not that way, in that huge concrete monstrosity. We gave away those tickets because we did not want to be a part of Brent's last show - maybe we knew somehow - and we just could not bear to say goodbye. I traveled basically non-stop from Chicago to my personal place of healing - a private island in a bay on the North Shore of Lake Huron, so it was almost a week before I found out he'd gone (which was his right in my opinion,) and suddenly it made sense. I and at least 25 people who had done the entire tour gave away our tickets that night.
The songs that he broke out for that tour, a number of which he hadn't played in quite a while, made it pretty plain where his head was at, and those of us that truly loved him so for giving every last bit of himself - holding NOTHING back - seemed to be getting the message. That was a sad and brutal tourfor many reasons - those of us who followed what was going on with the band members were aware that Brent was going through some really rough times with his wife and child, and that he'd benn inpatient in a clinic for depression until time came to leave for the tour - he was not one to let us down. I have photos of Brent boarding a helicopter both arriving and leaving that show - by himself - as he did on most if not all of the shows on that tour. Thanks WanderingMonk for telling it like it is.įirst, to the reviewer 'paintforbrains' or whatever way down below, Brent was most certainly NOT dead right after the show and "Shipped Home With the Speakers." What an ass. I'll stop short of saying that the negative vibes from fans killed him because I know he had personal problems as well, but only if he could have felt at home SOMEWHERE! WTF? The band played everything from Country and Western tunes all the way to quasi-disco, with blues, jazz, rock (both hard and soft) in between.īrent wrote from his heart, what more could we have asked from him. I still don't understand how people could say his musical style didn't fit in with the band's style. The poor guy already had self-esteem issues and the constant criticism from the "the dead sucked after 1980" crowd must have really done a number on him.Įven Jerry admitted that he was the best singer in the band, while he and Bob "just croaked along".
No wonder he never felt truly at home within the band, I wonder how much "hate mail" he got from Deadheads basically telling him that he sucked and didn't fit in. It's so nice to hear that other Deadheads loved Brent as much as I did. I don't think anyone, except maybe Brent himself, if it really was a suicide and not an accidental OD, had any idea what was about to happen.
The rest is just standard.Įither of the previous two nights was much better. That song was perhaps the only one that improved in 1995 as Jerry reliably played with intensity, but here, it's just a drag, a slow 3-chord song that takes forever to get to a so-so solo. A torrid Watchtower comes out of space but is followed by Yawning on the Lawn. Then Jerry has to repeat his solo in Terrapin because he screws up the finish. Admittedly, soloing over the chromatic passages in that song is not easy, but check out 7/12/90 for example of how it's done. Jerry tries to get the band going on Victim, but keeps starting his runs on the wrong note, throwing the others into confusion (Bob simply drops out at points). The show has its moments (Cassidy, Truckin>Smokestack, Watchtower, Foolish) but overall is not that good. So I got 3 shows I wouldn't have otherwise.Ģ. Everyone says the venue sucked, but I had a good time there (except for getting sick off a veggie burrito in the lot, but that's not the venue's fault) and probably wouldn't have made it to Alpine. Most of the chords being played is an easy chords.1. Try to play Hey Jude, one of Beatles songs, using easy guitar chords.
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