![]() ![]() And I just mothball it for a while, and then I’ll be just hanging, not thinking about much, and that song will come back, knocking on the door, “Hey, I’m back. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them. Are there songs from the old days that you’re thankful you don’t have to play anymore? Today, with RatDog, you’re the main dude. With the Grateful Dead you were a member of a band, and that decisions were made by the band. And we had opened up for him, and we got good seats in the audience, and that was a transcendent experience. One was Ravi Shankar, at the Oakland Memorial Auditorium, and then one was Otis Redding. Have you ever experienced, as a listener, what so many people experience at your shows?Ī couple times I was seated in the audience, and the music brought me involuntarily to my feet. Some of your fans feel compelled to travel with the group, sort of chasing something. ![]() (Despite the thousands of Dead shows in the books, certain dates are frequently cited as killer shows no one can disprove if someone says they were there, man.) He says Weir agreed to do the film so he wouldn’t have to write an autobiography. The Other One is directed by Mike Fleiss, the successful producer of The Bachelor who told me he “doesn’t care if this movie makes a cent.” It’s a labor of love for a decades-long Deadhead, who, recognizing a fellow fan, itches to tell me that he was at the July 13, 1984, show-the night the band brought “Dark Star” back from a three-year hiatus. He was definitely the second-in-command of the Grateful Dead to the bearded, nine-fingered lead guitarist, Jerry Garcia. If Garcia, dead almost 19 years, is the John Lennon, then Weir, very much “the cute one,” is the Paul McCartney. It incorporates the name of Weir’s signature tune, first recorded on the Dead’s second album, Anthem of the Sun (though archivists may point to the tasty 40-minute jam from September 17, 1972, at the Baltimore Civic Center.) But it’s also a sly comment on Weir’s position to the uninitiated. He’s promoting The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir, a rock-doc biography debuting later that night at the Tribeca Film Festival. system, and I realize that, as far as rock legends are concerned, Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, is one of the very few who could be considered in the same league. “Come Together” by the Beatles is on the P.A. Will it be from that magical night at Madison Square Garden in '93 or from way back when they were just starting to warm it up at Winterland? Is that Pigpen's harmonica we hear? Brent on keys? If you think you know, lob your answer in and you just might find yourself taking home our daily prize of a 2023 Grateful Dead wall calendar or the grand prize - both, YES BOTH - of this year's coveted boxed sets, Lyceum '72: The Complete Recordings and In And Out Of The Garden: Madison Square Garden ’81, ’82, ’83 (Dead.Bob Weir has removed his shoes and assumed the lotus position, on a couch near the bar at Manhattan’s SoHo Grand Hotel. His eyes drill into me as he answers my questions. You know your Ables from your Bakers from your C's, but can your finely tuned ears differentiate the cosmic "comeback" tour from a spacey 70s show? Each day we'll post a song from one of the Dead's coveted shows. The tracks are yours, no strings attached, but we hope you’ll stick around for the challenge and the chance to win some sweet swag from the Dead. Yes, there will once again be 30 days of unreleased Grateful Dead tracks from the vault, one for every day in November, selected by archivist and producer David Lemieux. ![]() ![]() We hope you've been brushing up on your live Grateful Dead and making room on all your devices because we're about to drop a motherload of high-quality MP3 downloads on you. ![]()
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