Okay, it wasn't ALL roses...
One of the subjects that came up behind the scenes the other day was how just about everybody had a particular song (usually found in the second set) that they regarded as the perfect opportunity to beat the restroom crowds, purchase another overpriced water bottle, or decide whether they just had to have that T-shirt. The perfect opportunity, in short, to be anywhere but in the hall listening to the tune.
In classic Deadhead fashion, it also came out that the same tune that sent one person running for the exits was the show's high point for another. So it goes. What's your experience?
my sister in law, who turned me on to the Dead when I was a teenager, has so many that I wonder if she actually likes the band at all. For her, it's Ramble on (to the bathroom) Rose, It Must Have Been the (Time to go pee) Roses, Desolation Blow, Half-Step to the Lou! I mean, I guess I can understand the slower stuff, though I LOVE IMHBTR, but Half-Step and Ramble On Rose! What is she talking about? (Love her anyway :)
Usually sends me to the bathroom. I always called that song the "set-killer".
"It's got no signs or dividing line and very few rules to guide"
During St. Johns Band too.. ???
"It's got no signs or dividing line and very few rules to guide"
No offense intended. To each his own. Like you said, it is all good. Just surprised, that's all.
"Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own."
Sorry but Dark Star is not my trip, it is okay because the Dead sang it but I never got in to it. I perfer Trucking, China Doll, St. John 's Band and up lifting songs like that. Never could get into Dark Star. But it is what it is and it is all good.
It pains me to even imagine a world where Dark Star would be used as an excuse to pee.
Even the bad ones, um, er, less than stellar ones, were so ripe with "potential" that to walk away would be unbearable.
Wow. Shows how subjective this whole ride is.
Timing a bathroom break to Dark Star? Really? Really? No, you are just being sarcastic, right?
"Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own."
If i had a call of nature I would go to the bathroom when they started Dark Star because it was so long, they still would be playing it when I got back.
Ship of Fools>China Doll.....long enough for a pee and hit the t-shirt booth...
that caused lines at the bathrooms were the same at Furthur as GOGD
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cowboy songs - pick'em