Grateful Dead

from wiki: Born and raised in San Diego, California. Nettles' unusual first name derives from his mother's dislike of the names Greg and Craig – and her combining the two to produce "Graig." "My dad was away at the war, so he didn't have any say."[1] The name also led to confusion for baseball card companies; the error-prone inaugural 1981 Fleer baseball card set includes an error card where his name is spelled "Graig" on the front, and "Craig" on the back. I don't see how combining two names you dislike makes the result any better, but anyhoo..... 40 years after you misspelled it on your paper in 1978 and you're STILL spelling it wrong - LOL :)

May the ticket you miracle always be counterfeitMay the encore you hear always be Day Job May the only era you listen to be '95 May you wake up and one day and realize they're like any other band May the only song you hear be Wave to the Wind

Hockey jerseys are supposed to be oversized.

I think his first name was Will, not Sammy. Can't recall last name. Not at home, so I can't access my Hot Tuna album to see the credits. Could be wrong though.

Just posted by Mat Brewster calling it the unfinished studio sessions on Midnight cafe. I will listen to any version of So many Roads https://themidnightcafe.org/2018/05/21/lossless-bootleg-bonanza-gratefu… Where is David Duryea anyway??? The track listing is: 1. Lazy River Road (Garcia/Hunter) 6:01 2. Easy Answers (Hunter.Bralove/Weir/Welnick/Wasserman) 6:23 3. So Many Roads (Garcia/Hunter) 5:19 4. Wave To The Wind (Lesh/Hunter) 7:22 5. Eternity (Weir/Dixon) 7:20 6. The Days Between (Garcia/Hunter) 9:56 7. Way To Go Home (Welnick/Hunter/Bralove) 7:05 8. Corinna (Weir/Hart/Hunter) 9:33 9. Liberty (Garcia/Hunter) 6:00 Total Time 64.58 From Rolling Stone, Apr 20, 1998 Although it’s common knowledge that the Grateful Dead were in the midst of recording when Jerry Garcia died almost three years ago, former keyboardist Vince Welnick shed more light on the unfinished album in a recent conversation with the Rolling Stone Network. According to Welnick, the album was set to include such tour-tested songs as “Liberty,” “So Many Roads,” “Days Between,” “Samba in the Rain,” “Way To Go,” “Corrina,” and “Easy Answers,” but Garcia passed away before the tracks could be completed. “We had just about finished the basics when Jerry checked out,” Welnick said. “It’s a shame, because we spent a lot of time in there.” Although the studio tapes from the Grateful Dead’s would-be swan song are still around, Welnick doubts that the album can be salvaged. “There weren’t even working vocals on some of the songs. There was also very little guitar. If they wanted to make something of it, they’d probably have to splice in something from one of the show tapes.” Grateful Dead spokesman Dennis McNally denied that anything will ever come of the album. “Only [Grateful Dead guitarist] Bobby [Weir] ever thought that anything could be done, but it can’t. Jerry didn’t contribute to it. Everyone else contributed to it, but Jerry just wasn’t with it. There’s not even a title, to my knowledge.” ISAAC JOSEPHSON Received this from Mike Maher Where is David Duryea anyway???

I wrote an ode to that fateful October 1978 Day... you know the one, Bucky Dent, Lou Pinella... I was crushed as Yaz popped out for the final out AGAIN (just like in 75). When my teacher handed it back, she had circled my spelling of Nettle's first name and written Greg in red (Nettles caught that last out). It was small, but sweet redemption to bring in the baseball card. Nettles did become the best homerun hitter in our Strato Matic league.

....Rhino. "Here ya go! F**k It!". I'd still buy it.

Whoops-I think I should explain that I deleted a comment on my last post this morning, saying that someone had shouted at me from a car yesterday calling me "Ziggy Stardust". You obviously saw this=posted your joke, which I hadn't seen before deleting my own comment. Which rendered your own comment a bit weird! Incidentally, I don't wear a jump suit or have a thunderbolt on my face-although I am surrounded by Earthlings here in Suffolk-hence the compliment yesterday!

That harmonica player was Sammy Piazza; he used to show up once in a while for a few JGB's gigs at Keystone Berkeley, back in '78.

I was about to correct "Greg Nettles" to "Craig Nettles" but decided to google it first. Turns out it's "Graig Nettles". Who knew. I had the same reaction to the August MUATM box announcement, Jim: "Gotta wait 'til f'ing AUGUST???" I guess that '89 box at the end of '17 pushed out the box schedule. I also think Rhino has lost a bit of mojo, as I've said before, and maybe their self-confidence as well. First the Cornell numbered, then un-numbered boxes circus, then the RFK box "not-numbered... wait, yes we'll number it!" Indecisive and missing the mark These decisions both seemed like obvious mistakes form the get-go - surprised that Rhino, who has been running the vault release series for a long time can seem so disconnected. Maybe we'll get an '86 box. Or a box of Donna's wails strung together. Or a box of just Brent spewing f-bombs at his ex-wife, or Bobby slide solo's, or a version of Trucking made from multiple Trucking' flubs strung together, or just 3 discs of dead air from between all the songs of an entire tour from, say, '83.