Festival Express (2003)

Bob Weir: Self - Grateful Dead, Interviewee

Quotes 

• Self - Grateful Dead : There was the blues car, the country car, the folk car, whatever. You know, you could drift from car to car and get involved in any number of jams. Some of which really - really did amount to some pretty heady stuff.

• Self - Grateful Dead : Most all of us were new to drinking at that point too. We all had been taking LSD or smoking pot or whatever. This was a new experience for a lot of us. And it worked just fine.

• Self - Grateful Dead : These people weren't looking for free music, they were looking for - trouble. They were looking for an excuse to bust cops heads. They were, you know, pathologically anti-authoritarian. I know, I'm that way myself.

• Self - The Band , Self - Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band , Self - Grateful Dead , Self - Grateful Dead : [singing]  There ain't no more cane on the Brazos, They ground it all up in molasses...

• Self - Grateful Dead : Somebody had doctored that big bottle of Canadian Club and you could see little gelcaps at the bottom floating around down there. I did my best to stay away from that. But, even so, there was more going on than - at that point - than just just alcohol. There were psychedelics involved. I don't know what kind or how much. But, that - that train was sort of buzzing down the - the rails. We achieved lift off, for sure.

• Self - Grateful Dead : It was a truly wondrous time to be a musician. You know, people took music seriously and the prospect for music becoming more than just entertainment or diversion.