Hey, Bobby. Please don’t–
“You know Branford.”
–call that man Branford. He is named Joe Louis Walker.
“Tremendous name.”
The history of the Grateful Dead vis-à-vis race relations has never been written, has it?
“We had great race relations. We didn’t see color.”
Uh-huh.
“Honestly. For about a month in ’69, everyone’s vision was black and white. Bear got something wrong in the formula. But we also didn’t care if you were black, as long as you were a top-level musician or dating Pigpen. We did that Black Panther benefit.”
Right. How was that?
“Tense. But, you know, those guys were on edge.”
Sure.
“Oh, and: one of my best friends is black. You know him. Jimi Hendrix.”
I forgot.
“Progressive organization from top to bottom. Except for the Road Crew. They, uh, were mostly from rural Oregon, and I’ll just leave it at that. And Billy. Other than that, though: top to bottom.”
Good to hear.
Whoa hey now, I live in rural Oregon and, uh, well I guess I can see what you’re getting at there, Bob.
Did Bobby really cry during looks like rain 10/10/82?
What do you know about this?
You’re my go to dead dude
It sure sounds like it on the recording. Think I read somewhere (possibly in comments on YouTube lol) that he’d just broken up with someone.
I always thought it sounded like he was weeping and wailing. One of the stories is that Otis died that day; I don’t know if that’s true.
Otis “the Ripple” dog?
Awww man
Makes it worse!!
If bob was crying for a gf ok its sad
But if bob was crying for a dead dog!!
100 times worse!!
Can’t listen to it now XD
Actually, Gans once said (on an episode of Tales From The Golden Road) that Otis had died around the January ’87 infamously bad “Get Back” week.
RIP Otis. 🙁