"And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor."

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"And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor."

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"Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s."

Music, Consistency, Help

"But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years."

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"We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way."

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"Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice."

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"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."

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"Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important."

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"Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not."

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"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."

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"And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation."

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

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