Bruce’s band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there’s no lead guitar player, for one thing. Phil Lesh Read Quote
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin’. Phil Lesh Read Quote
Not that there weren’t great shows, and not that there wasn’t plenty of fine music played. It’s just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the ’90s. Phil Lesh Read Quote
Of course, we didn’t survive to play all the way through the ’90s, so I can say that – as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different. Phil Lesh Read Quote
And that format was – we’d been using that format, I guess, since the late ’70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation. Phil Lesh Read Quote
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children. Phil Lesh Read Quote
In a way, it’s my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music. Phil Lesh Read Quote
So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there. Phil Lesh Read Quote
There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads. Phil Lesh Read Quote
