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The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir Page #6
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- 2014
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Sure as you're born
I went to my house
My front door was locked
Yeah
Went 'round to my window
But my window was locked
Jumped right back
I shook my head
Big old rounder in my folding bed
Shot near the window
Broke the glass
Never seen that little rounder
run so fast
He's on the road again
Sure as you're born
Natural born easement
on the road again
On the road again
Sure as you're born
The late '80s,
the whole situation changed a lot.
The "Touch of Grey" album came out,
they got really big.
And I think the dynamic changed.
In the late '80s, Grateful Dead shows
became a destination.
"Touch of Grey"
and this assault on the mainstream
that was unthinkable
in the Grateful Dead world.
Must be getting early
Clocks are running late
Faint light of the morning sky
Looks so phony
Dawn is breaking everywhere
Light a candle
Curse the glare
Draw the curtains
I don't care 'cause
It's all right
I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive
The crushing part of fame
is just boring.
Being famous is boring,
and it's confining.
We were kind of hoping
to be successful on our own terms
Whistle through your teeth and spit
'cause it's all right
We hit a peak of popularity
in the late '80s.
It had gotten to the point where
it was hard to walk down the street
without getting just mobbed, basically.
We had a hit single and
a video that was played a lot.
Jerry was singing the song,
and he was good on camera,
and he was evocative on camera.
that we hadn't seen before.
- Yeah, Jerry's God, man.
- Yeah!
It gives you something to look forward to,
you know.
There was a cult of people
and they deified Jerry.
The temptation, I guess,
or the tendency was there
something like that, which it isn't.
It's just music.
It's just art.
We weren't high priests
or anything like that.
And to have that thrust on Jerry,
for instance, it was unsettling to him.
understand what it must be like
for someone like Jerry
to be in the position
to have all these people deify him.
He was a great, mellow,
you know, humble guy.
so idolized like Jerry...
It's a big burden for anyone
to have to be that person, I think.
We had a gig, as I remember,
at RFK Stadium.
We played with Dylan and it was hot.
108 degrees or something,
and humid.
And Jerry wasn't real good
with hot weather to begin with.
We went home and, uh...
a couple of days later, he was in a coma.
You know, Jerry once told me that heroin
takes all your troubles,
all your concerns, all your worries,
and ties them neatly together
into one little, tiny little package.
"Where's my next hit?"
you don't think about exercise.
He was grossly overweight,
and I'm just gonna go ahead and assume
that he had a cholesterol situation
that you wouldn't wish on a mad dog.
While he was in the coma,
he couldn't be taking drugs
and they didn't give them to him.
And so by the time he came out,
he was cleaned up,
and he stayed that way
for a couple of years.
And he was a lot of fun
when he was straight.
Those were the funnest times
we had together
since we were much, much younger.
- It's your verse, man.
- No, it's your verse.
- You didn't do "She never stumbles."
- You come in after.
- Oh, that's true.
- No, you didn't do "She never stumbles."
It's true, you didn't do
"She never stumbles."
We only did two verses
before the instrumental.
Yeah, you did two verses.
I did the second one
- and then you did the instrumental.
- Oh, right.
You used to do the third verse,
then we did the instrumental.
- We'll have to do this perhaps again.
- Okay. Keep rolling.
Keep on rolling.
Yeah, well, here we go.
Let's see.
Bob. Bob.
What are you looking at, man?
What are you looking at?
The chances are
I spent more time standing on stage
playing guitar and singing
than any human that ever lived.
How many shows
did the Grateful Dead play?
Something like 3,000,
and then you at least double that.
It's a lot of time singing
and playing guitar.
We can share the women
We can share the wine
We can share what we got of yours
'Cause we done shared all of mine
I spent a lot of time thinking about
my life and my adoptive parents.
They were proud of me
by the time they wrapped it up.
And they were real happy.
And I loved them and they loved me,
and I knew that.
But for adopted kids,
you're always gonna wanna know
where you come from.
So I finally hired a private eye
to look into my birth.
But the private eye guy
could get nowhere with it.
And so I didn't think
I was gonna get anywhere.
Jack Straw from Whichita
Cut his buddy down
Dug for him a shallow grave
And lay his body down
A half a mile from Tucson
By the morning light
There's one man gone and another to go
My old buddy
You're moving much too slow
We can share the women
We can share the wine
On Sunday in Indianapolis,
a Grateful Dead concert
had to be canceled.
As many as 4,000 people
stormed gates behind the stage
and bottles at police.
Hundreds of Grateful Dead fans
tried to push their way
into a concert in Orlando last night.
Police lobbed tear gas and pepper gas.
In the early '90s, there was so much
crowd control difficulty at our gigs.
People crashing gates
and there were so many people
getting hurt, and that kind of thing.
It got to be a bit much.
Big problems
with the Grateful Dead.
Two deaths from apparent drug overdoses.
It's dirtier.
People are grosser and they're
much younger than I ever remember.
And much higher.
People weren't going
to the shows for music,
they were going to the shows as...
just to party down
and to get as wasted as they could.
And this was not exactly
what we were all about.
But be that as it may,
that's what we kind of got pegged with.
Most of the real true Deadheads
weren't that way.
They went for the music.
The Dead, well,
their music is a form of communication
of the highest of the ideals of the '60s,
which is peace, joy,
bringing people together.
But the whole thing, it's the concert,
it's the party, it's the band.
I don't know.
And you can't really describe it.
It's just a feeling you get
when you're with all these people.
What do I do once I'm in there?
I dance. We all dance.
- Yeah!
- We all dance.
If they can make it work
making falafels,
or tie-dyes in the parking lot,
so that they can get into the shows
so that they can live between tours...
You know, if it rings
uh, what's wrong with that?
At the same time,
if it takes your life down,
then that's another story.
So that's a double-edged sword.
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