Chords for Bob Weir - Part 1 - 4/29/1984 - Rock Influence (Official)
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Let's talk about San Francisco as an influence [F] first.
San Francisco as an influence on me.
San Francisco as [Eb] an influence on you.
It seems like it was almost magical that at some [Ab] point during the mid-60s,
San Francisco suddenly came alive with music.
It was you [E] guys, it was Quicksilver Messenger Service, Santana,
Big Brother and the holding company, the airplane.
[Ab] You just were sort of all there [Eb] playing and recording.
How did this happen?
It's all a mystery to me.
Somehow the word got out that there was a lot of music in San Francisco
and that brought more music in.
And it was a great boiling pot of musical activity.
A lot of stuff emerged from there and some of it is still rolling.
Were most of the musicians from [E] the bands that I just named
and other San Francisco [N] bands that you're certainly aware of,
were they native Californians?
Did they just sort of migrate to San Francisco?
[Eb] The ones that we first [Ab] initially got involved with,
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Starship, Big Brother,
[Gb] Jefferson Airplane at that time and Big Brother, were all local kids.
A lot of other people came into that area as time went on
and then it sort of became a breeding ground for bands and still is.
A lot of big groups have come from San Francisco over the last decade and a [B] half.
Do you think, Bobby, there is a San Francisco sound?
Is there a definite San Francisco [N] sound?
Not to my ears.
At one [Eb] time there kind of was maybe, but we were too [Ab] close to it.
We couldn't identify because we all sounded real different to each other.
But I guess to outsiders we might have sounded like San Francisco [Db] bands.
Did you guys [C] play a lot with other bands?
[Db] If you were in the dead, would you jam with other bands?
Was there a lot of interaction?
[G] There was lots of jamming going on [B] all the time.
Do you think that helped to develop the music [N] with each of the individual bands?
I suppose.
We all cop licks from each other and stuff like that.
[Eb] There's sort of a new resurgence of San Francisco bands
with the Tubes and Journey and Greg Kinn and Night Ranger.
Do you think that they are [Db] a direct reflection on the bands of the [Eb] 60s and 70s?
Or do you think it's a whole new situation now?
No, it's been an ongoing process, I think.
These bands have been around for a long time in one form or another.
A lot of them are remnants of bands that started [Gb] way back then
and are just now making it.
God knows the Tubes have been around a long time.
[G] Journey has been around a [F] long time.
[Eb] And Greg Kinn and Night Ranger,
they're part of the San Francisco music culture that's just been churning away for [D] years.
How important do you think what was [E] happening politically in San Francisco in [Db] the 60s
was on the music and the musicians?
[Eb] It wasn't a very big influence on me.
Me and most of my friends are all apolitical, essentially.
[A] So you think there was very [Eb] little
I don't think it had much to do with it.
There were a lot of schools around there,
so there was bound to be a lot of political activity around schools.
There was [Db] also bound to be a lot of music, a lot of clubs.
Okay, that's all my San Francisco questions.
John, do you have any more?
No, I think it's fine.
[A] [Eb]
[Db] Okay, yeah.
Who do you think?
[Eb] Right, [E] okay, yeah.
Right, [F] okay.
[Db] Okay.
But you need to talk to me when you answer the question.
Okay, after The Grateful [Ab] Dead and [E] Jefferson Airplane at that time
and Quicksilver Messenger [Gb] Service,
then in the years to come came groups like Santana
and [Ab] then the Tubes and Journey came into the picture.
[Eb] And then Huey, who was [Gb] actually involved in a much older band called Clover,
but now Huey Lewis and the News are a more recent San Francisco band.
And so as you can see, San Francisco music has been churning right [Db] along endlessly.
Okay.
[C] [Eb] Yeah, but what about San Francisco as an area?
Had any influence on Bobby and the [B] Midnights?
No, not really.
Bobby and the Midnights are by and large put together of L.A. studio musicians.
Your slick friends?
Yeah, my slick friends.
So it's a totally different sort of sound and feeling to the music?
Yeah. Okay.
Was there anything that [Db] preceded rock and roll in San Francisco?
[Eb] [N] Well, the radio was always real good in San Francisco [Gb] in the early 60s.
When I was a kid growing up, I can remember there was just a lot of different kinds of stuff you could hear on the radio.
We had [A] good R&B stations, good country stations, good rock and roll [Eb] stations.
And you could go crazy punching the buttons on your radio and listening to different kinds of music.
And I [Abm] don't know if that happened everywhere, but it surely happened in San Francisco, and that was a big influence on [B] me.
By the time I was old enough to go out and start seeing music, I was already in a band and playing and didn't have a lot of time to go out and see it.
How big is the club scene in San Francisco?
[Db] There are a lot of them.
The club scene in San Francisco
San Francisco as an influence on me.
San Francisco as [Eb] an influence on you.
It seems like it was almost magical that at some [Ab] point during the mid-60s,
San Francisco suddenly came alive with music.
It was you [E] guys, it was Quicksilver Messenger Service, Santana,
Big Brother and the holding company, the airplane.
[Ab] You just were sort of all there [Eb] playing and recording.
How did this happen?
It's all a mystery to me.
Somehow the word got out that there was a lot of music in San Francisco
and that brought more music in.
And it was a great boiling pot of musical activity.
A lot of stuff emerged from there and some of it is still rolling.
Were most of the musicians from [E] the bands that I just named
and other San Francisco [N] bands that you're certainly aware of,
were they native Californians?
Did they just sort of migrate to San Francisco?
[Eb] The ones that we first [Ab] initially got involved with,
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Starship, Big Brother,
[Gb] Jefferson Airplane at that time and Big Brother, were all local kids.
A lot of other people came into that area as time went on
and then it sort of became a breeding ground for bands and still is.
A lot of big groups have come from San Francisco over the last decade and a [B] half.
Do you think, Bobby, there is a San Francisco sound?
Is there a definite San Francisco [N] sound?
Not to my ears.
At one [Eb] time there kind of was maybe, but we were too [Ab] close to it.
We couldn't identify because we all sounded real different to each other.
But I guess to outsiders we might have sounded like San Francisco [Db] bands.
Did you guys [C] play a lot with other bands?
[Db] If you were in the dead, would you jam with other bands?
Was there a lot of interaction?
[G] There was lots of jamming going on [B] all the time.
Do you think that helped to develop the music [N] with each of the individual bands?
I suppose.
We all cop licks from each other and stuff like that.
[Eb] There's sort of a new resurgence of San Francisco bands
with the Tubes and Journey and Greg Kinn and Night Ranger.
Do you think that they are [Db] a direct reflection on the bands of the [Eb] 60s and 70s?
Or do you think it's a whole new situation now?
No, it's been an ongoing process, I think.
These bands have been around for a long time in one form or another.
A lot of them are remnants of bands that started [Gb] way back then
and are just now making it.
God knows the Tubes have been around a long time.
[G] Journey has been around a [F] long time.
[Eb] And Greg Kinn and Night Ranger,
they're part of the San Francisco music culture that's just been churning away for [D] years.
How important do you think what was [E] happening politically in San Francisco in [Db] the 60s
was on the music and the musicians?
[Eb] It wasn't a very big influence on me.
Me and most of my friends are all apolitical, essentially.
[A] So you think there was very [Eb] little
I don't think it had much to do with it.
There were a lot of schools around there,
so there was bound to be a lot of political activity around schools.
There was [Db] also bound to be a lot of music, a lot of clubs.
Okay, that's all my San Francisco questions.
John, do you have any more?
No, I think it's fine.
[A] [Eb]
[Db] Okay, yeah.
Who do you think?
[Eb] Right, [E] okay, yeah.
Right, [F] okay.
[Db] Okay.
But you need to talk to me when you answer the question.
Okay, after The Grateful [Ab] Dead and [E] Jefferson Airplane at that time
and Quicksilver Messenger [Gb] Service,
then in the years to come came groups like Santana
and [Ab] then the Tubes and Journey came into the picture.
[Eb] And then Huey, who was [Gb] actually involved in a much older band called Clover,
but now Huey Lewis and the News are a more recent San Francisco band.
And so as you can see, San Francisco music has been churning right [Db] along endlessly.
Okay.
[C] [Eb] Yeah, but what about San Francisco as an area?
Had any influence on Bobby and the [B] Midnights?
No, not really.
Bobby and the Midnights are by and large put together of L.A. studio musicians.
Your slick friends?
Yeah, my slick friends.
So it's a totally different sort of sound and feeling to the music?
Yeah. Okay.
Was there anything that [Db] preceded rock and roll in San Francisco?
[Eb] [N] Well, the radio was always real good in San Francisco [Gb] in the early 60s.
When I was a kid growing up, I can remember there was just a lot of different kinds of stuff you could hear on the radio.
We had [A] good R&B stations, good country stations, good rock and roll [Eb] stations.
And you could go crazy punching the buttons on your radio and listening to different kinds of music.
And I [Abm] don't know if that happened everywhere, but it surely happened in San Francisco, and that was a big influence on [B] me.
By the time I was old enough to go out and start seeing music, I was already in a band and playing and didn't have a lot of time to go out and see it.
How big is the club scene in San Francisco?
[Db] There are a lot of them.
The club scene in San Francisco
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Let's talk about San Francisco as an influence [F] first.
San Francisco as an influence on me.
San Francisco as [Eb] an influence on you.
It seems like it was almost magical that at some [Ab] point during the mid-60s,
San Francisco suddenly came alive with music.
It was you [E] guys, it was Quicksilver Messenger Service, Santana,
Big Brother and the holding company, the airplane.
[Ab] You just were sort of all there [Eb] playing and recording.
How did this happen?
It's all a mystery to me.
Somehow the word got out that there was a lot of music in San Francisco
and that brought more music in.
And it was a great boiling pot of musical activity.
A lot of stuff emerged from there and some of it is still rolling.
Were most of the musicians from [E] the bands that I just named
and other San Francisco [N] bands that you're certainly aware of,
were they native Californians?
Did they just sort of migrate to San Francisco?
[Eb] The ones that we first [Ab] initially got involved with,
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Starship, Big Brother,
[Gb] Jefferson Airplane at that time and Big Brother, were all local kids.
A lot of other people came into that area as time went on
and then it sort of became a breeding ground for bands and still is.
A lot of big groups have come from San Francisco over the last decade and a [B] half.
Do you think, Bobby, there is a San Francisco sound?
Is there a definite San Francisco [N] sound?
Not to my ears.
At one [Eb] time there kind of was maybe, but we were too [Ab] close to it.
We couldn't identify because we all sounded real different to each other.
But I guess to outsiders we might have sounded like San Francisco [Db] bands.
Did you guys [C] play a lot with other bands?
[Db] If you were in the dead, would you jam with other bands?
Was there a lot of interaction?
[G] There was lots of jamming going on [B] all the time.
Do you think that helped to develop the music [N] with each of the individual bands?
I suppose.
We all cop licks from each other and stuff like that.
_ _ _ [Eb] There's sort of a new resurgence of San Francisco bands
with the Tubes and Journey and Greg Kinn and Night Ranger.
Do you think that they are [Db] a direct reflection on the bands of the [Eb] 60s and 70s?
Or do you think it's a whole new situation now?
No, it's been an ongoing process, I think.
These bands have been around for a long time in one form or another.
A lot of them are remnants of bands that started [Gb] way back then
and are just now making it.
God knows the Tubes have been around a long time. _
[G] Journey has been around a [F] long time.
[Eb] And Greg Kinn and Night Ranger,
they're part of the San Francisco music culture that's just been churning away for [D] years.
How important do you think what was [E] happening politically in San Francisco in [Db] the 60s
was on the music and the musicians?
[Eb] It wasn't a very big influence on me.
Me and most of my friends are all apolitical, essentially.
[A] So you think there was very [Eb] little_
I don't think it had much to do with it.
There were a lot of schools around there,
so there was bound to be a lot of political activity around schools.
There was [Db] also bound to be a lot of music, a lot of clubs.
_ Okay, that's all my San Francisco questions.
John, do you have any more?
No, I think it's fine. _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] Okay, yeah. _ _
_ Who do you think?
[Eb] Right, [E] okay, yeah.
Right, [F] okay.
_ [Db] _ Okay.
But you need to talk to me when you answer the question.
Okay, after The Grateful [Ab] Dead and [E] Jefferson Airplane at that time
and Quicksilver Messenger [Gb] Service,
then in the years to come came groups like Santana
and [Ab] then the Tubes and Journey came into the picture.
[Eb] And then Huey, who was [Gb] actually involved in a much older band called Clover,
but now Huey Lewis and the News are a more recent San Francisco band.
And so as you can see, San Francisco music has been churning right [Db] along endlessly.
_ Okay.
[C] _ _ [Eb] Yeah, but what about San Francisco as an area?
Had any influence on Bobby and the [B] Midnights?
No, not really.
Bobby and the Midnights are by and large put together of L.A. studio musicians.
_ Your slick friends?
Yeah, my slick friends.
So it's a totally different sort of sound and feeling to the music?
Yeah. Okay.
Was there anything that [Db] preceded rock and roll in San Francisco?
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [N] Well, the radio was always real good in San Francisco [Gb] in the early 60s.
When I was a kid growing up, I can remember there was just a lot of different kinds of stuff you could hear on the radio.
We had [A] good R&B stations, good country stations, good rock and roll [Eb] stations.
And you could go crazy punching the buttons on your radio and listening to different kinds of music.
And I [Abm] don't know if that happened everywhere, but it surely happened in San Francisco, and that was a big influence on [B] me.
By the time I was old enough to go out and start seeing music, I was already in a band and playing and didn't have a lot of time to go out and see it.
How big is the club scene in San Francisco?
[Db] There are a lot of them.
The club scene in San Francisco
San Francisco as an influence on me.
San Francisco as [Eb] an influence on you.
It seems like it was almost magical that at some [Ab] point during the mid-60s,
San Francisco suddenly came alive with music.
It was you [E] guys, it was Quicksilver Messenger Service, Santana,
Big Brother and the holding company, the airplane.
[Ab] You just were sort of all there [Eb] playing and recording.
How did this happen?
It's all a mystery to me.
Somehow the word got out that there was a lot of music in San Francisco
and that brought more music in.
And it was a great boiling pot of musical activity.
A lot of stuff emerged from there and some of it is still rolling.
Were most of the musicians from [E] the bands that I just named
and other San Francisco [N] bands that you're certainly aware of,
were they native Californians?
Did they just sort of migrate to San Francisco?
[Eb] The ones that we first [Ab] initially got involved with,
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Starship, Big Brother,
[Gb] Jefferson Airplane at that time and Big Brother, were all local kids.
A lot of other people came into that area as time went on
and then it sort of became a breeding ground for bands and still is.
A lot of big groups have come from San Francisco over the last decade and a [B] half.
Do you think, Bobby, there is a San Francisco sound?
Is there a definite San Francisco [N] sound?
Not to my ears.
At one [Eb] time there kind of was maybe, but we were too [Ab] close to it.
We couldn't identify because we all sounded real different to each other.
But I guess to outsiders we might have sounded like San Francisco [Db] bands.
Did you guys [C] play a lot with other bands?
[Db] If you were in the dead, would you jam with other bands?
Was there a lot of interaction?
[G] There was lots of jamming going on [B] all the time.
Do you think that helped to develop the music [N] with each of the individual bands?
I suppose.
We all cop licks from each other and stuff like that.
_ _ _ [Eb] There's sort of a new resurgence of San Francisco bands
with the Tubes and Journey and Greg Kinn and Night Ranger.
Do you think that they are [Db] a direct reflection on the bands of the [Eb] 60s and 70s?
Or do you think it's a whole new situation now?
No, it's been an ongoing process, I think.
These bands have been around for a long time in one form or another.
A lot of them are remnants of bands that started [Gb] way back then
and are just now making it.
God knows the Tubes have been around a long time. _
[G] Journey has been around a [F] long time.
[Eb] And Greg Kinn and Night Ranger,
they're part of the San Francisco music culture that's just been churning away for [D] years.
How important do you think what was [E] happening politically in San Francisco in [Db] the 60s
was on the music and the musicians?
[Eb] It wasn't a very big influence on me.
Me and most of my friends are all apolitical, essentially.
[A] So you think there was very [Eb] little_
I don't think it had much to do with it.
There were a lot of schools around there,
so there was bound to be a lot of political activity around schools.
There was [Db] also bound to be a lot of music, a lot of clubs.
_ Okay, that's all my San Francisco questions.
John, do you have any more?
No, I think it's fine. _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] Okay, yeah. _ _
_ Who do you think?
[Eb] Right, [E] okay, yeah.
Right, [F] okay.
_ [Db] _ Okay.
But you need to talk to me when you answer the question.
Okay, after The Grateful [Ab] Dead and [E] Jefferson Airplane at that time
and Quicksilver Messenger [Gb] Service,
then in the years to come came groups like Santana
and [Ab] then the Tubes and Journey came into the picture.
[Eb] And then Huey, who was [Gb] actually involved in a much older band called Clover,
but now Huey Lewis and the News are a more recent San Francisco band.
And so as you can see, San Francisco music has been churning right [Db] along endlessly.
_ Okay.
[C] _ _ [Eb] Yeah, but what about San Francisco as an area?
Had any influence on Bobby and the [B] Midnights?
No, not really.
Bobby and the Midnights are by and large put together of L.A. studio musicians.
_ Your slick friends?
Yeah, my slick friends.
So it's a totally different sort of sound and feeling to the music?
Yeah. Okay.
Was there anything that [Db] preceded rock and roll in San Francisco?
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [N] Well, the radio was always real good in San Francisco [Gb] in the early 60s.
When I was a kid growing up, I can remember there was just a lot of different kinds of stuff you could hear on the radio.
We had [A] good R&B stations, good country stations, good rock and roll [Eb] stations.
And you could go crazy punching the buttons on your radio and listening to different kinds of music.
And I [Abm] don't know if that happened everywhere, but it surely happened in San Francisco, and that was a big influence on [B] me.
By the time I was old enough to go out and start seeing music, I was already in a band and playing and didn't have a lot of time to go out and see it.
How big is the club scene in San Francisco?
[Db] There are a lot of them.
The club scene in San Francisco