A golden oldie...Al Franken & Tom Davis "hang out with The Grateful Dead" at Radio City Music Hall

[Miles Archer]

Franken: Fuck them anyway (Garcia & Lesh)...let's go talk to Weir.

Davis: Yeah, at least he's somebody you can talk to like a real person!

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Franken: Oh, this is GREAT, Tom, this is GREAT. We're going out in front of a Dead audience and we're gonna be introduced by BRENT. He's been with group for about five MINUTES! This is just GREAT!

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Weir's hair

Was not a "Dead Head" but saw them twice and both times the community feeling was what was special. They all look so harmless now, back then they were "dangerous" rocknroll giants.

[samnsara]

2. holy moly a blast from the past!....

...the Dead...Al's fro ( I had one just like it in the 80s)..the only thing better would have been a smoke cloud rolling out of jerrys room!

[ghostsinthemachine]

3. There's a lot more, unseen

So far from those shows. A pledge to Jerry's kids. Vis bowling alleys. Hilarious.

Franken and Davis did the same thing at the Warfield.
Love it. Weir's dressing room with the huge star on the door. His only single room too, while Jer and Phil and billy and Mickey share. The guitar is a strat too.

The best thing about the Dead was the humor. They and crew did some hilarious stuff.

[Metsie Casey]

4. And Franken as Kissinger. Great stuff.

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[FakeNoose]

5. Thanks this is great!

Al Franken had a great head of hair, didn't he?

Not bad lookin' either. (I'm a female so I can say that.)

[pressbox69]

6. Frank and Davey LOL

Loved the SNL sketch where Al started ranking on his mom because she mentioned he wet his pants when he was in grade school.