Name: Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir Were Terrible At Woodstock | Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir Were Terrible At Woodstock | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-29. Transcript available.

5, 8, 12, 13, 17, and a double word score, that's 34.
What are you trying to do here?
You take my word, truck, and you add the letters I-N.
That's not a word.
Truck it.
No, it's not a word.
I am sick of this.
It happens every time.
I am tired of this argument.
We could play Monopoly if you'd let me be the top hat.
Look, it's my show.
It's my game.
You can be the thimble.
You can be the iron.
But I'm the top hat, all right?
So, is this where I yell, uh, live from New York?
No.
No, it's another show, but thanks for crying anyway, Jerry.
Just forget it.
No problem, Dave.
All right.
This is the first one to go flatmen?
Well, excuse me.
How long has the band been together?
23 years.
Yeah, 23.
23 years.
Yeah.
I'd like to say something before we get started here, David.
I'd like to thank Paul and the guys for playing with us.
Real fun to play.
You guys are good.
Good musicians.
So, so 23 years.
And is it safe to say that this is, and these may not be terms that you care
about necessarily,
but in terms of commercial success, this is your biggest moment right now, huh?
What time have you got?
Proudest moment of my life.
Yeah.
I'm quietly proud at this moment, yes.
But you, you have, the album is platinum, which represents what?
A million, 500,000 sales?
What is it?
A million sales, something like that.
It's the first one to go platinum right out of the chute for us.
Right, yeah.
Yeah.
And you have a video.
Now, in the old days.
A couple videos.
In fact, a few videos.
Yeah.
Now, was this part of the early Grateful Dead philosophy that we want to get
really hot
so we can do videos?
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, pretty much.
And, uh, you have a parlor trick.
Oh, yeah.
You want to do that right now?
Well, I think it would be interesting to have members of this band on the show
doing a parlor trick.
Okay, we need, uh...
I won't be a part of this.
No, no, come on.
No, no, no.
No, you don't have to worry about it.
Now, we need, um, a couple people.
Excuse me, when was the last time you were in a parlor?
What exactly is a parlor?
No, no, no.
We need a couple people.
We need a couple guys.
How many guys do you need?
Two.
Two.
How about me?
Yeah, there's one.
Me and Paul.
Is that enough?
I won't be a part of it.
And one more.
All right.
One more.
You don't have to lift your finger.
Come on, Biff.
Biff will help us.
Okay.
What we do is we're going to lift Jerry from here.
We're going to lift Jerry.
No, what you do is, uh...
You put two fingers under here.
No, you put two fingers under here.
Is this chair suitable, Bob?
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
This is Biff Henderson, by the way.
My mom didn't raise me to be no bench.
We need one more.
It's right here.
It's Biff.
Okay.
You take that side, Biff.
You take the other.
Please don't hurt me, fellas.
Just two fingers like this.
Two fingers.
Do you hypnotize him or anything?
No, lift him up.
This is not going to work.
Yeah, it will.
You see?
Okay, now put him down.
Yeah.
Now...
Very nice.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
Now, going in a clockwise fashion, don't touch my hand, but first you, Paul,
put your hand
right over on top of mine like that, and then you like that.
It's like working with Kreskin, isn't it?
And then you.
And then right hands.
Don't touch.
Biff, you touched me.
Biff touched me.
Hey, I've got left hands right now.
I'm getting a picture of a lady with a red purse.
Now, left hands?
Yeah.
Jeez.
Now, now take them off.
All right, everybody.
But Biff touched me.
Is that okay?
No.
Okay, now do it again.
All right.
Wait a minute.
All right, Biff.
Okay.
Okay.
Up.
Ah!
What?
Well, it's a headache.
Wow.
That's the trick?
You've been a little better this time.
I'm calling the union.
All right, was that it?
Yeah.
That was it.
Well, thanks, Paul.
Thanks.
Now, when was the last time you did that?
Uh, not long ago.
And what is the principle at work there?
Uh, the principle at work is a sheer mystery to me.
It's amazing what you can get people to do on television.
It certainly is.
We want to look at some of your, this is from the new video.
Is that the moment?
This is a long video.
It's not our new video.
It's our long video.
This is the new video.
It's not called, this is not so far.
Yes, this is.
It is so far.
All right, we're going to see a couple of minutes of this.
You want to tell the folks what we're looking at here?
No.
Okay.
This is from the long video so far.
How long is it?
50 minutes.
Yes, sir.
After, after doing this for 23 years, does it ever become a job, not so much as
guys in
a band that enjoy making the kind of music you guys make?
On a bad night.
Yeah.
Now, what constitutes a bad night?
How early do you know it's going to be a bad night?
What can you do about it?
Sometimes when I wake up.
Then it's too late to do anything about it.
Tell me about a little, your trip to Egypt.
Was that a good experience by and large?
That was great.
We played terrible.
Yeah, we played awful, but it was.
But it was, but the, the, the trip was great.
Yeah.
I think I crossed, crossed several time barriers.
Uh-huh.
And was that the reason that you, you know, was it true you actually played
poorly there?
Yeah.
Not that bad.
We usually do pretty bad on the big ones.
Really?
We played terrible at, uh, at, uh, Woodstock and, you know, Monterey Pop
Festival, all the
milestones.
So you're willing to come out and say that you, you were no good at Woodstock?
Yeah, we were terrible at Woodstock.
But we had, the, the situation was more than a little weird.
Our sound man at the time decided he was going to change the ground in the
middle, uh, in
the middle of the whole thing.
We changed the ground.
The electrical ground?
Yeah, the electrical ground.
And, uh, as it was not done right or something, every time I touched my
instrument, I got a
horrible shock and he was getting the same thing.
Bolts of electricity were flying across the street.
Sing on the spot.
See, now, now that's a parlor trick.
Yeah.
When you can do that.
And, uh, things are going good here down the street?
Uh, reasonably.
Yeah.
How are you playing down there?
Not bad.
Okay, good.
Jeez, it's, uh, nice to see you guys again.
And congratulations on all of the success.
Thanks, Dave.
Thanks, Dave.
Come back any time.
You bet.
Uh, we'll call it here.
Then we'll be right back, folks.
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My thanks, of course, to our guests tonight, Jerry Garcia and Bob Ware.
I really appreciate you guys coming up here tonight and have a good stay down
at the garden.
Tomorrow night, Molly Ringwald, folks.
Thank you very much for being here.
Bye-bye, everybody.
Bye-bye, everybody.
Bye-bye, everybody.