A Long Strange Trip
“In the world of the Grateful Dead, it is the crew, one of the most remarkable elements in the band’s saga. The history of rock will record that Dead crew chief Lawrence “Ram Rod” Shurtliff was undoubtedly the longest-term employee of any group ever, and many of his companions stayed nearly as long. Their bond was sufficient that when Mickey Hart fired Steve Parish as his drum roadie, Ram Rod—for the good of the crew as a whole— swapped his longtime role as Jerry Garcia’s guitar roadie with Stev...e and went to work for the far more demanding Hart. The record will also show that the Dead’s crew was undoubtedly the only road crew ever to have its own charter plane, a Learjet. The crew had better pay, better working conditions, and more influence on the band’s decisions—their dislike for the demands of crossing borders had much to do with the rarity of Dead visits to Canada or Europe—than any employees of any music group ever. They were not employees, really, but de facto band members.MoreLess
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