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    Anyone who has ever seen the Dead can testify that one of its shows will add quite a bit of color to the environment here at Stanford. Anyone who has not seen one of these spectacles should have the opportunity to do so. The Grateful Dead are an important part of the Bay Area's cultural history. Those of us who saw them last week can testify that the Dead are alive and well. The Concert Network would be hard-pressed to find an act which would bring Frost Amphitheatre to life as the Dead would. - The Stanford Daily

    As you know by now, we'd certainly have voted aye on this motion, so much so, that we've loaded up DAVE'S PICKS 49 with not one, but two complete Grateful Dead shows from the Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 4/27/85 and 4/28/85. The first shows from '85 in the series, these back-to-back hometown performances couldn't be more different while delivering the same level of passion and precision, five hours of it, in fact.

    In 1985, the band were celebrating "20 Years So Far," a feat that found them on these particular nights confident with invention in terms of both setlists and playing. There are old songs renewed, rare covers revived, undeniably nuanced Jerry moments, and a few surprises from Brent Mydland too. While it's impossible to select highlights, we can say with certainty that the overall clarity of these shows is unparalleled, courtesy of Dan Healy's recordings.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 49: FROST AMPHITHEATRE, STANFORD U, PALO ALTO, CA 4/27/85 & 4/28/85 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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    The “June ‘76” Box just might be the most under-appreciated box in the Dead canon, IMHO. The Boston shows alone are incredible, an energized band.
    I’m not the biggest Who fan, but sometimes Quadrophenia at 11 Volume is exactly what you need. I got playing it because Phish covers “Drowned” on their recent live release, and quite nicely, too!
    Last 5
    Who - Quadrophenia
    Who - Who’s Next
    Weir - Blue Mountain
    Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Just Coolin’
    Neil & Crazy Horse - Down In The Rust Bucket

    Late condolences to the very funny Joe Flaherty. RIP Guy!

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    Revisiting the '76 box currently....

    ....6.11.76 to be exact.
    Mid second set Sugar Mags into Eyes is very nice. Book it Danno.

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    Great list there, Sheik; Perky

    Saw Gillian a couple years ago with David Rawlings, outstanding concert. If we more broadly consider "country" as part of Americana, the tent is much larger. Vince Gill, good stuff, for example. The song that Plant and Krause covered, "Can't Let Go" is a personal hit, great lyrics, tune, put out there by Lucinda W on Car Wheels, a fine album. Doug Perkins moved up to Vermont years ago and performs locally and a little randomly, up in Burl and many other smaller venues, did gigs with Mike Gordon, adept on both acoustic and electric. He once tried to teach me "Good Bye Pork Pie Hat" but it did not take. Not your standard three cowboy chords...

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    RIP John Sinclair

    Pity the MC5 weren't at Woodstock.

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    country & bluegrass

    I still love country, at least what we call country music in the 70s, bands like Poco, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Flying Burritos Bros, New Riders otp sage, emilou Harris and Gram Parsons. Nearby we had Folk (Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Bod Dylan, Donovan, Incredible strings band...) wich still goes on with Gillian welch or billy Bragg;
    To me the first jerry album with the new riders stays a classic. I never heard about blue grass before Jerry Douglas & Allison Krauss, Peter Rowan, and discovering Old and inthe way, then Grisman or Tony Rice.
    Nowadays it seems like everything like Country music comes into what is called Americana.
    Elvis Costello gave a great Tibute to country music, and George Jones with Almost Blue . Johnny Cash is more like folk for me. All american recordings serie can match a small box of the dead.
    Lucinda Williams began with country folk albums, but she plays also RnRoll, and ballads.
    Only Blues don't change.
    Anyway whatever we feel with good music is better than words.

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    Doug Perkins

    Haven't heard that name in maybe 20 years. Trying to remember the band I saw him with (Smokin' Grass?), but I remember because he used to play with Mike Gordon, when Gordon did bluegrass things. A buddy from school was a Kentucky bred fiddler, and he jammed with Doug and a couple others at setbreak on Wheel Hoss and Blackberry Blossom. Thanks for that blast from the past. Guess I misunderstood on Trischka.

    John Sinclair was the man whom Abbie Hoffman advocated for during The Who's Woodstock set that led to Pete Townshend hitting Hoffman in the head with his guitar. Hoffman's ill-advised speech was at like 4am, and he said, "I think this is a pile of shit, man, while John Sinclair rots in prison for 2 lousy joints" whereupon Townshend tells him to get off the stage. John Lennon then took up Sinclair's case with a song titled John Sinclair. RIP to a counterculture hero.

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    RIP John Sinclair

    MC5 manager and so much more.

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    Trischka Consciousness

    Punful... oops, Tony not playing with Marty, sorry. Will see TT down in Maryland hopefully. That's exactly it for the Marty show, excellent musicians. Neither a huge fan of the genre generally, do appreciate Brad Paisley for his PLAY recording chops, Robert Plant hit some nice notes with AK, great players like Alvin Lee, Danny Gatton, even Roy B had some country twang. Bluegrass, newgrass, Billy, oh yeah. Next live music up, acoustic, Doug Perkins and Patrick Ross in a tiny old town hall Friday night, if it don't snow too much.

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    My attitude to country changed about 1983, when I heard an album called "Miami" by The Gun Club. Righteous stuff !

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    Not a country fan. At all. Love bluegrass, but despise country. Exceptions are Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, some Waylon. But I love bluegrass, and I know how good Stuart is. I saw that on the Paramount schedule and thought about it. I like that theater, small, but decent sound. Railroad Earth was great a few weeks back. I also caught Bruce Cockburn there, and the intimacy of the place made that a really great show. Before that, found out hours before the show that my nephew through my brother in law was opening for Daughtry there, and so we got to see him, and left before Daughtry (who's from the same hometown, and now has a mansion less than a mile from where I used to live in high school and college). Will have to really think about Marty, especially if Tony Trischka is playing with him; he was one of Bela Fleck's early teachers/mentors. Let's survive the impending snowfall first. Another foot or so expected Wednesday after hitting 60 today.

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Anyone who has ever seen the Dead can testify that one of its shows will add quite a bit of color to the environment here at Stanford. Anyone who has not seen one of these spectacles should have the opportunity to do so. The Grateful Dead are an important part of the Bay Area's cultural history. Those of us who saw them last week can testify that the Dead are alive and well. The Concert Network would be hard-pressed to find an act which would bring Frost Amphitheatre to life as the Dead would. - The Stanford Daily

As you know by now, we'd certainly have voted aye on this motion, so much so, that we've loaded up DAVE'S PICKS 49 with not one, but two complete Grateful Dead shows from the Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 4/27/85 and 4/28/85. The first shows from '85 in the series, these back-to-back hometown performances couldn't be more different while delivering the same level of passion and precision, five hours of it, in fact.

In 1985, the band were celebrating "20 Years So Far," a feat that found them on these particular nights confident with invention in terms of both setlists and playing. There are old songs renewed, rare covers revived, undeniably nuanced Jerry moments, and a few surprises from Brent Mydland too. While it's impossible to select highlights, we can say with certainty that the overall clarity of these shows is unparalleled, courtesy of Dan Healy's recordings.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 49: FROST AMPHITHEATRE, STANFORD U, PALO ALTO, CA 4/27/85 & 4/28/85 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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Submitted by nitecat on Wed, 02/28/2024 - 14:11

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We got tix for PJ at the Moda Center in Portland. Pricey tix. I guess the Jam isn't quite the advocate for the fans any more. Still looking forward to seeing them.

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Submitted by nitecat on Wed, 02/28/2024 - 14:13

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Bonnie's starting a tour and coming to Portland. Only single tix left. I guess I found out way after the regular sale.

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Submitted by daverock on Wed, 02/28/2024 - 14:43

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There's a great salty video of Bonnie playing slide with John Lee Hooker on "I'm In The Mood".
I think I read somewhere that she was also influenced by Mississippi Fred McDowell.

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Submitted by Oroborous on Wed, 02/28/2024 - 15:44

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Trying to keep word count down Requires generalities lol, for which I apologize.
Just trying to make a point about how influential the Feat guys were, but obviously I was not specific or accurate enough, thanks for straightening that out!
I just recall hearing her interviewed once where she makes a general statement about some specific stuff they taught her, but your right, not the same thing as “they taught her how” …

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Wed, 02/28/2024 - 16:36

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Spinning the vinyl edition now.

BTK’s leap year comment. My turntable has reverse, maybe I’ll spin 3-1-69 backwards for leap year.

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Wed, 02/28/2024 - 16:41

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I know nothing about playing guitar, so maybe that’s why Bob doesn’t sound all that bad to me.
Don’t know if this is true, but previously saw a comment on the Hoffman forum that Lowell taught Bob to play slide.

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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 02/28/2024 - 17:13

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My Lowell teacheth Bobby slide comment got hey nowed.

I'm sort of glad, funny as it was, the comment was written in very poor taste.

The first time Hey Now actually worked. Perhaps they are working through the bugs.

(it was funny as hell)

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Thu, 02/29/2024 - 16:46

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38 years ago yesterday, my brother and I were up at the Marin Civic Center to see Garcia & Kahn put on a knockout acoustic show. It has been officially released, and if you don't have it, get it. David Nelson & Tom Stern opened the show. After the show we went over to Berkeley to Everette & Jones BBQ. What a great time.

....found one of the first records I recall purchasing with my own money.
Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police.
I liked the cover and the name.
No skips.
Circa 1980. Checks out.
If they ever reunite, I will have five browsers open and hang out at the library down street. Just in case.
And if they play Canary In A Coalmine, look out!
My mom drove me to all the cool record stores.
Thanks mom!
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.

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Submitted by Dennis on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 07:04

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Anyone have any words on the new picture disc Experience is offering? 1980 Dead, Jerry picture on lp?

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Submitted by Crow Told Me on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 08:19

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Randomly put Blues for Allah on the turntable. Pretty sure it's the same copy I bought in the '70s,. Sounded great! Might even be my favorite studio album.

I'm going short here because everything I write that's over about 30 words gets Hey Nowed.

Suck it, Hey'ders!

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Submitted by nitecat on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 14:29

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Got tix for Tedeschi Trucks Band in Portland.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Fri, 03/01/2024 - 18:27

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....a Dark Side Of The Moon double LP on clear UV vinyl on April 5th. Only playable on side A.
Looks pretty and extremely tempting.
The 2023 remaster.
"Suck it hey'ders".
I liked that one.
No 1980 Dead on Experience's site that I can find Dennis.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 05:17

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KPFA 94.1 FM Will hold their annnual Grateful Dead marathon today from 9am pst. to 12am pst. David Gans and Tim Lynch play live unreleased Grateful tapes, have in studio guests , for 15 hours, all for a great cause. Streaming on nugs.net, gdradio.net, kpfa.org, or listen on air at 94.1 fm.

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Submitted by jonathan918@GD on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 06:00

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Broke out my steamer trunk and have been spinning 5/25/72. Managed to get two solid listens in and on my 3rd this morning, with some fine green and hot coffee!

Excellent show!!

Is this the sleeper show of the Lyceum run?

Is there such a thing as a sleeper show concerning Europe '72? lol!!

....is the 40th anniversary of Spinal Tap. The mockumentary that goes to 11.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever".

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sat, 03/02/2024 - 20:50

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....currently sitting on the dress level at The Smith Center watching Shen Yun with my son.
Chinese dance is mesmerizing.

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Submitted by simonrob on Sun, 03/03/2024 - 02:41

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Dodgy business. Shen Yun is not quite what it seems. It is banned in China and is a supporter of the orange one.

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Submitted by simonrob on Sun, 03/03/2024 - 03:33

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Finally got my copy of Dave's 49. It is certainly better than I had expected. The only criticisms that I have are that for the first few songs of 4/28 the vocals are very low in the mix and Jerry sounds like he has been gargling with gravel. Fortunately later on the vocals are higher in the mix and Jerry's voice isn't as rough. These are two fine performances overall. A good start to this year's picks.

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Submitted by simonrob on Sun, 03/03/2024 - 03:57

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A new Nick Gravenites album, Rogue Blues coming in April on MC Records. With Pete Sears. This is long overdue and eagerly awaited.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 03/03/2024 - 13:08

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....makeup clown, but it was still a good show.
They admitted that they are not allowed to play in China.
Pete Sears you say?
Current listening? What's The Use into My Friend, My Friend. Phish. 12.29.23.
Yummy.
I've also been putting work into Hell Divers 2.
I've posted my penchant re; video games here before. If any of you play PS5, my username is mental_fulcrum. Hope to see you there!

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Submitted by snafu on Sun, 03/03/2024 - 19:42

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Thanx for the tip on Nick’s new release I just preordered. Musslewhite Lester Chambers Jimmy Vivino Blumenfield and of course Thunder himself definitely looks like a keeper

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Submitted by Crow Told Me on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:19

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Somebody posted a pretty good clip of TTB playing "Mr Charlie" on the You Know Where Tube. It's hoot. Check out Derek's solo: that repeated figure and then the loooong bend to start the second chorus: oh hail yeah.

BTW I did get tix for Berkeley (June 1) and Red Rocks (July 26). See yas there.

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Submitted by gratefulgerd on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 11:42

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That's quite some time getting #49 to NL?
Was it from your subscription or a la carte?
Anyway, glad you got it!
I was positively surprised of both shows, musically and quality of sound!
Cheers G.
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Waiting for the 'Biergarten Season' to start (only about four more weeks for reloading).
Wishing all of us a 'never ending summer'!

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Submitted by simonrob on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:02

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It did take a long time to reach me, every step of the way. I think it crossed the pond in a rowboat. Once I had paid the Dutch customs it took another12 days before it got delivered. The whole world is going to shit.
I have a subscription.

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Submitted by nitecat on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:25

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I've been editing some old footage of Jerry at Electric on the Eel for Dead Head TV, and it inspired me to dig out my JGB Eel River Cd box. I listened to 6/10/89 set one last night while cooking dinner, what a great recording and performance! Stay tuned, I'm releasing some JGB at the Eel soon on dreamswedreamed dot com.

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Submitted by nitecat on Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:27

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We just got Todd Rundgren tix for July at Revolution Hall in Portland. Psyched! Then the very next day kicks off the 3 day Riverfront Blues Festival. Woo Hoo!

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Submitted by Danehead on Tue, 03/05/2024 - 08:43

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I think the bonus-disc with MH will be the "left-overs" from 6/22/74, that were not on the bonus-disc with vol. 34 (one of the great ones BTW..) BW from Copenhagen

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 03/05/2024 - 09:58

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....I finally got smart and took a PTO day. Afterwards, planning on heading the The Sphere and hope for a Phish ticket at a decent price. We shall see.

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Submitted by Thin on Tue, 03/05/2024 - 11:56

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Hi All - I haven't posted here forever, haven't been keeping up with the dialogue but on a few topics....
- DaP49. Dig it. Jerry's voice is toast but MAN they could play, and I love all the quirky song choices and bust-outs. Fun stuff.
- Bobby on slide: Ouch. How can a guy who's so inventive and melodic be so bad on slide, and never seem to improve, at all? Duane became a virtuoso on slide after like 9 months. After decades, Bobby still sounded like... that.
- I have been playing "Guess the Year" on podcasts. They put on a show for a minute, then ya gotta guess the year. Very fun and a cool way to apply all that useless info we have in our heads from years of listening.
- Going to Vegas' phere for Dead & Co. Can't wait.
- Looking forward to DaP50 5/3&4/77. Setlist on 5/43 looks unremarkable, but those shows can be sleepers...
- What will the box this year be?
- Oh yeah, I got fat drinking too much beer during COVID. Recently trying diet and exercise return to form and live up to my handle. Getting there.

Hope y'all are well and that Space and RV3 (80's fans) are digging DaP49

Vguy good luck with the Phish tickets. Then you can tell us all about the Sphere.

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Submitted by Gary Farseer on Tue, 03/05/2024 - 14:36

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today, harder than ever to post. does it hit different days for different people?

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Submitted by Gary Farseer on Tue, 03/05/2024 - 14:38

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Stoked for Electic on Eel. Still one of my weakest touchpoints.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 03/05/2024 - 16:07

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....needs to change his username. Ba-dum-dum-tssss.
Re RSD, it seems that there is going to be a 40th Anniversary Zoetrope picture disc of Dio's Last In Line. I had no idea what a Zoetrope record was, so I youtoobed it.
It's going on my list.

George Bross of GDP merch, “Big Bross Man”.
I only met him a few times, but my cousins knew him well.
He seemed like all the crew folks: professional, good dude, unless you unintentionally mess up the merch semi at Shoreline on 96 Furthur fest tour and thus deservedly get summoned there for an “informative session lol. Actually, considering, he was pretty cool about it!

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