Bob Weir on How The Grateful Dead Got Its Start | The Big Interview 

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50 times?! Damn.

I buried my husband in his favorite cat-in-the -hat tiedye. His mother was probably horrified, but there was no way I was going to send him off in a suit & tie. His best friend put in his coffin ticket stubs from his first Dead show at Chicago's Uptown Theatre in the late 70's. ...sigh...

@@CuzKatieSaysSo thats is just how we felt

​@@CuzKatieSaysSoI'm so sorry for your loss 😢

I'm sorry for your loss. What a great gift. Wow! Excellent.

And I bet he was grateful for that. Blessings 🙏🏼

They are the gold! ✨

(He really does look like an old prospector, though. I actually thought that myself! Lol!)

I think both Garcia and Weir ( here ) have said the Beatles ( specific 'hard days ... ) was a heavy influence in rocking roll.

6:13 6:22 6:27 present something with authority to bypass the prejudice of your audience

Were they really even a "rock" band though?

@@c.a.t.732 so my argument to that is. They covered Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly over 1500 times.

​@@c.a.t.732I sum it up as folk, country, psychodelic, bluegrass, spiritual and rock. Let me know if I missed anything? ⚡💀🍄✌️🎶

@@c.a.t.732 If you ever went to a Dead show, you'd know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, Yes, they started as a jug band but they played rock and roll and are the mist amazing musicians 😎🎶🎵🎵🎵😎

@@debbiemurray1496 I approve this comment 👍 I saw the boys from '85-'95. From Chicago to DC to Birmingham to Louisville and everywhere in between. I live in Cincinnati so of course here and my favorite Buckeye Lake.🎶💀🌹⚡☀️🌜

Nope, Charlie Brown was 🤓🤡🚀

I agree, but I also consider him as being somewhat of an early precursor to punk and hellbilly.

Bored me too

We all dig the studio versions. Like any band-live versions go farther.when you dig a band and their catalogue of songs you explore the complete output of live and studio. Any band. Any day. Listen to what you like. Life is quick

The Dead didn't play 45 minute songs; they played 5 minute songs followed by 40 minutes of endless, mind-numbing noodling.

Saw them twice. Dozed off once. Someone once described their songs as an half-hour of discordant tuning. That's somewhat unfair, but I get it.

@@Bass_Playa_Two_Point.O I guess if the band was all f*cked up on acid and their shows consisted of endless noodling, playing out-of-tune, and off-key singing - which, to me, is really the essence of the Dead - if their audience was also high and tripping, they wouldn't have even noticed. I think that was their "secret sauce", so to speak. I saw them once back in the early 70's, and was pretty bored. I heard a great crack from Dan Hicks (of the Hot Licks) who said during a live show, "Excuse me people, but we need to take a minute to tune up. We're not the Grateful Dead, you know; we can't play for nine hours without tuning up. We're not that good!" The audience was laughing their asses off!

The most ridiculous comment in the history of RU-vid.

If you only knew.......

Jerry Garcia, during an interview, once compared the Grateful Dead to eating black licorice. Not everyone likes black licorice but the people who do, REALLY like it. And I f'ing love the Grateful Dead.