I was in Istanbul when I heard he died. My brother was visiting from the states. He lived in San Francisco at the time. I was a huge music guy, played guitar and bass in multiple bands at the time. I heard it on European mtv, and told my brother. I was never a fan but knew about them. I told him, and he just looked at me and said, no! Are you sure? I said I was. And he busted out crying. Bad, ugly cry. I discovered them in earnest way later. Now, aged 43, I get it. I really really get it.
Hard to believe that was over 25 years ago. I'm just glad I got to see the few shows I did. If I ever get to catch a ride in a TARDIS I know where/when I'm going to!!! (Gonna start with May 2, 1970 at the Harpur College show...)
Bravo Bob. Youre so perceptive and exactly on point with this disscussion. I can hear him also . Sometimes I hear the new songs that he is writing from time to time ....
@Candice Elizabeth Is he? In what ways may I ask.. For his age I think he seems spry and well. I find it odd that people who dont know the guy at all other than through interviews etc, speak about him as though they have face to face contact with him every day. Very interesting.
@Candice Elizabeth His last LP Blue Mountain was pretty good. Have either of you listened to it? If there is anything disappointing about the GD and their fans it is the fact that the fans have such a warped and completely false interpretation of who these people actually are and the powers and purposes they've been serving since day 1 of their GD career. First of all, in case you haven't noticed, the GD are Free Masons. Second, they've been involved with the US military, CIA, and other intelligence agencies since day 1 of their career. Third, they were deeply involved with the MK-Ultra project as well as other intelligence projects that were conducted through various college universities in the late 60s and throughout the 70s and perhaps into the 80s. Bob Weir himself has spoken openly about his fond memories of sharing time with high-level intelligence agents at the Bohemian Grove in Sonoma, California. It was rumored in 2001 that he was permitted to fly on 9-11 after the attacks happened. In 1967, they spoke openly about sonic weaponry used by the US military that few civilians really knew details about at that time. especially a hippie rock band from Haight Ashbury. It struck me as kinda odd at the time when I first heard it. Long before I knew the truth about them. I could go on and on about the GD alone, nevermind Kesey, Hunter, Owsley, Hells Angels, Cutler, Hart, Scully and a long list of other bands and well-known figures of the hippie era and earlier as well as later. Mk-Ultra began in 1953. Nobody really knows when, or if it ever ended. My belief is that they just updated it and gave it a new name. Maybe something like... Project Monarch. I don't know. Let's ask Bob Weir. He should know.
@Candice Elizabeth FYI, Lesh and Barlow were both neck-deep involved in all of the above. No different than any of the others. Barlow was deeply involved in the intelligence community. Just read his Wiki. Same with Hunter. Their lack of support is just a misconception about how un-close they really were. Keep in mind, these were professional musicians that were working clandestinely with the military and intelligence agencies at a time of war. It was much more of a cut-throat community than a supportive, loving, hippie community, as we were all misled to believe it was. So don't be too disappointed to discover the truth about your idols. Especially these guys, who misrepresented themselves and mislead their fans for 30+ years without ever revealing their true objectives and participation in what can only be described as nefarious, and deceptive experiments and projects that were in fact the pathway to death or personal destruction for many people since they began the Acid Tests back in 1965 as the Warlocks. LSD was a Nazi drug that was used in Nazi concentration camps. It is connected to the Sandoz Pharmaceutical company of Switzerland, which is connected to the I.G. Farben company of Nazi Germany, which is connected to Felix Warberg, who is connected to the Rothschild family, which was responsible for the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank by way of their agent, Paul Warberg. The FRB was established for the purpose of war finance. When WWII ended, the LSD experiments were interrupted and never completed until those same Nazi scientists working on that project were brought to America under Operation Paperclip in 1946. By 1953, the MK-Ultra project was ready for employment by way of the CIA and the US military. The entertainment industry was chosen in particular as the vehicle for MK-Ultra. That included all aspects of the entertainment industry, including everything from children's television programming to the adult industries. Stage, screen, and everything in between, I guess you could say. It especially included Rock & Roll musicians and artists like Elvis Presley who made joining the Army fashionable during the Korean War. MK-Ultra didn't begin or end with the Grateful Dead but in my opinion, no other band took their Masonic oaths as seriously as to actually perform at the Giza Pyramids. An obvious Free Masonic construct and symbol. No other band did as much to experiment with sound and even ESP on their audience. Let's just face facts, the GD community were more than happy to be experimented upon. Especially while under the influence of LSD. I should know. I was there, on the LSD, and more than happy to participate in anything the band was doing. I did know about MK-Ultra back then but I ignored the facts because it was a bummer. Now, there is a lot more information available and we understand the implications far better now that our minds are a bit more clear.
I don’t understand the hate for bob. He was a very nice and thoughtful man. My father meet him at a bar in Charlotte, NC. That was apart the story of how my dad became a dead head
I don't think there was actual hate for Bob. People are tribal and since Bob was the other writer in the band people naturally picked camps. I for one liked Bob songs and sets better than Jerry's. Loved JGB but I was always a bigger fan of Bob's songs, especially live. Jerry's ballads are great for a sit down show but at a dead show I wanted to party!
Man, how on God's green earth can Bobby be a weak link in this band!? Fully half of their most legendary original songs he wrote! Sugar mag, the other one, music, stranger, looks like rain, playin', damn near all of the Ace album! I can go on and on. The grateful dead is not for everyone but even Jerry has said in innumerable interviews how creative and quirky and original Bobby can be. If you don't like him, hey no problem. But you could not have had the Dead as we 've known them without Bobby.
Also the music unique rhythm guitar player ever. Fully agreed. I Don’t think people, or at least people who’s opinion I take seriously, have that take anymore. But, it was a thing for a long time, you’re right. Just because some people don’t agree doesn’t make it incorrect.
I went to the Highgate VT show that summer and Jerry was looking pretty rough. He appeared to have aged 10 years since the last time I had seen them the previous October. You could just feel the end in the air. Bobby rocked it that show though. Great El Paso & Black Throated Wind
I was there also.. Was my 1st and unfortunately last show with Jerry.. I heard people taking by me in the crowd that saying the same things that Jerry probably won't make it much longer.. I truly wasn't aware of the struggles he'd had for a while.. But it was extremely magical.. The space and drums were haunting.. But the music will always live on with us.. Was an almost spiritual time that day just took everything in and will never forget the vibe 🙏✌️❤️
Each person alive will be exposed to death at some point in some way and must be allowed to process it in their own way. There are no rules. Having solid touchstones of some kind helps with that. One thing for sure is that life is meant to be lived to the fullest every day if at all possible and helping each other do that is what we're all here for. Be kind.
Jerry didn’t take care of himself as well as he should’ve throughout his life, but I think if the Dead were willing to hang it up for awhile he would’ve had the time to get the help he needed. I just wish he had the sense to go to a Doctor before the rehab center. With a few test they would’ve seen he needed immediate heart surgery and he would’ve lived to enjoy a few years of retirement.
He did see a doctor- many times and had medical exhaustion and weir still made him go on tour even with his heart beating out of his chest. They all saw it. His heart beating out of his chest. Weir is incredibly greedy and empathy devoid
@@janeseamore1370 Wtf! So Weir is largely responsible for Jerry's death? What nonsense. I love Jerry, but he was a grown man and if he needed the rest, he should've just done it. The Dead's whole thing was not doing things just because someone tells you to. Make your own trip.
@@janeseamore1370 Why don’t you stop wasting time and just tell us what personal issue you have with Weir. Like so many others, I have spent the better part of my life studying the Dead. Your claims about Weir make no sense without more context. I’m guessing you have a personal story with him that didn’t go how you wanted, because short of that, you are way off base.
Incorrect. I’ve known some pretty conservative and even (weirdly) hateful heads. It always surprises me when some person is ranting off and their words are despicable, but then it’s all “Jerry in 77.” It’s possible they looked down on the heads so much that it was just about the time inside. I hope they are still organ donors.
In order to get the machine going, you gotta repair the engine. Jerry could've easily said "Time for me to stop. You wanna keep going? Fine. I quit. Fuck this Messianic shit!" knowing full well most of the audience wouldn't go to shows without him, but he didn't. Being non-confrontational didn't do any good.
Real talk. And I love and admire and make puja in my living room to Jerry as much as the next guy, but that’s the brutal, unvarnished truth right there. Astute man you are, sir 😉 it is what it is 🤷♂️ I guess it doesn’t matter anyway 🙏🕉
I thought it was so disrespectful of Bobby to refer to Jerry Garcia's body as a Stiff. I wonder if Bob would refer to his Mother, his wife or any other family member that may have passed away as a Stiff. Without Jerry Garcia there would have not been a band or a rhythm guitar player by the name of "Bob Weir".
I thought it was so disrespectful of Bobby to refer to Jerry Garcia's body as a Stiff. I wonder if Bob would refer to his Mother, Wife or any other family member that has passed as a Stiff. Without JERRY GARCIA there would have not been a band or a rhythm guitar player by the name of "Bob Weir ".
They had about ten songs they had been playing live since 1992. They had made an effort to record the material in late 1994 but not much happened then. Live versions of the songs were finally released about 20 years later.
I have what was gonna be the album and there certainly isn't enough there to release. Would be interesting tho if they went into the studio as dead and Co and re-recorded it.
Very bizarre thing to say. Makes you wonder about Weir. I noticed during the eighties Jerry kinda ignored Bobby on stage after he realized what a treasure he had in Brent......JMO.
@@janeseamore1370 Yes, I completely agree with you. I can just sense it in him. So arrogant.. and a shitty musician on top of it. I've always thought he was the weakest link in the band.
In order to get the machine going, you gotta repair the engine. Jerry could've easily said "Time for me to stop. You wanna keep going? Fine. I quit. Fuck this Messianic shit!" but he didn't. A damn shame.
1) Jerry “wanted” to take a break, but he never actually put his foot down and insisted, like @David Lee Wrath said above. That part is on him at the end of the day. We all have to own our own needs in life and create boundaries, no matter how difficult and emotionally fraught it is. But, hey, that’s also just one way of doing life, and that wasn’t how Jerry wanted to do life. He had a sense of duty to others that, for him, took priority over caring for himself, for his own body. Because 2) they had over 50 employees at that time who received salary and health care and benefits, etc. through their employment by the band. And because of the overhead costs associated with having an operation that large, if they stopped touring even for 90 days, they wouldn’t have been able to cover their obligations to their people, and would have HAD to lay people off. Weir says as much @3:30-3:56. But laying folks off was a non-starter for Jerry. So, they kept touring and playing shows because “they had to”. By September, in that liminal “what’s gonna happen next” period, they were essentially doing after the fact what they could/should have done before Jerry passed, and now that he was “unavailable”, it basically forced their hand. The situation within GDP had been like that for like 2 years at that point, but they just kinda procrastinated and kicked the can down the road, and by August ‘95 it was at least a year overdue but no plans were in place to actually take a break. That’s not just hindsight 20/20 revisionist history; that predicament was clear to many people at the time, including Weir, as this video indicates. But, their inaction was its own action, and the procrastination caught up with them, and Jerry died while in treatment on what was supposed to be a brief 5 week vacation/“Jerry tries to kick dope again” break from touring. And now, almost 30 years later, here we all are… It is what it is; “I guess it doesn’t matter anyway”. 🙏🕉
I find it interesting how well composed he is. I mean doing an interview 1 month after the death of Jerry? I couldn't do that. And I am just a fan. I would've cried for a year.
"death is so final I can't argue with it." I love the way Bob Weir's mind works.
I played guitar with Jerry this morning - as I do every day.
He's very much alive.
lol
I was in Istanbul when I heard he died. My brother was visiting from the states. He lived in San Francisco at the time. I was a huge music guy, played guitar and bass in multiple bands at the time. I heard it on European mtv, and told my brother. I was never a fan but knew about them. I told him, and he just looked at me and said, no! Are you sure? I said I was. And he busted out crying. Bad, ugly cry. I discovered them in earnest way later. Now, aged 43, I get it. I really really get it.
“It’s not like he’s gone” such a great ending line
Yeah his music will always stay.
Bob hit just the right notes, here.
Like a steamed locomotive, running down the tracks
Hard to believe that was over 25 years ago. I'm just glad I got to see the few shows I did. If I ever get to catch a ride in a TARDIS I know where/when I'm going to!!! (Gonna start with May 2, 1970 at the Harpur College show...)
Thanks for the feels man
man.. fresh out of high school my friend and i couldn't afford the chicago show.. 'we'll go this fall' .. so it goes.
Bravo Bob.
Youre so perceptive and exactly on point with this disscussion.
I can hear him also .
Sometimes I hear the new songs that he is writing from time to time ....
Bob is a strong dude mentally, damn. The powers of lsd
@Fred Jamison I think you are something
@Candice Elizabeth Is he? In what ways may I ask.. For his age I think he seems spry and well. I find it odd that people who dont know the guy at all other than through interviews etc, speak about him as though they have face to face contact with him every day. Very interesting.
@Candice Elizabeth His last LP Blue Mountain was pretty good. Have either of you listened to it? If there is anything disappointing about the GD and their fans it is the fact that the fans have such a warped and completely false interpretation of who these people actually are and the powers and purposes they've been serving since day 1 of their GD career.
First of all, in case you haven't noticed, the GD are Free Masons. Second, they've been involved with the US military, CIA, and other intelligence agencies since day 1 of their career. Third, they were deeply involved with the MK-Ultra project as well as other intelligence projects that were conducted through various college universities in the late 60s and throughout the 70s and perhaps into the 80s.
Bob Weir himself has spoken openly about his fond memories of sharing time with high-level intelligence agents at the Bohemian Grove in Sonoma, California. It was rumored in 2001 that he was permitted to fly on
9-11 after the attacks happened. In 1967, they spoke openly about sonic weaponry used by the US military that few civilians really knew details about at that time. especially a hippie rock band from Haight Ashbury. It struck me as kinda odd at the time when I first heard it. Long before I knew the truth about them.
I could go on and on about the GD alone, nevermind Kesey, Hunter, Owsley, Hells Angels, Cutler, Hart, Scully and a long list of other bands and well-known figures of the hippie era and earlier as well as later. Mk-Ultra began in 1953. Nobody really knows when, or if it ever ended. My belief is that they just updated it and gave it a new name. Maybe something like... Project Monarch. I don't know. Let's ask Bob Weir. He should know.
@Candice Elizabeth FYI, Lesh and Barlow were both neck-deep involved in all of the above. No different than any of the others. Barlow was deeply involved in the intelligence community. Just read his Wiki. Same with Hunter. Their lack of support is just a misconception about how un-close they really were. Keep in mind, these were professional musicians that were working clandestinely with the military and intelligence agencies at a time of war. It was much more of a cut-throat community than a supportive, loving, hippie community, as we were all misled to believe it was. So don't be too disappointed to discover the truth about your idols. Especially these guys, who misrepresented themselves and mislead their fans for 30+ years without ever revealing their true objectives and participation in what can only be described as nefarious, and deceptive experiments and projects that were in fact the pathway to death or personal destruction for many people since they began the Acid Tests back in 1965 as the Warlocks.
LSD was a Nazi drug that was used in Nazi concentration camps. It is connected to the Sandoz Pharmaceutical company of Switzerland, which is connected to the I.G. Farben company of Nazi Germany, which is connected to Felix Warberg, who is connected to the Rothschild family, which was responsible for the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank by way of their agent, Paul Warberg. The FRB was established for the purpose of war finance. When WWII ended, the LSD experiments were interrupted and never completed until those same Nazi scientists working on that project were brought to America under Operation Paperclip in 1946. By 1953, the MK-Ultra project was ready for employment by way of the CIA and the US military.
The entertainment industry was chosen in particular as the vehicle for MK-Ultra. That included all aspects of the entertainment industry, including everything from children's television programming to the adult industries. Stage, screen, and everything in between, I guess you could say. It especially included Rock & Roll musicians and artists like Elvis Presley who made joining the Army fashionable during the Korean War.
MK-Ultra didn't begin or end with the Grateful Dead but in my opinion, no other band took their Masonic oaths as seriously as to actually perform at the Giza Pyramids. An obvious Free Masonic construct and symbol. No other band did as much to experiment with sound and even ESP on their audience. Let's just face facts, the GD community were more than happy to be experimented upon. Especially while under the influence of LSD. I should know. I was there, on the LSD, and more than happy to participate in anything the band was doing. I did know about MK-Ultra back then but I ignored the facts because it was a bummer. Now, there is a lot more information available and we understand the implications far better now that our minds are a bit more clear.
@Skip Ads GlobalTubetruth always ends up in GD videos and every now and then spills this out, I find it funny and interesting at the same time.
I don’t understand the hate for bob. He was a very nice and thoughtful man. My father meet him at a bar in Charlotte, NC. That was apart the story of how my dad became a dead head
I don't think there was actual hate for Bob. People are tribal and since Bob was the other writer in the band people naturally picked camps. I for one liked Bob songs and sets better than Jerry's. Loved JGB but I was always a bigger fan of Bob's songs, especially live. Jerry's ballads are great for a sit down show but at a dead show I wanted to party!
No one has done more to keep this scene going than Bob Weir
I totally dislike the guy. Thanks
@@janeseamore1370 Any reasoning or do you just hate him
I'm looking at Bobby realizing how young he was when Jerry died it just puts things into a whole different perspective again
And he's outlived Jerry by 20 years. That screws you up a bit.
@@davidleewrath6919 almost 30 now
@@nedrobinson7490 I meant age-wise. Jerry was 53 when he passed and Bob's almost 75.
@@davidleewrath6919 and Jerry looked 75. I say that as big fan of the guy, but he did not take care of himself.
Man, how on God's green earth can Bobby be a weak link in this band!? Fully half of their most legendary original songs he wrote! Sugar mag, the other one, music, stranger, looks like rain, playin', damn near all of the Ace album! I can go on and on. The grateful dead is not for everyone but even Jerry has said in innumerable interviews how creative and quirky and original Bobby can be. If you don't like him, hey no problem. But you could not have had the Dead as we 've known them without Bobby.
Also the music unique rhythm guitar player ever. Fully agreed. I Don’t think people, or at least people who’s opinion I take seriously, have that take anymore. But, it was a thing for a long time, you’re right. Just because some people don’t agree doesn’t make it incorrect.
did someone say they dont like bob? where did this tirade come from??
went over and viewed the stiff
Incredible. Never trust a prankster 😉
I went to the Highgate VT show that summer and Jerry was looking pretty rough. He appeared to have aged 10 years since the last time I had seen them the previous October. You could just feel the end in the air.
Bobby rocked it that show though. Great El Paso & Black Throated Wind
I was there also.. Was my 1st and unfortunately last show with Jerry.. I heard people taking by me in the crowd that saying the same things that Jerry probably won't make it much longer.. I truly wasn't aware of the struggles he'd had for a while.. But it was extremely magical.. The space and drums were haunting.. But the music will always live on with us.. Was an almost spiritual time that day just took everything in and will never forget the vibe 🙏✌️❤️
Jerry is STILL WITH ME!
God I love that man......
Each person alive will be exposed to death at some point in some way and must be allowed to process it in their own way. There are no rules. Having solid touchstones of some kind helps with that. One thing for sure is that life is meant to be lived to the fullest every day if at all possible and helping each other do that is what we're all here for. Be kind.
Jerry didn’t take care of himself as well as he should’ve throughout his life, but I think if the Dead were willing to hang it up for awhile he would’ve had the time to get the help he needed. I just wish he had the sense to go to a Doctor before the rehab center. With a few test they would’ve seen he needed immediate heart surgery and he would’ve lived to enjoy a few years of retirement.
He did see a doctor- many times and had medical exhaustion and weir still made him go on tour even with his heart beating out of his chest. They all
saw it. His heart beating out of his chest. Weir is incredibly greedy and empathy devoid
@@janeseamore1370 Wtf! So Weir is largely responsible for Jerry's death? What nonsense. I love Jerry, but he was a grown man and if he needed the rest, he should've just done it. The Dead's whole thing was not doing things just because someone tells you to. Make your own trip.
Wayne he had severe apnea. He was exhausted. It killed him. Weir is a fucking prick
@@janeseamore1370 Why don’t you stop wasting time and just tell us what personal issue you have with Weir. Like so many others, I have spent the better part of my life studying the Dead. Your claims about Weir make no sense without more context. I’m guessing you have a personal story with him that didn’t go how you wanted, because short of that, you are way off base.
@@janeseamore1370 I read Weir banged Donna.
mischief and love.... words to live by
You live your whole life preparing for death. They prepared together
Do you have the full pre show?
Do you have the full preshow?
Accepting of events, perfectionist, philosophically viewing the world...yep, a psychonaut adoptee, brother.
I love bob, he’s so beautiful and so smart.
He's actually not that smart. I love the guy, but he is one dimensional truth be told.
@@elmoblatch9787 How so?
lol, Bob Weir is smart?
Bob weir is normal intelligence and empathy devoid. He’s a bully
@@elmoblatch9787 Can you describe how he is one dimensional?
Bob Weir interviewed on MTV..... ahh better days.
He’s here ✌️❤️🙏🎶🐢💨🙊
Grateful Dead did not cut across politics. The politics were uniform.
Incorrect. I’ve known some pretty conservative and even (weirdly) hateful heads. It always surprises me when some person is ranting off and their words are despicable, but then it’s all “Jerry in 77.” It’s possible they looked down on the heads so much that it was just about the time inside. I hope they are still organ donors.
I know several very conservative dead heads. Conservative but open minded in a way that’s more common than you would think
@@truepeacenik yep. Assholes are everywhere.
In order to get the machine going, you gotta repair the engine. Jerry could've easily said "Time for me to stop. You wanna keep going? Fine. I quit. Fuck this Messianic shit!" knowing full well most of the audience wouldn't go to shows without him, but he didn't. Being non-confrontational didn't do any good.
Real talk. And I love and admire and make puja in my living room to Jerry as much as the next guy, but that’s the brutal, unvarnished truth right there. Astute man you are, sir 😉 it is what it is 🤷♂️ I guess it doesn’t matter anyway 🙏🕉
I thought it was so disrespectful of Bobby to refer to Jerry Garcia's body as a Stiff. I wonder if Bob would refer to his Mother, his wife or any other family member that may have passed away as a Stiff. Without Jerry Garcia there would have not been a band or a rhythm guitar player by the name of "Bob Weir".
Niiiiiice!!!!!!!!!
I thought it was so disrespectful of Bobby to refer to Jerry Garcia's body as a Stiff. I wonder if Bob would refer to his Mother, Wife or any other family member that has passed as a Stiff. Without JERRY GARCIA there would have not been a band or a rhythm guitar player by the name of "Bob Weir ".
What material for what album were they working on in 1995?
They had about ten songs they had been playing live since 1992. They had made an effort to record the material in late 1994 but not much happened then. Live versions of the songs were finally released about 20 years later.
Ohhh.... Like "lazy river road" and "days between"? Duh, how did I not think of them lol
@@Sawdust5764 They were compiled for the “Ready or Not” album that dropped last year.
What? I never heard of that album happening, I'll have to look into that. I remember when that "So Many Roads" box set came out with those songs on it
corrina, childhood's end, samba in the rain. i'm sure it would have sold hundreds.
August 9, 1995 - The day music died for all white people.
Garcia band was mostly black though. It’s cool it was. Jerry was a cool
Person
Ya know what I'm shayin'?🗣
Bob Weir 46 in 95
He said viewed the stiff...wow
What, too soon?
Bob’s classic humor at play. “Just like a Swiss watch!”
@Noble Failures you left out "play the guitar" - he can't do that either. he's useless
Viewed the stiff
I played it back and went did he say viewed the stiff as they went to see jerry dead wtf
@@b2theran 1:15
Bobby is very direct
Jerry type humor
I agree that viewed the stiff is very harsh
I have what was gonna be the album and there certainly isn't enough there to release. Would be interesting tho if they went into the studio as dead and Co and re-recorded it.
head to the maxx, regulars cannot relate
Jerry looked so much older than 53 when he passed. I guess so much drug use and a terrible diet will do that to you.
plus that stroke/coma added years to his physiological age
ya think so? Did you want to be the person to tell Jerry Garcia "No" about anything? He would hate that. He didn't judge you nor should we judge him.
@@richardrybinski2320 Who said anything about telling him "No" to anything? I was just stating what I observed.
Jerry looked at least 68 years old when he died. It was his time.
Jerry lived the life of 20 people
Did I understand this spaced out bird brain refer to His Friend and bandmate of over thirty years, as a "stiff"?
my thoughts exactly. What a crappy thing to say. I've never liked Bob Weir.
@@BrianSherrill He is somewhat articulate though, but I wonder if the spaced out routine is just an act.
Very bizarre thing to say. Makes you wonder about Weir. I noticed during the eighties Jerry kinda ignored Bobby on stage after he realized what a treasure he had in Brent......JMO.
Weir is a bully and empathy devoid
@@janeseamore1370 Yes, I completely agree with you. I can just sense it in him. So arrogant.. and a shitty musician on top of it. I've always thought he was the weakest link in the band.
I found out jerry passed while stationed at camp schwab, okinawa
I have Jerry's ashes in a mojo bag around my neck.
No you don’t
How did you keep his roach too, or just his ashes?
Well Jerry requested to do less touring in order to focus on his health, but the band wanted more money to focus on their yachts. These things happen
In order to get the machine going, you gotta repair the engine. Jerry could've easily said "Time for me to stop. You wanna keep going? Fine. I quit. Fuck this Messianic shit!" but he didn't. A damn shame.
Where you get that info? Seemed jerry always wanted to play and had the JGB going as well
@@tommyob4762 you get the difference between the pressures of headlining giant stadium rock tours and gigging occasionally with your buddies, right?
1) Jerry “wanted” to take a break, but he never actually put his foot down and insisted, like @David Lee Wrath said above. That part is on him at the end of the day. We all have to own our own needs in life and create boundaries, no matter how difficult and emotionally fraught it is. But, hey, that’s also just one way of doing life, and that wasn’t how Jerry wanted to do life. He had a sense of duty to others that, for him, took priority over caring for himself, for his own body. Because 2) they had over 50 employees at that time who received salary and health care and benefits, etc. through their employment by the band. And because of the overhead costs associated with having an operation that large, if they stopped touring even for 90 days, they wouldn’t have been able to cover their obligations to their people, and would have HAD to lay people off. Weir says as much @3:30-3:56. But laying folks off was a non-starter for Jerry. So, they kept touring and playing shows because “they had to”. By September, in that liminal “what’s gonna happen next” period, they were essentially doing after the fact what they could/should have done before Jerry passed, and now that he was “unavailable”, it basically forced their hand. The situation within GDP had been like that for like 2 years at that point, but they just kinda procrastinated and kicked the can down the road, and by August ‘95 it was at least a year overdue but no plans were in place to actually take a break. That’s not just hindsight 20/20 revisionist history; that predicament was clear to many people at the time, including Weir, as this video indicates. But, their inaction was its own action, and the procrastination caught up with them, and Jerry died while in treatment on what was supposed to be a brief 5 week vacation/“Jerry tries to kick dope again” break from touring. And now, almost 30 years later, here we all are…
It is what it is; “I guess it doesn’t matter anyway”. 🙏🕉
Bobby the jealous step child.
Wow he looks so sad about Jerry faking his own death... so sad
Jerry didn’t fake his death
This is remarkably cringe weir
Why so?
I find it interesting how well composed he is. I mean doing an interview 1 month after the death of Jerry? I couldn't do that. And I am just a fan. I would've cried for a year.