{"id":4040,"date":"2012-05-09T02:02:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2012-05-09T02:02:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:02:01","slug":"tuesday-night-late-touch-of-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/05\/09\/tuesday-night-late-touch-of-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"tuesday night late &#8211; touch of gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ackkkk.. ALMOST 2 am and just back from a great Dark Start Orchestra show at Higher Ground. DSO is a&#8230; no make that the est Grateful Dead tribute band that has ever exited Honestly They sound more like the Dead than the Dead did, I;ve been attending their shows for nearly as long as I went to Dead shows.. .. and that;s saying something. As I was dancing tonight I realized my first GD show was 36 years ago. Something to think about !\u00a0\u00a0 I was there with my buddies Gary Forrest, Paul and Andrew.. and ran into many other friends in the audience.. there were many 20 somethings.. and many about my age&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0812\/IMG_8358.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0812\/IMG_8362.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0812\/IMG_8360.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0812\/IMG_8363.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0812\/IMG_8367.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0812\/IMG_8369.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0812\/IMG_8373.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0812\/IMG_8375.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0812\/IMG_8378.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/may0812\/IMG_8387.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The band generally plays a complete Dead show from a particular date and place.. so the song list is fixed. I cheated and looked up the songs they played and realized that this was a show from Charlotte NC in June 12th of 1991..\u00a0\u00a0 The first set was splendid&#8230; some of my favorite songs.. (Peggy-o, Althea, hell in a bucket ).. the second set started with &#8216;Touch of Gray&#8217; .. a tribute to being older\u00a0 .. That song has special meaning to me as I used to put on that song and swing all three kids around in the air as we danced to it. Sam loved it most.. he called it &#8216;swing around music&#8217;.. I remembered being at Higher Ground listening to DSO not long after Sam died.. and they played that say song. Touch Of Gray;.. as I did then.. I broke down and cried and danced at the same time.. felt very good and sad at the same time..<\/p>\n<p>Live music clears my head and opens my heart.. I hope you all have live music in your lives.,,<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ackkkk.. ALMOST 2 am and just back from a great Dark Start Orchestra show at Higher Ground. DSO is a&#8230; no make that the est Grateful Dead tribute band that has ever exited Honestly They sound more like the Dead than the Dead did, I;ve been attending their shows for nearly as long as I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/05\/09\/tuesday-night-late-touch-of-gray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">tuesday night late &#8211; touch of gray<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[488],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-touch-of-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}