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Park Life

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I could make some sort of half-hearted attempt at going left to right, or concocting some sort of ludicrous rubric, but let’s just agree that there will be skipping all over the place and the drummers will be discussed at length.

  • As with all of the other pictures from this photo shoot, Mickey will be playing the part of “Cocaine Jones.”
  • Dammit, Mrs. Donna Jean: stop beguiling me.
  • Some people will say you shouldn’t advertise another brand in your own publicity. Those people probably also think you shouldn’t wear a sweatband so high up on your head that you look like a pineapple, so fuck ’em and their opinions.
  • “Just keep walking, Dwayne. Don’t make eye contact with the crazy honkies. Just keep walking.”
  • Is Billy holding a beer? There’s no can there, it seems. Does Billy unconsciously carry a tall boy of Coors around?
  • What did Keith know and when did he know it?
  • Mrs. Donna Jean’s hair is longer than Mickey is tall.
  • I mean, they’re all equidistant from the camera, so it’s not perspective doing that to him. (They are on a slight slope, but Mickey’s clearly one of the Wee Folk.)
  • He is the day’s potato salad champion, though.
  • Actually a photo-realistic painting, this piece entitled The Last Days of Garcia’s Fuckability is on exhibit at the Museum of Modern Terrible Dead Art (MoMTDA).
  • The motorcycle boots with the slightly flared jeans, the dark aviators, the complete lack of accessories: Garcia brought his sexy to the park this day in 1977 and, judging by the historical record, left it there.
  • Did they have to do that with Keith literally in between them? Was the pole-climbing the climax of this exchange:
  • “Bet I can climb that pole all the way to the top.”
  • “Why you always braggin’ on yourself, Bobert Weir. So unattractive.”
  • “I’m gonna climb that pole, Mrs. Donna Jean.”
  • “Yeah? And’ I’m gonna watch you climb.”
  • “You gonna watch?”
  • “Yeah.”
  • “You like to watch me climb poles in the park?”
  • “Climb any pole you want, sugar.”
  • Were Keith conscious, he would be crying.
  • Sticking with the two of them, it is odd how–even in daylight–Bobby and Mrs. Donna Jean’s lighting seems to be better than everyone else’s.
  • “Take a walk through the park, Dwayne. It’s a nice day, Dwayne. There won’t be a gang of hippie CHUDs there, Dwayne.”
  • Two things you shouldn’t do in white jeans: climb light poles in parks, and wear white jeans at all.

BONUS LIST!

Acceptable Reasons for Mickey’s Appearance:

  • Bit part on Starsky and Hutch.
  • Cocaine.

The Core Four And Some Other Guy

IMG_1586They didn’t use to fight. I mean, they hit each other and screamed epithets at the Road Crew and drove luxury cars into one another, but they didn’t fight fight. There were drunken arguments that escalated to Billy trying to curbstomp Bobby (true, pg. 110) and sometimes it came down to pistols at dawn, but nothing simmered.

Things were different back then, though. Everyone didn’t have their own team of managers and lawyers and Benjy Eisens telling them how much more important he was than everyone else.

Everything changes; nothing lasts.

Also, Billy’s hair looks like Neil Diamond’s 80’s bouffant wig had sex with a werewolf.

Double Bass

IMG_1566Worst freak show routine ever.

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I like how, even though they’re just taking a picture and holding the guitar, 50 years of muscle memory won’t let their hands do anything but play the thing.

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What is that? It looks like something Picasso doodled on a napkin to get out of paying for dinner.

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Jack Casady either needs to stop dying his hair or start paying more money to dye his hair. You should go to Big-Dicked Sheila’s with Phil.

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I mean: Phil’s gotta dye his hair, right? He’s 74.

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This is just a little crystal meth away from being a lemon party. Just saying.

Meet, Greet

phil randos rocks1. Judging from the stickers, this was a pre-planned photo session, so the shirts are understandable, but if you met a Grateful Dead by accident, would you want to be wearing a Dead shirt? Or, would you feel goofy? I would feel goofy about it, especially if it was a Garcia shirt.

“Hey, Phil. You remember your dead friend? He’s on my shirt. Have a good rest of your day thinking about mortality, buddy.”

2. Glad that guy’s giving the peace sign. Otherwise, we might not have known he was a hippie-type.

3. “What’s got two thumbs, a new set of teeth, and some new breathing exercises to do when Billy calls? This fucking guy right here.”

Known When To Walk Away; Know When To Run

IMG_1551“A tour?”

“A quick one.”

“With this John Mayer person with whom I am completely unimpressed?”

“Why not?”

“Because I’m a 74-year-old man who doesn’t want to stay in hotels and is quite happy walking away from the table with the multi-million payday we have guaranteed. Billy’s become this weird old crazy person and you keep collapsing.”

“I don’t keep collapsing.”

“You’re on the floor now, Bob. During this brief conversation, you slid gently to the ground.”

“No, I didn’t.”

“So, why are you on the floor?”

“You’re on–”

“I’m done.”

“–the floor, man.”

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