Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

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I know it seems like I’ve posted this before, but this is a brand-new sign, I swear, and it’s the best so far in terms of symbolically summing things up. Is Phil’s dressing room in the same building, or did they set him up at the next football stadium over?

17 Comments

  1. maggiemay

    Do people usually need to share dressing rooms in places like this?

    ps srry

    • thoughtsonthedead

      I think everyone’s across the hall from each other. People have their own rooms.

      • maggiemay

        Oh, that makes more sense. Usually dressing rooms in those places seem really small? And what do they do during the set breaks?

        • thoughtsonthedead

          I’ll tell you what happened during set break in three years.

      • maggiemay

        Awwwww sheiiiiit

        (I’d sleep. That’s all.)

      • Stellblu

        Following the directions, I’d say they put poor Phil in the museum across the road. And laughed at their cleverness. Mean.

      • maggiemay

        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  2. corry342

    This is like the assignment chart for a country house party in a Jane Austen novel. Mickey and Bill are in the same hall, but not opposite, while Phil is out in the Summer house, because his wife doesn’t get on with the others.

    • corry342

      I assume you are all familiar with one of the most famous lines of English literature, the opening to Pride And Prejudice, where the narrator archly remarks “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single guitarist in possession of a good gig must be in want of a lead player.”

  3. tor_haxson

    I heard that Jimi made friends really quick, one handshake or kiss on the cheek and you were in the Jimi entourage till the end of the tour.

    Corry would know better of course.

    • corry342

      Weir only really spoke to Jimi in the Guild tent that one time in 67. the Dead shared a few gigs with Jimi, Culter spoke to him once (May 16 70). But not the band. Jimi toured a lot, and was based in England and NYC, so he never hung out much in SF. If the Dead didn’t meet him on the road–and they didn’t–it’s unlikely they met elsewhere

      There is a remote chance of a jam in February 68 with Mick Taylor and Hendrix, Taylor has alluded to jamming with “Hendrix and The Dead and Airplane and everybody” (at People’s Temple) but he was probably speaking generically. Jack Casady almost certainly met Hendrix duing those jams (Feb 68), but its unlikely though not totally impossible that band members (not Jerry) jammed with Hendrix, or met him.

      Everyone who met Hendrix said he was a great, humble guy and a pleasure to be around. I still think that Weir is embroidering the story.

      • thoughtsonthedead

        Right. I’m sure they hit it off, but the way Bobby tells it, you would never know they were in different continents their whole working lives.

      • spencer

        Maybe he got him mixed up with someone else, Clarence perhaps?

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