Long Strange Trip director Amir Bar-Lev wishes his kids could go have good healthy fun at a Grateful Dead show rather than experiment with the drug called social media!
Here are his thoughts on drug use and the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia and more, in this CBS News interview.
Apparently, this was recorded between the GD’s 05-15-1983 Greek Theater show and the upcoming 06-18-1983 show at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY.
00:41 : … TV preparations & chat, “Twilight Zone” …
01:24 : interview officialy starts
01:46 : difference b/w the GD and your solo JGB groups …
… differences b/w electric and acoustic guitars
05:38 : “my solo career started …” “… I would get horny to play …” !
07:00 : the GD “culture …?” (difference b/w licorice and buttermilk …)
10:40 : back to the 1950’s, initial guitar inspirations …
13:23 : moving up in time .. how did you meet ? (the Warlocks, GD …)
13:30 : “when I met Phil, he was a lunatic classical composer …”
16:08 : Pig Pen …
17:19 : The GD on vinyl …”difference between building a ship in the bottle and being on a row boat on the ocean” !
The GD experience, concerts, composing, improvising, new record, a video, the 80’s counter-culture …
(26:43 : slight cut)
27:24 : end of the “official” interview
27:26 : off-record … Jerry ! post-interview chat … (cut)
30:03 : end …
INTERVIEW
David Bowie on Drugs.
“By the mid seventies… I was so out of my gourd… It was…impossible to function in any rational way… So, I didn’t know I was playing characters at that time!”
https://youtu.be/dOWE3W9Lgbo
Interview with David Bowie were he shares his views on drug exploration, living in Berlin with Iggy Pop and sobriety. The interview was recorded in 1997 a few day’s after his 50th birthday.