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Because if you never

take the chance to look,

then you'll never know.

We'll go walkin'

through the backroads

Of my mind

Rolling down

that kaleidoscope

Of inner space

and time, yeah

Walkin' down

the backroads of my mind

Take it away, Gordo.

I couldn't dance

because it was so intense.

And I go in there and people are

like, Dude, what are you doing?

I'm like, Dude, what are

you talking about?

I've been to every show,

and I come here to dance.

I just want to feel the music.

I always have two headbands.

One, to get my sh-

because I like the shape

that it makes my hair...

and one to cover my watch

because when I'm

in the Apricot zone...

I'm living in a world

without time.

Yeah, we're going to be-

we're going to be

at the Sweetwater show,

you know?

I mean, whew,

what can you say

about Mill Valley, man,

that hasn't been said already?

I mean, it's where

mountain-biking started,

it's where cappuccino started.

The Sweetwater's been here

for 30-something years now

and it gets good people

through there all the time.

It's sweet to be

at the Sweetwater indeed,

but unfortunately

I'm a little bit

off center right now

just because-

well, my cell phone

got turned off today.

Hey, what's up?

My name is Jonah

and I'm a taper.

Hi, I'm Tom Lystrus

and I'm a taper.

I think it should be a good-

a good crowd tonight.

You might want

to set that a bit higher.

My favorite thing

about Electric Apricot

clearly is just the

support of the community.

I mean, we come

to tape the shows,

they give us plenty of time

to set up ahead of time.

We've been here,

like, since 3:
00.

We're done, we're ready,

we're set, you know?

We're ready to... We're ready

to capture the magic, really.

Now we've just got

five hours to fine-tune it

before they get here.

Gordo, he really wanted to go...

go in a more electric...

He wanted to go

- He's a big Jerry fan, you know, Jerry Garcia.

Which is completely opposite

of what I wanted to do

because I wanted to go into

more of a British Morrissey trip.

And if a ten-ton truck

kills the both of us

All of a sudden,

Steve Trouzdale,

as we once knew him,

he sees this Phish show-

You have to ask him,

because it's a classic story.

So we went to the casinos

and we were partying hard

and we hooked up with these two

girls who turned out to be guys.

It was just, you know-

It was in-

One of them dosed me.

Dosed him with some LSD

or something

and he ends up

at this Phish show

and he just becomes

mesmerized

with the bass player

Mike Gordon.

And all of a sudden,

there's this eruption of color.

And I found out what it was.

Because at first

I thought it was like,

you know,

what's going on here?

Is this some alien battle

or something?

They have, like,

glowstick wars,

where people are throwing all

these glowsticks back and forth,

And then one just tags me

in the side of the head

and I instantly thought

of Aiwass, which...

Aiwass is the entity,

is the spirit that channeled

the right of Thelema

to Aleister Crowley.

The next day at rehearsal

I said to the guys,

you know, I'm Aiwass.

Call me Aiwass.

I am a bass player.

I was like, man,

that's a gift from heaven.

Here we are, he wants

to play bass now,

so now we've got a bass

and this big drum set,

and then I'm going

to plug this thing in

and there we go, trio,

Jimmy Hendrix land.

They tried to give us

a little grief because it's a-

because of the lightning bolt,

but it's actually

an 11-point lightning bolt

and it's a little narrower

and it's at a different angle

and the Grateful Dead has

a 13-point lightning bolt.

Ours is quite a bit

different, but...

This is...

This is the premier

mic right now

for this kind of taping.

It's the most expansive

dynamic range.

Very fancy.

It expanded on what

the 4 was,

the Schoeps 4,

which is...

It's what I use.

What Jonah has.

This is really

what we're doing now.

This is the new

technology.

You get more of

a lateral sound with that.

It's got a projection,

the intake is not

as pinpoint directional,

but what I find is this mic

yields an ambient sound

which captures

all the things that I like

and find most

important about it.

You know,

it's the younger kids,

they're really...

it's exciting

watching you grow.

But this mic is better.

It's better.

Do you like milk chocolate

or do you like dark chocolate?

You like chocolate,

you understand what I'm saying?

So it's the type of sound

that it yields.

It's great.

It's great having friends. Yeah.

Well, it's the 4V.

All right now, 6/8.

Ready?

Damn.

Oh, wait.

One, two, three, four, five,

six. I was getting my groove on.

One, two, three, four,

five, six. Five, six.

One, two, three,

four, five, six.

Hang on. Wait.

Are you-

I'm trying to get

my groove on.

Shh, shh.

On the corner,

Miles Davis, 1972.

You know, I don't

really speak literally,

because if you speak

in a literal way,

it's like,

next thing you know,

everyone understands you and that's

just like, who wants that, man?

It's like a f***ing church,

the f***ing church,

the f***ing steeple,

and there's the people.

That's Apricot.

I don't know about

the steeple thing.

That's the first I've heard

of this steeple thing.

She train blues

Jerry Garcia.

The man, the myth, the legend.

Well, I wanted

to make a guitar

that looks a lot like Jerry's

because he's my favorite.

What we got here is this

guitar is a total Jerry,

the recipe is Jerry

and stuff like that

with just a pinch

of Warren Haynes.

Big jumbo frets.

We were in Berkeley,

and we went to one of them

Greek Theatre shows,

and then, in the morning

I was still

kinda coming down,

we went to Smokey Joe's Caf,

and I was getting

the Holy Moley

Frijole breakfast.

I was digging into my beans

and digging into my eggs,

so I went to go grab

a tortilla...

Ah ah ah

Okay, be careful.

And then there it was, dude.

Look at that.

Can you see it?

Hold on, check it out.

See?

Can you see it?

It's like a sign,

the most prized possession.

How... How does he know

it wasn't Jesus?

Jesus shows up

on a tortilla,

it's on eBay for several

thousand dollars.

Unfortunately, it wasn't

Jesus, because we could've...

Jesus, we could have used

the money for that one.

Garcia. Tortilla.

Yeah, at this point

they started kicking around

some ideas for band names.

Gordo wanted to call it

Electric Mountain.

You know, my idea

was Vaseline Groove.

I wanted Knectar

with a K, a silent K,

like the Phish thing,

with the P-H with it.

He wanted to name the band

Knectar with a silent K,

like knight, like Knights

of the Roundtable.

It's clever, you know?

He's an intellectual guy,

and he can come up

with stuff like that.

If you think about it

for a second, Vaseline Groove.

It's like Pearl Jam.

Well, what is Pearl Jam?

Pearl Jam,

that's semen, right?

Pearl,

like pearlescent jam.

It's semen.

Well, Vaseline Groove,

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