See my post after the show, including pics, here.

I was randomly listening to Cities 97 on my way home from work on Thursday, incidentally traveling down 35E instead of 494 because of a warning sign that told me that there was a major delay at the Wakota Bridge which ended up saving me over an hour of sitting time, and they mentioned that Dark Star Orchestra would be performing at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in February 2008.

Now, I’m a *huge* Grateful Dead fan and love listening to their shows to this day. Dark Star Orchestra is basically a Grateful Dead cover-band that performs entire Grateful Dead concert set-lists for their shows. I have downloaded a few DSO shows in the past (if you’re interested, you can check out their stuff on archive.org here. Sometimes I really believe if I closed my eyes and pretended really hard, I could be sitting stage side watching Jerry strumming out some killer Bertha or Jack Straw himself. DSO does a great job at recreating the majority of the magic the Dead did on stage (well, minus the intricacies of their extended jams which they just can’t seem to master) and even so I’m usually not much into their shows with ticket prices usually in excess of $40/ea. While I would probably pay that if Jerry came back from the grave to play, I would think twice if they were alive today — no one should command those types of prices. Anyway, this show at the Guthrie (where I have only geocached in front of, never been inside as Aaron has and took some excellent photos, especially this one which is just gorgeous) cost only $20 + fees.

I’m pretty excited to see them play as I haven’t heard any live Dead-ish stuff since I went to see The Dead (the remaining members of the Grateful Dead along with some others) play in Chicago back in the summer of 2003.

If anyone else is going let me know and we can stand in line at the Will Call booth freezing our asses off together ;)

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