Chords for Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir - Interview - 11/6/1979 - Philadelphia (Official)

What's big in the record stores right [B] now?
Well, a soundtrack from Superman,
Blues Brothers from Saturday Night Live,
and Chic.
[Bb] Now one group that's been a very big rock and roll group
[Gb] for really more than the past decade
is the Grateful Dead.
They started off in the Haight [F]-Ashbury period
in San Francisco, and they have
a very [N] loyal group of followers.
We visited them not too long ago
here in Philadelphia to find out why they're more than
a rock and roll group, they're a phenomenon. _ _
The Grateful Dead is the [Bb] best band
ever!
The best band in rock and roll!
_ _ _ [Gm] They're just
the best.
They've always [E] been
and they always will be.
They make you feel
[G] good, make you feel better than any other band.
It's a way of [Gm] life, you know, the Grateful Dead.
Peace, man, you know.
Everybody [E] loves it, you know.
They're kind of dead.
_ _ No,
the Grateful Dead are [Db] not dead.
Fans poured into [Abm] their concerts at the Spectrum in
[C] Philadelphia from all over the country,
and they can often be found waiting in line [B] all night
for tickets to their concerts.
The Dead were originally [Em] the group associated
with the hippie drug movement in the 60s,
but while other groups from that time have
come and gone, the Grateful Dead have
become to many people far more than
just a rock and roll band.
They've almost become a religion for [B] their fans,
who call themselves Deadheads.
What is their mystique [Em] all about?
Well, you decide.
This is the Grateful Dead.
A [E]
woman got twice my
weed, and a
pack of guns, and a
fighter in a fight show.
_ _ [E] What an
old title wave.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [B] Just one thing
I got to say.
[E] _ _ Every [D] day.
[B] The Dead rarely talk to their audience
during a concert, and they almost never [E] talk
to the press, all of this perhaps adding to
the mystique.
Their [B] fans who worship
them seem to know almost nothing about them
or their way of looking [Em] at life.
I spoke with the two leaders of the group,
[G] Bob Weir, the rhythm guitarist, and
Jerry Garcia, the lead [Ab] guitarist,
about their association with the 60s.
You became for me, and I think
for a lot of people,
kind of symbolic of what the [N] 60s
were when they were happening.
We're not a 60s band.
I know, I know.
We're not a 60s band.
This is not a 60s world.
But we existed
for [Bb] several years in the 60s,
and a bunch of years in the 70s.
All our big records happened in the 70s,
all our big concerts happened in the 70s.
We're not a 60s band.
Would you like a soapbox?
[B] What is this?
[Ab] I've heard about enough people
who are fixated on the 60s.
Personally, I'd like to hear a little more about the 30s.
Or the 80s.
No, I don't want to hear about the 80s.
Tell me about the 70s.
Future shock.
If it's not a 60s group, what about the 70s?
I am not, I have never been
particularly thrilled with the 70s.
I sort of feel, you know,
it's like that kind of washed up_
The 70s is people scratching their heads about the 60s.
Seemingly.
What happened in the 60s, anyway?
I mean, you know,
the 70s doesn't have much of a personality
except _ _ advanced social disease.
I'd like to know how you feel [D] about the group.
What the group means to you.
It's something to do.
Yeah, right, primarily.
Yeah, sure.
_ _ I haven't run across a whole lot really worth doing.
And so that amounts to something to [G] me.
Something to do, something worth doing.
Yeah, it's substantial.
It's an interesting thing to be involved in, you know what I mean?
You can take it as far as_
There's no ceiling.
You can take it as far as imagination will allow you.
Last year, the Grateful Dead did a first for the music world.
At great expense, they traveled to Egypt
to do several live [C] concerts
next to the Great [G] Pyramids.
[D] It was a little bit spooky.
I mean, your [F] image of the Middle East is
[C] sort of nervous arrows with machine guns.
Egypt was [G] really a nice, pleasant place to be, though.
That was the most surprising [D] thing about it,
sociologically, you [G] know.
Apart from playing there, just being there.
But [F] it was really pleasant.
It was real nice, and the people [G] were real outgoing.
Just about the happiest place I've ever been.
Yeah.
[C] Really?
Yeah.
That was pretty neat.
I was vaguely [G] aware of being in Egypt when we were playing,
but basically when we were playing,
we were in a world unto ourselves anyway.
[Em] At least I am.
And I just [C] went there again.
_ [G] But between the numbers, for instance,
I'd turn around and there were the pyramids or something like that.
And [G] there was a sort of
an [Em] all-pervading [G] atmosphere
of [D] eventness about it.
But really,
when we played, [G] there's only one thing in my mind.
I don't exactly know what that is,
but I go to some [Gb] other world.
[F] _ _ [C] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ [C] It's just strange now.
_ All you [D] need
is a [G] little bit of me.
_ [C] _ _ _
_ It ain't got no other [G] name. _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Our fans seem to make their fans feel,
in a concert or [C] from listening to their albums,
[G] they seem somehow to have [F] a special ability,
very simply, to [C] make people feel good.
Maybe that's their mystique.
And part of that feeling they project
comes with their own spirit of adventure.
[D] Our fans seem to be
the adventurous [G] sort.
And our [C] music, I guess,
and us, we're adventurous sorts too.
Or at least our music is pretty adventurous.
[D] We don't mind failing [F] once in a while.
And they don't mind if we fail [C] once in a while.
We're a band that's not afraid to be wrong.
You can't have fun [Fm] without adventure.
And if it's [G] not fun, then I can't feature
doing it for the rest of my life.
[Bm] Or for the next year, or for [C] the next two weeks.
There are a great many things
that all of us [Gb] could be doing to make money
or [C] to be successful.
[F] But having fun is the most important of all of it.
[G] And in my sense [Cm] of fun,
includes [G] adventure
and success on an artistic level.
_ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Ab] You know, even if you don't understand
the music of the Grateful Dead,
I think it's pretty clear that they would not
have lasted as such a popular music group
if they weren't really [Gb] fine musicians.
And I think that's [N] the whole story.