... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started looking at each other, we had all these different influences... Bobby Weir used to call it electric Dixieland.

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.

There was always so much encouragement, to just really take it and run with it, from Deadheads.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.