Monday, January 12, 2026

A Stab From The Past, In The Back

Your Genial Host, Spotted Almost 59 Yrs. Ago!

Always the topper, I noted my first time at a Dreadful Grate gig on a Bob Weir obituary thread. (Outside of a couple of people claiming to have seen them in Palo Alto as The Warlocks, I was the earliest.) And as a stickler for accuracy I wanted to see if it had been in 1967 or '68. Here's the P-I item on the free performance. All interesting enough, but when I looked at a Dead post on Facebook w/ pictures I spotted myself! Hint: I'm not on the flatbed truck stage (I s'pose I was on the truck, as I was leaning on it.) nor on the bus in the background. That shirt was white w/ red & gold paisleys, & I was sporting a string of beads which broke while I was boogie-ing. Hey, it was 1967, I was three months short of 14 & trying too hard. (Possibly the last time I tried hard at anything. Why arse myself?)
Guys on stage are both dead; how many on the bus are still kicking?
Above less-cropped no-logo image was found at Seattle Now & Then, replacing the Skype-logoed one from JerryGarcia.com. Speaking of whom, & paisleys, Jerry was sporting a pair of green corduroy jeans w/ red & yellow paisleys. He stood next to me for a while in front of the flatbed; short person.

Home movies. I doubt that's the actual audio. May be the back of my towhead obscuring the late Bob at (0:35). I was probably to the right of the guy in the brown shirt at (0:13).All the hot poop on Google.

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