It’s The Chain That Does It

Oh, boys.

Why did they let you act?

My Favorite Things

Have I been negative? Probably. Almost definitely. What about the positives? What is lovable about this band?

• The black leather jacket Garcia used to wear.
• Mississippi Half-Step. When it gets real quiet and they sing about the Rio Grand-ee-o.
• The little songs they play during tuning–Funniculi, the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Stayin’ Alive.
• Billy playing the drums all by himself.
• Billy playing the drums with Mickey.
• The proto-version of Brown-Eyed Women from 8/24/71 (Dick’s Picks 35). The beat is turned around and the melody sounds like a children’s playground taunt and IT’S AWESOME.
• Bobby forgetting the words.
• Garcia forgetting the words.
• Phil never knowing the words in the first place and just making shit up as he went. (I’m looking at you, Tom Thumb’s Blues.)
• The Celtic jacket Mickey wore in the Touch of Grey video.
• Touch of Grey.
• The AUD of Touch of Grey from the comeback show.
• Garcia with his hair in pigtails.
• Pig.
• Branford.
• Bobby’s Chuck Berry tunes.
• Brent’s long, lustrous hair.
• Terrapin Station.
• Bobby’s wise-guy routines (“Turn around real slow, we gotcha covered.”)
• April Fool’s Day 1980–opening up the show with Promised Land on each others’ instruments. (Garcia on drums!)

Rule 34

• Stella Blew
• Casey Bones
• Touch of Grey Pubes
• Chokedown Alice
• Fuckin’
• Dark Starfish
• Nipple
• Shockingly Loose Lucy
• Fire on Your Mountains
• Vagina Cat Sunflower->I Know Her, Let’s Ride her
• Thighs of the World
• Sensually Playin’ in the Band (Billy stars in that one.)
• Ass-enger
• Ass-idy
• El Ass-0
• Brown- Aeroela’d Women
• Looks Like, But Is Almost Certainly Not, Rain.
• Me and My Uncle
• Black Peter
• Comes a Time
• Hard to Handle
• Let It Grow
• Dark Hollow (Wow, a lot of these work on their own, don’t they?
• Uncle John’s Gland
• Deep Throated Wind
• Sexicali Blues
• Estimated Pop-shot
• Sittin’ On Top Of Your face
• Please Ease Me In
• The Golden Road (To Unlimited Crotch)