tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post5745317003015467176..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: May 1972: Bob Weir InterviewLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-80841984781929741502014-09-13T20:45:25.364-07:002014-09-13T20:45:25.364-07:00A few words are missing in my copy of this article...A few words are missing in my copy of this article. The writing here is what I think of as lazy journalese....run-on sentences, cliched thoughts, the sense that the first words that come to mind are being hastily written down to fill the word-count. <br />I think this is made interesting by the interview comments from Weir, though - his description of the Bickershaw festival ("a disappointment" with the wet, frozen conditions, the stinking heaters, and the guitars going out of tune) and his feelings on Keith's joining the band. He finds it "miraculous" that Keith fit so well with the Dead, and was just what they were looking for. <br />He says that Keith "was previously a session musician in San Francisco" - though the only pre-Dead Keith session I know about was James & the Good Brothers, and possibly Dave Mason's band, evidently unreleased.<br />It's also a surprise to hear that "we auditioned scores of pianists before we found Keith." I know they tried an audition with Howard Wales; and presumably Ned Lagin could've had the spot if he wanted (but he didn't); but who else? Maybe Weir's exaggerating, or maybe there's an unknown story here.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com