Bob Minkin/Courtesy of St. Martin's Press I entered a serious depression, and was at home drinking wine and taking tons of pain pills. "I thought that was a very good idea," Kreutzmann says. He played with the Grateful Dead for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to perform with former members of the Grateful Dead in various lineups, and with his own bands BK3, 7 Walkers and Billy & the Kids. There were definitely no rules. That's what LSD did for me. Of all the individuals who passed through the ranks of the Grateful Dead, drummer Bill Kreutzmann certainly stands out, but not in a flashy, promotional way. Google+. Give the Drummer Some As he prepared to release his memoir, Deal, Bill Kreutzmann reflected on the joy and frustrations of life in the Grateful Dead, working with Jerry Garcia – and what Phil Lesh had against John Belushi.Going deep with the drummer. "But drugs ate away at the band, even as the Grateful Dead grew into the biggest touring attraction in America.
That’s all fortunate.When I first started playing drums, my father, who went to Stanford, said, “You can’t be a drummer, Billy. "Turned out to be a pretty great idea, don't you think? In the public eye, it may be that others in the Dead — certainly Jerry Garcia, along with Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart — have a higher profile. Doesn't matter what instrument you play," the Grateful Dead drummer says.
That was one time you’d see him really mad: “Don’t play what I just did!” Vince (Welnick) did that more than was necessary – which is not at all.But listening to me would have been the world’s biggest mistake; so much good music was still to come with Mickey back. It’s been 50 years since the Grateful Dead formed in Palo Alto, 20 years since Jerry Garcia died, and five years since the band’s four surviving members last played together. On the occasion of his birthday…. Of all the individuals who passed through the ranks of the Grateful Dead, drummer Bill Kreutzmann certainly stands out, but not in a flashy, promotional way.
Bill Kreutzmann Bill Kreutzmann, c. 1975 Background information Birth nameWilliam Kreutzmann Jr. Born May 7, 1946 Palo Alto, California GenresRock OccupationMusician Instruments Drum kit Dj "I [was] a senior in high school when he asked me to join the band, when that phone call came in. 623.
Now, as the quartet prepares for what all say will be their last shows ever, the band’s musical rock Bill Kreutzmann is coming out with a memoir that captures his honest view of the inner workings of an anarchic band that became an unlikely American institution.Though he was one of two drummers, Kreutzmann was the Dead’s musical rock, his steady beat keeping even their most tipsy jams from falling off the rails.“Bill was the pulse and rhythm of the Grateful Dead, the fundamental propulsion,” says Dennis McNally, who was the group’s publicist for its final 11 years and is the author of the band biography, “As ridiculous as some of those stories sound, they all happened,” Kreutzmann says, leaning forward in an overstuffed modern chair in a Philadelphia hotel suite, the Liberty Bell National Park visible through large windows behind him.Today, Kreutzmann is tan and lean, with thinning gray hair sprouting at improbable angles, a neatly trimmed goatee and almost invisible frameless glasses. I was in a really bad way —"The drummer and the bandleader had once made a pact: If the Grateful Dead ever came to an end, Bill Kreutzmann and Jerry Garcia would move to the Hawaiian island of Kauai, clean up and go diving. “I thought, When we ask if Kreutzmann has any double-drumming tips, he says, “It’s kind of not worth having two drummers if you play the exact same part.
[He was a complementary player, weaving in between us all and making everything sound better. Jerry was also my best and most complete music teacher.I never wanted people to think that we were better than them.
This is how you do harmony.” It changed the ballgame entirely.I had my hopes up for Jerry big time when he went to the Betty Ford Center, but he only stayed two weeks and it’s a fact of medicine that your body takes a minimum of 28 days to develop a new scene. And not necessarily just in words, but how he played. The 68-year-old drummer lives on an organic farm in Kauai, Hawaii, with his fifth wife, Aimee. If I hadn't taken acid, I just would not be here talking to you today. You have to stay away for at least six months. These are just the emotions I had at the time and being honest about them.It did pay off on the album, but I’m not sure about in the way that you mean, on stage, because in recording sessions you’re not really playing ensemble music.
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