Nice Bob Weir interview by Paul Liberatore in Friday’s Marin Independent Journal, previewing Ratdog’s appearance at the Harmony Festival that night.
Regarding Vince’s suicide:
“It’s nothing but sad,” Weir says from his Mill Valley home.
“I wish I were qualified to have been of more help to him, but I’m not. All I could be was his friend.”
And I liked this quote, too:
As a founder of the Grateful Dead, the inspirtation for the new generation of jam bands, Weir is treated with a certain reverence that he’s not all that comfortable with.
“I prefer not to be seen as an elder statesman, as a godfather, I prefer to be seen as a game pup ready to let her rip,” he says.