I Forget the Rules....

Am I allowed to like "Touch Of Grey"?

Because I gotta admit, I kinda dig it...I know it gets a lot of shit for the "negative element" it seemed to draw to the scene...But is that really it's fault ?

It's a super catchy, fun song !!

Jerry On Broadway...

I recently received a box from my parents, and this was one of the things inside( along with some old football cards, a few Star Wars action figures(Greedo, Snaggletooth,a Gamorrean Guard, a Bespin Guard) a NOID(destroyer of pizzas) bendable toy, a Gumby & Pokey,Tweetu Bird PEZ Dispenser-they are emptying my childhood room). I remembered going to the show, but I totally forgot that I had a Playbill from it.

I will not SWEAR to this, but the Late Show of 10/25/87 is the show I believe I saw. I am going to look for my ticket stub, to verify, and perhaps ask my compadre if he remembers.

10/25/87 (Sun) Lunt-Fontanne Theater - New York City, NY
Set 1: Acoustic: Deep Elem Blues, I'm Troubled, Spike Driver Blues, Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standing On The Corner), Short Life Of Trouble, If I Lose, Get My Baby Out Of Jail, Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie, Drifting With The Tide, I'm Ragged But I'm Right

Set 2: Electric: How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You, Forever Young, Stop That Train, Think, Mission In The Rain, The Harder They Come*, When I Paint My Masterpiece** > Deal*, E: All Along The Watchtower** *** ****

Comment: Late show. Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band/ Jerry Garcia Band*=w/Bob Weir. **=w/Bob Weir vocals, ***=first time played, ****=only time played. "Ain't No Lie" dedicated to Elizabeth Cotton, who wrote it.

Info from setlist.com.

I remember that there was a game of the World Series played that night, because as a rather rabid Mets fan, I was desperately rooting AGAINST that Whitey Herzog and those damned St. Louis Cardinals, and we tried to get a score on the way home to Jersey.

I definitely remember that they played "Oh, Babe It Ain't No Lie" because me and a friend of mine got in a fight over it, he thought it was "Been All Around This World", but the first line of "Oh, babe It Ain't No Lie" is "Been All around this great big world, and I just got back today" or something like that.

I remember the Bob Weir visit, but I could be imagining having witnessed that. But I'm pretty sure that's the show we saw. It was so damn exciting to see Jerry in such a small place. It was very cool. Compared to MSG and Giants Stadium, it was practically like he was in my living room.

And he was in such good spirits then, and it really came through in the music. I have always felt that the 2 or 3 times I saw the JGB, Jerry seemed to enjoy himself much more than with the Grateful Dead. Maybe that's just my perception, I don't know.

Either way the show was great. It had a once in a lifetime feel to it, that's for sure. I'm grateful(groan) to have seen it.

Happy Birthday Phil !!!

Today is Phil Lesh's 67th birthday !!!

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Phil is responsible for two of my top 10 favorite Grateful Dead songs, "Box Of Rain"(probably my favorite Dead tune, correction, favorite tune, period-ever) and 'Unbroken Chain". Plus, one that I think is greatly underrated-"Pride Of Cucamonga"

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These songs always succeed at lifting my spirits and putting a wide wide grin on my face.

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My personal favorite Phil moment of all time: In 2001, I think it was, My Special Lady and I went to see Phil Lesh and Friends when they were touring with Bob Dylan. We saw them at one of the more than 500 Theaters in the U.S. named the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater-this one was in Orange County, CA.

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Dylan played first, and was pretty good(played a weird singalong,anthemic rock version of "Blowin' In The Wind" that i must say I didn't love).

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Phil and Friends came out, and kicked things off with an instrumental jam that was really cookin'- about 6 or 7 minutes into it, I hear this woman behind us ask her companion,"Um...Phil Lesh sings, right ?" She was clearly terrified that she was going to be subjected to 2 hours of hippies noodling around. It was too funny. Even funnier to think of all the "We Want Phil" and "Let Phil Sing" chants that you would hear at Dead shows. I think it was an interview with Bob Weir that I once read, where he was asked about those chants ,and he said that it's not like the band wouldn't let him sing or anything. They love it when he sings too. I'm afraid I'm not doing it justice, but it was pretty funny.

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I remember a t-shirt that I saw occasionally-It was a picture of a dollar bill(I'm not sure what the denomination was) with Phil's picture in the middle, and underneath it the words-"In Phil We Trust". Amen to that.

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Happy Birthday Phil, and here's to many more.

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Box Of Rain- Hunter/Lesh

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Look out of any window

any morning, any evening, any day

Maybe the sun is shining

birds are winging or

rain is falling from a heavy sky -

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What do you want me to do,

to do for you to see you through?

This is all a dream we dreamed

one afternoon long ago

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Walk out of any doorway

feel your way, feel your way

like the day before

Maybe you'll find direction

around some corner

where it's been waiting to meet you -

What do you want me to do,

to watch for you while you're sleeping?

Well please don't be surprised

when you find me dreaming too

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Look into any eyes

you find by you, you can see

clear through to another day

I know it's been seen before

through other eyes on other days

while going home -

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What do you want me to do,

to do for you to see you through?

It's all a dream we dreamed

one afternoon long ago

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Walk into splintered sunlight

Inch your way through dead dreams

to another land

Maybe you're tired and broken

Your tongue is twisted

with words half spoken

and thoughts unclear

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What do you want me to do

to do for you to see you through

A box of rain will ease the pain

and love will see you through

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Just a box of rain -

wind and water -

Believe it if you need it,

if you don't just pass it on

Sun and shower -

Wind and rain -

in and out the window

like a moth before a flame

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It's just a box of rain

I don't know who put it there

Believe it if you need it

or leave it if you dare

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But it's just a box of rain

or a ribbon for your hair

Such a long long time to be gone

and a short time to be there

PGSoR - Bucks - Help on The Way/Slipknot - Dead

This Is Pretty Cool !

"Holes In What's Left Of My Reason..."

I think "Saint Of Circumstance" is a highly undederrated Bobby song !

"Raised Eight Boys, Only I Turned Bad..."

So I wish that my commute home last night was longer, as I only listened to "Brown Eyed Women" from Richmond, Virginia on 11/1/85 4 times in a row. I could have done with 3 or 4 more, I think.