fronobulax
Bassist, GAD and the Hot Mess Mods
- Joined
- May 3, 2007
- Messages
- 24,812
- Reaction score
- 8,940
- Location
- Central Virginia, USA
- Guild Total
- 5
All we teenage boys had a crush on Grace. She was drop-dead gorgeous. I used to secretly to myself wish her Happy Birthday every Oct 30th. I gave up on Airplane starting with Bark. It was a combination of discovering the incredible musical interplay between Lesh, Garcia and Weir and just not particularly liking any of the new songs. I'd come home early after my 12th grade year classes, smoke a little and listen to Dark Star. That summer my friend and I challenged each other to see who could get up and turn over the record to play St. Stephen or did we fall asleep during Dark Star. I still love BATE though. And of course Crosby's first with all those Frisco players. Sorry to take the thread off track, All. I'm new here and it's fun sharing thoughts about the great music and the great instruments they played. Thorne
Veering is what we do. I bought original JA albums after Volunteers as they came out and filled in gaps with a couple earlier ones. Things changed, and not for the better and hindsight suggests Spencer Dryden was a greater influence than I realized. The Dead had their moments but I never really had the attention span to listen much. Perhaps related, there was also a lot of jazz I wasn't getting to either, back in those days.