Podcast #60- Conversation With Rob Turner Part 2

Rob and I return with the second part of our conversation & Rob’s song selection.

We welcome back after listening to the tail end of Jack Straw from playing on October 20, 1983- and move down the line for more tours and shows. Rob sent me lists of 8 shows- and 2 special bonus stories- one with vey elusive music to find – many thanks to David Gans & Tales from the Golden Road to share!

We paired it into 2 shows, 4/7/87 and 7/17/89  and 2 additional stories and music where Rob brings us a little closer to Bob Weir. 3 hours of chatting in MA afternoon before a pending snow storm we- could not have been in a more cozy and warm atmosphere for sharing stories and talking music on his friends Doug & Ann Cahill’s couch- many- many THANK YOU’s to Doug and Ann!

While this conversation took place in mid January, because it’s in 2 parts the intro and today’s blog is being made on February 9. Thursday February 8 we lost John Perry Barlow- we are all taking time for gratitude & reflection for all the music- stories – and magic he brought into our world. I read a tribute written by Sean Ono Lennon that was published in the San Francisco Chronical  February 8, 2018-  it was amazing- to share a portion of his piece ;

“He was a wordsmith and a songsmith, a tech wizard party maniac car mechanic and bona fide lady magnet of incomparable intellect. He was am angel and a double agent, a prophet and pioneer of digital divination, a Master Mason, a Burning Man patron, an internet architect, and political maven, a psychedelic shaman, a counter culture statesman and a hero to great men”

“Fare the well, let your life proceed by its own design- nothing to tell, let the words be yours, I am done with mine”-  Cassidy- JPB

As always- thank you for stopping by & enjoy!

Featured Music~

Grateful Dead- Big River, Meadowlands  -East Rutherford NJ, July 7, 1987

Grateful Dead -The Music Never Stopped- Alpine Valley Theater , East Troy WI July 17, 1989

Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman – Tennessee Waltz, 1993 Clinton Inauguration,  Reunion Hall, Washington DC,  January 15, 1993

Ratdog- Throwing Stones- Hampton Beach Casino, Hampton NH, August 9, 1995

*** photo credit and thank you to Jay Blakesberg for beautiful image of JPB and Bob Weir!