HEY -hello, you know --I met Jack like by accident at 60 Brady st -by accident - walked out into the hall next to the showroom of cabs and guitars -took a right turn up to the soda machine and -BAM --there he be-talkin to Rick Turner -wearin a white T-shirt with a pack of smokes folled up in his left sleeve -like a 50s Greaser dude only -now a seasoned 60s psychadelic hippie ET lookin dude -startled to see my geekie panic recognizing him -he say s ---"hey punk " finally I found affermation --as in " After bathing at baxters" that mr Casady was the first big name star I met and pissed off -wonder how long that encounter stayed with the "man ", I am still trying my best to live up to his endorsement--at 3 I was a skin-head [got pics to prove it] meeting jack at 18 made "PUNK" status- and went through a breif period with allen watts and a chemical wash -say some heavy metal -then got into working as a musician and hair fell out so I guess I have been full circle because I am now a skin-head again ---nothing like havin Jack Casady wanna kick your ass unless its big brother Phil Lesh ----now thats a music lesson on a whole new level --the boots are down on one 1 , its the upbeat to look out for -its a bruce lee thing -jeet koon do where ithe boot lands you better know--you never know someone till you fight them -from the Matrix movie the guardian for the Oracle --the House of BASS has a place for all of us -Jack and Phil top my list as first major influences -then came Stanley ,Jaco ,Leo Lyons ,Squire,Carole Kaye,John Heard ,Mingus,Eddie Gomez ,R. Carter,Ray Brown,Manring ,Mark Egan, Rocco Prestia,Joe Osborne,Al McKibbon,P. Mc Cartney ,Alfonso Johnson,Dave Brown,Dave Margen,Dave Holland ,Bunny Brunnel,Scott LaFaro,Doug Lunn,Mario Cippolina,Barry Oakley,Steve Fossen,Victor Wooten ,Steve Bailey, Larry Graham,Mel Graves,--J. Jamerson,Peter Cetera,,Pete Sears, Pat Drummond ,Wolfgang Schmidt,Tom Fowler,Timothy B. Schmidt,Greg Lake,Edgar Meyer,Noel Redding,Donald Dunn,David Frieberg--Love these people ,some I know personally ,couple as friends , and all of them I have studied and I am the better for having done so--philsaam
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