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From terrapin@cats.ucsc.edu Mon Nov 21 09:27:50 PST 1994
From: terrapin@cats.ucsc.edu (Beth Dyer)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
Subject: Another piece of Stoned Sunday Rap
Date: 21 Nov 1994 01:22:33 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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Part XI from "A Stoned Sunday Rap" from _Signpost_to_New_Space_. Reprinted
without permission...
Charles Reich: Another thing that I know about you so completely is that
you ... it's so important that you play all the time because the things that
you have to say any particular day you never have to say any other day and so
they'd be lost.
Jerry Garcia: True.
CR: And that's why you have to play a lot. (Jerry laughs) Because
otherwise, like so much of what you play would never be said. But so
much of what you said to yourself would never be said out loud.
JG: That's true. But is it all that important to say what you're saying
to yourself out loud?
CR: Hmmmm?
JG: See, I doubt the value of what I'm doing a lot of times.
CR: No, it's very important.
JG: So I go through changes.
CR: No, no, but it's very importnat to say what you have to say *all*
the time because it's important to communicate with other people.
JG: Yeah.
CR: And it's important to help other people with their communication. And
so like the greatest service that I could make in the world would be to
constantly tell people ...
JG: What's on your mind.
CR: .... where my head was going, yeah. As long as a lot was happening.
JG: Right.
CR: But if I was just being boring, or in one place, or not saying anything
I should shut up and stop making other people uptight and all that.
JG: Right. Of course they'll leave if it's too boring.
CR: Yeah, that's probably right.
JG: There's the Doris Day rule working in there somewhere.
CR: Yeah, they will leave and like they'll discourage you.
JG: Or fall asleep or something.
CR: Or say shut up.
JG: Right.
CR: Yeah, but like it is important to play a lot and you can judge
whether you should be playing by whether anybody plays your records or
listens to them.
JG: Yeah.
CR: Now, you want an image to make you really see how this is. And I'll give
you like three images. Image number one: balmy beautiful day in the Yale
Courtyard with all the kids' rooms around it. What they do on a day like
that is everybody lies outside and takes in the sun and there's got to be
some communal agreement about which kind of music is to come out of which
kind of window, because, you know, like bedlam and the tower of Babel ...
JG: Right. (laughter) Right.
CR: And so somebody will put up two big speakers, like stereo speakers,
outside, but there's got to be agreement. If there was like cacophony
it would be awful. So the image is that it's always the Grateful Dead.
JG: Whew! Too weird.
CR: And that's what's so far out.
JG: Well, I humbly apologize to those people for my errors on those records.
CR: No, I mean it's just so fine. It's like, and anyway did you know that
in a certain part of their head, you're not the Grateful Dead but you're
Uncle John's Band.
JG: Uh huh, sure.
CR: Because ....
JG: Yeah, a lot of people think that.
CR: Well, let me tell you why. The Grateful Dead is like ... stretch
your mind, right. Sometimes I might be in a tight place and I don't want
my mind stretched.
JG: Right.
CR: Then I will isten to Uncle John's Band.
JG (laughter): Right, I understand perfectly. There's the music you can
live with -- the music for Saturday, or Halloween, or whatever.
CR: The second thing that is, like if peole are in an incredibly good
place on dope they want to play the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead is
for being in a real ... you know, it's the only music to play. Other
things might take you off this. It' slike when the place you're at is
so good that nothing should be allowed to disturb it. That's when you
play the Grateful Dead.
JG: Yeah, we'd like to play about that place, too.
CR: Yeah, and that's like a very high far-out good thing.
JG: Makes it. Definitely makes it.
CR: Now the third image is only just me -- I've given you one of the
whole couryard and so forth 00 and that is that when you play the song
about opening sindows. The name of it is "Box of Rain."
JG: Right.
CR: Now, really dig on this. It's the song that I've used since it came
out to accompany me when I didn't have any people in this whole exploration
that we have been talking about.
JG: Uh huh.
CR: In other words, it was my company.
JG: Oh. Too much. Good company, man, good company.
CR: Yeah, it was like the thing that told me that somebody else believed
it was so.
JG: Yah, right, well Hunter will tell you.
CR: And think about like having, being able to play music that people can
use for campany and things like that.
JG: Right. Right, and comapny in those places where, right.
CR: Well, a good way to talk about music is like that it's company. Did
you ever think about that?
JG: Yeah, always, because it's company for me for sure, all the time.
CR: Yeah, it's company and like so ....
JG: An accompaniment!
CR: Yeah, but sometimes you're using it for one, and sometimes the other.
Now if I want to sit down -- and this is another me -- I keep ... like it's
fun to tell about these me's. I've never told anybody about them. This
is me in my *chair*, do you like him? (Mountain Girl laughs. Jerry laughs.)
And I have a drink and I have a plate of maybe like olives and cheese, you
know, and it's five o'clock and I don't know if you do this, but it's a good
thing for a person to do. I'm in my *chair* with my drink and hors d'oeuvres
and like I have a newspaper, and it's me in my chair and for that I would
only like want music to *accompany me*.
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