The Grateful Dead and Cycling
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On my ride one morning jerry garcia rode past me semi srs
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Lmao
As opposed to the rampant doping that has been a part of professional cycling since forever?
Illegal and cheating. Nice!
So the singular Keith Moon incident is equivalent to the hundreds or thousands of recreational biker collisions/crashes reported each year how?
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As opposed to the rampant doping that has been a part of professional cycling since forever?
Illegal and cheating. Nice!
So the singular Keith Moon incident is equivalent to the hundreds or thousands of recreational biker collisions/crashes reported each year how?
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You really aren't a rock fan or knowledgeable about music in general are you?
Musicians of all ages and styles have used booze and drugs to inspire them to write and perform for hundreds of years. Dating back to classical music pre 1800's
It's all cool though.
Rap on
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Dirt Rag published the chapter in my book about the day in 1971 when I met Gary Fisher. All the action took place at the Grateful Dead office in San Rafael. Money quote was when Gary and I and Marmaduke, the singer in the New Riders, told Garcia we were going for a bike ride. Garcia said, "You won't run into ME out there!"
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True but the Stones and the Who and Led Zep have also been around forever along with lots of other great bands and I just don't see anywhere near the same representation on these forums
I think there's something to it and that bicycling and the Dead just go together.
Pretty cool imo.
I think there's something to it and that bicycling and the Dead just go together.
Pretty cool imo.
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"You have no idea what the Tour de France is", Henri said. "It's a Calvary. Worse than that, because the road to the Cross has only 14 stations and ours has 15. We suffer from the start to the end. You want to know how we keep going? Here..." He pulled a phial from his bag. "That's cocaine, for our eyes. This is chloroform, for our gums.""This", Ville said, emptying his shoulder bag "is liniment to put warmth back into our knees.""And pills. Do you want to see pills? Have a look, here are the pills." Each pulled out three boxes."The truth is", Francis said, "that we keep going on dynamite."
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Lol.
"You have no idea what the Tour de France is", Henri said. "It's a Calvary. Worse than that, because the road to the Cross has only 14 stations and ours has 15. We suffer from the start to the end. You want to know how we keep going? Here..." He pulled a phial from his bag. "That's cocaine, for our eyes. This is chloroform, for our gums.""This", Ville said, emptying his shoulder bag "is liniment to put warmth back into our knees.""And pills. Do you want to see pills? Have a look, here are the pills." Each pulled out three boxes."The truth is", Francis said, "that we keep going on dynamite."
"You have no idea what the Tour de France is", Henri said. "It's a Calvary. Worse than that, because the road to the Cross has only 14 stations and ours has 15. We suffer from the start to the end. You want to know how we keep going? Here..." He pulled a phial from his bag. "That's cocaine, for our eyes. This is chloroform, for our gums.""This", Ville said, emptying his shoulder bag "is liniment to put warmth back into our knees.""And pills. Do you want to see pills? Have a look, here are the pills." Each pulled out three boxes."The truth is", Francis said, "that we keep going on dynamite."
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Dirt Rag published the chapter in my book about the day in 1971 when I met Gary Fisher. All the action took place at the Grateful Dead office in San Rafael. Money quote was when Gary and I and Marmaduke, the singer in the New Riders, told Garcia we were going for a bike ride. Garcia said, "You won't run into ME out there!"
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Don't need an ashtray to take a trip on Acid. ;-))
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On a related note, for all you deadheads that don't have Sirius xm radio, and therefore can't get the grateful dead channel, GD RADIO dot net is a great free source that will satisfy all your grateful dead needs.
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Most of the time it is, but there are exceptions. I was a rock band roadie when I put on the first of the Repack races. I gave a copy of my mountain bike book to Bill Champlin, double-Grammy winner and the frontman for the band I served as the roadie. He asked, "Where was I when all this was going on?" I had to tell him, you weren't on the bike rides!
As i pointed out, Bob Weir was a mountain biker. Gary Fisher and I rode with him.
In the '70s I was going out with a girl whose roommate was dating Craig Chaquico, lead guitar for Jefferson Airplane. I helped Craig build a "klunker."
Sean Hopper, keyboards for Huey Lewis and the News, has a Steve Potts bike.
More recently Bono famously crashed his bike in Central park, and took major damage.
As i pointed out, Bob Weir was a mountain biker. Gary Fisher and I rode with him.
In the '70s I was going out with a girl whose roommate was dating Craig Chaquico, lead guitar for Jefferson Airplane. I helped Craig build a "klunker."
Sean Hopper, keyboards for Huey Lewis and the News, has a Steve Potts bike.
More recently Bono famously crashed his bike in Central park, and took major damage.
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Most of the time it is, but there are exceptions. I was a rock band roadie when I put on the first of the Repack races. I gave a copy of my mountain bike book to Bill Champlin, double-Grammy winner and the frontman for the band I served as the roadie. He asked, "Where was I when all this was going on?" I had to tell him, you weren't on the bike rides!
As i pointed out, Bob Weir was a mountain biker. Gary Fisher and I rode with him.
In the '70s I was going out with a girl whose roommate was dating Craig Chaquico, lead guitar for Jefferson Airplane. I helped Craig build a "klunker."
Sean Hopper, keyboards for Huey Lewis and the News, has a Steve Potts bike.
More recently Bono famously crashed his bike in Central park, and took major damage.
As i pointed out, Bob Weir was a mountain biker. Gary Fisher and I rode with him.
In the '70s I was going out with a girl whose roommate was dating Craig Chaquico, lead guitar for Jefferson Airplane. I helped Craig build a "klunker."
Sean Hopper, keyboards for Huey Lewis and the News, has a Steve Potts bike.
More recently Bono famously crashed his bike in Central park, and took major damage.
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Most of the time it is, but there are exceptions. I was a rock band roadie when I put on the first of the Repack races. I gave a copy of my mountain bike book to Bill Champlin, double-Grammy winner and the frontman for the band I served as the roadie. He asked, "Where was I when all this was going on?" I had to tell him, you weren't on the bike rides!
As i pointed out, Bob Weir was a mountain biker. Gary Fisher and I rode with him.
In the '70s I was going out with a girl whose roommate was dating Craig Chaquico, lead guitar for Jefferson Airplane. I helped Craig build a "klunker."
Sean Hopper, keyboards for Huey Lewis and the News, has a Steve Potts bike.
More recently Bono famously crashed his bike in Central park, and took major damage.
As i pointed out, Bob Weir was a mountain biker. Gary Fisher and I rode with him.
In the '70s I was going out with a girl whose roommate was dating Craig Chaquico, lead guitar for Jefferson Airplane. I helped Craig build a "klunker."
Sean Hopper, keyboards for Huey Lewis and the News, has a Steve Potts bike.
More recently Bono famously crashed his bike in Central park, and took major damage.
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If Weir could have somehow gotten Garcia into biking The J-Man would probably still be with us. A lotta folk think it was the junk that killed him, but from everything I've read it was the cigarettes, lousy diet, and lack of exercise that really did him in. DM II and a heart attack will do that to you. Of course he made his own choices as everyone has a right to, but I sure wish he'd opted for life instead of death by neglect.
In a variety of ways the Dead have been an intimate part of my subconscious ever since I was first turned on to them 40-some years ago, and they have a meaning for me that few other cultural artifacts do. Dead shows, and Jerry band shows in particular, were intimate and communal in the best way, and I cherish the memories of all the shows I saw.
In a variety of ways the Dead have been an intimate part of my subconscious ever since I was first turned on to them 40-some years ago, and they have a meaning for me that few other cultural artifacts do. Dead shows, and Jerry band shows in particular, were intimate and communal in the best way, and I cherish the memories of all the shows I saw.
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If Weir could have somehow gotten Garcia into biking The J-Man would probably still be with us. A lotta folk think it was the junk that killed him, but from everything I've read it was the cigarettes, lousy diet, and lack of exercise that really did him in. DM II and a heart attack will do that to you. Of course he made his own choices as everyone has a right to, but I sure wish he'd opted for life instead of death by neglect.
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Here is a photo from a ride I took with Bob in 1992. This is all in my book, Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking.