Bob Weir

And so when we met, you know, it was a big surprise to both of them.

Now, I found out about his existence recently.

My birth mother, after my adopted parents, a number of years after my adopted parents had checked out, she contacted me because I'd tried to find her and it was not possible.

So she ended up contacting me and she had 12 other kids.

So I didn't feel like I needed to complicate her life all that much.

But we kept in touch, and I'd call her on Mother's Day, and every now and again we'd see each other and stuff like that.

I'd send her flowers, that kind of thing.

But she gave me my...

birth father's information, last she knew of it.

And he was a guy named Jack Parber, and he had been a student at University of Arizona.

And so I got a private eye, and within about 10 minutes, he turned out the information that he was the commanding officer at our local Air Force base.

And I sort of packed that under my pillow for a few years because I'm pathologically anti-authoritarian.

And I didn't figure that I needed the rejection that I was sure to find from this guy who's probably some sort of military authoritarian kind of guy.

Then not long after Jerry checked out, my curiosity disappeared.

got to the point where I couldn't live with it anymore.

And so I had to find that out.

And so, you know, I figured I had three choices.

I could drive up to his house in Novato, up north of where I live, you know, about, oh, maybe eight, ten miles as a crow flies from where I live.

and just knock on his door.

And I figured, okay, I don't want my first and last vision of my father watching him clutch his heart and fall over backwards.