3/31/2024 0 Comments GOOD OL GRATEful dead FONTFor the briefest of seconds a nice phrase would pop out, and the crowd would cheer, thinking maybe this was it, but before the cheer died, the moment had also perished. Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman, the drummers, couldn’t find anything to settle on, and the others kept trying ways out of the mess, only to create new tangles of bumpy rhythms and dislocated melodies. Stephen,” they fell into “Lovelight” as a last resort, putting Pigpen out in front to lay on his special brand of oily rag pig-ism while they funked around behind. After abortive stabs at “Doing That Rag” and “St. Maybe they were too stoned on one of the Bear’s custom-brewed elixirs, or the long meeting that afternoon with the usual fights about salaries and debt priorities and travel plans for the upcoming tour that they’d be making without a road manager, and all the work of being, in the end, a rock and roll band, may have left them pissed off. The Dead were glad to do it, but it was one more benefit to bail out the politicos. Or they might have been cynical – a benefit for those Berkeley dudes who finally learned what a park is but are still hung up on confrontation and cops and bricks and spokesmen giving TV interviews and all that bullshit. Maybe they were a bit tired of being taken for granted as surefire deliverers of good vibes – drained by constant expectations. They led off with a warm-up tune that they did neatly enough, and the crowd, swarmed in luminescent darkness, sent up “good old Grateful Dead, we’re so glad you’re here,” vibrations. Steve brown's desk blotter, illustrated by jerry garcia & robert hunter, c. dtY8ylm5wZ- jesse jarnow November 6, 2018 Steve Brown, who worked for Grateful Dead Records from 1973 to 1976, is also an incredible preservationist of artifacts from his years with the Dead, including a desk blotter personally illustrated by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter Sally Mann Romano, who worked as Executive Assistant to Sam Cutler at Out of Town Tours, is the author The Band’s With Me, for a very bowtie-spinning look at the Bay Area scene of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Rosie is the author of the memoir Dancing With the Dead and a recent art collection of her Dead photography. Rosie McGee had been part of the Dead’s family from the very start, dating Phil Lesh for a few years in 1966, but working in a number of roles even after their relationship ended, ranging from photographer to interpreter, with many odd jobs in between. Photo by Annie Leibovitz via the 'Long Strange Trip' doc /2q4aMzzqCv- Grateful Dead September 6, 2020 Not sure when picture day is this year, but here’s a good one from the Class of 1973. Photographer Annie Leibovitz was dispatched to San Rafael and took the famed group photo that Rosie McGee discusses in this episode, capturing the employees of the adjacent businesses. In 1973, writer Charles Perry wrote about the wide world of corporate Dead, detailing the Dead’s family businesses for a Rolling Stone cover story, published in November. But by the spring of 1973, the Dead had gone beyond theaters. We delved a bit into the Dead’s fall 1972 tour during our Listen To The River: October 1972 episode, focusing on the band’s last trip to the beloved Fox Theatre in St. With this episode, the Deadcast plunges full-on into the Grateful Dead’s world-building year of 1973, in which they spawned their own independent record company and a variety of businesses to help support their activities.
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