Really nice interview with Bobby, by Brita Belli, in the Fairfield County Weekly. An excerpt:
Fairfield Weekly: In [the film] Festival Express you come across as the innocent, naïve 22-year-old. Was that train trip a turning point for you?
BW: Well, it was a great ride, I’ll tell you. It was the ride of a lifetime. As far as a turning point, not really. It was a great party.
FW: Alcohol seemed like the only unknown element.
BW: For a lot of us, that was the case. Actually, it was something of a discovery. We all got looped.
FW: What kind of influence did the other musicians have on the Grateful Dead and your music?
BW: I guess that train trip was kind of influential in that we all got together and traded licks… There were a few songwriters that I became aware of like Kris Kristofferson; he had just written “Me & Bobby McGee” and that tune was making the rounds during that train trip. I think I learned of Jackson Browne on that trip… Aside from that, I knew about country music, I knew about jazz music, I knew about blues and rock ‘ n’ roll, and I’d been sort of pursuing all those. Most of us had been. I was acutely aware of what Miles Davis was up to at that point.
I love the whole last paragraph.