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Hello and welcome to my new website!  I am very happy to be able to offer you a one stop shop for listening to and supporting the podcast.

Here you have access to all of the previously released episodes.  In addition, you can find out about all of my sponsors, who make it possible for me bring you this podcast.  These are all great companies, even greater people and fantastic products.  Please support them in any way you can.

 There are also links to what is going on in the world of Dark Star Orchestra…..and this blog!

I will be posting a new entry with every episode (and possibly more).  Each blog post will bring you insight into the making of the current episode, info and links about what each of my guests have going on (please show them some love) and any other musings that may come to mind. 

 Such as……..

 Boy, is it great to be back at work.  I have missed playing and travelling so much! This past weekend we were in New Jersey, where we have many great friends.  It was so amazing to see them and be together for the first time in over a year.  We played what might be the windiest show ever on Friday night.  It was a steady 25 and gusting up to 35.  Luckily that was less than the forecast.  It was calling for sustained 40 and gusts up to 60.  We were on the precipice of cancelling all day long.  Lots of monitoring the onsite weather station.  We would have rescheduled for Sunday, but nobody wanted to do that for numerous reasons.

Financially, it is difficult for us as we have to pay the drivers for an extra day, book another night of hotel rooms, extra crew pay and per diems, and change airline tickets. 

For the promoter, it would have been much worse.  An added day of venue rental, stage, crew, security, catering, police and ambulance, etc. would have turned this into a losing venture on their side.  The last thing we want as a business, is to have the people who pay us end up losing money and a postponement would have meant that for sure.  Thank you weather gods!

Personally, I did not want it to happen so I could make it home on Sunday and be with the family on our 12th anniversary.  I did and we had a great day.

The shows were a lot of fun.  We are so happy to be back that the energy on stage is super high and really helps elevate our playing.  I thought we played very well all weekend.

I was also able to get in a couple of rounds of golf with a very good friend and that was the icing on the cake.

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….And by giving you won’t just be supporting the pod.  A portion of your contribution will be donated to  The Rex Foundation, the charitable Non-profit  created by "members of the Grateful Dead and Friends" to "proactively provide extensive community support to creative endeavors in the arts, sciences, and education."

This is a labor of love and it is an honor to have these conversations and share them with you. I hope to be able to continue this for a long time

 Thanks for listening!