MOST Powerful Quotes about the late, great Jerry Garica <3

“There’s no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player. He really had no equal. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic, and subtle. There’s no way to convey the loss.” - BOB DYLAN

“I feel your silent laughter at sentiments so bold, that date to step across the line to tell what must be told, so I’ll just say I love you, which I never said before, and let it go at that old friend the rest you may ignore.”- ROBERT HUNTER

“I see him in my dreams all the time. I hear him when I’m on stage. I would say I can’t talk to him, but I can. I don’t miss him. He’s here. He’s with me.” - BOB WEIR

“Jerry had this ineffable sweetness and vulnerability, even when he was playing his wildest up-in-the-spheres stuff. It’s something you don’t really see that often in musicians working in this field. We never really talked about this, because it was so obvious to all of us, but he knew he wasn’t making that music; it was like he was just up there quoting or transcribing what it was that was being given to him or coming through him, as we all were in the best moments. That’s the goal that we strive for, that we still strive for.” - PHIL LESH

“Where do you begin? There’s so much to say about him. He was a benign, lovable guy and he was also a magic man, a shaman. There was a feeling of going out in the world with kindness that Jerry represented. That shines through beyond all the other stuff.” - MICKEY HART

“Jerry was the best musician I ever played with. He was 100 percent music. Every pore, every bit of his body, every molecule, was music, whether he liked it or not. He was like a Mile Davis or a Coltrane or somebody like that – just completely locked into it. I always felt that I could hear in his music him talking about things at a much deeper level than what appeared on the surface. There aren’t many musicians who have that gift – to be really profound.” - BILL KREUTZMANN

“Something that immediately comes to mind when I think of Jerry is his almost total aversion to self-aggrandizement of any kind.”- GARY LAMBERT

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Song of the Day - Terrapin Station - The Grateful Dead (1977)

Terrapin Station

Words by Robert Hunter, Music by Jerry Garcia

Let my inspiration flow

in token lines suggesting rhythm

that will not forsake me

till my tale is told and done

While the firelight's aglow

strange shadows in the flames will grow

till things we've never seen

will seem familiar

Shadows of a sailor forming

winds both foul and fair all swarm

down in Carlisle he loved a lady

many years ago

Here beside him stands a man 

a soldier by the looks of him

who came through many fights

but lost at love

While the storyteller speaks

a door within the fire creaks

suddenly flies open 

and a girl is standing there

Eyes alight with glowing hair

all that fancy paints as fair

she takes her fan and throws it

in the lion's den

"Which of you to gain me, tell

will risk uncertain pains of Hell?

I will not forgive you

if you will not take the chance"

The sailor gave at least a try

the soldier being much too wise

strategy was his strength

and not disaster

The sailor coming out again

the lady fairly lept at him

that's how it stands today

you decide if he was wise

The storyteller makes no choice

soon you will not hear his voice

his job is to shed light

and not to master

Since the end is never told

we pay the teller off in gold

in hopes he will come back

but he cannot be bought or sold

TERRAPIN STATION

Inspiration, move me brightly

light the song with sense and color,

hold away despair

More than this I will not ask

faced with mysteries dark and vast

statements just seem vain at last

some rise, some fall, some climb

to get to Terrapin

Counting stars by candlelight

all are dim but one is bright:

the spiral light of Venus

rising first and shining best,

From the northwest corner

of a brand-new crescent moon 

crickets and cicadas sing

a rare and different tune

Terrapin Station

in the shadow of the moon

Terrapin Station

and I know we'll be there soon

Terrapin - I can't figure out

Terrapin - if it's an end or the beginning

Terrapin - but the train's got its brakes on

and the whistle is screaming: TERRAPIN

AT A SIDING

While you were gone

these spaces filled with darkness

The obvious was hidden

With nothing to believe in

the compass always points to Terrapin

The sullen wings of fortune beat like rain

You're back in Terrapin for good or ill again

For good or ill again

The Annotated Terrapin Station

The Dead and Company to Headline Bonnaroo 2016

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Fingers crossed for the 2016 Peach Festival!

"I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die." - Jerry Garcia

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Jerry Garcia

"I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional."

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Song of the Day: The Dead & Co -Phil Lesh, Ross James, John Mayer - I Know You Rider (2015)

Today is dedicated to a new found appreciation for John Mayer.

"The challenge and what I love about this is figuring out what in the guitar playing is compositional and important to the song and what is someone’s fingerprint -- what is Jerry Garcia's fingerprint. … For me, it’s about finding an authentic space between how I play the guitar and what my instincts are and what these songs are at their core." Mayer on learning to play Grateful Dead Source