Miss ya man :frown:
Keller live right now at Garcia's at The Capitol Theater playing Jerry tunes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTaw...mtoC8we0HD%3A6
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Miss ya man :frown:
Keller live right now at Garcia's at The Capitol Theater playing Jerry tunes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTaw...mtoC8we0HD%3A6
thank you, jerry! miss you.
The music just keeps getting better the more I hear it. What a gift.
This Ride the Mighty High that starts around 45 minutes in is kickass. The Gomorrah is pretty great too. Waiting on the second set to start now.
Thanks Jerry.
Halfway thru 4/12/78 duke show
I really really like licorice.
I had stopped touring by the time this was being performed, but it sure is beautiful.
https://youtu.be/KcVWRuv1o6M
What a great show.
Ya know I wonder sometimes what Jerry would think of all that's gone on for the last 23 years. Would he appreciate the directions things went, would he have wanted it to become something different than it did? I do think he'd be disappointed he couldn't take part in all the great music that has been made since he left.
I miss you Jerry :(
Jerry was a fat, selfish prick. Deserved to be dead at 53. He gave zero fucks about anything other than cocaine and opiates.
But you gotta admit, he had his moments.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttahflake
Being in the same room with him over 60 times, it was momentous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
There was something very special about him. But I have trouble with people that can’t say no.
Should I eat this plate of chili-dogs, no Jerry!
How bout a couple of pints of HagenDaz for dessert? No Jerry. Is it alright if I smoke 2 packs of camels everyday? No Jerry. How bout speedballs, am I cool with speedballls? No Jerry. Crack? No Jerry.
damn i onlys managed to share open spaces like soldiers field, alpine valley and the worthless world theater with jer bear and his heady followers
get outside and take a jerry still dont care what you think mescaline induced trance dance lap
i did spend a few hours testing jerrys binders yesterday
jammin out to and fer jerrrys
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2nd stage of grief: AngerQuote:
Originally Posted by buttahflake
I have been listening to a lot of JGB on xm. It astounds me that he could be so mistake free, flawless, with perfect timing with JGB, and then be a disaster a month later with GD.
I was thinking about how it might be that the other band members were less tolerant of Jerry's proclivities (all touring pro musicians), but then I thought about the fact that John Kahn was a doper too...so who knows.
I've wondered the same, maybe the lack of cranium drilling jams in the JGB music helped keep him together?Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
It is such a bummer he killed himself with his lifestyle, but zero fucks were given. His terms man.
Was cool to see Mickey post this on his bday.
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his lyrics and playing suggest jerry gave more than zero fucks
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This show was particularly special for me. Allow me to elaborate.
My high school girlfriend’s best friend and I were extremely attracted to each other, but we could not act upon it. One summer we were both home from college and ran into each other and made plans to go to some art fair in Maryland. On the way, we randomly drove by the Spectrum. We saw a bunch of hippies hanging out so we exited. Turns out Jerry was playing. We each scored tickets and some super clean acid.
We were in the front row of the upper level and I looked over the rail and noticed a little crows nest. We climbed over the rail and down a little ladder and into the sweetest hanging perch. Totally private and suspended, above the floor and below the upper level, with room to dance. I pretty sure it would be where the camera was to film The 76ers or Flyers.
It was an amazing show, the highlight being Masterpiece. Just a really good memory.
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nice memory
Spook, he gave zero fucks about HIS own health and well-being. He was clearly more disturbed then one would think based on his interviews and music...and it was the fucking heroin. Evil shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyeaster
He pretty much sucked as a parent and a husband too.
yeah none of that means he gave zero fucks.
Oh, ok.
see? that's not hard.
Fat.Selfish.Junkie.
fat selfish junkie >>>>>>> racistflake
Step off, motherfucker.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyeaster
i restrained myself to only 7 greater thans, bro.
You are not my bro, guy. There is a dark cloud that follows you.
i bet you'd be less skeered of me if it was a white cloud, yes?
Damn we agree on more things... Jerrys junkie weakness always bothered me, he had the worst addictive personality around and it did him in. The selfish part is due to focusing on nothing but the next fix. It's almost too bad he made such a good living and could always afford the next hit. He was the poster boy for that troubled artist syndrome. We also agree that the cloud that spook lives in (it doesn't follow him ;) ) is super annoying.
When I asked the question about what would he think I was more wondering if he would appreciate that D&C is carrying on like they are with Mayer, would he think that Mayer is 'doing right by the music' as opposed to all the keyboard warriors that can't help but talk shit rather than enjoy the evolution of the music. I know more than a few people that refuse to even listen to it, that think the music should have died with Jerry. They think that the remaining band members shouldn't even be playing it anymore and that their legacy and lifes work should be shelved and they should fade into the past because Jerry was the one that 'owned it.' My take on it is that the artist in Jerry would have appreciated it to such an extent that he would have wanted to be a part of it all. He'd want to play with every band working the genre, he'd be showing up at all sorts of gigs and loving that all of these other artists loved his work.
As far as great show memories my first show still remains towards the top of the list. Back when GA shows were still the thing and you could move around and do your thing I used to look for the best sound in the house. That usually meant just off the floor but not more than a few rows up at most in hockey/basketball arenas. At Nassau Coliseum, which I knew well because it was 15 minutes from home, that meant the penalty boxes were perfect so I hung out in the Islanders box for the whole show and had it all to myself. Lotsa room to dance with nobody in the way. Win.
gosh! addiction is devastating for everybody involved! what a unique thought! maybe even fame and adoration are, too!
poor jerry would be further devastated to hear how much he hurt you kids and undoubtedly feel like he really owes you something cuz you're so bitter.
at least we have mayer, a tower of virtue, doing right by the music. whew!
Hahaha pretty far from it but at this point, other than weed and the occasional doses, I don't think the current band members have such terrible things going on. At least not to the extent that they used to, certainly not to the point that it will kill them. At least not that we're hearing about regularly.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyeaster
You still live in a dark cloud dude. Sorry but you're never going to redeem yourself completely after the shit you said when you were Spook.
that is truly hilarious and off-topic, bud, but way to be tgr's collective judgment.
i am not concerned with redeeming myself to the entirety of a message board with a significant component of hypocritical juvenile assholes who make me look like dale carnegie. i apologized for being an asshole because i was. it doesn't mean i think i'm a bigger asshole than anybody else or care whether you think i'm an asshole. it means it's not the way i want to live and i shouldn't have inflicted it on others. i don't have any problem whatsoever with the vast majority of views i've espoused here. i've said the same things many times as spook and since. some people expressed loathing and others expressed support then and now.
i'm sorry to hear you're still so busted up about it after all this time.
if you think i live in a dark cloud now you don't know dark.
MESSAGE TO GARCIA
by Ken Kesey
Hey, Jerry-- what's happening? I caught your funeral. Weird.
Big Steve was good. And Grissman. Sweet sounds. But what really stood
out -- stands out -- is the thundering silence, the lack, the absence of
that golden Garcia lead line, of that familiar slick lick with the uptwist
at the end, that merry snake twining through the woodpile, flickering in
and out of the loosely stacked chords...a wriggling mystery, bright and
slick as fire... suddenly gone.
And the silence left in its wake was-- is-- positively
ear-splitting.
Now they want me to say something about that absence, Jer. Tell
some backstage story, share some poigniant reminescence. But I have to
tell you, man: I find myself considerably disinclined. I mean, why go
against the grain of such an eloquent silence?
I remember standing out in the pearly early dawn after the Muir
Beach Acid Test, leaning on the top rail of a driftwood fence with you and
Lesh and Babbs, watching the world light up, talking about our glorious
futures. The gig had been semi-successful and the air was full of exulted
fantasies. Babbs whacks Phil on the back.
"Just like the big time, huh Phil."
"It is! It is the big time! Why, we could cut a chart-busting
record to-fucking-morrow!"
I was even more optimistic. "Hey, we taped tonight's show. We
could release a record tomorrow.
"Yeah right--" (holding up that digitally challenged hand the way
you did when you wanted to call attention to the truth or the lack
thereof) "--and a year from tomorrow be recording a Things Go Better With
Coke commercial."
You could be a sharp-tongued popper-of-balloons shit-head when you
were so inclined, you know. A real bastard. You were the sworn enemy of
hot air and commercials, however righteous the cause or lucrative the
product. Nobody ever heard you use that microphone as a pulpit. No
anti-war rants, no hymns to peace. No odes to the trees and All things
Organic. No ego-deaths or born-againnesses. No devils denounced no gurus
glorified. No dogmatic howlings that I ever caught wind of. In fact,
your steadfast denial of dogma was as close as you ever came to having a
creed.
And to the very end, Old Timer, you were true to that creed. No
commercials. No trendy spins. No bayings of belief. And if you did have
any dogma you surely kept it tied up under the back porch where a smelly
old hound belongs.
I guess that's what I mean about a loud silence. Like
Michaelangelo said about sculpting, "The statue exists inside the block of
marble. All you have to do is chip away the stone you don't need." You
were always chipping away at the superficial.
It was the false notes you didn't play that kept that lead line so
golden pure. It was the words you didn't sing. So this is what we are
left with, Jerry: this golden silence. It rings on and on without any
hint of let up...on and on. And I expect it will still be ringing years
from now.
Because you're still not playing falsely. Because you're still
not singing Things Go Better With Coke.
Ever your friend,
Keez
Maybe the best 30 seconds of Jerry I have ever heard. Fire. The whole show is great. If I had a time machine and could only go back for one show/era it might be late 80s JGB.
My new wife had never been to a real concert before we met (blame Christianity). Her first four or five concerts were all Dead of some sort (Fare Thee Well then Dead & Co). So she's never seen Jerry, but I have to say, sometimes I close my eyes and I still see him on the stage. Oh, and don't worry, we've now seen lots of other performers (just this week Rolling Stones, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Fishbone and Dumpstaphunk).
From Hollywood Bowl earlier this summer:
That tall guy who goes to all the shows (Bill Walton)
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I don't know why we're upside down:
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Yeah, I have a friend who makes tie-dyes for me.
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