuse to call him out for his dope. He kept on point probably trying to prove em wrong & he lost something in the process.
University of Oregon on 1993-08-21 That SOTM. After jer crushd the solo... that "BE WITH YOU" ::the magic:: almost suggested he was no where near finished.

**shai** · (#557)

HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY JERRY!

Grateful Dead - 8-13-75 Help On The Way / Slipknot / Franklin's Tower

**theme from the bottom** · (#558)

Missed you in ATL, abcs. We went to Charlotte too, so they could redeem themselves after Lakewood. Heading to Denver after work.

bdee652 · (#559)

infrared roses

**shai** · (#560)

Have you heard "Grayfolded?"

morton · (#561)

morton · (#562)

Just noticed that Furthur is playing Seattle on the 25th. Trying to decide whether or not to take the day off work to attend...

Friend of The Devil · (#563)

i'd say skip it unless you plan on just doing the lot..

morton · (#564)

I think the lot would be shitty at this venue which is a theater attached to the football stadium.

I dunno, taking a day off is a pretty big deal at work.

The last time I went to a post Jerry dead thing I was pretty let down but that was over a decade ago.

**shai** · (#565)

Can you go after work?

Illuminati · (#566)

dude go to the show, eat lots of drugs, have fun, and if you can't get in worst thing that happens is you are stuck partying on lot all night long.

morton · (#567)

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Originally Posted by shai (View Original Post)

Can you go after work?

I work from three to eleven, so I could maybe try to cut out early and swing by but figure to really go I would need to take the day off.

Doors at six show at seven thirty I think.

**theme from the bottom** · (#568)

Sadly, I'd recommend going to see DSO before Furthur. Everything I've caught post-Jerry has been a disappointment. I mean, sure, there's the lot, but........yeah, the lot.

Illuminati · (#569)

Don't listen to theme on this one, especially since further has the guitarist from DSO playing with them now. I've seen some awesome shows and some not awesome shows it depends on the incarnation of the band, and the night. I will say i've definitely been skipping the shows the last few years since they haven't been impressing me but that might be due to me seeing them far to many times.

**shai** · (#570)

I saw DSO at Hardly Strictly last year, and my impression was that they're technically proficient but not inspiring. Furthur just doesn't sound right....it's not so much the lack of Jerry so much as the lack of transitions that I would expect to hear. Maybe it is the lack of Jerry...there's definitely an ineffable quality that's not there.

I've never seen or heard The Other Ones or The Dead, so I can't comment on them but I imagine that it's more of the same. Might be wrong but I doubt it.

I listened to Legion of Mary and Reconstruction the other day.....kind of bummed I missed out on that for so long. Didn't someone link some Reconstruction here at one point?

Illuminati · (#571)

Oh yeah from the SF shows, came the fuck up friday night

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**theme from the bottom** · (#572)

Both of your posts point to a lack of Jerry, brahz.
Shai, The Dead, and The Other ones are all the same as Furthur, + or - an original member, a fake Jerry or some other guitarist who doesn't gel with the band quite right. DSO is definitely not inspiring, I mean, they're a cover band, after all. They're good for what they are, though. I'd still go see them over an unpredictable Furthur who plays either too slow, disjointed, or once in a great while actually go somewhere. I linked a couple Reconstruction shows in here a few pages back.
I got your text, illum, wish I could have made it to the SF shows this year, that pass looks like it would have made it all the funner.
It's Phish only for live, improvised, psychedelic music, these days, imho. The Denver shows are some of the best I've seen them perform since 98. Top notch stuff. Time to start planning for New Years.

**shai** · (#573)

It's like a vegan grilled cheese or a vegan BLT- the person offering it to you can tell you it's good, and everyone around might be enjoying theirs, and maybe it's not really that of a bad sandwich after all....but on almost every level of sensation you know it's not the real thing.

**theme from the bottom** · (#574)

Bingo.

RALPH LAUREN · (#575)

http://youtu.be/bnIUq2s8HKc
dead 4ev
luv jerry merl.
what a mellow jam.
listen guys.