How bar-bandish was Phil’s hiatus bar band? Four songs with “mama” in the title AND Louie Louie in one set. That’s how bar-bandish.
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Too Loose To Truck (possibly styled as Touloos Ta Truck) may be the most obscure of all Grateful Dead side bands. Go Ahead has its own damn Wikipedia page, and you don’t even know which Grateful Deads were in Go Ahead, do you? (Billy and Brent.) All that remains of TLTT is one recording, along with the night’s handbill; neither publicity nor performance photos were taken.
Phil left the womb less than the other band members. He was in the New Riders for fifteen minutes, bothered audiences with Ned Lagin for a year, this group during the hiatus, and two nights with the Jerry Band in ’81. Other than that, Phil played with the Dead exclusively because Phil is secretly the laziest Grateful Dead. When the band yeeted out in 1974, everybody else got to work (except for Billy, who immediately became a junkie). Garcia started touring the Jerry Band, which had previously been a local Bay Area act; Bobby joined Kingfish and recorded an album that featured Lazy Lightning>Supplication; Keith and Mrs. Donna Jean cut a record and put together a new band. Phil rounded up some buddies to play Slippin’ & Slidin’ at the bar by his house.
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Weirdly reminiscent of Billy Cobham’s Spectrum. Good, good drummer.
Happy Birthday Phil! Now here is some Bill Kreutzmann . From a 5 song CD he made and gave out at an Art opening in Hawaii. ‘Mahalo’ featuring some of his side projects. For the enthusiasts! http://ul.to/bk7aw2i6
Dude Seastones is the one. That’s the bar band I want to see.
Mahalo track listing:
01 Girl Like You (BBDK-Front Street 7.24.85)
02 Are You Lonely For Me (Garcia_Saunders-Keystone, Berkeley 1.17.74)
03 10,000 Mics (Trichromes-Studio Jam 3.30.02)
04 Hey Jude _ Dear Mr. Fantasy (Go Ahead-Capitol Theatre, Passaic NJ
10.31.86)
05 Eyes Of The World (The Dead-Rehearsal 5.27.03)
Apparently JGB also played some sets at River City, which, based on the address shown here, was just a few doors down from Nave’s bar of Heineken Years fame. Convenient for Phil, indeed.
So lazy.