DSO

Paul and I look like old people.......
Nikki, Nikki, Nikki....you are so fun!!!!

Well I can't find the setlist from last night...but it was an awesome show.
Dark Star Orchestra is one of my favorite bands..........
Always a good time.
I will put the setlist on this post when I get it.
Namaste'
Michele

Show: 1650 • 02/25/2009 House of Blues Cleveland, Cleveland, OH Setlist: 7/25/74 - International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL Set 1: Me & My Uncle, Loose Lucy, Black Throated Wind, Loser, BIODTL, Sugaree, Mexicali, Brown Eyed Women, El Paso, Row Jimmy, WRS Prelude> WRS Part 1> Let It Grow> Around & Around
Set 2: Scarlet Begonias, Big River, Roses, Jack Straw, Dark Star> Slipknot> Stella Blue, Johnny B. Goode, Uncle John's Band> U. S. Blues, Saturday Night
Encore: Ship Of Fools
"Filler:" You Ain't Woman Enough



"Don't throw anyone out of your heart." Neem Karoli Baba

DSO will be in Cleveland!!!!

Using entire shows from the Grateful Dead's 30 years of
extensive touring as a launching pad, Dark Star Orchestra
recreates the original song for song performance set list
for an entirely new generation of, as well as old school,
Deadheads. Dark Star Orchestra presents its critically acclaimed
live show at esteemed venues from coast to coast and internationally.

Dark Star Orchestra performs Grateful Dead classics
in the same way that an orchestra interprets music of classical composers.
The composer spirit is derived and channeled
as the players capture the excitement and innovation
of the original performances and compositions.
Touring nationwide for nine years to the tune of nearly
1500 shows since forming, the band's determined commitment to
"raising the Dead" has drawn national media attention.


Dark Star Orchestra -
Recreating The Grateful Dead Experience
at The House of Blues. February 15.
Doors open at 8. Show starts at 9.
Tickets on sale NOW at the House of Blues box office,
or online at www.hob.com/cleveland. Advance: $22.50 Day of Show: $25

Is this Bobby Weir?

Is this Bobby????
No....but it looks like him!!!! Rob Eaton could pass for him anyday...in looks and sound!!
We are going to go see Dark Star Orchestra tonight.
They recreate dead shows. I will post the setlist tomorrow.......

check at the bottom of this post....the setlist is there.....What an awesome show!!!!!!!!!!!!.

RE: Dark Star Orchestra
There are a lot of cover bands around and a lot of those are Grateful Dead cover bands. You've seen them, they're good. Most include the music of Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir et al with other cover songs and some originals mixed in. DSO is a different breed of "Dead" band. What Dark Star Orchestra does is recreate the Grateful Dead. Not with hippie wigs and fake beards but through the live music. They play the setlist song for song in the same arrangements used by the Dead members of that period. When you're at a DSO show you may really be in the Providence Civic Center back in May of '81. Or you could even be at the 1973 Denver Coliseum show listening to Weather Report Suite. Who knows?

Actually no one does and that's part of the trip. The date of the show to be recreated is kept secret right up till the performance. Oh, there are clues (the number and placement of microphones, the keyboard setup, a midi guitar) and the secret becomes part of a game. Usually the audience in front starts throwing out guesses toward the end of the first set. The wiser observer waits for the start of the second set to venture a showdate. Sometimes a curious look comes over the faces of the audience as they realize, "Hey! I was at this show!" followed by a smile as they realize...they're at the show again! Remember: This is an exhibition, not a competition. So please....no wagering! The original showdate, for those who are DEADBASE-impaired, is announced at the end of the night usually followed by an extended encore of the band's choosing.

Even the press has caught on to what they're trying to do. Rolling Stone did a feature piece on the band in its June 20th, 2002 issue and USA Today says DSO is "channeling the Dead." Relix Magazine also did an in-depth feature article on the band in their Spring 2000 issue (Vol. 27 No. 2) and the Washington Post declared them "the hottest Grateful Dead tribute act going" but what they do is not just a tribute to the Grateful Dead but a testament to the enormous number of unique setlists they performed in their long career. Dark Star Orchestra takes the framework of the original setlists and sees where it can take them.


2/2/o7

Happy Friday.....Happy Ground hogs day.......WHAT AN AWESOME SHOW LAST NIGHT.



Show #1,353 - Thu, Feb 1, 2007 at House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
Performing 4/23/1983 Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT
1:Alabama> Greatest, Candyman, Minglewood, Tennessee Jed, Lazy Lightning> Supplication, Peggy-O, Far From Me, Music
2:Scarlet> Fire, Sailor> Saint> Drumz> Other One> Wharf Rat> Throwing Stones> NFA
Encore: Saturday Night> Brokedown
Filler: On The Road Again
with special guest Dan Klepinger