BOB WEIR REFLECTS ON MONTEREY POP 40 YEARS LATER

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[mrguitarmanguy12]

@Slimjim54  i dont get it

[rawkus1167]

I love Bob. I wonder if he still smokes weed.

[carlox1]

( Bob Weir wore this hat with two beers on each side wild times

[manuetalain83]

A great thought to my friend Cassy (WeirFaithful on YouTube)!

[zurapDOR]

Mothership 

[adivingduck]

Renshen, I just came back in here to see if there were more comments and much to my surprise I saw yours. I think I said that the first rock concert was Magic Mountain about 7 or 8 months ago. I was there and maybe you were too since you mentioned the bands that played accurately. and as far as weir goes, he even says Monterey was the 1st festival and he knows better. thanks adivingduck

[NoRosesForMe]

@adivingduck the Doors were not at Monterey. John Phillips Lou Adler considered Jim Morrison a bad 'image' for their little money racket ...aka..Monterey Pop Festival.

But there were so many good bands there. Jim was the man.

[adivingduck]

@NoRosesForMe

didn't say they were there I said they were at Magic Mountain. I remember Jim Morrison diving into a bunch of folding chairs filled with people. looked a bit lame and to be truthful there's not much more I remember about their set.

[NoRosesForMe]

@adivingduck Okay I love Jim ....but why do I find the chair diving incident humorous?? ....Im not makin fun of him tho. He was brilliant and scared the hippies...and I thought Magic Mountain was a ride at Disney World.

[Renshen1957]

Actually, Monterey Pops was the second Festival in the Summer of Love. Monterey Pop was one week after the Magic Mountain, On June 10 and 11th, 1967, the KFRC Fantasy Fair & Magic Mountain Music Festival was held at the 4,000 seat Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheater high on the South face of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, CA. Over 15,000 people attended. This was the first of several cultural events that came to be known collectively as The Summer of Love.

[Renshen1957]

Canned Heat, Every Mother's Son, The Merry-Go-Round, The Mojo Men, The 5th Dimension, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, The Seeds, The Blues Magoos, Country Joe and The Fish, The Byrds with Hugh Masakela on trumpet, Wilson Pickett, Moby Grape, Tim Hardin, Sparrow, The Grass Roots and The Loading Zone were a few acts that played alongside more established bands like Jefferson Airplane, Captain Beefheart, and The Doors

[AaRoNdaPsYcHo]

Bob Weir is golden.. Thanks Bob for all the lines! Well done for the most infamous kid in town!

[RatDog67]

Bobby "clicked" with Hendrix....How cool is that?

[bradstorrs]

@RatDog67

very cool!

I thought he was going to say something like: Hendrix blew me away, took over my amp with his amazing sound and stole the show. But he didn't! Glad to hear Jimi wanted to jam rather than steal the show...Wish I lived during the sixties to see all these amazing bands in their prime, instead of the leftovers. I guess left overs are better than not seeing them at all.

[RatDog67]

Imagine the ignorance of all the people involved with the introduction of this piece

[dingoswamphead]

What a shame Owsley erased the tapes of Hendrix and the Dead.

[riderpoet]

The commentator on this video is obviously a 23 year old girl whose awareness of the 60's is about as comprehensive as her awareness of the details of any particular crater on the dark side of the moon.

[charfman84]

Yeah, I wanted to hear the interview tape of Weir, not her generic boring commentary.

[radeon110]

@riderpoet Like it hahaha

[pepino1618]

i like how weir calls hendrix a crazed monkey!

[adivingduck]

"in what many regard as the true beginning of the summer of love?" what does that mean? who are these many? do people really "regard" Monterey Pop as the beginning of the "summer of love?" not if you were ever in or around the haight you didn't. and Bob Weir is inaccurate about the "first rock festival" being Monterey Pop. it was in Marin at Mount Tam and Bob Weir should know that, it's history and you cannot rewrite history because of some artisan news service that is not telling the truth.

[songcycle]

@adivingduck

The Gathering of The Tribes was the beginning of the summer of love to most who were there at the time.

This was the first *Pop * music festival ever and it put many of the bands in the haight center stage to the cameras.

Not to mention it was the first time the US and UK bands really met in most cases. In those days you had to track down expensive hard to find imports to even hear overseas bands.

No one remembering Tam is a good indication of how little exposure it got.

[adivingduck]

songcycle, I don't know what you're talking about. they called it the first "rock festival" not "Pop festival" and I'm not concerned with the connecting of British and American bands. I saw the Beatles and Hannibal and The Headhunter at the Cow Palace when I was 12, I think it was '64. Song, EXPOSURE and History are two different things. Custer wasn't the first white guy to his ass kicked by the Native Americans but that's what people remember. too little exposure for the others I guess.

[songcycle]

@adivingduck

Also, The Trips Festival was extremely important. Probably *the* first time people actually saw how many freaks like themselves were roaming around day-glo crazy in San Francisco. Lots of contacts were made that night.

[PhantomCanon]

You know the Dead never appear in any of the major films about the major festivals although they were THERE PLAYING. The Dead suck because of this. They always said NO to these films.

[songcycle]

@PhantomCanon

The set at Monterey was infamously plagued with problems, and although they did threaten to make a free fest a few blocks down on an abandoned farm, eventually , they were with it. Including filming. Unfortunately none of the footage (which is available here usually) was usable.

Woodstock: they got electrocuted every time they touched an instrument. No real stellar music in their set. This has long been known as a curse for the Grateful Dead. They wanted to appear in both.

[wildwakachica]

Bobby shorts......remember? and spit and the pink shirt.

[09jackstraw]

Spit on me, Bobby!!

[adivingduck]

I went to the first Rock Festival the week before Monterey Pop, it was on Mount Tamalpais in Marin !

[adivingduck]

it was not the first rock festival, the first was at Magic Mt. on Mt.

Tamalpais in Marin. it happened the week before Monterey Pop!

[BabylonShitstem]

they fell for the obama scam fuk em sheep band

[cap65]

"...all the way to Bonnaroo."

The mind boggles.

[denvereddennis]

denvereddennis has shared a video with you on YouTube:

[xylotone0110]

Had no idea Bob and hendrix hung out back in the day Thats a really cool bit of data . Those days must ve been just intense ..

[cnedwick]

check out rock scully's awesome book "living with the dead." there's a good twenty pages dedicated to the dead's monterey pop experience which includes this little anecdote. apparently bobby and jimmi were climbing a wall of live amplifiers with their plugged in guitars - getting off on the feedback together. cool, cool shit. check it out.

[grantswede]

I remember what?

[colflyer]

I wish Bob and Phil could speak like Jerry. I am ashamed.

[cnedwick]

bobby is bobby. phil is phil. jerry was jerry. bobby and phil are not jerry. they are each awesome in their own right.

[dopefloat4]

word!

I'm going to go see bob in eugene on the 22nd!!!! aaagh!!!! love it.

thanks guys, so glad you are still around rocking our minds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you may not have been 'gods' per se, but you are still the best//damn good at what you do!!!!!!!!!!! XOX

[HippieBuddah]

Love ya Bob! Damn hippies! ;)

[thastunna518]

definetly not an "ex-grateful dead"

once a dead. always a dead

[luckydog12472]

damn right! I may not have been born a deadhead but I will surely die a deadhead!

[gatheringofthevibes]

Wow! Bobby and Jimi. That jam session would be one for the ages. Two of the greats in my book for sure

[HugeInJapan]

Bobby doesn't remember '67, what the hell's he talking about??? :D

[Madgollumfan360]

What he doesn't tell you is that the boys had to follow Otis Redding. Man! You can almost hear the crickets.

[6749er]

Nope the Dead followed The Who & Jimi after the Dead. I know but you can look it up.

[folkrockm14]

nice beard bobby

[allrightnow]

Bobby fans are people too!

[looseconnection]

that is exactly what I'm thinking. He's looking more and more like Jerry.

[KyndestKid]

Grateful Dead= Heady!!!

[Bobweirhead]

you know, if his beard bothers you that much you can always close your eyes, or scroll down and just listen the the video and not watch it.

[edmallen25]

why did bobby grow the beard?

[GratefulGarcia23]

i wish i knew. it's so not bob. but don't get me wrong. i love bob. he's the man.

[ktiger087]

bobby i love you

[cbarrett34]

Bob needs a shave, he looks way better clean shaven

[RATTLEY67]

Cool memories Bob

[aaakkkk]

if i could hear that jam with bob and jimi i'd die happy

[folkrockm14]

if he dies im comitting sucide

[tjbajacalif]

KEEP ON TRUCKIN BOB.

[obermark]

I think he may grow his beard out occasionally if/since he has a "young face"... I do that - it makes me look stupid, but it's fun not to shave :-)

[DangerousBastard]

Bob Weir looks great. Dunno about the beard though. Generally I think beards are cool, but he'd actually look a lot younger if he shaved it.

[xqiqx]

cocomojoe said: Power jams with old dead men. Yes, thats him.

i reply: i don't think that this dude is really dead, you cheater!

[u89worlds]

bob weir

ace

he wrote some fine songs

amazing. keep on playing sensei weir.

[lilmossgangsta]

It says X-member so you can tell it's not entirely accurate. You see, once you get on the bus there's really no getting off. Nobody would ever want to anyway.

[deadheadwookie17]

This is like one of my favorite videos! Bobby is soo awsome. "It was a fun jam even though i didnt hear a damn thing he played."

[flexreel]

To say "Ex-Grateful Dead Weir" indicates a great deal of unfamiliarity, regardless of year that is being referenced.

[VivaMaiten]

Monterrey was a great and important concert.

Woodstock was a disaster.

[stargate121]

Bob really looks shitty with that beard.

[cbarrett34]

he should at least trim it

[BetePete]

when bob weir talks....it sounds like LSD

[Masurao90]

i saw bobbby at bonnaroo

[PizzaT]

Bobby is a PIMP!

[matte901102]

"you'll feel the vibe" found that quite amusing

[WEIR4EVER]

Talking over that Wang Dang Doodle.... 'all her friends could say... it's a f... shame!' This nice.... i suppose, quite nice Mr. would-be-Phoenix.... but he seems too worn to me Working for good energy is nice Playin' in the Band and all that Jazz but a Man is just a Man my friend... RnR is not for the Birds ya know!!! (damn guys...)

[WEIR4EVER]

WEIR4EVER

But don't be burning out carrying the TORCH now, Bob.

We want to have you around 4 a lot longer!

Even if u play less. So don't work so damn HARD.

Don't be giving all of yerself to these DogHeads now!

ya ole workohoolic u r!

Friend of old and faraway, wishing you well always,

DEAD serious IN BRUSSELS

J.B.

[ctjazzking]

Go bobby i've seen him 7 times

[souljaEXVOTO]

it was little Jimi Hendrix pluggin it in, foreal jack.