The Grateful and the Dead - ACE260.4

Concert. Phil Lesh, the bass player. VO explains his pre-band classical training. Lesh VO talking about nominations for grants and that he argues in support of music. Lesh on building their audience. Deadheads with Lesh VO. Jerry Garcia talking about how the audience knows that it’s supporting causes in the greater community. Garcia and the rest of the band performing Stagger Lee (1978) at the Rex Foundation Show, Sacramento, May 1992. Garcia talking about the setting up of the Foundation, which was named after one of their seventies roadies who died young. Bob Weir says their feeling is "if you get some, you give some back". Garcia: the band had no time to do enough benefits. Lesh driving; his VO explains that they do a monthly radio show called "Eyes of Chaos/Veil of Order" which broadcasts work by contemporary musicians who otherwise wouldn’t be heard by the American public.