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SomeDarkHollow |
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June 26, 2012 10:31:36am |
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Re: 'The Grateful Dead Waltz' |
For anyone who caught his appearance on the Colbert Report last week (or maybe the week before), my one favorite line was when Colbert said something along the lines of "If the music career never happened, you could have done quite well as a Civil War reenactor"
As for the opinion of the Dead, that just all it is, an opinion. Just becuase he played at the same places at the same time didn't mean that if he didn't like them he is automatically an asshole. Certainly I couldn't disagree more, but I can't say I think any less of him having read that.
For me, if songs could only be played for 4 minutes, I may give a slight upper hand to the ABB, but their extended jams have a tendency (for me anyway) to wander aimlessly after a certain point and to end abruptly (kind of like many Monty Python scketches).
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AltheaRose |
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June 26, 2012 08:24:12pm |
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Oh, that's a really funny line from Colbert.
Musical Monty Python sketch? LOL! That's as good as the Colbert.
I like the Allman quote, too -- good for him for being frank about his opinions in his autobiography. Obviously I don't "agree" with him, but I like it that he says what he thinks without sugarcoating or being p.r.c. (public relations-ly correct). I have no idea what he might have thought back in the day, and I bet he doesn't remember it now, either, but that's what he thinks and good for him for saying it.
There's an interview for a punk magazine, I think, where the interviewer starts out telling Jerry he hates his music and Jerry basically says, fine, great, it would be a boring world if everyone liked the same thing. (I'm totally mis-remembering. LiA probably has the link.) Same goes for Allman's perspective.
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light into ashes |
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June 26, 2012 11:57:52pm |
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Re: 'The Grateful Dead Waltz' |
Sounds frank, yes; accurate, perhaps not (esp about Duane). Maybe Gregg didn't like the Dead in 1970 after all - fortunately, the Allmans guitarists did!
But it kind of sounded to me like, "Jerry called me a narc? Well, his band sucked! The ABB, we were a real band!"
Anyway, lots of musicians have said the Dead had no groove, no interest, etc; that doesn't really matter.
I don't recall Jerry ever being interviewed by a punk magazine, maybe others do.
There was one interview where the interviewer said he thought long Dead jams got boring, and Jerry put a positive spin on it & said that's good, we like to cover the whole range of experience!
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AltheaRose |
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June 27, 2012 03:37:27am |
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Re: 'The Grateful Dead Waltz' -- does anyone remember this Jerry quote? |
Oh boy. Now that's going to bug me until I figure out where I read it.
It was a hostile interviewer, I think in England(?), who started out by saying something on the order of, "I think your music sucks. What do you think of that?"
Ring any bells with anyone?
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snori |
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June 27, 2012 04:05:35pm |
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Re: 'The Grateful Dead Waltz' -- does anyone remember this Jerry quote? |
It would be highly unusual for an English interviewer to use the word 'sucks' unless he was trying hard to make Jerry understand. It just isn't in our vocabulary - not a single person I know says ' That sucks', no-one on television (unless it's an American show) or radio uses that expression.
We have plenty of words and phrases that would convey the same sentiment (this is the Land of Shakespeare and Chaucer after all), but I would guess that the interviewer in question was American.
I have heard the Q. 'What do Deadheads say when they run out of drugs ? ' A. 'What's that horrible noise ?' attributed to Keith Richards.
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RBNW....new and improved! |
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June 26, 2012 06:41:33pm |
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Re: 'The Grateful Dead Waltz' |
i dealt with Greg on several occasions IN PERSON and though it was not automatic HE WAS/IS AN ASSHOLE!!!
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SomeDarkHollow |
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June 27, 2012 05:49:32am |
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Re: 'The Grateful Dead Waltz' |
Yeah, you do have a point.
He came to my school in the Spring of 88 with his and Dickey's band. A good friend of mine was the, uh, lets just say the main source of, uh, "fun" on campus and he was recommended to Gregg as, uh, the best "proprietor" of whatever, uh, "stimulants" he might need. My friend ended up on the tour bus with Gregg and his people and came back with a report the Gregg was, indeed, not the kindest of persons. OK, he said asshole.
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AltheaRose |
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June 26, 2012 08:34:55pm |
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Re: 'The Grateful Dead Waltz' |
Interesting. Do share the details. Always love pointless celebrity gossip (if I know who the heck the "celebrities" are, which is actually kind of rare) :-)
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