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JERRY DAY 2026

Jerry Garcia Tribute

SPIRIT OF GARCIA

by Uncle John

There is a rapport between Jerry Garcia, and the musicians playing with him, and with their audience, that few other musicians share. A density of thought, richness of feeling, the eloquence of Robert Hunter’s lyrics and the power in the air created by the crispy sound of Garcia’s guitar – it literally crackles, snaps and pops at times. The way he paces the music & kicks! His delicate fingertips touches our hearts, minds and ears. Sometimes the pace is slow, other times the sound seems to float, luxuriously bathing us in ecstasy and excitement, transforming our consciousness like a pebble rolling down a hill, or bells ringing with the choir singing, and he smiles at us while playing his soft musical prayer, and rocks us with vibrations giving us a warm and unifying feeling. There’s magic there and we’re full of energy and all ears. We reach for the sky top as he mimics life, visualizing flourishing patterns, as his fingers fret like a skateboard up and down the guitar, bringing a harvest of music, like an artist taking abstract concepts to fill a canvas and create a picture. The crowd is always eager for new visions of ancient ideas & homespun wisdom, miniscule notes and giant sounds cresting and ebbing like the tides. Spontaneous motion fills the once cold barren space with warmth and direction. The band massages our senses and stimulates our imagination. The sea of faces listen in telepathic rapport and move in synchronicity. Distinguished and dignified, there is a blend and common bond of the simple & grand listening to the music of Jerry Garcia playin’ in the band.

SUMMER MAGIC

We come to hear the music of Papa Bear

And celebrate his birthday here

I climb the steep hill when I arrive

More rugged and difficult than gym stairs no jive

I pause at the top

Take in the surroundings

Enjoying the dank zaza in the air

Then I go down to the sound

And the dancer appears

Back to back with the dancer

The sun shines through her

There is light in her eyes like stars above

Face sprinkled with glittery sparkles of love

Playful interaction smiling poses

One ankle adorned with roses

She wears no underwear

No one can see

Laughing and dancing

She´s independent and free

Summer magic

Fun all around

Dancing bears

Hearts united by sound

The band musicians are having a blast

Everyone listening wants it to last

Laughing with the dancing bears

Barefoot in the sand

Summer magic and special fun

In motion with artistics hands

We´re daydreaming together

Summer sun perfect weather

Love in the spirit excitement in the air

Music massage and healing

Senses hear

Butterfly over a girl

Beautiful as a pearl

Summer hair on her face

Good vibes in this place

Dancing with bare toes

Feeling the wind blow

The magic of summer flows

In the stream and at the shows

Listening to old songs

Making new friends

Summer is here

As the magic extends

Summer fun

For everyone

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

"Uncle John"

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

MEMORIES, DREAMS & REFLECTIONS

by Uncle John

Faster Than Motion In Love

by Uncle John

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Watching Bob Weir with his hands on the wheel as we ride through San Francisco, we are stirred up and amazed by what we see as he brings God into our conversation. Bob Weir is driving and I'm riding, and Bob asks if we can stop for tea and points out a bakery on Jackson Street. Bob uses his fingers as he talks with his hands. Inside the bakery, we sit at the counter, and he tells me a desert story. Whenever Bob Weir paints an oral picture of the desert I am mesmerized. He tells me about driving in the desert flats where there’s no speed limit. Like the speedway on an open road. Then he says “you should consider the flip side of Paradise”. The waitress brings our drinks and I offer Bob a packet of sugar for his tea. He takes the packet and, rising out of his seat, like a baseball pitcher, ready to throw down his poker hand, he slams the sugar on the counter. “I hate sugar”, he says loudly. Bob, we’re in a bakery! He continues his story and I’m transported in my mind back to the desert. “The faster I go, the rounder it gets,” Weir says to me.

ROUND HALL WAY

by Uncle John

You born from the dust an orphan adopted in good health

Grew up with a proud look into wealth

Who knows you like the river sees your humble side

Far from the night behind time and the tide

You answer to the noonday sun

Barefoot on stage your thoughts are like one

Who cares about your soul

While so many idol eyes your role

You could be going to hell but No!

God is drawing you and this generation too

People are praying you into the kingdom of truth

By the grace of God in an alley play

Round hall way

You make your heart like a candlewick

Stay in your disguise really thick

Come on up when you´re down

To the weird side of town

To the light above their frowns

Like travelling clowns

You know what I believe in

When I say I believe you

No matter what you´re age you´re no angel

You´re still in your youth

When the night meets the day

Like a hole in the sky play

Round hall way

You´re not going to hell for nobody

Fair morning and grateful ahead

Different from what was read

Among the bewildered and surprised not the stereotype

So amazing and ripe

The children of God shall be restored at peace

The story rewritten the song remastered and released

Come on up & over & around

Find the eternal transport sound

Amazing grace or whatever it takes

To get to heaven and remain awake

Who cares about your soul

While so many idol eyes your role

You could be going to hell but No!

God is drawing you and this generation too

People are praying you into the kingdom of truth

By the grace of God in an alley play

Round hall way

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GRACELAND WAY

Mikaela Davis

"GRACELAND WAY is alive in the world!

I hope these songs find a special place

in your heart just as they have in mine,

and wherever this album takes us,

can´t wait to see you there."

--Mikaela Davis

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An Intimate Connection with

THE GRATEFUL DEAD

by Uncle John

"What I want to know

Where does the time go?"

(Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia)

"Lord, the band kept us so busy, we forgot about the time."

(John Perry Barlow/ Bob Weir)

This work is a contemporary narrative with a musical motif, narrated by the author with personal testimony, and dialogue with artists, authors, musicians, dancers, singers, poets, songwriters, and stars. This journalistic odyssey observes the world's most interesting band, whose brilliant creative performances, and individual intellectual insight, provide us with this historical literary account. On the road & at home with The Grateful Dead and their family of bands and musical company, this book records a distinctive recital of spiritual events, revealing a new orchestrated portrait, a sculptured arrangement of golden memories. There is nothing like a Grateful Dead concert! It is a unique and unconventional experience.

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE

by Uncle John

It is the night the songwriter Robert Hunter, with his Band Comfort, opens for musician Jerry Garcia and his Band at The Keystone in Berkeley. They are a song composing team for the Grateful Dead. It is the beginning of winter on a stormy night in the middle of the week, and a patient crowd waits a long time in a long line in the rain. Robert Hunter opens the show with an old spiritual Christmas standard ¨It Came Upon A Midnight Clear¨, and lifts the spirit of the season from the sullened climate of the night.

The Jerry Garcia Band, with Keith & Donna Godchaux, Maria Muldaur and John Kahn, play five songs including a stunning "Mission In The Rain" while Hunter watches from the balcony.

Hours after this show, after midnight, the sky clears under a full moon. It is the day before the dawn of Christmas eve. Yesterday I found a four leaf clover in Golden Gate Park with Mikaela, Treya´s five year old daughter. I am driving down a narrow alley in Berkeley, with Treya, and Kim McCarthy, and encounter a car with its hood up. A girl appears and asks us if we have any battery cables, and if we can give her a jump-start. ¨Sorry,¨ I say, ¨but I don´t have any cables¨. Suddenly, a man steps out of the shadows and stands under a lamppost. He´s wearing a long Irish coat and holding battery cables. It´s Robert Hunter! He walks over and gives them to the girl, and says,

¨Here, take a hit off of him.¨

"Got any booze?" he asks us.

HEAVEN HELP THE FOOL

by Uncle John

When I was in Bensalem College I wrote a play “In Search Of The Candlemaker” and played in live performances the part of The Court Jester, sometimes called “The Fool”.

Bob Weir once shared with me a desert story. Bob drove out to the flat sands desert. He said it was the only place where he could go and drive in the open, real fast. Bob´s stories about the desert are mesmerizing, like his story of walking with Jerry Garcia in the Egyptian desert at night.

I was in San Antone working for a month and was ready for my trip north to New York but I decided to do a detour west so I could visit The White Sands Desert in New Mexico.

I drove my van onto the White Sands as far as I could go. These are sand dunes, not flat sand. I park my van and get out to enjoy the sunny hot desert day. All around me are sand dunes as far as the eye can see, the desert crystal white beautiful grains of sand. I decide to wander a bit and enjoy the outdoor view.

I start walking, forgetting my sense of direction is not very good, and when I turn around, I quickly discover I am lost because I cannot locate my van, and the wind has blown my tracks away. Mound after mound of sand in the growing heat, and after awhile of wandering alone in circles, I stop to think about my situation, wondering what Bob Weir would do. I can call for Help, I thought. There was no one in sight, no animal, no bird, plane, or anyone I could see in the sky. I write a message in the sand with my hand and carve big letters B-O-B W-E-I-R and draw big hearts. I look up towards the sun and say out loud, "God, you can read this!" I climb the mound of sand above the writing and look out, and there´s my van, what a relief and awesome sight!

I attended my first live Bob Dylan show at the Oakland Coliseum. I had contacted the Chief of Security who escorted me backstage after the show. Bob Dylan was nowhere in sight, but I did meet impresario, Bill Graham. Bill later put me in contact with Bob Dylan´s publicist, Paul Wasserman, and I flew to Los Angeles to talk to him about meeting Bob Dylan. Dylan, however, had left the agency. I found out there that The Bob Weir Band was playing at The Roxy Theatre that night. I attended the show, and Bob Weir said something interesting between songs. "Just because I need a miracle every day, doesn´t mean I get one!" Later that year the Grateful Dead released a new song "I Need A Miracle" written by John Barlow and Bob Weir, and played the first time at Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Colorado. It introduced the word "Miracle" to the Deadhead culture, inspiring hope, faith and charity. Someone made a sign that says "I Need A Miracle" and held up the sign and a finger because they needed a ticket to a sold-out show. Many Deadheads followed and it grew to be an integral part of The Terrapin community. Those who couldn´t afford the show or couldn´t get in, would wait and ask for a miracle, and many of them were gifted tickets by people who had extras and could help.

After the show I went backstage. Bobby Cochran was sitting on the couch and Brent Mydland was there, though I did not know who he is because it is before he joined the Grateful Dead, and was providing keyboards for the Bob Weir Band. Weir comes in and walks up to me and says "You know I hardly have time to do my laundry." I say ´his picture and new album "Heaven Help The Fool" covers the windows and walls in all the local record stores. "Just where is heaven?" I ask him and he replies, "Ask Barlow!", and pulls out a piece of paper from his pocket, and writes down John Barlow´s contact information. I thank him.

The following year I went to New York to pick up my step-children, Robert, almost nine, and Mikaela, seven, who were visiting their grandmother, and we travel across country to return to their mother in California. I call John Perry Barlow and tell him we will be passing through Wyoming and ask if we can we come visit him. He says yes. We arrive and I notice there are no gas stations or stores on the road and see he has his own gas pump on The Ranch. As soon as we arrive, Mikaela asks him if he´s the one who wrote "I Need A Miracle". "Yes, I am" he says. The kids go with his kids to play. Barlow shares with me some stories about some of their songs including "I Need A Miracle", "Estimated Prophet" "The Music Never Stopped", "Black Throated Wind", and how and where they wrote the songs to "Heaven Help The Fool". He talks about the prophets Elijah and Ezekiel, poets, and songwriting, musicians including Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Bob Dylan. He had some surprising things to say too. We´re sitting on his porch and he invites me into his house to see his pyramid.

The Pyramid Room has an energy I never felt before, an amazing overwhelming feeling.

Later, we are sitting in his living room talking when there is an uproar, almost like thunder! John Perry jumps up, looks out the window and sees a stampede. "There´s a break in the fence" he says. He runs outside with his ranch help and go to their motorcycles and vehicles to chase the herd back in, as someone repairs the fence.

John returns and when I ask him the question I asked Bob about Heaven, he answers

"If you want to go for a ride, I'll show you as close as we can get."

Robert and Mikaela get in the back seat of John Barlow’s Cadillac and I ride up front with John. We take a tour of the ranch. John brings us riders onto the old horse trails sharing his many thoughts. We ride up and around a mountain with these magnanimous views of the ranch he grew up on. The views overlooking the Wind River Mountain range are spectacular and John points out we’re seeing about 7000 acres, less than half of Bar Cross Ranch. We’re in a remote paradise in the northern wilderness of Wyoming. “It’s a state”, John points out “last in the alphabet, and a lot of things, where you’ll find the last of the old west and best of the new.”

We talk about “Terrapin, the space between the dark of night and the dawn of day”.

We’re in thick cloudy fog now. John asks me if I have read any of William Blake’s poetry. I said yes, I know some of his poems. John Perry talks about the visionary and pastoral poet. He stops the car. We’re here in the fog, and when we get out of the car we’re able to stick our heads above the cloud. It reminds me of the time it was raining on one side of the street and dry on the other. He takes us to the river bluff, overlooking the Green River. It is different, peaceful, like the most beautiful place I’ve seen on earth it seems to feel at this moment. We're in the heavenly space where the music never stops in our lives, like the wind on the river, it whistles through the pines, an eternal sound, an immortal wind, forever writing in our hearts the memories that take hold, the run of light in the darkness of space, beyond where the great ones gather.

John asks if I want to come with him to the only store, the local liquor barn, and he pulls in to the takeout window there. "Black Jack!" he says with a smile.

"The Grateful Dead!" John Perry joyfully exclaims. "They really are Jehovah´s favorite choir."

GREEN RIVER, Cora, Wyoming

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Talkin´Money Tree

SongPoem by Robert Hunter/ Story by Uncle John

Late last night layin´in bed

I found an answer to all my ills
A great big tree growing green and free
Full of ten thousand dollar bills

Well, I went downtown to buy some wheels
Bought every car in town
Bought all the gas and all the oil
So we could all drive around

I bought every big department store
And everything inside
You could back up your truck and fill it up
The doors were open wide

It was company policy
We did it all the time

I bought the park and hired a band
To play every day for free
I bought the bars and the trolley cars
And the telephone company

You could call all day, say "How's it going?"
And never have to pay
Send telegrams to your wife and friends
Saying "You don't have to work today"

But after a while I got so bored
I just gave the whole thing back
All I kept was a bar and grill
By the northbound railroad track

You can come by here any time of night
Or any time of day
The second cup of coffee's free
But the first one, you got to pay

It is the Fourth of July weekend 2015, at Soldier´s Field in Chicago. On the Fourth, as I was entering for the show, one of the Deadheads asks me, "What are they going to play tonight?" I reply, "The first time I met Robert Hunter backstage, he sticks out his hand and says "Shake the hand that shook the hand..." He associates the gesture with the Grateful Dead´s "U.S. Blues". It is the final performances of the Grateful Dead, with Trey Anastasio playing lead guitar in Jerry Garcia´s role, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the band.

Leaving Soldier´s Field with 70,000+ Deadheads, at the last of three shows, we are shoulder to shoulder trying to move to the exit. As soon as we reach the way out, I pull away from the tight crowd and climb a very wet slippery hill with my slip-resistant shoes and I am alone on a street above on a breezy day. I notice this tree, recalling how I could clearly hear Jerry Garcia´s voice, who helped me to not take drugs this weekend, a real test, and I notice what looks like a leaf, fall to the ground, but a closer look reveals it is no leaf. It is a one million dollar Federal Reserve Note with Jerry Garcia´s portrait on the bill.

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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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MUSES

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Poetry & Stories

1 - You Could Be The One

2 - ROSA AZUL

3 - When The Moment Shines

4 - FAMILY STAR

5 - GABRIEL´

6 - Reflections In The Mirror

7 - Guadalupe RIVER

8 - Wolf Moon

9 - Your Eyes

10 - Café Eyes

11 - FaceS Of Light

12 - House Of Stars

13 - Featheree

14 - Thunder & Rain
15 - River of Time

16 - Mountain Top

17 - heart Dance

18 - River Of Sound

19 - River Of Light

20 - Transformation

21 - Metamorphosis

22 - poems for roses

23 - WONDERLAND

24 - Muses

GABRIEL´

WOLF MOON

LUNA DE LOBO

by Uncle John

La luna de lobo en el aire invernal
Nos muestra que no debemos ser perezosos ni desesperados
Escucha los aullidos misteriosos con ojos nocturnos
Haz tiempo para entrenar y hacer ejercicio

It is winter, January, the night of the Full Wolf Moon,

and according to Bob Weir,

"Welcoming in the Wolf Moon, it´s said to be the luckiest

and most prosperous day of the year,

marking new and bright beginnings."

I´m awake at 2 am when I hear this loud whining sound that seems to come from inside the house, then another sound that is like a growling animal sound, loud, but I am focused on the darkness inside, searching for the sound. Sofia is in the house and is awakened and recognizes the whining cry of the wolf. I realize it is coming from outside, and I open the blinds to look out the front window, and I see a wolf standing at the edge of the sidewalk in front of the door, his long snout angled up, howling at the moon. Wolves use a variety of sounds to communicate. When the pack howls together they create a chorus, similar to humans. They overlay their voices, characterized by rapid pitch changes and wavering howls. Wolves are rare in California, and it´s incredibly fortunate to meet one. I had my deck of cards, looking at the Moon, wondering about the dire wolf that returns to our generation, and as soon as I open the door...

We don´t think like the wolf as a brother,

loyal, lover, protector, or mother.

They are strong with sharp teeth,

but humans are not the enemy of the wolf,

and will not attack unless provoked or threatened.

The spirit of the dire wolf speaks

Prioritize self-care

Stay intuitive sensitive & aware

Nurture emotional well-being

Listen to the inner voice there

Is it foul or is it fair

The answer lands with the air

She gives a hoot like an owl

Follows the wolf moon howl

To see the sight

In the dark and light

The noisy quiet

Without a fight

Smell you hear you see your abs are tight

These wolves come to play,

prancing with their fingers, happily,

and causing others to dance merrily,

rump in the air and bushy tail wagging.

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MIDNIGHT NORTH

There´s Always A Story

Uncle John & Phil Lesh

At breakfast in San Francisco with musician Phil Lesh, someone at our table asks him,

"Do you ever listen to the Grateful Dead on the radio?"

"No, never," answers Phil. "When I want to listen to the Grateful Dead,"

he says gesturing with his hands, "I play".

He says that when he listens to the radio, it´s a country music station.

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I lived in the Sunset neighborhood of Golden Gate Park

when I took my stepdaughter Mikaela for a walk and we are at the Polo Field.

I suggest to Kaela that we run in the open space here.

When we stop, we sit in the grass and I notice a four leaf clover.

It´s the only one, and I tell Mikaela I don´t want to pick it.

I wish there was a way to get it out of the ground and bring home to repot it.

Mikaela runs into the bushes and she comes out wih a digging tool,

and I carefully cut it out of the ground, bring it home and put it in a flower pot.

Mikaela says, "We should give this to Donna".

She is five years old and saw her first Grateful Dead concert

in the Spring on the road with us at The Fox Theater in Atlanta earlier that year.

We were in the front row and when I look up at the start of the show, I see

Mikaela is sitting on stage on the side of the band in front of the Wall Of Sound.

She stays there for the entire first set.

She says when she looked up all she could see were these giant sky soundscrapers.

At a show on the West Coast in the Summer, she disappears in her independent way,

and returns with stories about being in the ladies´dressing room with Donna and Maria.

A few days after we found the four leaf clover, on the dawn of Christmas eve,

I go backstage after a show, with the flowerpot in hand looking for Donna Jean.

It´s a special show with Robert Hunter and his band opening for Jerry Garcia Band.

Donna Jean joins Robert Hunter to sing "It Must Have Been The Roses".

"Did you hear 'Roses'? Robert Hunter asks Jerry Garcia,

and breaks into the song before he can answer.

"....She had ribbons, ribbons, ribbons in her long brown hair..."

He repeats his question to Garcia and continues the song a cappella...

"I don't know, maybe it was the roses, All I know is I could not leave her there....."

Donna Jean sang this song on stage with Hunter and his band tonight, a very special moment, and Hunter's voice rings through the room with sweet clarity.

"You got any smokes, man?" Hunter asks me. He signals me he's looking for a cigarette and I give him a hand rolled one, marijuana but no tobacco. "It's the best of this year's crop" I tell him. He looks at it like an alien would, holds it, studies it, lights it. "This stuff, heh! The funny stuff." He exhales and takes another toke, and says "OK" and passes it to Garcia who mimics Hunter, and they're both hilarious. Garcia tokes, "Goofitus!" and another "Smoketitus!" laughing and passes the joint along to Donna Jean. She is in the corner surrounded by people talking to her. When Jerry Garcia passes the joint to her, she holds it a long time without taking a toke. I wait, and capture a glance of her, and she hands me the roach, and I give her the four leaf clover in the flowerpot I’m holding, and share with her Kaela's story. "On the eve of the winter solstice I'm with Kaela in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco when I find a four leaf clover. Five year old Mikaela goes into the bushes and comes out with a digging tool. We cut it out of the ground and repot it at home. Kaela asks me to give the four leaf clover to you Donna". "Were you looking for it when you found it?" asks singer Maria Muldaur. "I found one when I was ten years old, and searched for years after that, but running in The Park this week I stumbled upon this one". "I been looking for one for a long time" Maria says. A few decades later, I found a patch of four leaf clovers on Mt. Burdell in Novato. I brought one to Maria Muldaur after a show at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley one night, reminding her of the one I brought to Donna Jean."

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Scores for

25.11.25 - Dublin

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 2

It Ain't Me, Babe 2

I Contain Multitudes 3

False Prophet 3

When I Paint My Masterpiece 5

Black Rider 5

My Own Version of You 3

To Be Alone with You 4

Crossing the Rubicon 2

Desolation Row 2

Key West (Philosopher Pirate) 3

Watching the River Flow 2

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 4

I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You 5

Mother of Muses 3

Goodbye Jimmy Reed 5

Every Grain of Sand 5

A Rainy Night In Soho 3

Concert Total: 49 (#1)

Tour Total (up to this concert): 1324 (#1)

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Songs by BOB DYLAN (electric keyboard, harp & vocals)

To Be Alone With You

Man in the Long Black Coat

All Along the Watchtower

I Contain Multitudes

False Prophet

Black Rider

Love Sick

Goodbye Jimmy Reed

I Can Tell (Song by Samuel Smith)

I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You

Crossing the Rubicon

When I Paint My Masterpiece

Forgetful Heart

Soon After Midnight

Nervous Breakdown (Song by Eddie Cochran)

Every Grain of Sand

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN

Phil Lesh taught his children well.

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New Single

11:11(Official Visualizer)

"drifts in with the unhurried grace of a dream...

Part fantasy, part memory, part myth,

11:11 feels both timeless and immediate.

A singular, beautiful mirage where

sound and emotion bleed into one." -MD

MIKAELA DAVIS @ Cafe Du Nord,

San Francisco July 8, 2025

Review by Uncle John

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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.

I´ll Remember You

DEAD & COMPANY @ The Sphere

OUMUAMUA

"A messenger from afar arriving first"

The first confirmed object from another star

to visit our solar system

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BOBBY WEIR

Wolf Bros Symphonic - Gym Safety Advisor

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Jakob Dylan & Uncle John

May 24, 2025 Menlo Park, Ca.

BOB DYLAN at The Gorge

"Under The Red Sky"

Timothée Chalamet as Bobby Dylan

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

Mirror Talking

Bill Murray:

Have you ever looked in the mirror and NOT seen yourself?

Woke up earlier, slept well then sat quietly

did some stretching, used the rumble roller and thought,

"OK another great day to scrub my teeth." And, hello!

Right in the mirror not the face I know so well, but a mutt.

I really don't care that he's not a pedigree, but...he is a dog.

What did the man say, a dog has taken my place, my face place.

This dog right here.

The Growl From The Great Beyond

Story by Bill Murray

Poetry by Uncle John

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TERRAPIN NATION

The Clubhouse Session: Darkstarathon - Episode 8

featuring Mikaela Davis

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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"

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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Phil Lesh checking out the Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel

MUSIC.aero

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THE HIGHWAYMEN

Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings & Johnny Cash

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MOONDANCE

Theme Time Radio Hour, with your host

Bob Dylan

Staring at the Moon

Painting by Bob Dylan

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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

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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

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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Music Videos Live Karoake

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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 🎹

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

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IRISH Café

"Seeds that were silent all burst into bloom and decay

The night comes so quiet close on the heels of the day”

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under the midnight moon

Peter Rowan & Billy Strings MIDNIGHT MOONLIGHT

420.name

"And I call her 420"

Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia

Photo: Jay Blakesberg

dead & company Flying Car

"She come skimming through rays of violet She can wade in a drop of dew She don't come and I don't follow Waits backstage while I sing to you"

Venerable rock and blues guitarist Joe Patenaude released (2022) SNAPFINGER, an album dedicated to original instrumentals, offering a creative landscape of lush guitar compositions, spiced with a few rockin’ blues tunes—Patenaude records and plays on guitars, bass, piano, organ and several vocal numbers, and its mastered by Steve Johnson of Big Blue Studios in Astoria, Oregon. A departure from years of rock, blues and pyschedelia, yet drawing from all, Patenaude musically paints with programmatic themes, musical memories and using his snap fingers, as he refers to, that have been playing the guitars for over 50 years.

Guitar Maestro Joe Patenaude

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Bob Dylan

is more than a singer songwriter poet musician & author.

He´s also an amazing and prolific artist.

SUNSET, MONUMENT VALLEY, 2022

Artist, Bob Dylan

BOB DYLAN´S NEXT BOOK :

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG

from Bob Dylan´s The Philosophy of Modern Song "Volare"

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"FiND a need and fiLL it.”

"Total invention: something which fills a need which does not yet exist.

After Leonardo DaVinci´s invention of the parachute, the first airplane was as good as on the wing."

--Robert Hunter

"It's darkest 'fore the dawn (oh, Lord)"

--Bob Dylan from Rough and Rowdy Ways

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Bob Dylan´s Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour

MultiMedia Review

Preview

Bob Dylan´s album released 6/ 19/ 20

Bob Dylan´s World Wide Tour

Tour begins November 2, 2021

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King Solomon & The Queen of Sheba

"There was never a king like Solomon

Not since the world began

Yet Solomon talked to a butterfly

As a man would talk to a man"

--Rudyard Kipling

THE BOOK OF DANIEL

Robert Hunter from his album Jack O´ Roses

MARIA MULDAUR´S 80th Birthday Celebration September 2022

WAVY GRAVY

WHATEVER.im

View here: David Letterman & Jerry Garcia play Scrabble

MIDNIGHT NORTH performs Coyote

with Amy Helm and Mikaela Davis

Live at Levon Helm Studios 2-27-2022

Midnight North

WILD CARD

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TERRAPIN.World

How sweet the sound

with delicious food

& festive smiles in friendship gatherings

KAELA.rocks

Set 2: WATCH->Deadheadland Television

Terrapin Crossroad's Backyard Stage, Beach Park, San Rafael California. 10-31-2021

Snapshot of our solar system

captured by Voyager 1,

1st man-made machine to fly into interstellar space

We´ve Never Seen This Before

WEBB Telescope First images unfolding

Courtesy, NASA

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Golden Record

Manual for Visitors from Interstellar Space

Thanks to NASA

Caffé Lena, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Photo: Joe Alper
Bob Dylan, Suze Rotolo & Lena Spencer January 1962

One of Bob's earliest musical performances is at the

Caffè Lena, Saratoga Springs, New York.

Caffè Lena is America´s oldest coffeehouse.

When I performed Bob Dylan cover songs there,

in the late 1980´s

Lena Spencer was in the audience.

I recorded "Tangled Up In Blue".

The amazing thing about this venue is the audience,

always attentive, quiet and, most refreshing,

everyone was listening.

No one was having conversations with anyone else.

UNCLE JOHN

@ Caffè Lena, Saratoga Springs, New York

June 19, 2017

Experimental Theatre

for the play "RAINDANCE"

BIG WIND IS A-COMING

excerpts from:

Shelter From The Storm >

(Bob Dylan)

Big Wind >

(Marleen Molle Albin, Kevin Morgenstern

Arranged by Robert Hunter & Comfort)

Duquesne Whistle >

(Robert Hunter, Bob Dylan )

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall >

(Bob Dylan)

Looks Like Rain

(John Barlow, Bob Weir)

The next day I attended a concert in Saratoga

DEAD & COMPANY

@ Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York

June 20, 2017

When they performed "Looks Like Rain" a few raindrops fell
then a rainbow appears in the sky, and I took a picture

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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TRIBUTE TO BOB WEIR

by Uncle John

can be viewed at

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Uncle John is not a musician.

He is a writer, poet and storyteller.

To listen to genuine GRATEFUL DEAD songs

follow Bobby Weir´s Homecoming

and the mindblowing performance of

“RIPPLE” by John Mayer

CITY OF GOLD > Tangled Up in Blue

City of Gold

Sweetwater, Mill Valley, California

October 16, 2001

Recorded by Uncle John

Songs by BOB DYLAN

Tangled Up in Blue

Caffè Lena

Saratoga Springs, New York, July, 1989

with Lena Spencer in the audience

Caffè Lena is the longest continuously run folk music venue in the country,

the Best of America's Roots Music Here In Saratoga Springs.

Art Work by JERRY GARCIA

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BOB DYLAN - The Sculpturer

Review by D. and Mademoiselle Lili