“You can’t go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm…”
“I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from everyone else…”
Lester William Polsfuss – known to the world as “Les Paul” – June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009
Remembering Gerry Garcia, 1942 – 1995
“What a Long Strange Trip it’s Been…”
Truckin’ – Garcia, Weir, Lesh, Hunter; from the Grateful Dead Album: American Beauty, 1970
Gerry Garcia – August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995
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The Lizard King – 12/08/43 – 07/03/71
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
James Douglas “Jim” Morrison
December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971
There’s a Fatman in the Bathtub…
June 29, 1979 – Lowell George, R.I.P.
“And I been from Tucson to Tucumcari,
Tehachapi to Tonopah.
Driven every kind of rig that’s ever been made.
Driven the back roads so I wouldn’t get weighed.
And if you give me…Weed, whites and wine,
And you show me a sign
I’ll be willin’…To be movin’ “
Willin’, Little Feat, 1971
Lowell George
April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979
06/22/1936 – Happy Birthday, Kris Kristofferson
“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.”
Kris Kristofferson
Happy Birthday: June 22, 1936
