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LET THE SUN SHINE

In the land where the lily and rose bloom all year time and again

Where God sends his angels to heal the spirits of men

Looking out toward the calm sea and bright star

Dancing then waiting and wondering how you are

Turning a page and letting the loose ends mend

Oh how good to hear and not pretend

Let the sun shine be kind the kids said

Pray & listen to the Grateful Dead

Cast him an estimated forerunner, member, conductor and engineer

Triangular guitars and wheels to steer

A giant eye with twenty narrows and seven hills to climb

Brightens up our time

Keeping back in shape

Little made up rhyme

With bandana & cape

Ready before and after the break

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

Run 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 in you

No matter what your age

Believe in what you do

When the night meets the day

Like a hole in the sky play

Run round hall way

You´re not going to hell for nobody

Fair morning and grateful ahead

Different from what was read

Among the bewildered & 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

Run round hall way

Release January 30, 2026

BlackLifePoetry.com

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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Donna Jean

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Mikaela Davis

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

MIDNIGHT NORTH

PRESIDIO THEATRE

Performing Arts Center

Saturday, April 4, 2026

Tickets Available

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TheNeverEndingPool.org Following Bob Dylan´s Never-Ending Tour

Uncle John: Details for the 2025 - Return To Europe In The Fall When The Frost Is On The Wine
Team: Shakespeare's Attic

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)

MIKAELA DAVIS @ Cafe Du Nord,

San Francisco July 8, 2025

Review by Uncle John

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TEACH YOUR CHILDREN

Review by Uncle John

posting soon

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.

Elliott Peck, Bill Walton & Jason Crosby

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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DEAD & COMPANY

BOBBY WEIR

Wolf Bros Symphonic - Gym Safety Advisor

2025.fitness

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.

Rooted in the spirit of Pete and Toshi Seeger

Grahame Lesh & Friends

Jakob Dylan & Uncle John

May 24, 2025 Menlo Park, Ca.

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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.

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.

Mirror talking why the scowl

Waiting for you to howl

With help from friends for sure

Hope you find what you’re looking for

"Just walk a mile in my paws.

There's a dog in my mirror!

A real dog where my face should be and always has been.

Weird thing, he looks kind of familiar, which is no comfort at all."

The Growl From The Great Beyond

Story by Bill Murray

Poetry by Uncle John

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The Clubhouse Session: Darkstarathon - Episode 8

featuring Mikaela Davis

Watch here

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"

SONGWRITER & VOCALIST

1234.GOLD

Lyrics & Music by Uncle John

Song Quartet

HELLO TO MY HEART

CLUES ABOUT OUR EXISTENCE

LET THE GOOD TIMES BE

SUNRISE LADY

SONG COVERS

Vocals by Uncle John

Live Performances Recorded

FRANKLIN´S TOWER

CITY OF GOLD

TANGLED UP IN BLUE

SCARLET BEGONIAS

EYES OF THE WORLD

FRANKLIN’S TOWER

FRANKLIN´S TOWER

Uncle John, Vocals,

Music by Terrapin Family Band

with Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead)

Terrapin Crossroads, San Rafael, CA

SCARLET BEGONIAS

Uncle John, vocals

Music by Terrapin Family Band

with Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead)

Video recording @
Terrapin Crossroads, San Rafael, CA

excerpt

"From the other direction she was calling my eye
It could be an illusion, but I might as well try, might as well try

She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls
I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls

In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough
She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff
As I picked up my matches & was closing the door
I had one of those flashes, I´d been there before, been there before

Well, I ain´t always right, but I´ve never been wrong
Seldom turns out the way it does in a song
Once in awhile you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right

There ain´t nothing wrong with the way she moves
Or scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues
And there´s nothing wrong with the look that´s in her eyes
I had to learn the hard way to let her pass by, let her pass by"

Wind in the willow is playing "Tea For Two"
The sky was yellow & the Sun was blue
Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand
Everybody´s playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band

2025

MusicWorld.Studio

Current Cover Song Rehearsals

Uncle John, Vocals

SAMSON & DELILAH

EL MISMO CIELO

ME & BOBBIE McGEE

ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO

TOUCH OF GREY

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THE ANTICIPATION

Poems by Uncle John

ABC.vision

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

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BobWeir.net/shows

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DICTIONARY.work

THE HIGHWAYMEN

Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings & Johnny Cash

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Generations.Foundation

ROSES.fyi

MOONS.DANCE

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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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theneverendingpool.org Uncle John Team: Shakespeare´s Attic

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

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En Español

IRISH Café

"Seeds that were silent all burst into bloom and decay

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

WEB.irish

There´s Always A Story

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

Boomplay Listen here

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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

AVAILABLE NOW

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

Illustration from UK TV series SUPERCAR by AP films/Shutterstock

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"Fill a need and find 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

"A good way to invent the future is to predict it."

--John Perry Barlow

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

--Bob Dylan from Rough and Rowdy Ways

Uncle John Reviews

Bob Dylan´s Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour

GratefulDead.xyz

2024 MultiMedia Review

Preview

Bob Dylan´s album released 6/ 19/ 20

Bob Dylan´s World Wide Tour 2021-2024

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

Selections From Levon Helm Studios Tracklist

Earthquakes

Good For You I Guess

Wind and Roses

If It Takes A Lifetime (Jason Isbell)

Everyday

Luxury Liner (Gram Parsons)

Coyote

Playing a Poor Hand Well

Under the Lights

Don’t Do It (The Band)

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"Find a need and fill it."

--Robert hunter

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How sweet the sound

with delicious food

& festive smiles in friendship gatherings

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

I AM NOT A MUSICIAN

by Uncle John

A Review of four venues I have performed at:
QE2, Albany, New York
Caffé Lena, Saratoga Springs, New York
Sweetwater Music Hall, Mill Valley, California
Terrapin Crossroads, San Rafael, California

QE2, Albany, New York
The first time I hear Jakob Dylan play music live

is at a small music club and bar in Albany, New York, called the QE2.

Robert Hunter, the Grateful Dead lyricist, has played here.

Jakob´s set is loud and pleasing,

and it´s an awesome feeling I have when I meet him.

I was so encouraged that I follow through

on an opportunity to play a short set at this club.

I am a songwriter and poet but I am not a musician.

Every time I´ve been on stage to play my acoustic guitar,

I always have someone check the tuning

because I don´t have the ear for music

like real professional musicians do.

They live for music and love to play.

JAKOB DYLAN

I am a huge fan and love songs so much

I feel compelled to play and sing them

and share them with others.

Part 1

QE2 Club & Bar, Albany, New York
Uncle John, acoustic guitar & vocals

Setlist:
Intro to The Main Ten Playing In the Band >
Fire On The Mountain >
Alabama Getaway >
And We Bid You Goodnight

It is July 5th and the music club is packed and people are drinking and talking.
I am doing a solo acoustic set of Grateful Dead songs and I´m plugged in.

I record the performance on my cassette player for me to listen & learn from.

As I´m performing, the crowd is very boisterous,

and I wonder if they´re listening to me at all.

As soon as I break into “Alabama Getaway”

the place suddenly becomes very quiet.
I love this song because it is so easy to play.

I feel confident in my vocals tonight,

and adding these simple chords strengthens my musical approach.
I close my set with this:
“Lay down my dear brothers (& sisters)
Lay down and take your rest
Won´t you lay your head upon your Savior´s breast
I love you but Jesus loves you the best
And I bid you goodnight, (goodnight), goodnight, (goodnight) goodnight.”
I am amazed at the audience´s reaction.

They clapped loud, whistled, shouted “Grateful Dead” and “More!”.

I was overwhelmed, not ready for More.

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,

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.

When I did a poetry reading there of Café Eyes

the audience remained quiet & focused

UNCLE JOHN

@ Caffè Lena, Saratoga Springs, New York

June 19, 2017

Experimental Theatre

for the play "RAINDANCE"

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"Rainbow" by Uncle John & Tobey Stein

I met Tobey Stein, musician extraordinaire, trading tapes of live concerts of the Grateful Dead. He's writing some of the music for the play "Raindance", and describes an experience he had with one of the songs. I wrote the words to this song in Guadalajara, Mexico and sent them to Tobey Stein, who plays guitar and pedal steel, to put music to it for the play "RAINDANCE". I received this letter from him:

"Howdy John, I finally finished writing the music to "Rainbow". I've orchestrated it and am trying to get it performed. Things happen slowly you know. Enclosed is a version of it on acoustic guitar. People have been asking me about your words. I tell them they're part fantasy and part true religion. Someone called "Rainbow" a word-picture. The other day I hitchhiked out to the country in Wakulla county where there is a very hip bunch of musicians called the Wakulla band who play a lot of Grateful Dead songs as well as their own. It started raining so I ducked under the porch of a little store in a town called Crawfordville. I started picking a few songs and I got around to playing "Rainbow". As I was playing the end and screaming "Call me in the morning of the rainbow rain" with all the rednecks in the gas station across the street wondering what the hell I was doing. I looked up and there was the biggest most beautiful rainbow I ever saw in the sky. My heart just about jumped out of my chest and took off. Somebody must have been telling me something."

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
then a rainbow appears in the sky, and I took a picture

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