Freaker Scene: 2-3-2010 Dark Star Orchestra @ the Varsity Theater

2-3-2010 Dark Star Orchestra @ the Varsity Theater

Ever since moving to Minneapolis at age 18, I have noticed that this has always been a Grateful Dead town. That said, it remains today & this evening of the music playing the band via Dark Star Orchestra all in the spirit of the Dead.

The 1st set was reported to be remarkable & thrilling by friends on the scene. The 2nd set was musically impressive & vibrantly dance centric. The Varsity is a fave cool venue for me & for this is was sold out completely packing in more than 800. Though wicked crowded, the crowd along with DSO commanded a nice mellow fun bouncy vibe throughout.

The scene was psychedelic. The nite was electric.
The final set blew wide open with a convincing “He’s Gone” flashing me back the the old days of touring with the good old GD. Some of the other standout moments for me during the set were the trip spinning “Dark Star”, a seal the deal “Sugar Magnolia”, swagger fuelled “Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad” & delicately complicated beauty “Ripple”. Spacy, all out rocking, cosmic ballads, obscurities, stories, cowboy songs... this show had it all.

Me & Mike Z.. the coolest friend ever
who 1st brought me to see the Grateful Dead

DSO live is always a fun dancercize Jerryatric style freakadelic hip happening. Catch them live if & when you can. Visit DSO: darkstarorchestra.net. Play (with) dead.

"Rockin' The Rhein" 4-24-72

*FreakNote: The GD show that DSO were recreating here was the famed 4-24-1972 from Dusseldorf, Germany. There’s a GD release of this show called “Rockin’ The Rhein”.