So I have been listening to a lot of Miles Davis lately and wanted to learn more about him. I picked up his autobiography and came across this:
After reading this book it was pretty appetent that Miles didn’t throw around compliments too much and was pretty appalled by the lack of musical knowledge that most of the Rock Bands possessed at the time (versus his jazz contemporaries).
“So it was through Bill (Graham) that I meet the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia is their guitar player and I (we) hit it off great talking about music-what they liked and what I liked-and I think we all learned something, grew some. Jerry loved jazz and I found out that he loved my music and had been listening to it for a long time”Man, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall listening to these to musical geniuses rap how cool that must have been! Does anyone ever recall Jerry talking about this conversation I don’t remember ever reading about it, but maybe you have? It would be cool to hear Jerry’s take on this.
After reading this book it was pretty appetent that Miles didn’t throw around compliments too much and was pretty appalled by the lack of musical knowledge that most of the Rock Bands possessed at the time (versus his jazz contemporaries).
