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Ya get a nickel back...

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when you put a $1.25 on the bar for a beer at the Bear Ass in Blossburg.

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A and I went to the Dead show at HSBC last night - stayed out dancing until nearly 4am at Nietzsche's :-) (Of course the property maintenance people decided 9:06 this morning was a good time to check out the water damage from Monday's rain.)

We went to Pearl Street for dinner. We shared the sampler - I liked the Sabre's Edge double IPA and he liked the Lighthouse and Raspberry Stout:
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Cute bear cookies available in Shakedown
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I'm so pleased to have finally gotten a picture of the Peacemaker first aid bus.

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And the show was great!
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I tweeted the set list (but this is just a copy from the email I get with the set list the morning after every show)

The Dead (Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart,
Bill Kreutzmann, Warren Haynes and Jeff Chimenti)
HSBC Arena, Buffalo NY
Tuesday April 21, 2009

Promised Land
They Love Each Other
Mama Tried
Loser
Smokestack Lightning ->
Stella Blue
It's All Over Now
Big River

Playing In The Band ->
Me And Bobby McGee
Loose Lucy
Ramble On Rose ->
Drums ->
Space ->
Maggie's Farm ->
Eyes Of The World ->
Playing In The Band (reprise)

Donor Rap
Truckin'


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💬 8 comments

  1. jenks ·

    how did I have no clue there was a Dead show last night- yet it seems that 95% of my friends were there?

  2. metalpeter ·

    When I first saw the Blog Name I thought it was about a Different Band. They Picked that as there name cause when they worked at a Coffee shop everything ended up 95 so they would all ways say here is your nickle back. Glad you had fun. Staying up having fun till 4am is all ways a good time when it can be done.

  3. tinypliny ·

    Wow - that looks like a weirdly blue milky way.

  4. drew ·

    If there was a Bear Ass bar around here it would definitely be a gay bar.

  5. james ·

    I am the dumbest man alive, no really, hear me out on this one.

    I heard "The Dead" were coming to town for a few weeks now, and I kept wondering who they were. Seeing those bears I suddenly realize it wasn't The Dead, it was THE Dead. Doh

  6. tinypliny ·

    The Grateful Dead? Do they really have such a huge cult following?

  7. heidi ·

    @tinypliny - yes, they do have a huge cult following, even 14 years after Jerry died. :::link::: An ex of mine had over 1300 hours of live Dead, plus Phish, Jerry Garcia Band, and other related projects. My first show was 6/6/92 at (what was then known as) Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, NY.

    Last night I sat next to a kid who was at his first show. I had some balloons in my pocket and blew one up - he got very excited, "I would pay you money for one of those!" I handed it to him and he said, "I don't know if I can get the knot out of it." I asked him why he'd want to do that and he looked embarrassed so I said, "There's no nitrous in it. I just blew it up in front of you."

    @drew I hear the owners are nudists. There is also a stuffed back end of a black bear on the wall next to the bar.

  8. tinypliny ·

    Wow. Are you a certifiable deadhead? :)

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