ATTN: Dead Heads

Anytime someone posts that without more information I get a sick feeling.

 

Like a steam locomotive, rolllllling down the track...

 

........

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRapyEORGfA

 

Back in Terrapin, for good or ill again
For good or ill again

 

And the tight jeans. Jer'd be wearing cargoes today. Or not.

 

I love those guys, and really miss Jerry....
When they had an off night I used to say nobody plays bad as good as the Dead.
I don't care how it sounded as long it was them playin.....
No matter where I am in the world, I can put on some headphones, listen to a show and I am transported back to my old home town, 'somewhere in San Francisco, on a back porch in July'.
Great times on my back porch on Schrader St with a cold one and a rolled one, playing unplugged back in the day.

Also miss Keith and Brent - miss Ron McKernan 'pigpen' too, a true blues man

 

Sweat pants

 

Jerry had one of the best band situations ever for a soloist: if he wasn't satisfied, he could just extend the solo until he liked what he'd said. Ideally it's what I like, a band that knows to follow what I'm doing and let me breathe a bit more until I'm happy.

I read a criticism in RS once where a guy said Jerry was a good soloist but didn't know where to quit. I say, he did it right. Not what you were after? Try again! The audience won't mind, they'll just dance.

 

How do you hide your money from a Deadhead? Put it under the soap!

 

Small world after all:
I was born in Alameda, (grew up in SF) we are the same age, and we both have one of these:

 

Coulda been!

I didn't have a lot of money, back then, but free shows at the park and a few paid shows too.

Berkley Community Theater, Warfield, Winterland etc, KPFA did the rest for me.
I've had that '72 since '78 - I was a bass player in the early 70's and it was a solo by
Phil that made me go back to school and learn music theory....after I scraped my jaw off the floor!

 

Uh oh. Got that bad feeling. Bobby just cancelled every upcoming engagement, through January.

Bob Weir & RatDog Cancel Remaining Tour Dates

 

quite a bit of cynicism in the comments following that article. i just hope bobby's okay and safe at home.