RE: Best that ever was riding peak after peak

Posted on: March 20, 2021 at 11:55:07 CT

THAT was a solid night. Caught both Riverport shows. It was the night Garcia said good bye. They had put out the QFA letter, telling their audience to chill out on gate crashing violence that plagued the tour. Kept the houselights on the first St L show - which SUCKED.

Second night - did this smoking GREAT Gospelly He's gone and then a quiet Stella Blue where Jerry seemed to say THIS THIS is how good this can be and repeated the line "Stella Blue" 22 times at the end. You can find it on Youtube. Jerry was fading and there were two shows yet at Soldiers in Chicago, but that night in St L was it.

If you want a guy who LIVES his creed, Garcia would not sign the letter telling his fans to quick fcking up this scene, they were ruining it and the living of the band, their roadies and staff, all of it. And Jerry's stance was that if these folks were choosing this behavior, he had no right or position to tell them not to. I thought that pretty stunning. We lost Pete same basic days we lost my dad. I learn a month later - learn the day after Garcia dies that my cousin knew Steve Parish and "backstage drinks with the band" had been a phone call away for years. Oh boy