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Backstage with the Jerry Garcia Band, at The Keystone Berkeley, I’m sitting at the main round table listening to Jerry Garcia carry on a half dozen lively conversations at the same time. He is astutely following each one and contributes brilliant observations, upbeat, with a good deal of laughter. I finally capture his attention with my eyes and interject a question, "Have you seen the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind?" I ask him, not realizing he had a cameo in the film. He immediately replies, "Im not answering anymore questions until we find out who you are." There is suddenly silence in the room. And I introduce myself as

"Uncle John"

"That improves things considerably,"
Jerry Garcia responds, lifting his eyebrows with a twinkle, and smiles, and the banter in the room resumes.

TERRAPIN.best

He has helped us get through the dark

knowing darkness will always yield to the

Daybreak!

The Clubhouse Sessions

Darkstarathon Episode 9

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BOX OF RAIN

"It´s Just A Box Of Rain

I dont know who put it there

Believe it if you need it

or leave it if you dare

But it´s just a box of rain

or a ribbon for your hair

Such a long, long time to be gone

and a short time to be there"

FRANKLIN’S TOWER

FRANKLIN´S TOWER

Uncle John, Vocals,

Music by Terrapin Family Band

with Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead)

Terrapin Crossroads, San Rafael, CA

Uncle John & Phil Lesh

THE ANTICIPATION

Poems by Uncle John

ABC.vision

2024.fitness

SONGWRITER & VOCALIST

Lyrics & Music by Uncle John

Song Quartet

HELLO TO MY HEART

CLUES ABOUT OUR EXISTENCE

LET THE GOOD TIMES BE

SUNRISE LADY

1234.GOLD

Uncle John Reviews

Bob Dylan´s Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour

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Full Wolf Moon - Dead Ahead - Riviera Cancún, Mexico

January 13, 2024

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Photo by Uncle John

BILL WALTON & MICKEY HART

In the crawl space behind the scoreboard @SF GIANTS Oracle Park

I remember Bill Walton as Father Time on New Year´s Eve.

BILL WALTON Interview KNBR- radio Podcast

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Phil Lesh checking out the Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel

MUSIC.aero

BobWeir.net/shows

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DICTIONARY.STUDIO

THE HIGHWAYMEN

Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings & Johnny Cash

WolfCompany.info

MusicRiver.stream

Generations.Best

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SONGPOEMS

by Uncle John

ROSES.fyi

MOONS.DANCE

MUSIC.aero

Theme Time Radio Hour, with your host

Bob Dylan

Staring at the Moon

Painting by Bob Dylan

EYES.icu

HERETHEREAFTER.com

Jerry Garcia Tribute

DAYS BETWEEN

BOB DYLAN - The Sculpturer

Bob Dylan - Rome 7/9/23

“Gorgeous renditions of old tracks such as Gotta Serve Somebody

and I´ll Be Your Baby Tonight just give a break through the

musical journey and rough poetry of the new songs.

When I Paint My Masterpiece

is again sung in Rome the exact place where it was imagined.

It starts in the known way and it finishes like a waltz.

Surprise track of the evening: Only A River by Bob Weir.

Maybe there´s a river theme on this tour

(this song, Crossing The Rubicon, Watching The River Flows

opening track, and the other song recently picked in the Dead basket: Brokedown Palace).

Then, of course, TRUCKIN´! The ghost of Jerry Garcia

seemed to hang over the stage. What a stunning and powerful singing and playing.

The lyrics suits perfect for a travelin´ band in a 3 years World Wide Tour:

Sometimes the lights are shining on me,

Other times I can barely see!

Bob sings the fast verses without even a doubt. Perfect shape for a stage!

19 songs set and never a shadow of boredom.”

Claudio Manara

Rome, Italy

Special thanks to Bill Pagel @ boblinks.com

WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE

Bob Dylan performs STELLA BLUE first time live

in Barcelona, Spain

June 23, 2023
STELLA BLUE Lyrics/Music by Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia

STELLA BLUE - Bob Dylan

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CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER

by Uncle John

I saw this documentary, “California Typewriter”. There´s an excellent segment with musician John Mayer that clicks with me. John Mayer eloquently shares with us that it´s not the same trying to write on a computer. John Mayer explains this about his songs, how he has many hard drives with his lyrics and work, and yet he´s never going to go back and look at that. Something typed comes from a different mind process, the song flowing from the typing. You can hold it, touch it, see it, roll and scroll it.

I corresponded with the Grateful Dead office in California. I went to the Lincoln Avenue office in San Rafael and Annette invites me in and has me sit at a desk in an office by myself to wait for a phone call from a band member. The whole place is like a musical wonderland of ideas. What I notice in this room is the Selectric typewriter and its balls of different fonts. When I was in New York, I wrote to the Office asking for the lyrics to about eight of the Grateful Dead songs. They mailed them to me, typed, with a script font from an IBM Selectric typewriter. One of those songs is “Scarlet Begonias” and I´m thinking of this song singing to myself:

Once in a while, you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right

Look at it write, look at it write

John Mayer shares a clip with us from the documentary “Don´t Look Back” that shows Bob Dylan playing the typewriter typing. It´s just like another musical instrument for him, like the guitar and harmonica, John Mayer shares. He is in his own world. I see Bob Dylan writing a song tapping the keyboards on the typewriter and the keys he´s tapping are dancing to his words.

John Mayer was inspired to buy a typewriter to see what it´s all about.

"I realize the reason that I was able to come alive on a typewriter where I wasn´t using a computer, or even a pen, was that you´re at sort of a safe distance where you can express yourself openly without having to edit yourself at the same time. And so it became sort of like a confessional for me where I would sit and just type, and the reason I was able to go deeper into an idea was because I wasn´t stopped anywhere in that writing by a red squiggly line. And what is spell check or grammar check if all you´re really try to do is sort of dig into this sort of mercurial sort of world of what your ideas are."

John Mayer is holding a stack of typed lyrics. "If these were in Microsoft Word I´d never see these again, all these typed out lyrics, some of which made the records, most of which didn´t. " He sings "Queen of California" as we watch him read the typed pages. "It´s almost what thoughts look like."

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BOOKS.PICTURES

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Bob Dylan performs “Truckin´” first time live

@ Tokyo Garden Theater

April 12, 2023

Review by D. and Mademoiselle Lili

“And then it happened... Something didn't seem right. At first

we thought it was a new version of "Jimmy Reed" but then we heard the word

"truckin'"... Sporadic roars from around the audience (jumping from Dead

heads), we wanted to rush the stage- the reaction would have been bigger

but it is so difficult to express oneself in this venue.

But this was special, so special, Really special. Bob was loving

it, the band were loving it. He sang like a 20 year old do dah man, giving

it everything, every word was clear, next level stuff. As the song

finished Tony punched the air in delight - smiles all round.

And then it was over - from Truckin' to Mother of Muses - like nothing had

happened. This is the rough and rowdy tour and don't forget it - a great show.

What a long strange happy night it's been!”

Nagoya, Japan
Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater
April 20, 2023

1.

Watching The River Flow (Bob on baby grand piano)

2.

Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)
(Bob on baby grand piano)

3.

I Contain Multitudes (Bob on baby grand piano)

4.

False Prophet (Bob on baby grand piano)

5.

When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob on baby grand piano and harp)

6.

Black Rider (Bob on baby grand piano)

7.

My Own Version of You (Bob on baby grand piano)

8.

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob on baby grand piano)

--

Band introductions

9.

Crossing The Rubicon (Bob on baby grand piano)

10.

To Be Alone With You (Bob on baby grand piano)

11.

Key West (Philosopher Pirate) (Bob on baby grand piano)

12.

Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob on baby grand piano)

13.

I've Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You
(Bob on baby grand piano)

14.

Truckin' (Bob on baby grand piano)

15.

Mother of Muses (Bob on baby grand piano)

16.

Only A River (Bob on baby grand piano)

17.

Goodbye Jimmy Reed (Bob on baby grand piano)

18.

Every Grain of Sand (Bob on baby grand piano and harp)

Thanks to Bill Pagel @ boblinks.com

Band Members
Bob Dylan - piano, harp
Tony Garnier - bass
Jerry Pentecost - drums
Bob Britt - guitar
Doug Lancio - guitar
Donnie Herron - violin, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel

"ONLY A RIVER" Bob Dylan, Nagoya, Japan 4/20

STREET PERFORMER

Bob Weir in front of the Bananas Music store in San Rafael, California June 27, 2018

singing "Only A River"

"Only A River" "When I Paint My Masterpiece" "Bird Song" "Ripple"

Bob Weir & Wolf Bros. with Mikaela Davis @

NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert LISTEN HERE

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Stu Allen and Mars Hotel Live from Pacific Fine Food, Alameda CA Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Stu Allen 🎸 Zach Jones 🎸 Brian Rashap bass 🎸 Jeremy Hoenig 🥁 Danny Eisenberg 🎹

RAINDANCE

THE PLAY

BOX OF RAIN

RAINDANCE

THE PLAY

by Uncle John

Characters

Storyteller

Sundance

Raindance

Lady Liberty

The Joker

The Purple Sage

The Hermit

Daniel Rafael

Michelle

Pretty Peggy

Ida Red

Billy Dee

Jesse

Freya Chanteur

Johnnie Walker

Harry Jardiniere

Maria Bonita

Seven Gypsy Women

Bobby “Sugarfree” Sugaree

Rainbow

The Magician

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The Latin Dead fuses Latin Jazz with the music of the Grateful Dead

2025.QUEST

BOB WEIR Gym Safety Advisor

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BOB DYLAN - The Sculpturer

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Review by D. and Mademoiselle Lili