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I think you might be. Or a troll. I am pretty sure you have no idea what you are talking about.
you're entitled to your opinion, seabass.
No opinion. Fact. You have no idea what you are talking about. Ask Elizabeth Cotten. Well if she was alive anyway.
you really think he toured the world for decades, leaving a cloud of drugs in his wake at every stop, and no one got hurt?
nobody?
oh sure you probably only see the 'upside', the great music....ugh... one or two decent songs does not justify all that cult shit. and yeah, people who flock to and follow a psychedelic fueled jam band for decades are sad and probably became trumpers.
OK, I can see you know nothing about this. You "heard some things" maybe?
And you are blaming a guitarist for the bad choices of some people?
You sure you are not the monster?
Nobody is perfect, but lets at least be real:
They rarely traveled the world by the way, a couple of tours to Europe, and once to Egypt. That is it.
Jerry said there must be many ways to have success, and money and fame are not it. The one thing about him, more than anything else, was not trying to control people or tell them what to do.
I mentioned Elizabeth Cotten, because when Jerry found out she was struggling with bills at the end of her life, he put a song on their live record by her so she could get the royalties.
I don't know why you think this is monstrous behaviour.
So you just judge people? That seems more sad. By the way, not a jam band. Dance band, but whatever. When it was a smaller group, seeing friends and family all over the US was actually fun. If it isn't for you, then nobody is making you go. This was mostly over by 1985, and officially over by 1995, so this is a LONG time ago.
Unfortunately some did. Which is weird, because a HUGE part of the draw to go to shows for a lot of people was being accepted for who ever they are.
EDIT: I should also add that one of the two bands lyricists (John Barlow - perhaps you heard of him) said before he died that Trump was toxic asshole, and thorough creep in 2016. Jerry of course was long dead, but the band itself has been against this bullshit for a long time.
EDIT2: Since you don't know much about this, I will add this from a scholarly publication:
Do you find that monstrous too?
man no one's ever gonna convince you captain trips did anything wrong.