Wright Thompson

And they kept faith with each other in a really beautiful way.

I mean, that much money, that many years, that many drugs, that much ego.

Like, I love that thing Bruce Springsteen said when he inducted the E Street Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

And he said, to stay together, you have to be accepting of your friends' fallibilities and they of yours.

And you hurt each other in big and small ways.

And just this idea that these guys made it through this together.

and never lost faith with each other, that's just the best of humanity.

I mean, in addition to the fact that I love the music and I love going to the shows and all that, but these guys, the fact that they never turned on each other through all of this and suffered all this loss together, that was really moving.

And I remember so clearly when Jerry Garcia died, because it felt like the end of youth

And I think that Bob's death is symbolic, too, just in a very different way, because I think those of us who've spent an irrational amount of time and money traveling around the country for longer than I care to admit, I think that makes us stop and ask questions about our own mortality and death.

I got to know his wife a little and his daughters were always around.

I don't think people realize the degree to which the Grateful Dead enterprise is still very much a mom and pop thing.

I mean, Mickey Hart's longtime assistant was introduced to him in like 1967 by Jerry Garcia.

Like all the same people are there.

I mean, this is real mom and pop and it's very much like a big, weird family.

And so there are a lot of broken hearts out there.

right now.

I mean, I don't love the grief junkie thing on the internet.

You know what I mean?

My joke was like every motherfucker in the world who ever had their picture with Bob Weir is posted in the last 48 hours.