There's crew and there's security guards, and the janitors at the Oakland Coliseum or whatever. They're going to have a little less work.

The point is that Robert Hunter is a post-modern poet who takes fragments that he inherited from other sources and melds them into new stories, ... What David Dodd has done is the detective work in tracing where those fragments came from.

The Grateful Dead remains as it always has -- in favor of tape trading.

Your bohemians hang out in bookstores. That's the way God planned it.

One-to-one community building, tape trading, is something we've always been about. The idea of a massive one-stop Web site that does not build community is not what we had in mind. Our conclusion has been that it doesn't represent Grateful Dead values.

His standard line was, 'So what the ... do I know?' He knew about his own normal self, the ways he couldn't function.