Chords for Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir - Interview - 10/29/1980 - Good Morning America (Official)

_ Come hear [Bm] Uncle John's band by the _ riverside _
Got some things to talk about here [Gm] beside the rising tide
[G] _
Come hear Uncle John's band [A]
[G] wading to the [D] tide
_ _ [C] Come on below the snowy high
He [G] says they'll never make it.
That's the Grateful Dead that you just saw [Bm] and that you were listening to.
A dead concert is like no other.
It's not the usual.
They might last one or maybe five hours or more.
And the dead [C#] fans, I think they'll go to just about any length to be there.
Right now, [Bm] there is right here in New York City, the group is celebrating its 15th anniversary
with a series of concerts at Radio City Music Hall.
And the final [B] concert on Halloween night [E] is going to be SimulCast, the theaters all across the [G] country.
Two of the members of the band, Jerry Garcia, the [D#] lead guitarist, and [C#] Bob Weir are here with us this morning.
Good morning.
_ 15 years.
That's an awful long time for a rock group or any kind of a group to stay together.
[B] Why [N] do you think you stay together that long?
I've got the answer to that one.
You do?
Take it.
Sheer, intense, burning hatred and revenge.
[B] _ _ It cements [N] the_
I figure personally that if I stick it out [G] long enough, one of these guys is going to leave an [Bm] opening and I'll be able to get in.
_ I bet you do, though, have to have arguments.
I mean, anyone that's together that much of the time is_
How do you, when you're having things that are a little shaky in the group, how do you get up and go on and do your number?
_ _ [F] We [B] ignore each other on that level.
Have you set up rules, though, for yourself to try to deal with this?
[D#] It's hard after 15 years.
[B] You can't make rules for people to know you 15 years worth of knowing you.
I mean, any rule has a loophole in it.
[A] Yeah, right.
And after 15 [G#] years you're going to find the loophole.
Like, for instance, if I don't [B] like the way he does his hair, _ you know, there's not much I can do about it anymore.
There are now six of you.
I think there were five when you first started out.
_ Are they pretty much [F#] all the same people as you were 15 years ago?
Well, there were five of us originally.
One of the original members has gone to the great beyond, we think.
[F]
And the rest [E] of us, [F#] since then we've recruited a few other [B] stooges.
_ Two, to be exact.
Two stooges.
What's the great beyond?
Do you look forward to going to the great beyond, or do you like [G] the idea of staying together for another 15 years?
I think we're doing well.
Yeah, if we stick together long enough, maybe we'll get it eventually.
You know, I covered a couple of your concerts as a reporter here in New York, not on the inside where the music was going on,
but outside where the hordes and hordes of young kids were trying to break the door down and get in.
Your [B] fans are unbelievable.
_ [N] _
The deadheads, they call them.
What do [C#] you think about them?
I mean, it's almost like a [B] worship [F#] thing.
They're actually real good people.
They're not_ They're game.
Yeah, they're game.
I mean, they go to concerts night after night knowing that, knowing as we know, that [G#m] we have [G] our good nights and we have our not-so-good nights, maybe, [G#] you know.
Maybe.
And [F#] _ _ [A#] they're willing to take their chances.
We don't play a set show or anything like that.
So it's always different.
I've heard some have even quit their jobs to [B] follow you across the country.
We went down to Radio City [G] Music Hall the other night and stood out in front and we stopped a few of them,
and I thought you might enjoy hearing what some of them had to say.
That'd be nice.
[B] _ _ _ _ All right, my name's UJ Pastrana, and I'm waiting here for [Bm] Grateful Dead.
I've been here for_
I waited on line for [B] three days for these [G] tickets.
Tonight is my 75th concert.
The dead care about [E] their fans, and they play music so that _ their fans [B] like.
[G] They make everybody feel good.
I try to go to every concert they perform because they're the best at what they do.
The dead are just beautiful.
They make beautiful music.
They offer something that nobody else offers, and _ there's a family, a big family.
The dead, you [Bm] know, that's where most of my money goes.
I just love them so much.
Why?
[E] Why?
Because [N] it's just their music, the people, [Bm] the atmosphere, everything around here.
If you look, there's so much love around.
The people, all brothers and sisters here, we're here to see the Grateful Dead.
_ Okay, now that brings to mind a number of questions.
First of all, they [C#] said you care about your fans.
I mean, do you feel a real commitment to these people who are so dedicated to you?
Well, [D] more than that, we feel a commitment to the [G#] music.
I mean, we chase the music [G] just as hard and as fast [F#] as we possibly can.
_ And if we [G#] do that well, then they're going to be satisfied, we figure.
Good reasoning.
_ It's hard not to like people who like [B] you.
Yeah, here are these young people that, I mean, he says,
I spend all my money on going to these concerts.
[N] So do we.
_ _ You know, I mean, it costs us as much to work almost as we make working.
And it's the same.
You know, I mean, our commitment is like theirs.
It's the same.
We're the same sort of people as them, really.
It keeps us going.
Keeps us off the [B] streets.
Keeps us out of trouble.
You know, one thing I noticed is that _ [G] you, I mean,
most of the time [Bm] an artist wants to sell a hit record,
and then they go out and they do the tour really [G] for the sake of the record.
But you, more than, your main purpose doesn't seem to be selling [B] records,
but doing these concerts.
We've done some record promo tours, but they don't [F#] amount to much more than _ [B]
tours.
It's very different from [N] other groups, is it not?
Well, yeah, our livelihood, I mean, what we do is play for people,
for warm human bodies, you know, and we don't play so good for machines, maybe.
_ _ _ Speaking of machines, [B] if you sit back and you kick up your feet at home
and you put a record on, what kind of music do you guys like?
I like to listen to animal sounds.
Animal sounds.
Anything.
I [E] mean, there's all [F] kinds of music.
There's a world [B] full of music.
Do you kind of link with jazz or rock?
All that, all those things.
Everything?
Yeah, you can't listen to one [C#] thing anymore.
I mean, [B] first of all, music isn't divided into those hard categories that it once was,
and it's now, there's this sort of homogenous American music,
which is very expert stuff in terms of the capability of the musicians
who are involved, like in Country and Western, [F#] whatever, all those categories.
That stuff, you know, really there's a lot of_
There's a little more [G] freedom today?
Yeah, and there's also a certain amount of historical [F] perspective
that you can look down musically from this point of [B] view
as long as the photograph record has been in existence.
You can look back to the 20s and hear what people were playing like,
and there's a lot to be discovered in all that.
Okay, it's [E] been nice meeting both of you, because we're almost out of time here,
[A] so I have to say goodbye.
We'll listen to your simulcast