John Kadlecik interview with Rolling Stone

Terrible interview, not a single word about his cats or if they really tour with him. It also doesn't mention when I called him Fake Jerry and he got pissed off.

>It also doesn't mention when I called him Fake Jerry and he got pissed off.

Are you proud of yourself Tim for saying that to him!? I have a new low for you!

Let;s see you play the guitar!!

God bless you John!!

I love to watch John, I was shroomed up talking to Jay Lane at a local show and he walked by saying it was time. I blurted it out and Jay and I got a huge chuckle out of it. He went out and melted it that night.

So I hit a new low, opening my mouth, what the fuck else is new.

Good interview. He didn't give any cheap answers.

Interesting read. It was pretty cool to see one of the videos I captured of Furthur from Sweetwater near the start of the article.

Favorite line:  "Bobby would get excited about a new app that allowed you to slow music down."   Hahaha!!!

That cracked me up too. Somebody needs to hack Bobby's app. Turn it up, and leave it up!

That was a good interview.  The reporter knew what he was talking about and asked good questions and JK (aka FJ) gave straight up answers without sugar coating things.    

The guy definitely has a fairly deep point of view of the post-Jerry world of the Grateful Dead.

The best part of the interview for me is his shot at Joel Selvin. That was right on the mark.

Selvin is a tool.

Sounds like Elvis Costello is a bit of a primadonna as well.

'Phil can't sleep in a moving vehicle and Bobby can't sleep in Manhattan ' cracked me up.

Thanks for posting Straw, interesting interview.

And yeah, glad he scorned Selvin. He's a hack.

someone pin some wings or a medal or something on this cat

he's been risking his skin for your entertainment for years

I don't know if this proves or disproves JK's point about how he reacted when Weir collapsed. From my perspective JK was non-reactive. JR looked aghast and Phil kept on playing. I was a little slow on the shutter, I missed the initial fall and only started shooting again after my friend poked me and said shoot, Weir is down.

In that last shot JK looks like he's trying to play Bob back onto his feet.

Musicianship aside -- this guy comes off as big pussy onstage and off. (And a narcissist and he wouldn't have your back or anyone else's.)

Wait I thought he just simply mixed up his pain meds and his ambien, that wasn't it?

Wait I thought he just simply mixed up his pain meds and his ambien, that wasn't it?

No.

I thought he just simply added his pain meds and his ambien together.

And added a bit more pain meds, annddd.......

>From my perspective JK was non-reactive.

looks like Bobby landed right on his birks, and the guy never even moved his leg 

He did have two bosses on stage. Took his direction from the one who was watching. 

Willow sky, whoa, I walk and wonder why
They say love your brother but you will catch it when you try
Roll you down the line boy, drop you for a loss
Ride out on a cold railroad and nail you to a cross

Now that Dead and Co. are ending, do you see a scenario where there could be more Furthur — or at least more chances for you to play with Bob or Phil?
I don’t know. I wouldn’t be opposed. I don’t know that that’s in the works or not. But I am trying to figure out some sort of project that would be a tribute to Furthur where we could reinhabit the original songs.

a tribute...to a tribute band? is he gonna reinhabit mully gully?

Fishcane, at he Atlantic City shows I'm pretty sure he sang:

"Willow sky, whoa, a guitar string in your eye.
They say catch your brother, but you will watch it and not try."

>> I thought he just simply added his pain meds and his ambien together.

That was the story when he had the meltdown at the Nokia in Times Square in 2010

Curious as to what the Fare Thee Well comment is all about. He was caught on camera doing something he shouldn't have been doing? Seems like an odd thing to bring up and then backtrack on the details. 

After Nokia Bobby said never drink from a cup you didn't pour.  Pranksters gonna prank...

> Bobby can't sleep in Manhattan

He didn't seem to have any trouble getting some shut-eye at the Nokia.

If that article made one thing clear it's that his ex wife totally banged every member of Phish.

Curious as to what the Fare Thee Well comment is all about. He was caught on camera doing something he shouldn't have been doing? Seems like an odd thing to bring up and then backtrack on the details. >>

Probably no different from what any DH did when they were out seeing shows and their significant other was home holding down the fort. Tongues wagged. There was no whatever happens on the road stays on the road.

I don't know Andy Greene, but his statement, "started reading hippie writers like Carlos Castaneda and Alan Watts" is very strange. That kind of writing bugs me. Those guys are hippie writers? I don't think so. Did they know that?

Timmy, it wasn't clear to me that it was all of them.

Maybe he meant authors popular with hippies?  By that criteria, Herman Hesse, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, and Hunter S.Thompson, among others, would be "hippie writers" (they're not).

That is what he probably meant, Dave, but sheesh.

>>>>>Timmy, it wasn't clear to me that it was all of them.
 

True.  But at least Trey and Jon, and I assume Mike and Page at least watched.

Lol

How about y'all get off Jk's ass. He is way better in the Jerry slot than most.

Apparently, John K apologized and begged Rob Eaton to be let back in DSO after Furthur disbanded but was told to scram. After this 2nd falling out, his behavior became more erratic, and rumors had it he used to sit outside the homes of different DSO members in his Hyundai Sonata eating Subway and chain smoking clove cigarettes. 

I agree with you, Rusty. And not because JK's a good musician, but because it doesn't make sense to me that people here are carrying so much enmity about someone as benign as him. Now, if they had the same kind of bitterness toward Putin or some other warmonger it would make sense to me.

A lot of you Zoners are cynical old bastards, but it was ever thus.

Good interview, but the part that got me was how JK first saw the Grateful Dead in 1989 ~ The Mega Dead Era.

I am starting to feel like one of the old men on the mountain, and I know some of you fuckers have been around even longer than that.

Furthur had it's highs and lows but JK certainly wasn't the primary contributor to the lows. In retrospect the band and experience now seems otherworldly in comparison the money train DeadBro cacophony that followed.

JGB as a 4 piece with John is really melvin's best band yet, and also the spot where I've personally enjoyed his playing the most

Strangely I like DSO better with mattson and skip than I did with kevin and john, though I remember not feeling this way at the time of their upheaval

It seems for now everything is mostly in its proper place in first tier cover band land

I don't get all the negativity towards JK either.  I chalk it up to a bit of jealousy.  He started DSO and had vision for what it would become so he deserves credit for that and his point about it all falling on his shoulders makes sense.  Then to think that Phil and Bob ask him to join their band and he would get play along side two founder members of the GD and creating great music is surreal, how could anyone say no to that. Sure DSO probably felt a bit burned and there may have been some business considerations like who owns the name etc. they had to deal with. But who wouldn't accept the call up to the majors if given the opportunity.    

As far as the BW show where he went down, I was there with Tatters, only person to blame is BW.  Who knows what Bobby was saying to the others on the stage.  He clearly  wanted to stay out there.  

lighten up francises....it's just tounge-in-cheek. nobody hates the guy, he's just a goofball.

do you think he loves singing the silver kimono line?

i have not seen him with melvin. look he's good obviously, but for the jerry spot in that band, i want someone with more gravitas....

remember "prime time"???

lol

It's probably a good thing RS didn't do an interview with Jeff Pehrson or Sunshine Garcia.

He clearly  wanted to stay out there. <<<<

The coup de grâce was when he fell off the chair, after the crew spent 30 minutes trying to persuade him to sit down. All the while Bobby pushing them away like an angry drunk uncle.

You gotta be pretty twisted-up when even sitting in a chair is considered too vertical. Too bad there wasn't a chaise lounge back stage...it may have saved Ace that evening.

If zoners ain't bitchin', they ain't breathin'

Love JK bigly

LOL Fuckin Weir, ashes ashes

Shit. I had tomorrow in the Jeff Pehrson mention pool