Grateful Dean

Gimme Some Lovin had the place on fire and filled with Energy… As it finds it’s quiet and wound down conclusion the single note that I long to hear is struck firmly and conclusively leaving no doubt or mystery…. For the past 6 shows I’ve been waiting to hear that one note that I travel from coast to coast to hear… The Note that signals The Arrival of The Dew… It’s as if an Immediate and readily apparent weight is put into the air that surrounds you… It’s heavy… It’s essential… Emotions come from the 4 Winds of your life and begin filling you like a spring… Mickey and Billy’s high hat cymbals are crisp and land sharply but gently on your ears… The entire room enters a state of Inner reflection as The first verses are uttered…. Hands together, thumbs to lips…index fingers align with angle of your nose… It’s prayer like in it’s proceeding… The only contact you’re able to have with others at this point is a muted smile and the nod of internal identification… The screen in your mind casts images about those people… Pigpen… Janice… Jimi… Those close to you… There’s no need for you to be worried about all those people…. That statement challenges your insides as they immediately attempt to combat the inherent worry that exists from the verse and it’s delivery… You’ll never see those People…. Anyway… There’s a spark that’s kindled deep inside of you… Emotions rising… The Vocal Apex that greatly determines the Dew for you comes through from Deep within Garcia… Thought I heard a young man Moooooooourn This morning….. Mickey climbs his entire kit pounding along with rising tide… I THOUGHT I HEEEEEEARD A YOUNG MAAAAAAAAN MOOOOOOOOOOUURNNNNNN TO DEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! The electricity from within all of us seems to flow outwards filling the room with an explosion of remarkable presence that attempts to lift the palpable weight from the air…. Garcia’s guitar goes to battle at lifting this heaviness… It’s winning!!! It begins to tire of the battle as The Dew gets to the point of being religious, muted, introverted and contained once again… It softens… We return to the heavy state of being… We’re walking out again… I guess it doesn’t matter….. Annnny wayy… The claps begin to follow…. The long blue spots find their way across the stage landing on Garcia as he’s firmly planted with The Wolf in his hands… The moment gets incredibly quiet as the last solo begins…. In the spaces between the notes you wonder how it could be so silent… You could hear a rat pissing on a cotton ball… The notes are fast… Extremely quiet… Accented notes seem to jump off of Garcia’s guitar like the reflection of the Blue Spotlights against Wolf’s body…  As the intensity of the jam begins to rise, Brent’s Hammond sound seems to come from beneath the heaviness and begins lifting it…. It’s like the entire building and everything within it is being lifted… You’d like to open your eyes but you can’t… Internally the well of assorted emotions begins to rise and feels as though it’s close to a boiling point… The monumental wall of pure musical emotion begins to build like a tidal wave…. Phil’s bombs are hitting the center of your heart… Jerry begins to fan the fire within you as he fans across all of the strings of his guitar with increasing intensity…. As he does, the flames beneath the boiling cauldron of your emotions are intensified causing them to bubble over into every compartment of your Soul…. The well within you spills outward as tears begin falling from your eyes without any effort on your part… The weight is completely lifted… The battle has been fought… Victory is assured…. The banner of your Life waves proudly…. The whistles from a Mega Watt Sound System producing all it can accompany a band that is producing all they can as everything they are is packaged into every single note that they’re releasing… It all crashes together at once into a huge feeling of complete Spiritual, Emotional and Mental Climax… I Guuuuuuuuuuesss It Doooooooooooesn’t Maaaaaaaaaatter Annnnny Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Garcia points his guitar upwards gives a nod to everyone else as the final nail to complete this masterpiece is emphatically struck through our minds!!!!

It’s difficult to say anything… It wouldn’t matter… Anyway….