Word: kreutzmann
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surviving Dead opted to join up. According to his band mates, Bill Kreutzmann, one of the Dead's drummers, was too comfortable in Hawaii to return to the road. Hart says all the band members are "secure" financially and that the Other Ones was launched not for commercial reasons but as an extension of the Dead's musical adventure. "This is another permutation of the Grateful Dead, another mutation," says Hart. "We're morphing into something else. And that's as it should be. When you lose a piece of you, if the body, the corpus, is strong enough...
...school, enlisting in the Army at 17. Eight AWOLs and two courts-martial later, he was back on the San Francisco streets and hooked up with Robert Hunter, a coffeehouse habitua and, within a few years, the lyricist for Garcia's songs. He also met Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann, who would become the Dead stalwarts on rhythm guitar and drums. They formed a jug band, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, and when they went electric in 1965--Bob Dylan having proved it was permissible for folkies to get plugged--they changed their name to the Warlocks. The year...
...tune, "Aiko Aiko," complete with hand motions by guitarist Bob Weir. This was followed by "Truckin'," which was augmented by a light show that complemented the lyrics perfectly. An intense jam session ensued, and the audience was led off into the Drums/Space portion of the show, when drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart explore rythmic patterns with drums from around the globe and then the other musicians return to the stage to probe the tonal and harmonic boundaries of music...