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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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It's been a great couple of days of Dead radio around these parts. Happy Birthday Jerry.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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If you go down to the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today
You better go in disguise
For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain because
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic
Lyrics by JG.
Happy Birthday, Brother.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Went to see the captain, strangest I could find . . . laid my proposition down, laid it on the line.
I won't slave for beggars pay, likewise gold and jewels . . .
But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools.
Saw your first ship sink and drown from rocking of the boat . . .
All that could not sink or swim was just left there to float.
I won't leave you drifting down but oh it makes me wild, with thirty years upon my head, to have you call me child.
The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before.
Time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more.
Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few . . .
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2010 - 01:33am PT
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Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone
Goin to leave this Broke-down Palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll roll roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time - in my time - I will roll roll roll
In a bed, in a bed
by the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
all the way back back home
It's a far gone lullaby
sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come
since I first left home
Goin home, goin home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
Goin to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go - the river roll roll roll
Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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my body is a machine.
with few purposes:
to deliver my open mind up and down and across the absurd landscapes of our plain,
to harbor and process the adventurous toxins,
and to coach itself back to strong, enduring the challenges posed of said toxins.
my body is merely a medium of transport for my mind.
as such, i will exploit it unto the exhaustions.
 robert hunter??
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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The woman that introduced me to my wife was on old hippie type from San Fran bitd. She lived across the street from Jerry Garcia and he would come over and hang out in her large closet when it got too weird at his place. Swear to Buddha.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know,
See how it feels in the end.
May Lady Lullaby sing plainly for you . . . soft, strong, sweet and true.
Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow, tapping at the window, touch your hair . . . So swift and bright strange figures of light float in air.
Gone are the days we stopped to decide where we should go, we just ride.
Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams . . . gone, both dream and lie.
Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know . . . feels like it might be all right . . .
While Lady Lullaby sings plainly through you, Love still rings true . . .
Midnight on a carousel ride, reaching for the gold ring, down inside . . .
Never could reach it, just slips away but I try.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 7, 2010 - 02:42pm PT
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Hey heads, and appreciators of fine improvisational jamming~
Check out the tryptic of Lovelight>GDTRFB>Not Fade Away
from disc 2 of Steppin Out~ London '72.
Out of Lovelight an epic battle ensues, with Jerry finally prevailing. The musical conversation and struggle is plain to hear, and the results are nothing short of HOT! One for the ages.
Goin where the climate suits my clothes...
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 8, 2010 - 10:49am PT
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The heart has it's beaches, it's evenings, and songs of it's own.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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One time when they were making things "perfect," Lesh decided to tell a joke.
"A funny thing happened to me on the way to the gig this evening ...
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I got picked up."
DaDump.
For the closing of Winterland, my buddy Matt & I decided to walk to the show the night before and get in line early so we could get good seats (Winterland was a smallish joint with a ring of seats above the dance floor below).
We got to Post & Steiner at about 10pm on Dec 30. Little did we know, the line started 3 days earlier and was already wrapped around the building. I went across the street and slept on a small patch of grass, then foolishly spent the day in line. Early in the morning, Bill pulls up in his Harley with the side car to greet all the heads. Although known as a arse, Bill was a great guy. On the side of the building, Bill had painted the famous phrase: "They not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do."
In the end it didn't make a dime's worth of difference what time I arrived at the show--At midnight, I was sprawled out on the seats in the back of the auditorium, trying to catch some shut eye before the band came on. An angle (my old GF) spotted me and gave me a magic potion that gave me the energy to dance the night away. Ho boy, that third set...and then breakfast at dawn.
Anything funny happen to you on the way the show?
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Rudyj2
Trad climber
UT
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That is a hell of a good story Pate. One of many I'm sure.
Laguna Seca.....good times. One of the last great venues to allow camping.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Pate,
How about that Sugar Magnolia-Sugaree opener on the first night at Laguna Seca in 1987? I got my money's worth right then and there! What an awesome venue. Ry Cooder's "Chain Gang" was something else.
Nice mile high club story . . . was it right in the seats?
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Nice leather jacket there Jerome!
You stud.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2010 - 01:47am PT
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I was there too, 88.
I had driven from Az to Minnesota helping a family member move. Payment was a one way ticket to the Bay.
My oldest friend, who wasn't a Head, picked me up and whisked me off to the lovely confines of his granny's Pebble Beach Estate. I'm talkin' old ass money. I woke up in the morning to a servant telling me breakfast was served. Then it was off to the dusty ,barefoot dancin, sun soaked scene.
How was El Rayo X...Classic!
Two words~ Goony Bird.
Going back to the mansion was a trip for sure.
I remember not being able to figure out the shower. Classic, right, the dirty hippie who can't work a shower! Well the hot and cold knobs were these ornate wings(for real, not Goony Bird wings). I scalded, I froze. In the end I got clean and repeated the process for the next two days.
That set with the China Crazyfingers Rider was a hot one. The Playin' is unreal~ oldschool style.
Good times pate, thanks for spurring on some fun funny memories!
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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That pic with the SG is amazing....
I have copies of a set of slides a friend of mine had from '68 or so. Garcia has this Anthem tee shirt on, also playing an SG. The only thing, the band's out of focus in all the shots...at first I chalked it up to bad lighting, but then I noticed that the lettering on all the amps are in perfect focus...too funny, I bet the band 'looked' in focus through the eye of the photographer for those shots. Also too bad, they would be priceless if they were in focus. (I wish I knew how to scan slides.)
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Pate, great flight story, I wish my ride to L.Seca was as insane. Instead, I went with my pal Tom, who told me his car had a tendency to overheat. When it started, he had to turn on the heater to cool the engine. There we were, baking in 100-degree heat with the heater going full force.
Damn if I could remember a song list though....
Although, one of my most memorable shows was at the Swing in '77 when the band broke out Lady with a Fan. Opened the show with it, in fact. Yikes, that was awkward for a moment, the whole building kinda swirled around Phil's bass line, and these benos next to me were high as kites on reds, shouting in slow motion "Hey Garcia, play one for my sister..." Ah, what a year.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Album Covers! I had all but forgotten about those . . . classic stuff.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2010 - 10:08am PT
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F*#kin K Man gets the first Terrapin AND the first Estimated. Good ol San Berdoo...
Umm, I got the first
Death Don't Have No Mercy (since, like, 69)at Shoreline 89..
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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In '77 Jerry was really excited about his new tune, and when he played Terrapin, he's actually do Pete Townsend-style windmills with is arm. I think he even jumped once.
One of my favorite Jerry photos:
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