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In reply to the discussion: Grateful Dead's Bob Weir Dead at 78 [View all]flamingdem
(40,794 posts)56. Saw the Dead multiple times at the Fillmore in NYC
Those were heady days!
Deal was to run to the front where they'd throw acid.
Or at least that was the rumor. So down from the
rafters where the addicts were to the front we'd go.
$3.50 tickets... Dark Star would last for 40 minutes.
Pig Pen on the drums.
Then as an oldster went to Bob Weir's club in Marin.
What a great scene!
There he was still playing.
RIP Bob
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Picture him young and healthy again, because I believe he is, on the other side. Reunited with
highplainsdem
Saturday
#13
You're welcome! I'm glad it gave you some comfort. And I have no doubt that you did really hear
highplainsdem
Saturday
#29
I agree. Plus I thought Bob was cute. Very watchable. More seriously - see what he says in another 2019
highplainsdem
Saturday
#40
From personal experience, I think most female Deadheads were Bob Weir fans,
OAITW r.2.0
Saturday
#41
Not sure how he felt about the video documentation, or what aspect of it you meant...but when you wrote that, I was
highplainsdem
Saturday
#42
He wished Jerry had taken better care of himself. From a Rolling Stone interview last March:
highplainsdem
23 hrs ago
#49
I get it We all now know that the Grateful Dead were not Dead and Company.
OAITW r.2.0
23 hrs ago
#50
Your first video features Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay who passed away two months ago
Brother Buzz
Saturday
#14
That is a weird coincidence. Have you talked to your cousins since the memorial service?
highplainsdem
Saturday
#44
Singing backup on Percy Sledge's breakout hit, When a Man Loves a Woman....
Brother Buzz
8 hrs ago
#63
Hampton, RFK, Philly, then Charlotte/Raleigh on the return & Roanoke every couple years
underpants
Saturday
#37
Grateful Dead 1968 Newport Pop Footage............my first experience ................
turbinetree
Saturday
#31