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Speaker 2: with Rob Koritz with Dark Star Orchestra. He's one of
Speaker 2: three Robs in the band. They're going to be in
Speaker 2: town tomorrow. Rob, How in the world did that happen?
Speaker 2: Is that a prerequisite to be in the band? You
Speaker 2: got to be a Rob?
Speaker 1: No? But actually at one point our road manager was
Speaker 1: Rob too, So we have four of us on. It
Speaker 1: gets a little confusing, but you know, we handle it.
Speaker 2: There you go. Now, you're going to be in Soue
Speaker 2: Falls tomorrow, September second, at the District in Sioux Falls,
Speaker 2: And I've got a lot of folks that are super
Speaker 2: excited to see you, and I've not had a chance
Speaker 2: to see you guys yet, so this will be a
Speaker 2: first for me. But I've been told that it kind
Speaker 2: of reminds people of like a Grateful Dead experience. Is
Speaker 2: that by design or it just kind of happened?
Speaker 1: No? I mean that's what we do, you know, putting
Speaker 1: out the trying to recreate the experience the best you can,
Speaker 1: you know, playing the music just true to the phone
Speaker 1: as we can give people a little taste of what
Speaker 1: it was like. Excited to come to Sioux Falls. Actually,
Speaker 1: this will be our first time in South Dakota and
Speaker 1: this will be the final state we need to play.
Speaker 1: This is number fifty, so we're pretty excited about that.
Speaker 2: Well, that's awesome. So tomorrow night is the night. That's
Speaker 2: really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, looking forward, it's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: So how long have you been performing with Darkstar Orchestra?
Speaker 2: When did all this come together?
Speaker 1: The band started in nineteen ninety seven, really, I guess
Speaker 1: only well, technically none of those original members are left.
Speaker 1: I started in nineteen ninety nine, a couple of us did,
Speaker 1: so I've been there twenty six years.
Speaker 2: That is awesome. And is this something that you always
Speaker 2: kind of thought you'd do, Like when you're a little kid,
Speaker 2: did you go, this is what I'm going to do
Speaker 2: with a bunch of other robs?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, No, I mean I knew. I knew
Speaker 1: from very early on that I wanted to be a
Speaker 1: musician for a living and playing music. I happen to
Speaker 1: love the Grateful Dead. I did a lot of other stuff,
Speaker 1: as all of us and the band did a lot
Speaker 1: of other stuff. But along the way, we were all
Speaker 1: playing Dead tubes at the same time as we were
Speaker 1: doing our original bands and jazz gigs and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: you know, this came. This was kind of a happy
Speaker 1: synchronistic thing that we all found each other and were
Speaker 1: able to perform this music as well as we do
Speaker 1: together and you know, keep it together for going on,
Speaker 1: coming up on thirty years. So it's we've been very lucky.
Speaker 2: And The Grateful Dead was an amazing band. And the
Speaker 2: thing that's interesting is they did things kind of their
Speaker 2: own way. They marched the beat of their own drum,
Speaker 2: didn't they.
Speaker 1: Oh, they certainly did, and in every aspect of it musically,
Speaker 1: business wise, the way they toured, the way they treated
Speaker 1: their crew, the way they treated their fans. They let
Speaker 1: people tape their shows, which is like a huge no
Speaker 1: no in the rest of the industry. Yeah. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they were definitely a unique animal, for sure.
Speaker 2: I had the opportunity to read a book. It was
Speaker 2: called Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead, and I mean
Speaker 2: just the title alone. The title alone made me go, Okay,
Speaker 2: I got to read this and it was like a
Speaker 2: tied I'd cover. It was just a fascinat ever heard
Speaker 2: of the book before, but it was a fascinating.
Speaker 1: I read it and I've read it.
Speaker 2: Isn't it great?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean there's so much, especially now with Debt
Speaker 1: in company, which is the surviving members and John Mayer
Speaker 1: and all that keeping it alive as well. But the
Speaker 1: Grateful Debt is so it's its own cottage industry, you know,
Speaker 1: there's just yeah, the marketing aspect, the business aspect, the
Speaker 1: musical aspect, the merchandising aspect, it's the communal aspect, which
Speaker 1: is the most important part. It's it's it's really its
Speaker 1: own little cottage industry for sure.
Speaker 2: And you had mentioned the taper section that they had
Speaker 2: and they would let people come and record, but they
Speaker 2: had like a special area to do it because they said, hey,
Speaker 2: if you set up over here, it's going to sound
Speaker 2: the best. Like a lot of shows you go to.
Speaker 2: If you're recording, you get kicked out. I mean, how
Speaker 2: crazy is that. It's so different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they wanted, you know, the Garcia Jerry
Speaker 1: Garcia said it best. You know, I played the music
Speaker 1: and once I'm done with it. Once I play that song,
Speaker 1: I'm done with it, So leave it out there for
Speaker 1: everybody else. They were always like that, you know, and
Speaker 1: they knew people tape and they liked it that this
Speaker 1: was happening because it's spread the music even sure, you know,
Speaker 1: to have more people. So they said, well, if they're
Speaker 1: going to do it, let's help them out. And they
Speaker 1: set up the taper section right in front of the soundboard,
Speaker 1: and you know, respected the people that we're going to
Speaker 1: do that and help them. People music widespread across the
Speaker 1: world for everybody to.
Speaker 2: Hear, and a lot of the recordings that are out
Speaker 2: there today are taper recordings that you know, some person
Speaker 2: somewhere set up a recorder. And how how grateful are
Speaker 2: the grateful dead fans that that music lives on because
Speaker 2: of that?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, I mean it's a it's a
Speaker 1: phenomenal resource, you know. I mean, that's how out of
Speaker 1: high school, that's how I got turned on. There is
Speaker 1: people trading tapes and going, hey, you got to listen
Speaker 1: to this. You know, these famous live recordings that got circulated. Well,
Speaker 1: I you Julie Well got me into it.
Speaker 2: Rob Koritz one of the three Robs with Dark Star Orchestra.
Speaker 2: They'll be in town tomorrow night, and I encourage you
Speaker 2: if you don't already have a ticket, get a ticket,
Speaker 2: come out and join us. It'll be a fun time.
Speaker 2: It's at a place called the District in Sioux Falls,
Speaker 2: and Rob, You're going to love this place. It's a
Speaker 2: great venue and there's like an upper deck and a
Speaker 2: lower deck and people no matter where you are, you
Speaker 2: got a good seat, if you're upstairs or downstairs, all
Speaker 2: all very good seating. And I'm excited to see the show.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be really fun. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much for chatting with me, and thanks for coming
Speaker 2: to Sue Falls tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: Our pleasure. We'll see you tomorrow, Thanks so much again.
Speaker 2: Darkstar Orchestra in Sioux Falls at the District tomorrow night.
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