Brian Green

Yeah, he was the rock and roll guy.

He brought in the licks and he kept it popping and young and fresh.

The story that I love is that in one of the electric Kool-Aid acid tests, because he was 16 and still in school...

After taking hundreds of micrograms of LSD and playing all night long to all of these what would be formative young people who would go on to do great things themselves.

People like Steve Jobs.

I don't think Steve Jobs was there, but people like that.

In those early Haight-Ashbury days, he played all night long.

terrible music if you've ever listened to it it's terrible um but they were learning they were learning how to be the grateful dad right and and that's the beautiful thing about them too and then he had to catch the bus to go to school to do his so he could go home do his homework so he could run to school oh my god it's a fucking amazing story i know what a life what a life

And the third time that it happened, the electric Kool-Aid acid test, and he had to go to school the next day.

He went home.

He looked at his homework.

He couldn't see the numbers straight.

And he said, you know what?

I'm out.

See you later.

I'm going to go be in the Grateful Dead.

The one thing that I love about the Grateful Dead and that I like about Bob is that, warts and all, the band was terrible when they started.

I think you could objectively say the music was not that fantastic.

But it got better over time.

Yeah.