![]() I knew how to say “fuck off” in about 15 different languages. I spoke Spanish, but we weren't in Spain, so that didn't help. I didn’t speak French a bit of French, but not much. SAM CUTLER: Rosie McGee - bless her, she helped a lot. So after a while, I just went off and had fun whenever we weren’t in a French-speaking country. Because Frances Carr was with him, he didn’t really need my help. At first I helped - I’d go to his suite in the morning and help hand out per diems. They had to hand out per diems every day. ![]() ROSIE McGEE : A t first, Sam had, in each hotel, he had a large suite, which he could use as his road office. This is from her 2014 conversation with David Gans for the great book This Is All A Dream We Dreamed. Rosie McGee was along for the ride, sometimes assisting Sam Cutler, sometimes assisting the recording crew from Alembic, where she worked in the administration side back home. A number of details come from his great story, “ The Beautiful Dead Hit Paris. Hopkins met up with the Dead the next day at the crack of noon, a day off before their Paris debut. “The Beautiful Dead, Monsieur?” the desk clerk asked Rolling Stone writer Jerry Hopkins, who arrived before the band did. JESSE: The Grand Hotel in Paris was expecting a 37-piece orchestra. So I would have to go in there with my small knowledge of French and try to talk them into serving 52 really weird-looking people who be very grateful if they were fed at a time when no one is eating in the entire country. No, that doesn't happen in France you eat when the meals are cooked there. So we’d have to go to some little countryside French place and of course, all of France closes down between 2:30 and 7:00 for food… It's not like in this country where there are things that are open all the time and you can eat whenever. And when people like us are really hungry, it's, like, really not a good idea to let that hunger go on any longer because it'll burst out in ways that you're not really comfortable with. But she must not have been there, because I remember a lot of times driving through France in these two buses, with 52 hippies… it'd be 4:00 in the afternoon, and we’d be really hungry. One of the things that I just remember… Rosie wasn't there, because Rosie speaks French-born in Paris, speaks fluent French. JON McINTIRE : W e had two buses - like 52 people. īOB WEIR : W e'd hit multiple and varied truckstops to the amazement and consternation of the locals. This next bit of Bob Weir comes from David and Marty Martinez’s 1995 interview with him, and it’s followed by an interview David did with the Dead’s late manager Jon McIntire. As always, we’re standing on the shoulders of heads, and specifically David Gans. JESSE: The Bozo bus and the Bolo bus took the two-day overland route from Hamburg to Paris with an overnight stop in Konigswinter. A lot more.ĪUDIO: “China Cat Sunflower” (0:00-0:13). But, to paraphrase the great music documentarian Marty DiBergi, they got more. That would change significantly when they got to Paris, where-in the comfortable confines of the Olympia Theatre -they found a welcoming crowd of heads and captured more than twice that: 5 live Dead recordings that virtually every head knows. But in the course of the tour’s first 10 performances, they’d only caught two songs that would make it to the original Europe ‘72 triple-LP. ![]() They had been in Europe for exactly a month and had plenty of adventures and made some fantastic music. JESSE: Late on May Day 1972, the Grateful Dead arrived in France. Phil Lesh & Bob Weir, by David Gans & Marty Martinez, Grateful Dead Hour #369, 9/1995. Jon McIntire, by David Gans, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, 2011. ![]() Rosie McGee, Dancing With the Dead audiobook, 2013. Rosie McGee, by David Gans, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, 2015. Dennis “Wiz” Leonard, by Blair Jackson, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, 2011. Robert Hunter, by Steve Silberman, unpublished. Robert Hunter, by David Gans, Conversations with the Dead, 1977.
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