American - Musician | October 16, 1947 -
We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
Bob Weir
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The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.
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I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.
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Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.
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I thought being a cowboy would be a terribly romantic thing to do. But it wasn't. I shoveled a lot of stalls.
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Both my kids like Adele, and I gotta say, the girl can sing.
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When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.
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One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.
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That Cornell show that - that people talk about, I can't remember that specifically. It didn't stand out for me on that tour. The whole tour was like that for me.
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We'd just signed with Arista, the record company. Arista was freaking about the phenomenon of tapers showing up at our shows. They were insisting that we put an end to this. And we just didn't want to do that.
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The premise that we're working with is that when most people go to a show, they're not really watching what's going on onstage. They may be watching what's on the screen. But when the songs are playing in their mind's eye, they're actually watching a movie.
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Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.
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