33 Quotes by Phil Lesh

But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years.

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.