![]() It had been unseasonably rainy Weir laughingly recalled it as “a dark and stormy night.” The band had been batting around several names for days, none of them particularly satisfactory. Bob Weir recently reflected on that afternoon. After a few months performing as the Warlocks, the band discovered a single by another band with the same name, and in November 1965, they met in Palo Alto to discuss options. Knowing, however, that there were lingering questions regarding June 16-18, 1987 (the Ventura County Fairgrounds shows)-questions for which you had no good answers-you quietly withdrew your name from consideration.It all began with a dictionary. A few years ago, your name was bandied about when a prestigious judgeship opened up. You recall the experience with fondness, though also with regret. But during that year between college and law school, you apprenticed at Garcia, Lesh & Weir, LLP. Today, you’re a senior partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, with more than a touch of gray about the temples. The song made the Billboard Top 10 in 1987, though you first heard it at a show in ‘86, shortly after Jerry returned from his diabetic coma. “Touch of Grey”: The Dead’s only mainstream hit. Yearbook quote: “What a long strange trip it’s been.” Yearbook quote: “I got no dime, but I got time to hear his story.” At this point, your buddies typically ducked out, ostensibly to pick up another sixer of Genesee. “Wharf Rat”: Back when you were in grad school at Cornell finishing up the coursework for your literature Ph.D., you had this great riff about how the structure of “Wharf Rat” mimicked that of Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”-an unreliable narrator relaying a tragic tale through a second, ostensibly reliable narrative voice. Yearbook quote: “Dum dee dum dee doodley doo.” ![]()
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