After the show, Phil had the backdrop cut up to make hundreds of hideous t-shirts.
Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To
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“Are we going to go swimming like you said?”
“Just eat your sandwich, Taro: Daddy’s drumming.”
“You’re always drumming.”
“LIFE IS DRUMMING.”
Hi, Grateful Dead. Whatcha doing?
“ROCKING SO HARD.”
I know! It’s very exciting!
Most of us are familiar with (or patrons of) Phil’s new culinary/musical venture, Terrapin Crossroads, but not many are familiar with the fine dining establishment Phil and Mickey partnered on in the ’80’s called Chez Guevara’s.
The name was the first misstep. A, it’s one of those jokes that’s cute the first time and just awful every time thereafter; B, fine dining establishments probably shouldn’t have puns in their names; and C, patrons in the San Francisco area tend to remember how much better Che was at, say, lining suspected homosexuals up against walls and shooting them than at, say, leading the people to a glorious worker’s paradise.
Also, Phil and Mickey both insisted on being Maitre d’ at the same time. “We’ve got two drummers and look how well that works all the time,” they reasoned. To their credit, they were right: it worked exactly as well. Opening night featured three fistfights about where people were going to sit, the last of which spread out to include most of the kitchen staff and spilled out to the parking lot.
Making Billy the chef was also a bad idea, as the only thing Billy knows how to do with knives is throw them at people.
Another pic by David Gans, author of the long-time fave Playing in the Band, follows up on the previous pic of Mickey in a schmucky hat to reveal that the hat’s purpose was to cover his freshly shorn skull, which Mickey has shaved for a reason known only to himself and the Lord, and quite frankly, even’s God’s a bit mystified.
Theories abound, however:
- Aerodynamics.
- Sexual purposes.
- A drunken, manic Billy had snuck up behind him five or six times that afternoon with a battery-powered clipper and sheared jagged h0les out of his hair; this was the only thing Mickey could do.
- He wanted his head to look more like a drum.
- Took too many sleeping pills, shaved it off in a fugue state, woke up like that.
- Lice.
- Mickey had a side gig impersonating Henry Rollins at children’s parties, bar mitzvahs, and quinceneras.
- Garcia accidentally set his hair on fire.
- Sold his locks to get Billy a chain and fob for his pocket watch. Billy, though, had sold his pocket watch to get Mickey hair care products. And among gift-givers, they are the wisest. They are the drummers.
- Just participated in the largest heist in Frisco history, he can’t leave town for 24 hours, and his picture is in every window. Mickey co-stars with Demi Moore in this summer’s funniest chase movie, San Francisco Blues!
- Just broke up with Kevin Federline and the paparazzi won’t leave him alone.
- Bobby was showing everyone how big a bubble he could blow and you can guess the rest.
- Someone accused him of talking the talk; Mickey needed to prove that he walks the walk.
Hey, Mickey. Were you trying to look like a schmuck?
“Yes.”
Congrats, then.
As bitchy as the surviving members of the Dead have been to one another over the years, these two crazy fucks still like being fucking crazy together.
Billy and Bobby are giggling because someone bet them Mickey wouldn’t be wearing a Dead shirt.
Mickey is laughing because the other two are and he just wants to be part of things.
Honestly, you two: knock it off. Yes, Keith ate a handful of off-brand hippo tranquilizer and crawled into the piano twenty minutes ago but he has a weird way of sensing things even when he’s comatose.
PLUS Bottom right, third guy in, blue shirt: is that the Phantom of the Opera? What the dick is going on here?
ALSO Mickey is there why?
AND If Garcia doesn’t have a lit Camel in that left hand we can’t see, I’ll blow the Pope in Macy’s window.
“Hey, Garcia.”
“Why aren’t people staying where they belong?”
“Wanted to sing with the Big Guy.”
“Go back to your mic, Phil.”
…
“You know I don’t have a microphone.”
“You don’t? Huh. What do you think that means?”
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