Felix Contreras
speaker
2,270 appearances
28 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Felix Contreras’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But for me, that trilogy that you like so much, Help on the Way, Slipknot, Franklin's Tower...
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That particular stretch of music, no matter when they play it, always brings to mind what I feel like are the jazz bona fides.
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And then also the fact that during that time, they were using a lot of Fender Rhodes electric piano, which a lot of jazz musicians were using at the time, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock in particular.
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So the timbre of the piano as well as the musical direction, that in particular really nails the jazz influence for me.
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They had this experience for three months of not being the show.
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Everybody in the room was the show.
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They were the soundtrack, if they chose to play, and they didn't always.
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And that only got stronger as the audiences started to grow.
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The Grateful Dead, even when they were playing to 50,000 people, down deep, certainly Jerry.
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had the notion that the audience was in fact their peers on a quest, a quest for cosmic, you know, you start describing that quest and immediately go, you know, woo-woo, oh Lord.
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But it was close to that.
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Everybody in the room was in the band.
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The Deadheads decided that it wasn't the band per se, the people, that was their linchpin.
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It was the music.
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It was a matter of taste who you wanted to have play it.
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You don't have to just take Dennis' word for it.
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We talked to Mark Pearl in Monte Rio, California at a nice little festival in the Redwoods.
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He's a longtime Deadhead who describes himself as an old hippie.
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To me, the people are more important than the music.
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We're here for the people.
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