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Grouchy Bear

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Hey, Garcia.

“Hey, buddy.”

You look smelly.

“Fuck off.”

I know it’s years before you started smelling, but this picture makes you look smelly.

“Fuck off.”

11 Comments

  1. spencer

    Who’s the guy side-eying Garcia? Can’t tell on my phone.

    • thoughtsonthedead

      Hairy, tie-dyed fellow with an acoustic. I would wager that he is of Semitic or Mediterranean descent.

      Beyond that, I’m out.

      • spencer

        For a second there i thought dweezil zappa got a hold of the time sheath.

        • thoughtsonthedead

          I agree with you now: that is what happened. Officially.

  2. SpamJam

    What year even is this? There seem to be conflicting clues. Considering the banjo it has to be Old and In The Way, right? But Garcia does look so much sweatier and more ragged than he ever did in that era, unless playing bluegrass really brought out the stank for him, even then.

    • thoughtsonthedead

      I think he’s young and in Old and In the Way, but this is just peak stank.

      • SpamJam

        Fun fact: unlike peak oil, the point after which the global extraction of oil will begin to decline, Garcia peak stank in 1973 paled in comparison to the massive untapped stank reserves that would be unleashed on the world (or at least Parrish) beginning in 1980 or so.

  3. wtfwjd?

    Did he have all that grey in his beard in 1973? Or is that confectioner’s sugar?

    • thoughtsonthedead

      Garcia’s grey didn’t come in that way. No human’s grey comes in that way.

      I believe your hypothesis about confectioner’s sugar might be correct.

      Weird how much of that stuff they went through.

  4. Robin Russell

    That looks like P. Rowan’s D-28 to me.

  5. Dan

    That looks like Peter Rowan, alright, Jerry looks to ‘present’ for it to be much later than ’73-’74. Also, glasses are that era, too.

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