― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 10 May 2003 21:57 (twenty years ago) link
so points raisd above - 1) i never noticed hotpants or even short shorts - he likes shorts2) bad jokes - the man is on drugs (apply to above)3) weird eyes - the man is on drugs
― H (Heruy), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:09 (twenty years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
you prefer jerry's voice? not that there is much to choose betweenthe two but bobby actually had a voice while jerry croaked for about 20 of the 30 years. both their voices succeded depending onwhat they wre singing and even then if that night they were able to do it - I love 'Crazy Fingers' more often than not (i.e 99% ofhe time) I would suffe thru Jerry's singing till he shut up and started playing guirat.
Bobby is singing "looks like rain" "cassidy" or whatever, his voice generally is ok, probably it is also that he is nor required to hit same notes as jerry but more power to him if his is smart enuf to sing in his range.
― H (Heruy), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:36 (twenty years ago) link
― brains (cerybut), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:38 (twenty years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 10 May 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
Drak Pack was just as an important part of my past as Voltron, but moreso even!
Also, I love the Dead, but have never been able to say I love Bob Weir. I went from hating him to tolerating him to actually liking a few of his songs. Basically, I just can't stand his combination of country bumpkin and hepcat whiteman vocal inflection, but occasionally he pulls off a great song (i.e. Pride of Cucamonga).
Jerry Garcia ruled, though, even when he was too fat and out of breath to hit the notes or sing coherently. Something about his voice is just so fucking emotional and sweet.
― Scaredy Cat, Sunday, 11 May 2003 01:40 (twenty years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 11 May 2003 01:57 (twenty years ago) link
"Estimated Prophet"? "One More Saturday Night"?
Fucking "Playing in the Band"????!!!!!!!!!!!
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 11 May 2003 01:59 (twenty years ago) link
Did he do "Unbroken Chain"? If so, there's another notch in the con column.
― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Scaredy Cat, Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Scaredy Cat, Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:18 (twenty years ago) link
He's definitely a worse singer than Jerry; after all, he's the guy on all the live stuff who interjects all the off-key yelping, and the "Whoah Yeah!"s and the "Oww!"s.
Still, I kinda like him in spite of all that. He's just living the dream, you know.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Scaredy Cat, Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link
But yeah, he is a total goofball. I kind of think he knows that, though.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:34 (twenty years ago) link
http://faculty.eas.ualberta.ca/wolfe/IMAGES/bob-weir-madonna.jpg
― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:42 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 11 May 2003 02:57 (twenty years ago) link
― scaredy Cat, Sunday, 11 May 2003 03:10 (twenty years ago) link
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl2195132889d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=35e3973f.2217734%40enews.newsguy.com
― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 11 May 2003 03:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 11 May 2003 03:23 (twenty years ago) link
This sounds more like high comedy to me.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 May 2003 03:23 (twenty years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Sunday, 11 May 2003 04:16 (twenty years ago) link
He's supposed to have been straight since around 1966, isn't he? Always thought that was a little strange.
― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 12 May 2003 10:29 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 12 May 2003 11:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 12 May 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
Search: “Estimated Prophet’, “Looks Like Rain” “Other One”/”Spanish Jam”Destroy: “Victim or the Crime” “Feel like a Stranger” “Picasso Moon”
Though they’ve become part of the Dead canon I’ve never been particularly enthused abt “Playing in the Band” “One More Saturday Night” or “Music Never Stopped” etc. I prefer what could be classed maybe as the second-tier songs like “Cassidy” or “Mexicali Blues” and to a lesser degree “Jack Straw”. I would put my three search picks up in amongst the best Dead songs tho.
Depending on mood I can either find “Sugar Magnolia” just cause for killing the band and other times I’ll happily hippy out. “Sunshine Daydream” is better just ‘coz I haven’t had it shoved down my throat as often.
James Ball – well, in a video I saw of New Year’s Eve Dead show circa ’86 or so Bobby’s pupils look like he’s on about half a sheet of acid. Find it hard to believe he gave up drugs in ’66 or so.
― H (Heruy), Monday, 12 May 2003 21:12 (twenty years ago) link
U.S. Blues China Doll Unbroken Chain Loose Lucy Scarlet Begonias Pride Of Cucamonga Money, Money Ship Of Fools
― Sam J. (samjeff), Monday, 12 May 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 12 May 2003 21:52 (twenty years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 27 July 2003 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Reed Moore (diamond), Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Weir's worst tendancy is go go falssetto. *Shudder*
Poor Garcia. So talented. He deserved a better band.
― shookout (shookout), Monday, 6 September 2004 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 6 September 2004 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 6 September 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
friend just offered me a free ticket to the weir/chris robinson show in boulder next week! second row! i'm totally going! i will ask bob weir what the hell his problem is.
― tylerw, Friday, 1 June 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
No, ask him what his prolem is.
― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Friday, 1 June 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
what is your prolem, mannnn
― tylerw, Friday, 1 June 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
he gives a weird finger. up above. some people throw a weird bird.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 June 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
that is quite the weird bird.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 1 June 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
if you've gone to all the trouble of constructing the pointer, ring, pinky block why leave the thumb all hanging out there like it was broke.
― how's life, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Never knew until now that "Ace" is essentially a Dead album.
― Johnny Hotcox, Friday, 1 June 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
Love this thread, even with terrible attribution errors above.
I do Bob Weir air guitar moves to all music, including classical. He can be a total cheeseball obv but I often think he had the best sense of humor and perspective about the band. And Jack Straw is his best song, possibly the greatest GD song of them all.
― tobo73, Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
every time he speaks between songs he sounds irritable & often really condescending, even on early late-sixties shows, to the point where when he gets started I'll find my self saying "shut the fuck up, Bob" to the stereo
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
I rescreened Festival Express recently, and there's some footage of an informal press conference on the train, which was presumably held to mend fences w/the Canadian underground press who'd been so critical of the motives behind the tour. A very unchill Weir snaps at one of the reporters who'd suggested The Dead play for free with something along the lines of "We're working musicians, man! That's how we make our living! You just can't understand that this doesn't happen for free, and that's really sad...." which I guess was pretty ballsy for July '70, particularly coming from someone in THE GRATEFUL DEAD.
― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 2 June 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
It's hard work staying in jort shape
― Sam Weller, Friday, 25 October 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
This is one of the funniest thread titles.
― Chris L, Friday, 25 October 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
can't imagine needing a forklift for an exercise regimen, let alone being able to conjure one
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 25 October 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
Once a bob weirdo, always a bob weirdo
― calstars, Friday, 25 October 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
― non-euclidean lenin (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 October 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
Who wears short jorts?Weir wears short jorts
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
having a short while ago heard Bobby and Wolf Bros slide "what's goin on" into "eyes of the world" on the Sirius GD channel, I am reminded of something that occurred to me when I saw him play with some of the guys from the National in 2016 at King's Theater: it seemed to me that he was playing mostly if not entirely Jerry tunes? is this standard for Bobby shows?
If so, seems odd, because unlike say Gilmour, who has an irreducible claim on many Waters songs, being that he sings and plays hugely key guitar parts thereupon, Bobby and Jerry songs are distinct; maybe jerry plays guitar parts on Bobby songs that heads hold dear, but it would seem that Bobby shows would be devoted to the shit that's, y'know, HIS… it would be like Mick Jones playing only Joe songs…
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
I'll make the easy joke and say he forgot which ones are his.
But more likely he just knows from experience which songs the crowds really want and he sees himself more as an emissary for the Dead overall than as putting on a Bob Weir show.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
The short answer to this thread question is that he spent too many years in short shorts.
But to answer the new question, I think it has something to do with his slower approach to music these days. I don't have the interview handy, but he was responding to complaints of Dead & Co's slower tempos with a meandering explanation that I don't entirely buy, but that he's more interested in letting music take some time to develop and exploring the spaces between. So I think more of Jerry's songs fit this vibe, esp when it comes to Wolf Bros performances.
I wasn't sold on Wolf Bros at first, but those two curated live releases have really won me over, it's a vibe for sure.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
"It's me, Bob Weir, high, I'm the prolem, it's me."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
Bob Weir strikes me as one of the few people in the world who have no problems at all.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
Here's the interview I was thinking of:
https://www.gq.com/story/bob-weir-grateful-dead-profile
And here's a choice quote:
“I'm looking for the most possible harmonic content from the string,” Weir says. “To get that, you have to be able to hang a note and let it change colors for you, because it will if you let it.… I love to listen to the sound of my fucking instrument. I don't play the guitar for no reason. There's so many things you can do with it. But you can't do them quickly. At least I haven't been able to figure out how to.”
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
I remember that interview, it was a good one, Weir appeared to be pretty unguarded.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
very annoyed that I can't find a photo of his goofy getup for the daytime show at Monterey 67, with the pith helmet and the flowers painted on his face
― sleeve, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
terrible singer for one
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
Nah, imho he's only terrible when he gets to his adlib shrieking sections of songs.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
Not terrible at all, and one of the most recognizable voices of his generation.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
"HEY now GET BACK trucking on" "HEY now GET BACK trucking on" "HEY now GET BACK trucking on" "HEY now GET BACK trucking on"
― calstars, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
My Bob Weir problem is that I first heard "Black-Throated Wind" on Steal Your Face. "This sounds like it could be a great song, but the vocal track is completely buried". So I listen to Ace only to find that the studio version has an intrusive horn section and drumming that just plods through all of the switches of time signature. On which of the other live records is there a decent version of this?
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
he seems to have poor mic technique sometimes, like he often comes in too loud or will like randomly back away from the mic for a second mid-singing.
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
lolYou’d think after 50 years …
― calstars, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
this 1990 performance of estimated prophet has stuck with me for years because of bob’s weirdass vocalshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ndrom5F6c
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
this gif is my favorite thing to come out of Dead & Co so far:
https://j.gifs.com/G5zVXK.gif
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
Scatman Weir
― calstars, Thursday, 22 December 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
Dude is soooooo out there. I love it.
― tobo73, Thursday, 22 December 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link
"We can share the women, we can share the ice cream..."
https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/ben-jerrys-jack-straw-berry-bob-weir-ice-cream-flavor/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 September 2023 19:51 (six months ago) link
On the back of the container, the Ben & Jerry’s crew gave its lyrical regards to the visiting musician: “We can share the strawberries / We can share the vegan cream / We can keep on groovin’ along / ‘Cause Bobby’s helping us live the dream.”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 September 2023 19:52 (six months ago) link
Mickey Hart of Darkness Double Fudge Swirl
― calstars, Thursday, 21 September 2023 20:52 (six months ago) link
Estimated Sherbet
― If I luge, if I luge, if I luge you on the track (Craig D.), Thursday, 21 September 2023 22:17 (six months ago) link
Sugar Coneolia
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 September 2023 02:16 (six months ago) link
She Wants Honey
― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp), Friday, 22 September 2023 02:39 (six months ago) link
I Know You Scooper
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 September 2023 02:45 (six months ago) link
My Bob Weir problem is that I first heard "Black-Throated Wind" on Steal Your Face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEZZfXsooX4
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Friday, 22 September 2023 08:37 (six months ago) link
Unbroken Cheesecake?
― peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 10:59 (six months ago) link
Throwing Cones
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 September 2023 12:30 (six months ago) link
Mountain Swirl
― calstars, Friday, 22 September 2023 12:46 (six months ago) link
Dark Starfruit
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 22 September 2023 13:16 (six months ago) link
Fudge Ripple
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 13:31 (six months ago) link
Tiramisu Station
― peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 13:35 (six months ago) link
shake it, sugar cookie
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Friday, 22 September 2023 13:37 (six months ago) link
uncle john's banana
Oh no!
― peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 13:43 (six months ago) link
lol
― calstars, Friday, 22 September 2023 13:59 (six months ago) link
Pistachio Moonpie
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:33 (six months ago) link
Thank you Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro) for solving my Bob Weir problem!
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 22 September 2023 20:47 (six months ago) link
*prolem
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:18 (six months ago) link
The Rocky Road To Unlimited Devotion
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 September 2023 01:32 (six months ago) link
Looks Like Rainbow Sherbet
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 23 September 2023 02:56 (six months ago) link
They've had Cherry Garcia for like decades so are they giving the other memb4rs flavours for real or has it only been the 2.
― Stevo, Saturday, 23 September 2023 07:02 (six months ago) link
Only the two, with Wavy Gravy as an aside.
― calstars, Saturday, 23 September 2023 11:19 (six months ago) link