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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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