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  • Drumhead
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    Awest Please don't dominate the rap Jack if you got nothing new to say It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago It all rolls into one and nothing comes for free If you got a dollar boys lay it on the line I have spent my life Seeking all that's still unsung I'm having a high time Living the good life May the four winds blow you home again
  • johnman
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    ive been jumping back and forth reading the posts in this newest debate and i must say....to piss tigerlilly off is quite an accomplishment....so i have to ask....awest do you, have anything positive to say at all? it's a fair question i believe.
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    As if I have anything to say about it.......How about one set singing and the other just tambourine and twirling? Sending out good vibrations to everyone here. See you at the Colliseum!!
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    All ya'll (and you know who YOU are) get n touch with me before the show and i PROMISE it'll be magical
  • C-HAWKS
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    I have a feeling that what little seats that are left at Shoreline and MSG will get snatched from brokers and scalpers..I am curious to see the listing prices after the 23rd when the demand is higher..I miss the old days when you camped out for tickets and where rewarded for your patience and time..Met some great people over the years standing in those lines
  • grateful daddy
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    all the haters stay home. If you choose to attend, please check the tude at the gate. I also flipped out at first over the prices and scalpers scooping up most of the good seats, but I'm over it. Is what it is. I'll be happy to jump into a seat closer than mine left empty by an unsold scapler ticket. Just looking to have a good time and hope you all are too.
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    Tom Kelly always not fadeaway,, so many memories about doing the mail order,, doing art work on the outside envelope,, bold letters.. hoping for good sets, so it goes,,the pre sale was nutty for sure,, I was able to connect for good seats nassau, so so for msg..was ready to shoot for another show,,but when I looked at my dollar total,, had to shut down. pay the mortgage or see another show?. hope the mail order works out for all cant imagine there would be anything left for what they call general sale but we shall see.. bring back Donna Jean!!!
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    I don't get all the negativity. The Core 4 have decided to reunite. Is it for the money? NO. Is it for us? Partially. Is it 'cause they found that magic again and want more of it? That's my guess. $100 a seat and people are griping? Go see the withered Don Henley and the mishmosh of musicians he's calling "The Eagles" these days for less than $200 and your seat will be in the bathroom. The Rolling Stones' cheap seats are $190....and don't forget - they don't have all THEIR original members either. $100 is just fine by me. I can't understand the bitching and complaining. If it's too much, don't go. If you'd rather see the pale imitation, aka DSO, for $30 - enjoy 'em! They're great at what they do - a wonderful imitation of the Grateful Dead. To me, it's "Gratefulmania," but I'm glad they're helping keep the music alive so nicely and with such attention to detail. The world needs them!For these 4 guys to patch up their personal differences and see them palling around in those videos - it's simply wonderful. The vibe is great. I'm just gonna steer clear of the negativity being spewn from people who simply just "don't get it." And when I say that, I say it wholeheartedly. You haters may have "gotten it" long ago, but you lost it somewhere along the line. Personally, I believe this could be the last time. I felt the magic in State College. Their listening skills were honed in and the collective brought it - with force. I'm dropping out for 5 shows. I'm a father of 3, full-time employed and only income in my family. There's no way I'm missing some of this magic. Even if they DO another tour, I'm done. This is it for me and I've made my peace with that. Certainly if they come to my backyard - I'll be there....but my touring days end after this tour. I'll be pickin' my acoustic in the parking lots and I'll be a 22 year old all over again....nothin' left for this 40-year old papa left to do but smile, smile, smile... ~ Pappy http://www.theCAUSEjams.com "Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right." - Robert Hunter
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    Would have definitely gone that route, except that using a credit card is the only way I can float this right now, which they aren't taking for these shows, so...... Hope everyone who did mail order comes up smiling! Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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    Back in the 80's I got beat up by some drunken bullies in the parking lot of the meadowlands. They broke a beer bottle on me and kicked me around for being a "stinkin hippy"! I felt so sorry for them. I had just seen 3 amazing shows and was on a musical high like I had never imagined possible. Their limited minds would never allow them to understand how amazing things the hatred they felt would not permit them to get. I honestly never even felt anger towards them. Send out love and that is what you will receive. Peace. Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his sandals. That way when you do judge him, you are a mile away and have his sandals!
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The band says Happy New Year with an announcement of almost twenty shows in April and May.  More details to come!

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Id love to hear like a 20 minute Viola Lee Blues! That would be heaven sent! Phatmoye
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a peaceful lot scene is what it's about. the last tour in95 (especially deercreek) was filled with local kids not into the music just looking to get F'd up on anything and start fights. and the nitrous mafia needs to be run out of any lot...when they have head sets, guns, leather jackets, and wads of cash they aren't looking to make gas money to the next show
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Scarlett Fire opener good lovin, queen jane.. Now that was special Second Year Red Rocks aucostic second set opener in the "pouring rain" was not too shabby either ;)
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It's funny you mention that Red Rocks show, I was there and I have the show on my computer and was listening to it just the other day. Opening with Scarlett was excellent but the Fire was terrible - who was singing that, it had to be Rob Baracco? It sounded like he was trying to rap Fire on the Mnt. YIKES! But then a couple of nights later he sang (I think it was him) Here Comes Sunshine and it was pretty good. I guess the moral is don't rap GD music please. "Everybody's braggin' and drinking that wine, I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines. Come to daddy on an inside straight, well I've got no chance of losing this time"
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Sure that Fire on the Mountain rap wasn't Mickey? He has been known to do that. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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I don't know that is a good question. We were sitting way in the back that night and I just can't picture in my head who was singing plus it was almost 6 years ago. I am going to listen to it again when I get home tonight and see if I can figure it out. "Everybody's braggin' and drinking that wine, I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines. Come to daddy on an inside straight, well I've got no chance of losing this time"
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It was Mickey. It was when I saw TOO do it in 02. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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Actually now that I think about it Mickey did the same thing with TOO in 98. I bet you guys are right. But would Mickey sing Here Comes Sunshine too or is the Fire rap his only singing duties? The voice sounded the same. I am intrigued with this now. I need to get home and listen to that show again! "Everybody's braggin' and drinking that wine, I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines. Come to daddy on an inside straight, well I've got no chance of losing this time"
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Dunno bout HCS but he usually also takes Aiko... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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ok... dream setlist part 2 Help On The Way... with Jerry jamming and floating on a lightning bolt above the stage Slipknot... w/ Jimi joining Jerry Franklin's Tower... with the rest of the band rising up to to the lightning bolt that turns into a rainbow! Little Wing... instramental with Jimi and Jerry and Duane Allman joining Me & Bobby McGee... duet with Bobby and Janis Viola Lee Blues... with the roof actually blowing off! 40 minute Lovelight... with Pig joining Feedback... with a Band of Angels singing break set2 Dark Star... with everyone above during a full Lunar Eclipse and the stars dancing along with the music... Oh and with TC, Keith, Brent, Vince and Hornsby joining St. Stephen... with all the Merry Pranksters on kazoo! The Eleven... with everyone in the audience going backstage Drumz... introducing Mickey's new 50' beam and 15' drumz Space... with Kesey & Bill Grahm riding in on a UFO as Father Time and Uncle Sam The Other One... with Phil's intro lasting 5 minutes and 'The Bus arriving on stage with "Cowboy Neal at the Wheel" Stella Blue... with a lone blue light on Jerry Playing in The Band... with everyone getting on the UFO and flying off into space Terrapin... as we all fly by the Moon and head to Venus JAM!!!!... hardcore, heavy duty, rippin' for about 30 minutes... and then slowing down and back into... Dark Star... verse 2 as we land back on Earth Sugar Magnolia... for a good old rockin good time! Brokedown... with John Lennon joining We Bid You Goodnight... with the rest of the Beatles joining Knockin' On Heaven's Door... with Dylan joining Elvis annouces the end of the show The band gets on the Bus and drives off! Ok... it was just a dream!
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That Mickey won't sing, that Phil won't sing. I'm softening on Phil though...he didn't sound half bad this summer in Charlotte. Let him pick his spots...
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it was posted earlier that jerry didn't want to hafta tell folks what ta do....but he did....i remember video clips of him, shit eating grin, voicing a tongue in cheek "behave yourselves for god's sake!!" with either phil or bobby by his side.........'course it COULD have been a hallucination
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Parking lot owned by venue owner. Too much trouble (to the Man's eyes) in parking lot and too much media about what goes on and too much publicity and pressure put on venue owner maybe not to have band around or other events and venue owners tell this to band. I can't imagine that parking lots have been declared a free zone where anything goes. We did have it good in many places though. It's all politics and business even if you hate politics and business. The Dead are a business and work in a political world with rules and laws and pressures. After we leave the venue owners still need to deal with the local power system long after we are gone and they are going to want to not have big hassles with that system and to keep having music events to make $. reality can suck If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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I.Whats Become Of The Baby>Mountains Of The Moon>Whats Become Of The Baby>Operator>Whats Become Of The Baby>Till The Morning Comes>Whats Become Of The Baby>Strange Twisted Feeback>Evil Snake Music Space Jam>Star Spangled Banner II. Siitin' On Top Of The World>Cold Jordan>Swing Low>Cumberland. Drumz>Close Encounters Space>Anthem For The Common Man>It's A Sin>I Just Want>Okie From Muskogee>Pride Of Cucamonga Enc.: Aiko-Aiko>New Orleans Enc. 2: US Blues It was a bad trip but Bill Munroe and Barak Obama intervened.
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Wow some pretty powerful stuff Drumhead....I'd say, I follow that tour ;-)____________________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!
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I read some complaints about ticket prices. I am not talking about the sharks but the official price of about $ 100,- We thought that was very expensive. We live in Holland and we just bought tickets for a concert of Ry Cooder and Nick Lowe. We had to pay $ 160 per ticket. I thought that was expensive. Then I realized that we paid only 2/3 of that price for a concert of the Dead. That put this price in a different perspective. Ship of Fools
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Hey all, just seen that there was 1,666 replies on this topic. I didn't like the number so I thought i'd post a coment to change it.Phatmoye
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1st - regarding Fire on the Mountain "rap" - listen to the Rolling Thunder LP version - I think that's the first place it appeared - Mickey "raps" on it there.2nd - about Jerry never telling people what to - ever hear him (and the “Other Ones” ;) tell people to back up from the stage? Dangerous behavior which might hurt people is not part of the trip, in the show or in the parking lot. Also – my vote is for a summer tour at outdoor venues with opening acts like maybe Blitzen Trapper, Umphrey’s McGee and an acoustic set by Robert Hunter which could morph into an opening acoustic set with boys… just pipe dreamin’ ...
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I thought Bobby said that alot during shows because he was so strung out on coke in the late 70s early 80s? "If you all just take a step back, your friends up front won't look so horribly bug eyed" LOL, but yes, dangerous behaviour was not the deads intensions at all. I don't agree with all the nitrous balloons in the lot (because, lets face it, its flamable) but as far as everything else goes, the parking lot is what turned me on to the dead. I never knew of the underground hippy world till I went to my 1st show in 91, and guess what? I STARTED IN THE PARKING LOT, Now don't get me wrong, if I had a choice to stay in the lot or see the show, id take the show, hands down.Phatmoye
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I thought Bobby said that alot during shows because he was so strung out on coke in the late 70s early 80s? "If you all just take a step back, your friends up front won't look so horribly bug eyed" LOL, but yes, dangerous behaviour was not the deads intensions at all. I don't agree with all the nitrous balloons in the lot (because, lets face it, its flamable) but as far as everything else goes, the parking lot is what turned me on to the dead. I never knew of the underground hippy world till I went to my 1st show in 91, and guess what? I STARTED IN THE PARKING LOT, Now don't get me wrong, if I had a choice to stay in the lot or see the show, id take the show, hands down.Phatmoye
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Great stuff! "If your dreams die,you die"
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Absolutly cant wait, I have so many shows I want to go to but dont know which one's to choose, I think the happiness will last for a long time I really needed this.....cant wait to receive that miracle...........oxoxo
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Hey now Phatmoye....I understand what your saying at the shows, not into nitrous anymore. It does start with the Parking Lot(s). We can all come together, forever and ever, if we make it to the promised land, walk together little children.....you don't ever have to worry. Through this world of trouble, you've got to LOVE one another. And that's takin each brother by the hand, try to help him to understand, we can all be together, forever and ever, when we make it to the promised land. Dude, this site is sometimes slow, so just click once, it will go through. Then you don't have to double post. <<<>>> ____________________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!
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Can I say I like that version? Yessssssssss I can. Off topic? Grrrrr Sorry,............. give it a listen. Thanks for the venue, pick up my own trash, as well as what I can carry...on my way out. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS You know It's gonna get stranger, let's get on with the show
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HUNTER ACTUALLY WROTE FIRE FOR MICKY TO SINGJINGLE - FEW GOOD MEN MC - NEW YORK
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He's been around as long as the Dead. He's one of the best guitarist/songwriter/singers of my lifetime. I just got 3 rd row seats to see him in a nice theatre (I do hate arenas)...for $39 including all those fees. Richard Thompson...if you don't know him, you owe it to yourself to check him out. I'm not begrudging the $100 I spent for the one Dead show I get into my schedule...just saying that there will most assuredly be magic onstage with RT, at a price I can still afford without debate and handwringing and gnashing of teeth. Of course, there will be no Lot, just an evening of sublime music. Sold!
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RT is great. It sounds like he is playing solo this time around. I am hoping that his tour comes my way, or at least within 600 miles on a Saturday. He is worth the drive. You can't compare his ticket prices to the Dead though.
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Hey has anyone else purchased via Consider it Dan and if so have you recieved any emails from them about details ? We purchased a delux travel to MSG and have yet to have any official contact from Consider it Dan. We recieved confirmation from Music Today for the purchase but nothing further. I've sent a few emails to "Dan" but no reply. I'm just edgy about it being a "done deal" since we have not gotten feedback from them and since the package is now - Sold Out. Thanks in advance for any comforting words or input. I can't freakin wait - this is gonna be some fun, wooohooooo!
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I was mostly speaking about the vibe and atmosphere at the venue, i seem to remember Mickey rapping or maybe that was another show. did you see the Ratdog show at RR a few years ago with Kimock and then the next night in NM?
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"Alcohol is prohibited in all public areas of the Arena. Alcoholic beverages may only be consumed in private suites, The Lexus Club, and Courtside Club (members only)." Hmmm, i hope thats just college sporting events. I'm not looking to get smashed but i do enjoy a beer with my music.
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CIDan says consider it due by 3/17. They should be in contact with details.
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I was at the ratdog RR show but not NM. RR was a magical night and I heard that NM was good too. Between you and I it was one of the greatest Grateful Dead related shows I have ever witnessed. I love Kimock on guitar he blows Warren away in my opinion. I just think he is more suited for the Dead music than Warren and that night at RR proved it. "Everybody's braggin' and drinking that wine, I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines. Come to daddy on an inside straight, well I've got no chance of losing this time"
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I think that one of the reasons why Warren Haynes was picked is because he sings. I have nothing against Phil, but his voice always sounds monotone to me.
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I say this only with friendliness and affection, but man, you need to take a nap!Don't you know that the Nat'l Sleep Institute says that you need 7 -9 hrs a night? You don't want to be running on empty when the band gets to town :)
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I thoroughly approve of you first set list - I'l lkeep my fingers crossed!Did you see Ratdog at the Orpheum in November? They did a superb Bertha that we're listening to right now. We sure were lucky to get a Bertha!
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Discretion,safety,and respect.That is what was always the hallmark of this great culture. It's what they are all about. Turning on you all to a magical dimension, of sounds, sights, smells and experiences...both physical and mental. And ,as this site and the longivity of their music continues to inspire and cultivate ,it has an impact on the mind, body, and soul, that impacts many peoples of this wonderful planet. Life is a parking lot. and without the three basic above path's...the best of humanity will park somewhere else...and that would be a shame. life is a parking lot.
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may you enjoy the warm and wonderful folks that assemble around this grate campfire.peace,pk
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Thanks for the warm welcome. Pretty cool site. Looks like it will be Rutherford, Philly, Verizon, and Denver shows will be had. I can't wait
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Yeah that makes sense Warren does take some of the singing toll off Bobby. A song here or there of Phil singing is fine but yeah we don't want to overdo it :-) On another note, I see that Fleetwood Mac is $145 at the Pepsi Center. Man, I feel pretty damn good about my $94 Dead tickets! "Everybody's braggin' and drinking that wine, I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines. Come to daddy on an inside straight, well I've got no chance of losing this time"
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Thanks rosa, :)Finally passed out. Got a question??? Does anyone know if the spectrum sells alchol inside? I know they don't have drive-throughs in P.A. and that you have to go to a state liquor store to get beer. Phatmoye
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used to .. but it has been a few years since I have been there
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You're right, I shouldn't compare RT solo ticket prices to the Dead....and it all just evens out anyway. I spent $190/ea because my wife wanted to see the Eagles, then was broke when the Dead announcement came out a couple of weeks later. Was nice to come back down to earth price-wise with Richard Thompson--I can see one of my favorites without busting the bank. Now I have to figure out how to wedge Springsteen tix into the mix....
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Just took a peak at "those" sites, OMG! If nobody bought tickets from them then they's get dumped at reasonable prices, as they sometimes do. I hope everybody who wants a ticket gets in for whatever they can afford!
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See alot of new heads arriving. Lets give them a GREAT BIG FAMILY WELCOME! :)The show must go on! Phatmoye
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Marico Mobley is going to take his motor home out from San Francisco and wants a couple of riders. Marico is the “Meat on a Stick" guy from the late 80’s, early 90’s, with the white “Mobley” bus. Nice guy. He doesn’t have a computer, but he is going to be at the show at Ashkenaz in Berkeley this Thursday 2-5-9. Good music, 9PM. Or you can call him at (415)374-5950.I can’t seem to find the Dead ride board. Is this the best place to post this?
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Maybe YOU had to much to fast, HE just came to play guitar...... Meadowlandschris
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we also have a Ride Board topic in the forums, so you might want to post there too.
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Love Love Love Love issss all around us!Anyone remember NRPS opening for the GD, Winterland? How about John Cipolina sitting in on New Years? OK, how about the rolls/buns, magical tasting snackssss served on the way out at 4AM or so? .......Smoking a joint outside waiting for tickets, and the cop says, "let me have a hit"....??? I loved the whole experiance since I was 15. "We Are Everywhere" You know It's gonna get stranger, let's get on with the show