The Grateful Dead

"You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joseph Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic and bliss, and power and myth, and celebration and religion in our lives and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it."
Jerry Garcia

"Casey Jones" by the Grateful Dead.

Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was a musician, songwriter, artist, and lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group. One of the original founders of the Grateful Dead, Garcia performed with the Dead for its entire three-decade career; and also founded and participated in a variety of side projects, including the Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, and Legion of Mary.

"Eyes of the World" by the Grateful Dead

Garcia co-founded the New Riders of the Purple Sage with John Dawson and David Nelson. He also released several solo albums, and contributed to a number of albums by other artists over the years as a session musician. He was well known by many for his distinctive guitar playing and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" cover story. He passed twenty years ago, may he rest in peace.

"Friend of the Devil" by the Grateful Dead

With beautiful Articulated Buses we coulda been a contendah.

Everybody that takes public transportation says the same thing. And I definitely do not mean the ones planning "Da Rail Disaster." Everyone is going to want to ride it one time just to see what it is like. After that there will be other ways to get to and from Honolulu, the car being one of them. Let the others ride the rail. If we had had comfortable seating in the present buses, it would be relatively painless to ride from Makaha to downtown Honolulu.

Of course, with the development of Kapolei into a real Second City, we will all learn. To live, work and play in our own kuleana will be real paradise. But there are many organizations funded by the Present Rail Party that have stopped most business and industrial parks in the area. The Waianae Coast and the North Shore remain in a third country status.

“We dance for ourselves. If someone understands, that's nice. If not, no matter, we go

right on doing what interests us, and we will do it until it stops interesting us.”