saw DSO the other night

leftwinger57

First off I get to the venue and I'm horrified at throngs of filthy hippy types selling all kinds of sh$t just to get into a show to see what amounts to a cover band. Even in my worst days I never looked that bad. I'm in the theater and I'm amazed at the amount of gear and the quality of it. It looked like when the Dead pared down their Wall Off Sound the left overs were given to these dudes. For the gear heads out there they had Hard Trucker cabinets, the lead had a McIntosh 2300 like Jerry, keyboards were an electric Yamaha and a Fender Rhodes and bunch more stuff. They come on and the crowd stands en mass and didn't sit down the whole show. Now being at my age I go to a theater for a seat not to stand ala festival style, that went out 30 years ago. Musicianship was superb and they actually sounded better than the Dead did on an off night. They also had all the mannerisms down and even the lead looked like a fat Jerry. By far the best pro type cover band I'd seen and certainly the best Dead cover band ever. Since I got knocked out of Chicago and Santa Clara shows real Dead shows this at a 18th of the price was well worth it.

PSOVLSK

I thought you went to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

dromunds

A few years back, wasn't the guitarist in DSO so good that Phil Lesch hired him for his own band?