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Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Grateful Dead - What's the Difference?

The band that turned into the Grateful Dead was Mother McQueen's Uptown Jug Champions. "We were a Jug man. We were a damn good one," he says of his early days in the band with Jerry Garcia, Billie Joe Armstrong and others. He adds: "A pig then made us authentic...he was nothing but authentic"

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