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I watched Animal House again last night, haven't watched it in a while. Still cracks me up. All day the dialogue has been running through my mind, causing me to chuckle to myself, causing my wife to look over and say "WTF is wrong with you?" A question that I have heard before, and to which I still don't have a good answer. It's good to be easily amused.

.... disappointed by bad notes, muffed lyrics AND off key singing? Once again, losfer words.

Nice Animal House reference. Ha!

Thanks for your reply. No snark intended on the "adult" comment. I'm only a couple years older than yourself, so I probably should have written "older adult with too many responsibilities." For anyone who's got a nice home system AND the time to sit and listen to this in one sitting: good on ya! Looking forward to that in my retirement years...

I read your initial post Mr. Heartbreak and I didn't find it to be overly harsh, just an expression of your personal opinion of the release that you had listened to so far. The comment about not being able to listen to the full release like many of the "adult deadheads" seemed a little snarky - is the implication that I am a child because I had time to listen to the whole release? I mean, my wife will probably back up an argument that I am a teenage boy trapped in a 50 something form, so no real offense taken. I will be curious to know what you think of the release once you have heard the whole thing. No one should take offense at your expression of your opinion, but, you shouldn't take offense when people offer their own contrary opinion in response. And everyone should take themselves just a little bit less seriously.

The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.

The jam out of Truckin' sounds like a lot of things, but it didn't sound like Dark Star to me. Some peak '73 jazzy stuff in the Jam, and the whole of disc 3 was a smoker, but the Dark Star was a short one. Of course, I wasn't taking notes or anything just listening as I did other stuff, so I might have missed something.

It's a pretty typical Donna night, at least in the first set. Second set might not be as bad. Phil's bg vocals, per usual in this era, are hit or miss.

Never fails to amaze me how many folks see an honest assessment of a board tape--which was never intended for official release by the band--as negative if noting that the show is less than perfect. I used to buy the hyped up comments by DL and here, and start salivating before a release hit my mailbox...then I'd be disappointed by the plethora of bad notes, muffed lyrics and off-key vocals.

It's not a terrible release by any means (see DaP 27 for that), but I'm actually performing a bit of a public service by forewarning folks who don't have their copy yet that this is far from a perfect performance. Funny thing is, I made many positive comments, including on TLEO, Here Comes Sunshine, Bobby McGee, and Loser. Those don't get mentioned because, after all, I didn't write a gushing post, "Oh, wow. This is so great! Every tune is excellently well-played. Top Ten everything! Thanks, Dave," blah blah blah.

I don't post on here often, and that's the reason. Anything other than unadulterated enthusiasm for every tune must be countered with "I love it all" and "It's all good, man." Freaking exhausting. People really need to lighten the fuck up and realize that not every opinion is a personal attack on their little nirvana.

Awesome, it’s like they custom made that logo just for you! Sweet!

....I need another tee like a hole in the head, but certain things must be owned. Purchase confirmed. Avatar changed accordingly.

Thanks for posting the time on Dark Star and Jam. I was looking forward to an answer on that, since the guy who boasted about having it first played dumb when it came to answering that simple question. Maybe it the whole Jam is like a typical Dark Star without the Dark Star theme in the beginning, so altogether it will feeel like one big Dark Star 😱