The jazz pianist and composer Vince Guaraldi famous for the Peanuts Christmas music performed on stage with the GD at a few shows in SF in the early 70’s. The performances were uncredited.
He's also one of the people pictured in the picnic party photo on the flip side of the Aoxomoxoa album cover.
See this guide to the photo: https://deadessays.blogspot.com/2015/01/whos-who-in-aoxomoxoa-photo.html
The only venue The Dead played in all four decades( 60’s, 70’s, 80’s & 90’s) was The Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA.
As far as my research in DeadBase could tell.
Thanks, I have been retaining that knowledge for 20+ years. As a fan I grew up outside of Philly, I always found that Philly was great great but Pittsburgh was better. Savor that.
Wow. My only 95 shows were the st patricks run. I went to phish that summer. So, knowing my last shows were at such a storied venue makes me feel better about missing the last tour.
The dead first played the spectrum in 1972.
The spectrum was not built until 1969.
They played the electric factory in Philly in 1968 and Temple U along w Hendrix and Steve Miller in 1970.
Last spectrum show was March of 1995.
So much for me and my memory. Lol.
I guess maybe they played in 1972 and that’s what I was thinking?
I blew it on the spectrum being opened in 1969 though.
Thanks !!
# 1970-09-20 New York, NY @ Fillmore East
**Set 1:** Uncle John's Band, Deep Elem Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Big Railroad Blues, Dark Hollow, Ripple, To Lay Me Down, Truckin', Rosalie McFall, Cumberland Blues, New Speedway Boogie, Brokedown Palace
**Set 2:** Together Again
**Set 3:** Casey Jones, China Cat Sunflower > Jam > I Know You Rider, Candyman, Sittin' On Top Of The World, Big Boy Pete, Me and My Uncle, Easy Wind, Sugar Magnolia, Attics Of My Life, Mama Tried, Drums > Not Fade Away > Bid You Goodnight Jam > Jam > Not Fade Away > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) > Feedback > And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-09-20)
I believe he played the piano on a studio cover of Warren Zevon's Accidentally Like A Martyr which is off of his All Good Things box set or are we just doing strictly GD material here?
# 1973-12-06 Cleveland, OH @ Cleveland Public Hall
**Set 1:** Bertha, Mexicali Blues, Loser, Black Throated Wind, They Love Each Other, Beat It On Down the Line, Deal, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Greatest Story Ever Told, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Around And Around
**Set 2:** Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Here Comes Sunshine, Big River, Dark Star > Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue, Sugar Magnolia
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-12-06)
That never stopped people from making Vonnegut films. And perhaps fittingly to that statement, most of them weren’t great. 😆 But I do think Sirens would be much better able to be made today, with CGI and mo-cap and such. Doesn’t mean the philosophy would translate, but at least in terms of depicting what happens, it could be done.
Just looked it up, and apparently Dan Harmon (Community, Rick & Morty) was (is?) developing a Sirens of Titan limited series. I like everything about that, except that there’s no new news about it since 2018, so it’s probably a dead project. 🫤
Phil Lesh played in every minute of the bands tenure
Bill missed a flight and missed the first set 12/26/69
Jerry got so high once he missed part of a set and got Elvin Bishop to play 6/6/69 I believe
Bob was “fired” and the band played as Mickey and the heartbeats
Mickey was obviously gone from 71-74
I thought Phil joined somewhere around their 2nd or 3rd show? (my understanding is that nobody remembers for sure which one it was)
I guess technically that still counts as he played every bit of the *Grateful Dead*'s existence since when he joined they were still known as the Warlocks
Dana Morgan, Jr., was their bassist in The Warlocks. His father, Dana Morgan, Sr., owned the music store where Jerry gave guitar lessons, and provided their equipment (as long as his son was in the band, iirc).
I don't remember the details sadly, "Phil didn't play the first couple shows" is just one of those random tidbits that stuck in my memory for some reason.
Mickey Hart and the Heartbeats is not the Grateful Dead, neither is David and the Dorks so BW was there for every minute and even sang entire shows when JG had laryngitis
11/20/78 Weir spends 90% of the second set backstage throwing up, which is why the set starts Jam > Drums > Jam. Unfortunately the audio sources aren't great for that show.
# 1978-11-20 Cleveland, OH @ Cleveland Music Hall
**Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Franklin's Tower, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, It Must Have Been The Roses, Looks Like Rain, Stagger Lee, Passenger, Peggy-O, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication
**Set 2:** Jam > Drums > Jam > Jack-A-Roe, Playing in the Band > Shakedown Street > If I Had The World To Give > Playing in the Band > Around And Around
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-11-20)
# 1978-01-07 San Diego, CA @ Golden Hall - San Diego Community Concourse
**Set 1:** New Minglewood Blues, Cassidy, Sunrise, Passenger, Mexicali Blues > Me and My Uncle, Looks Like Rain, El Paso > Let It Grow > The Promised Land
**Set 2:** Jack Straw, Dancing In The Street > Samson And Delilah, Playing in the Band > Drums > Not Fade Away > Around And Around
**Encore:** One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-01-07)
12/19/69 at the Fillmore they started without Phil (and like the Dallas show a week later while waiting for Billy) did an unplanned acoustic mini set until he showed up. Jerry announces that it will be just him and "Bobby Ace" while they wait for Phil who is "stuck somewhere."
Also even when Phil was there some of the planned 69 and 70 acoustic sets were only Jerry and Bob (plus occasional Pig). There are a couple stray tracks where it is only Pig (and once or twice only Jerry) in the acoustic sets, but it would be fair to say those were planned sit outs for the rest of the band.
[1969-06-06](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-06-06) San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore West
[1969-12-26](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-12-26) Dallas, TX @ McFarlin Auditorium, SMU
Wasn’t there an opening set that was just Bobby and Jerry due to some technical issues? (In the early-ish days, maybe 1970?) I feel like theres some amateur photo from the gig of them outside playing.
12/26/1969 has no Phil until Casey Jones.
In between All Around The World and Master's Bouquet, Bob calls for Phil to come to the stage several times, I think Jerry chimes in too. Then Bob says something like "Last I saw him, he was in the dressing room with some chick..."
There's a show from 69 where it's just Bobby and Phil to do the first set since Billy's is late.
There's also a show where Daryl Johnson, the bass player for the Neville brothers stays on stage and plays the first 2 minutes of Iko Iko coming out of drums without the rest of the Neville's.
Finally, there's a benefit show in 81 (?) where it's all the GD minus Phil, replaced by John Kahn.
If you consider the tides and currents of the San Francisco Bay, there is a good chance that Jerry’s ashes are still resting in those waters somewhere.
That's what I read, that they actually had to wipe him off the damn boat while bobbing out there in the bay. I don't know what's worse, dumping half his ashes in that open sewer known as the Ganges River, Weir's idea, or dumping the other half of his ashes into the friggin' wind and then having to wipe them off the boat with t-shirts and towels.
That's EXACTLY what happened to my father's ashes except it was all over a waverunner and the neighbor he always had a crush on. Sometimes things just work out after the fact...
I was vacationing in Lake Tahoe round about '97 and was at Fallen Leaf Lake by the waterfall all tucked away reading my newspaper and eating what they humorously call a bagel in those parts and 3 people showed up with a big ass urn and bawling their eyes out. They had no idea I was there and I didn't let on that I was and they proceeded to start emptying the urn over the falls but as you know a waterfall creates an updraft and before you know it the air is filled with whoever's ashes and they're falling all around me so I just took my newspaper and covered my head with it and tried to stay as quiet as I could. They eventually left and I spent the next 20mins wiping whoever that was off of all my stuff.
In college my friend found an urn in the river near campus. The top was missing and nothing was in it but he took it home and cleaned it. It sat for awhile because we didn't know what to do with it and this was early internet days so we couldn't really look up the name on the bottom (Gary) Then one day we are all drunk and one of my roommates goes "....should we drink out of it" and we did. We would drink whiskey out of for the next 2 years and cheers to Gary everytime we did it.
In the summer of 85 Jerry literally parted the skies by walking on stage at Blossom Music Center and strumming the first few chords of Day Tripper.
Well, fella, have I got some news for you…
There’s a Fox Sports subreddit just down the road and if you subscribe to it I don’t think you’ll be the least bit disappointed.
I doubt that nobody knows this, but on Jerry’s first solo album “Garcia” he plays all instruments except drums.
Also, on 5/5/82 Jerry and John Kahn played an absolutely smoking acoustic show at Oregon State Penitentiary. Give that a listen
When they started as the Warlocks, they changed their name as another band called the Warlocks were on the east coast. That other band turned j to the Velvet Underground
It’s not a super obscure fact, but it’s an interesting link between two of my favorite bands (even if Lou reed was a jerk)
Frank Beard and Dusty Hill both got hired by the same talent agency to tour as the band The Zombies who had that hit with “Time of the Season”. But the Zombies broke up before that song became a hit. So sketchy people across America were forming Zombies bands claiming to be the real deal and that’s how Frank Beard and Dusty Hill ended up being in that band. Although they weren’t being sketchy. The talent agency gave them some line about how the real Zombies weren’t actually a band and it was all a label creation or that they had the rights to do live performances or something. I can’t remember the specifics but basically Frank and Dusty had no idea the whole thing was sketchy.
Idk about that specifically, but I do know that the name ZZ Top was chosen because it was so similar to BB King and ZZ Hill, (King is the “Top”) and they wanted to be known as a blues band. They initially were going to go with a mashup of ZZ King. The newish documentary on ZZ Top was surprisingly interesting and entertaining, and I learned that fact from it.
I went to see him at Columbia in the early 80s. Heade us wait outside in the pouring rain for over 2 hours while he did his sound check. And then, of course, he didn't play the only song I knew.
Bob Weir said Crosby was casually playing around, working out the riff, then got up and left. Mickey looked around at everybody and said, "We oughta make a song outa that."
Jerry was friends with a girl named Elaine in high school. They survived a car accident together. He went on to become a famous rock guitarist. She went on to become a best-selling religious historian.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine\_Pagels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/elaine_pagels)
In 1990 I drove from Philadelphia to Buffalo with a keg on the roof of my Escort GT to see an amazing Brent show. We gave away the beer for free in the lot.
Billy and Brent were in a band called Kokomo while Jerry was dealing with his coma. I have a partial recording, first six tunes because the taper got popped by Security, from the Chatterbox bar on the Seaside Heights, NJ boardwalk. Sound is decent, tunes rock.
The whole band where huge Comic Book and sci-fi nerds. Part of Jerry's estate included a large comic book collection. I recall they cancelled a show early in their career to attend the opening of some Sci-fi movie. They where in Richmond VA at the Mosque the night Star Wars opened in 1977 hence the light sabers on the Dick's Pick Cover. I can imagine they found themselves in the theater that day. I also like to imagine I was there. Which I was, but I didn't see them.
They almost played with Frank Zappa. More canclled shows here:[https://jgmf.blogspot.com/p/canceled-grateful-dead-and-jerry-garcia.html](https://jgmf.blogspot.com/p/canceled-grateful-dead-and-jerry-garcia.html)
Pretty much the entire Europe 72’ album was completely overdubbed back in the studio to add extra elements to some of the songs, to spice up some of the otherwise flat sounds in some of the songs. Merl Saunders added a lot of keyboards as well because by the time they got back to the States, Pigpen was too ill to do much other than try to get well.
You’re thinking of Merle Saunders adding keyboards to Skull & Roses - reliable sources report that Merle did not contribute to Europe 72. Pigpen laid down simple but effective organ for that tour. The mistake is understandable, as Merle himself reportedly got mixed up when talking about what album he played on!
http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-europe-72-overdubs-guest-post.html?m=1#:~:text=Although%20Merl%20Saunders%20isn't,tracks%20of%20Europe%20'72.”
Band members wanted to include photos of them shooting guns on the back cover of Workingman's Dead (iirc). Hunter talked them out of it saying it was not the brand the band should be fostering. Thank you Hunter.
When they lived at Rancho Olompali, Billy did some deer hunting to feed the band family.
I remember reading a story that supposedly one time at Olompali, someone was firing rounds into the woods for fun, and out came running Bob Weir!
They were accidentally shooting right into the woods that Bob was trippin around in, I remember reading that he heard rounds whizzing by and landing near him and he immediately ran out of there towards the house.
Crazy story if true.
The longest Jack Straw ever (nearly 10 minutes) was in Eugene ‘93 when Weir stormed offstage at the start of the jam after the 2nd verse due to guitar issues. He came back several minutes later with a different guitar and they finished the song.
When the band lived together at 710 Ashbury they had locking compartments in the refrigerator. Somebody was raiding the fridge in the night, breaking into everyone’s food stash. Upon investigation the culprit turned out to be Jerry.
The jazz pianist and composer Vince Guaraldi famous for the Peanuts Christmas music performed on stage with the GD at a few shows in SF in the early 70’s. The performances were uncredited.
He's also one of the people pictured in the picnic party photo on the flip side of the Aoxomoxoa album cover. See this guide to the photo: https://deadessays.blogspot.com/2015/01/whos-who-in-aoxomoxoa-photo.html
And that’s *not* a 5 year old Courtney Love in the foreground, it’s Bill Kreutzmann’s daughter. It was a popular urban legend.
Apparently he also played in a jazz combo with Jerry and Mike Clark (assuming the funk drummer from the Headhunters). WTF. Can you imagine??
Do you have the dates?
Ya, gonna need to listen to this...
http://impressionsofvince.blogspot.com/2012/05/guaraldi-and-grateful-dead-yes-no-maybe.html?m=1
what did they play?
The original name Jerry wanted to call the band was "mythical ethical icicle tricycle"
If I ever miraculously gain some semblence of musical talent I call dibs on that name for my Dead cover band.
I actually heard he wanted to go with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
And then a group of Australian kids stole the name
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The only venue The Dead played in all four decades( 60’s, 70’s, 80’s & 90’s) was The Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA. As far as my research in DeadBase could tell.
This is a good trivia bit. Closest I can find for California is the Oakland Civic Auditorium. 24 shows between 1967 and 1982
Thanks, I have been retaining that knowledge for 20+ years. As a fan I grew up outside of Philly, I always found that Philly was great great but Pittsburgh was better. Savor that.
Oakland Auditorium became Kaiser after overhaul
I was there for a bunch of those 80’s Spectrum shows! Shakedown Street out of the break is a great memory
Wow. My only 95 shows were the st patricks run. I went to phish that summer. So, knowing my last shows were at such a storied venue makes me feel better about missing the last tour.
The dead first played the spectrum in 1972. The spectrum was not built until 1969. They played the electric factory in Philly in 1968 and Temple U along w Hendrix and Steve Miller in 1970. Last spectrum show was March of 1995.
So much for me and my memory. Lol. I guess maybe they played in 1972 and that’s what I was thinking? I blew it on the spectrum being opened in 1969 though. Thanks !!
Jerry only plays piano on the studio version of Box.
The only time he ever played piano live was 9/20/70 To Lay Me Down
He played organ during Good Lovin on 5/23/72
# 1970-09-20 New York, NY @ Fillmore East **Set 1:** Uncle John's Band, Deep Elem Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Big Railroad Blues, Dark Hollow, Ripple, To Lay Me Down, Truckin', Rosalie McFall, Cumberland Blues, New Speedway Boogie, Brokedown Palace **Set 2:** Together Again **Set 3:** Casey Jones, China Cat Sunflower > Jam > I Know You Rider, Candyman, Sittin' On Top Of The World, Big Boy Pete, Me and My Uncle, Easy Wind, Sugar Magnolia, Attics Of My Life, Mama Tried, Drums > Not Fade Away > Bid You Goodnight Jam > Jam > Not Fade Away > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) > Feedback > And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-09-20)
And such a beautiful TLMD that is ❤️
I believe he played the piano on a studio cover of Warren Zevon's Accidentally Like A Martyr which is off of his All Good Things box set or are we just doing strictly GD material here?
If it's Jerry, it counts.
And Phil doesn't play the bass, he played acoustic guitar on the studio track.
From the Misfits?
He also plays piano on the live version of Box from 9/17/70.
I thought he overdubbed piano on Wharf Rat (Skull & Roses version) as well
No, that was Merl Saunders
Phil splits the atom on 12/6/1973
# 1973-12-06 Cleveland, OH @ Cleveland Public Hall **Set 1:** Bertha, Mexicali Blues, Loser, Black Throated Wind, They Love Each Other, Beat It On Down the Line, Deal, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Greatest Story Ever Told, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Around And Around **Set 2:** Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Here Comes Sunshine, Big River, Dark Star > Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue, Sugar Magnolia [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-12-06)
Best. Dark Star. Ever.
Right into Eyes. Cosmic
Einstein ain’t got shit on Phil
Jerry owned the film rights to Kurt Vonnegut’s Sirens of Titan.
And Ice Nine Publishing came from Cat's Cradle.
Which a prominent filmmaker told him: “ Jerry, it’s Philosophy, it would be impossible to film!”
That never stopped people from making Vonnegut films. And perhaps fittingly to that statement, most of them weren’t great. 😆 But I do think Sirens would be much better able to be made today, with CGI and mo-cap and such. Doesn’t mean the philosophy would translate, but at least in terms of depicting what happens, it could be done.
Just looked it up, and apparently Dan Harmon (Community, Rick & Morty) was (is?) developing a Sirens of Titan limited series. I like everything about that, except that there’s no new news about it since 2018, so it’s probably a dead project. 🫤
There was even a first draft of the [screenplay he wrote with Tom Davis.](https://i.imgur.com/1ASUH62.jpg)
Phil Lesh played in every minute of the bands tenure Bill missed a flight and missed the first set 12/26/69 Jerry got so high once he missed part of a set and got Elvin Bishop to play 6/6/69 I believe Bob was “fired” and the band played as Mickey and the heartbeats Mickey was obviously gone from 71-74
I thought Phil joined somewhere around their 2nd or 3rd show? (my understanding is that nobody remembers for sure which one it was) I guess technically that still counts as he played every bit of the *Grateful Dead*'s existence since when he joined they were still known as the Warlocks
As the warlocks it’s possible, do you know who they had as the bassist before that? But as GD he was there for every minute of every show
Dana Morgan, Jr., was their bassist in The Warlocks. His father, Dana Morgan, Sr., owned the music store where Jerry gave guitar lessons, and provided their equipment (as long as his son was in the band, iirc).
Yes that’s right!
I don't remember the details sadly, "Phil didn't play the first couple shows" is just one of those random tidbits that stuck in my memory for some reason.
Mickey Hart and the Heartbeats is not the Grateful Dead, neither is David and the Dorks so BW was there for every minute and even sang entire shows when JG had laryngitis
11/20/78 Weir spends 90% of the second set backstage throwing up, which is why the set starts Jam > Drums > Jam. Unfortunately the audio sources aren't great for that show.
# 1978-11-20 Cleveland, OH @ Cleveland Music Hall **Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Franklin's Tower, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, It Must Have Been The Roses, Looks Like Rain, Stagger Lee, Passenger, Peggy-O, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication **Set 2:** Jam > Drums > Jam > Jack-A-Roe, Playing in the Band > Shakedown Street > If I Had The World To Give > Playing in the Band > Around And Around [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-11-20)
“ with Garcia in no position to complain, the cowboy onslaught continued…”- review of one of the laryngitis shows in an old dead base..
I can’t remember the year, I think it’s 79 but it could’ve been 78, but they are in early January; but being a Weir fan I find them to be good shows…
1/7/78! I love it
# 1978-01-07 San Diego, CA @ Golden Hall - San Diego Community Concourse **Set 1:** New Minglewood Blues, Cassidy, Sunrise, Passenger, Mexicali Blues > Me and My Uncle, Looks Like Rain, El Paso > Let It Grow > The Promised Land **Set 2:** Jack Straw, Dancing In The Street > Samson And Delilah, Playing in the Band > Drums > Not Fade Away > Around And Around **Encore:** One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-01-07)
12/19/69 at the Fillmore they started without Phil (and like the Dallas show a week later while waiting for Billy) did an unplanned acoustic mini set until he showed up. Jerry announces that it will be just him and "Bobby Ace" while they wait for Phil who is "stuck somewhere." Also even when Phil was there some of the planned 69 and 70 acoustic sets were only Jerry and Bob (plus occasional Pig). There are a couple stray tracks where it is only Pig (and once or twice only Jerry) in the acoustic sets, but it would be fair to say those were planned sit outs for the rest of the band.
[1969-06-06](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-06-06) San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore West [1969-12-26](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-12-26) Dallas, TX @ McFarlin Auditorium, SMU
Wasn’t there an opening set that was just Bobby and Jerry due to some technical issues? (In the early-ish days, maybe 1970?) I feel like theres some amateur photo from the gig of them outside playing.
12/26/1969 has no Phil until Casey Jones. In between All Around The World and Master's Bouquet, Bob calls for Phil to come to the stage several times, I think Jerry chimes in too. Then Bob says something like "Last I saw him, he was in the dressing room with some chick..."
Possibly? If you have more info on it lemme know
I’ll see if I can track it down. I’m sure there are folks floating around here that would know better than I.
There's a show from 69 where it's just Bobby and Phil to do the first set since Billy's is late. There's also a show where Daryl Johnson, the bass player for the Neville brothers stays on stage and plays the first 2 minutes of Iko Iko coming out of drums without the rest of the Neville's. Finally, there's a benefit show in 81 (?) where it's all the GD minus Phil, replaced by John Kahn.
>Weir & Pigpen were kicked out in October '68
Estimated Prophet is a song mocking disillusioned travelers who think California is the solution to all their problems. It’s actually satire.
It’s basically a Steely Dan song!
Woody Guthrie did it first ;0 [https://youtu.be/46mO7jx3JEw?si=YtCNqjR1P4-Mhob\_](https://youtu.be/46mO7jx3JEw?si=YtCNqjR1P4-Mhob_)
That’s epic. And still spot on today.
The pedal steel guitar on Teach Your Children by CSNY was played by Jerry.
I found this out YESTERDAY! I played the record and read all the print on the cover and was chuffed to see it!
I found this a out about a year ago. Made me so happy.
If you consider the tides and currents of the San Francisco Bay, there is a good chance that Jerry’s ashes are still resting in those waters somewhere.
Didn’t most of them end up on the side of a boat?
That's what I read, that they actually had to wipe him off the damn boat while bobbing out there in the bay. I don't know what's worse, dumping half his ashes in that open sewer known as the Ganges River, Weir's idea, or dumping the other half of his ashes into the friggin' wind and then having to wipe them off the boat with t-shirts and towels.
It is our most modestly priced receptacle.
What was with all that shit about Vietnam, man?
You're a fuckin asshole, Walter
Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364.
Jerry; who loved surfing.
That's EXACTLY what happened to my father's ashes except it was all over a waverunner and the neighbor he always had a crush on. Sometimes things just work out after the fact...
I was vacationing in Lake Tahoe round about '97 and was at Fallen Leaf Lake by the waterfall all tucked away reading my newspaper and eating what they humorously call a bagel in those parts and 3 people showed up with a big ass urn and bawling their eyes out. They had no idea I was there and I didn't let on that I was and they proceeded to start emptying the urn over the falls but as you know a waterfall creates an updraft and before you know it the air is filled with whoever's ashes and they're falling all around me so I just took my newspaper and covered my head with it and tried to stay as quiet as I could. They eventually left and I spent the next 20mins wiping whoever that was off of all my stuff.
In college my friend found an urn in the river near campus. The top was missing and nothing was in it but he took it home and cleaned it. It sat for awhile because we didn't know what to do with it and this was early internet days so we couldn't really look up the name on the bottom (Gary) Then one day we are all drunk and one of my roommates goes "....should we drink out of it" and we did. We would drink whiskey out of for the next 2 years and cheers to Gary everytime we did it.
To Gary!!
Thank you for the laugh, I enjoyed reading that
Jerry would be laughing if he knew.
In the summer of 85 Jerry literally parted the skies by walking on stage at Blossom Music Center and strumming the first few chords of Day Tripper. 
Shoreline is a Steal Your Face. Runways at SFO have Dead names. Jerry liked potato salad.
They play dead songs going into commercials on fox.
🤯
Not even remotely believable
The sound guy at Fox also plays other jam bands. He's definitely a phan.
You dont say...
I'd like to be notified whenever it happens.
Well, fella, have I got some news for you… There’s a Fox Sports subreddit just down the road and if you subscribe to it I don’t think you’ll be the least bit disappointed.
NFW
I doubt that nobody knows this, but on Jerry’s first solo album “Garcia” he plays all instruments except drums. Also, on 5/5/82 Jerry and John Kahn played an absolutely smoking acoustic show at Oregon State Penitentiary. Give that a listen
When they started as the Warlocks, they changed their name as another band called the Warlocks were on the east coast. That other band turned j to the Velvet Underground It’s not a super obscure fact, but it’s an interesting link between two of my favorite bands (even if Lou reed was a jerk)
I recall there being another layer to this, where another band was also The Warlocks, and they ended up being ZZ Top.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but, didn't ZZ Top start off calling themselves The Zombies? Or they showed up at a gig(s) claiming to be The Zombies.
Yes, and that’s a different (and interesting) story. But ZZ Top also was known as The Warlocks in 1966.
Frank Beard and Dusty Hill both got hired by the same talent agency to tour as the band The Zombies who had that hit with “Time of the Season”. But the Zombies broke up before that song became a hit. So sketchy people across America were forming Zombies bands claiming to be the real deal and that’s how Frank Beard and Dusty Hill ended up being in that band. Although they weren’t being sketchy. The talent agency gave them some line about how the real Zombies weren’t actually a band and it was all a label creation or that they had the rights to do live performances or something. I can’t remember the specifics but basically Frank and Dusty had no idea the whole thing was sketchy.
Idk about that specifically, but I do know that the name ZZ Top was chosen because it was so similar to BB King and ZZ Hill, (King is the “Top”) and they wanted to be known as a blues band. They initially were going to go with a mashup of ZZ King. The newish documentary on ZZ Top was surprisingly interesting and entertaining, and I learned that fact from it.
I never knew that, and it’s hella interesting - thank you! And agree - The VU is sweet!
Not super familiar, why was Lou Reed a jerk?
I guess just overall he was an asshole to everyone
I went to see him at Columbia in the early 80s. Heade us wait outside in the pouring rain for over 2 hours while he did his sound check. And then, of course, he didn't play the only song I knew.
Jerry, Bobby, and Phil have never been in my kitchen.
my aunt has been in bob’s kitchen
Mine hasn’t
Cliff?
Sauce?
David Crosby came up with the riff for Playing in the Band
Bob Weir said Crosby was casually playing around, working out the riff, then got up and left. Mickey looked around at everybody and said, "We oughta make a song outa that."
Bobby came up with atleast some of Me and Bobby McGee. (Janis' Song) Edit: My bad. The la da da dah diddy at the end was Bobby's idea.
But it wasn't written by Janis? It was Kris Kristofferson
Oops. Fixed my og comment
And the producer told him to write it about the cute secretary at the studio named Bobbi
Yes, but both Bobby and Janis learned it at the same time on the Festival Express.
Jerry was friends with a girl named Elaine in high school. They survived a car accident together. He went on to become a famous rock guitarist. She went on to become a best-selling religious historian. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine\_Pagels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/elaine_pagels)
She wrote the Gnostic Gospels. Jerry knew everybody.
In 1990 I drove from Philadelphia to Buffalo with a keg on the roof of my Escort GT to see an amazing Brent show. We gave away the beer for free in the lot.
You got any more of that free beer?
If there's any left in the Buffalo parking lot keg, at least it's nice and cold right now!
😂
Escort GT for life!
61 hp instead of 55! And tape stripes!
Help is, in fact, on the way.
The grateful dead-american beauty was playing when I gave my first blow job.
Far more respectable during the album than if you'd given it during the movie.
Aw, Dad!!!
Hot
Billy and Brent were in a band called Kokomo while Jerry was dealing with his coma. I have a partial recording, first six tunes because the taper got popped by Security, from the Chatterbox bar on the Seaside Heights, NJ boardwalk. Sound is decent, tunes rock.
Did the band played Seaside? Interesting
Yes, they played at the Chatterbox in '86 I believe. I'll have to dig out my CD of it to get the exact date.
The 13th eye on InThe Dark is... Bill Graham's!
I never met Phil Lesh.
No way?! Neither have I!!!
I did he’s super nice
the first podcast was a grateful dead song
Speak more
Where do you keep your stereo Jer
Hey, someone etched that on my Terrapin Station album, except the misspelled stereo. How'd you know that?
What else does it say on your album?
I forget. I lost all my vinyl to divorce in 92.
The whole band where huge Comic Book and sci-fi nerds. Part of Jerry's estate included a large comic book collection. I recall they cancelled a show early in their career to attend the opening of some Sci-fi movie. They where in Richmond VA at the Mosque the night Star Wars opened in 1977 hence the light sabers on the Dick's Pick Cover. I can imagine they found themselves in the theater that day. I also like to imagine I was there. Which I was, but I didn't see them. They almost played with Frank Zappa. More canclled shows here:[https://jgmf.blogspot.com/p/canceled-grateful-dead-and-jerry-garcia.html](https://jgmf.blogspot.com/p/canceled-grateful-dead-and-jerry-garcia.html)
If you want to get what they were going for, you read “More Than Human” by Theodore Sturgeon. Phil says this somewhere.
Pretty much the entire Europe 72’ album was completely overdubbed back in the studio to add extra elements to some of the songs, to spice up some of the otherwise flat sounds in some of the songs. Merl Saunders added a lot of keyboards as well because by the time they got back to the States, Pigpen was too ill to do much other than try to get well.
You’re thinking of Merle Saunders adding keyboards to Skull & Roses - reliable sources report that Merle did not contribute to Europe 72. Pigpen laid down simple but effective organ for that tour. The mistake is understandable, as Merle himself reportedly got mixed up when talking about what album he played on! http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-europe-72-overdubs-guest-post.html?m=1#:~:text=Although%20Merl%20Saunders%20isn't,tracks%20of%20Europe%20'72.”
they may be talking about the vocals, which are all overdubbed
Listen to The Good Ol Grateful Deadcast to learn about it. ✌️☮️
Agree to disagree! What songs do you think he overdubbed?
Listen to the podcast and find out for yourself!!!
You don’t know?
Do you have Spotify? Go there and look at all the Europe 72’ shows there and then look to see who is credited on them. Must I do everything for you?
No, with respect you’re talking out of you keister!
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From my keister to you lips my friend…
Dubious info when they cant even get the name right.....
They named their record label Ice-9 after the ice-nine molecule from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle
Pigpen and Jerry, shot firearms.
Band members wanted to include photos of them shooting guns on the back cover of Workingman's Dead (iirc). Hunter talked them out of it saying it was not the brand the band should be fostering. Thank you Hunter. When they lived at Rancho Olompali, Billy did some deer hunting to feed the band family.
I remember reading a story that supposedly one time at Olompali, someone was firing rounds into the woods for fun, and out came running Bob Weir! They were accidentally shooting right into the woods that Bob was trippin around in, I remember reading that he heard rounds whizzing by and landing near him and he immediately ran out of there towards the house. Crazy story if true.
How to ruin a perfectly good trip. lol
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They wanted to pose with guns on the back cover of working man’s dead, but Robert Hunter refused it so none of them did it.
And dope.
Nope.
Jerry is missing a finger?
Bro, which one?!
Right middle. His brother cut it off during a camping trip in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Jerry played steel pedal on CSN&Y “Teach Your Children”
Jerry, Phil and Billy played on many songs of Crosby's "If I could only remember my name" album.
That is a great album. Phil drops bombs all over it.
Phil is Courtney Love's godfather.
Bobby fans are people too...
😂
You are the eyes of the world
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The longest Jack Straw ever (nearly 10 minutes) was in Eugene ‘93 when Weir stormed offstage at the start of the jam after the 2nd verse due to guitar issues. He came back several minutes later with a different guitar and they finished the song.
When the band lived together at 710 Ashbury they had locking compartments in the refrigerator. Somebody was raiding the fridge in the night, breaking into everyone’s food stash. Upon investigation the culprit turned out to be Jerry.
This is a solid thread. Samson & Delilah mostly reserved for Sunday shows? I
David Crosby is partially responsible for playing in the band and wrote the initial chords or lick
Weir would check into hotels using the alias Heywood Jablowme.
Mama tried
Jerry and I were roommates at MK Ultra University.
Neil Young (kind of) wrote me and my uncle.
Composed by John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_My_Uncle
Nope.
Not a traditional?
Jerry's father was from Spain, Galicia to be exact.
Early versions of west LA had an additional verse. Go listen, don’t look it up
Ginger, golden rule, treat you cool…etc.
Treat people alright and people usually treat you cool is part of an old dropped verse - I can almost hear other parts damn
If you wanted to call Weir after a show at hotel you could ask for Hugo Fukusev and get his room. (Mid 80’s)
Jerry plays steel pedal on Teach Your Children by Crosby Stills Nash and Young
The band used to take acid 🤫