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Fact #91962

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Short story:

Aspiring musician Phil Lesh attends a party in Palo Alto, California, USA, at which Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia of San Francisco band The Warlocks are present. Phil mentions to Garcia that he is interested in playing bass, and subsequently replaces Dana Morgan Jr as bassist in The Warlocks, later to become The Grateful Dead.

Full article:

Jerry Garcia (leader, Grateful Dead] : Phil Lesh was a guy I knew from Berkeley. He was the first guy I ever knew who was a total music lover. He was also the first guy I ever knew with perfect pitch. He had the best musical education, a music major. He took me over to his apartment at Berkeley, and there he was with a card table and no piano. I couldn't fucking believe it. He turned me on to all sorts of music. He was also a jazz trumpeter with an incredible background in classical music. But he wanted to join a rock band because it was during that period that everybody was looking for something neat to do. The Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night had just come out, and it looked like fun.

Sounded like hell, though, for the first few gigs. But pretty soon, because of Pigpen's solid ground in blues, we got to be a pretty fair blues band. When we played the bars, we had to play Top 40 songs. We played Rolling Stones songs, the Chicago/Chess Records sound. Basically, we got our first gigs because we were a blues-oriented Rolling Stones-style band.
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