How do you believe Jerry would view the music & direction of his bandmates after his death?

Lol what?

Before Jerry somehow magically addressed the music his former bandmates have made since his passing, I would think he'd want to know what the hell folks were thinking where they sprinkled his ashes in the Ganges River.

It's a fun, harmless little game, we always love to try and get into each others heads a bit, so I'll play.

I think he's likely say, "Whatever, far out" to all of it.

I think he'd be happy his mates are still playing. 

I think he'd like the idea of the Phil & Friends concept. 

I think he'd like how many different types of groups Bob has put together. 

I think he'd be happy so many people, and so many young people are still enjoying the music. 

I think he'd figure he couldn't really criticize D$C or any of the bloated "Grateful Dead Show" deals, since he did enough shill in his own life & career. 

I think he would have liked the idea of and most of the reality of TxR. 

I think like the rest of us he would have wondered what the fuck happened to Mickey. 

He didn't disown Bobby after "I want to Live in America," so there you go.

THIS!!   (...ahem Weir & Koons)

>>Before Jerry somehow magically addressed the music his former bandmates have made since his passing, I would think he'd want to know what the hell folks were thinking where they sprinkled his ashes in the Ganges River.<<

Ultimately, I say he'd dig it, laugh it off in a way, and say something uniquely Jerry....mostly more or less along the lines of what Lance said.

> Ultimately, I say he'd dig it, laugh it off in a way

I hear Jerry used to do a killer Gandhi impersonation.

You guys hired Mayer?  You quit trippin', didn't you?!

Jerry "tell Bobby to pick up the tempo"

I bet he would have dug Missing Man Formation and wished Vince hadn't felt so left out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCdq7tzPWQc

Jerry in the black muddy...

Jerry would probably have a bigger problem with Touch of Grey being played amongst the muzak at the Safeway.

I imagine he'd be pissed that JRAD refuses to play Brent songs. 

Jerry's ghost:

"So . . . Phil will change the key of a song so he can sing it . . . but Bob just does . . . what ever that is.  Huh."

FOM, do you like to magically absorb your own writing?

I don't think Jerry would be surprised by Phil's approach, or by Bobby's. Their trajectories were established decades ago, I'd say.

I'd say that Bobby's paradigm is about the same as it was pre-95. He has his big band (GD/D&C) and he has his side gig (Midnights/Wolf Bros). As for Phil, I would say that his rotating Friends fit perfectly into the idea of "searching for the sound".

he would have said phil should have dug deeper into trios and playing more avant garde with high level players...telstar and beyond...
 

What, no love for Ratdog?

Ratdog was in the friend zone.

You need to factor in TOO for Weir as well; Phil too, but he didn't stick with it. TOO was Weir's big band for a while there, and Ratdog was more of a side gig at that time. And lest we forget, Ratdog opened for P&F on NYE 2001/2002.

And then some.  I saw both bands at SPAC.  And the tail end of a BIsco set.

> At the same time, Phil did not have as an extensive track record as Bobby playing solo or with others before Jerry's death (unless I'm missing something?).

Phil did the Too Loose to Truck thing in the mid-70s, and a one-off P&F in 94, but that's about it, I think.

I'm just remembering the early Weir and Wasserman stuff from the early 90s too. I caught one of the Scaring the Children shows in 92, and they made a lot of beautiful noise with just the two of them.

I think he'd be happy to see that everybody is still having fun.

Mike - I saw Scaring the Children in Boulder and the first time I remember thinking "no wonder the Grateful Dead are so good". It was cool to hear Weir in a minimal setting. A lot of power in that duo.

D$co  lol so true  Is anything good happening with all that money

God bless that we are alive. And not to be blasphemous or anything but Phil is  God

PLF & Ratdog was the golden era of past dead years for me. Both bands toured Florida 1 or 2 times a year and each would play multiple dates. Both bands were different from the GD and neither was like the other. Phil's band would explore the jams that were at times dangerous, and Ratdog would play an upgraded form of elevator music that was fun. 

Elevator music that's precious

Of course he'd dig it all, he's Jerry. 

Looking down on it all,  he may even have approved of Vince.

> Phil's band would explore the jams that were at times dangerous

A buddy of mine used to refer to the Q as black t-shirt music for that very reason.