Grateful Dead Accept Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Award at 1994 Inductions

[@PamelaDrake215]

I'm glad he mentioned Pigpen myself. He was 1 of the band's great soloists. He could play guitar, he could blow mouth harp and he could sing the blues, REALLY sing the blues. He was a gut-wrenching shouter like all good blues singers. He could sing about hurt and you'd remember your last breakup. Sad that he was hurting so much he couldn't stick around for this... "It Hurts Me Too."

[@dupreeblues4744]

sub Vox organ for guitar and I agree 100%

[@Bee-hf3fc]

I also love that Phil referenced mandatory minimums and lives they destroyed. Timothy Tyler final got released in 2019. There's so many more. Phil is Goodness.

[@chicklets4ever51]

Keyboards, Pamela, keyboards! The best versions of Dark Star are with the Pig on keys!

[@stroudsvids]

Wearing my Pig shirt as I write this.

[@stacyblue1980]

He was one of the greatest. I love him . 🙏🌹

[@johnf120]

Mickey and Bobby shouting out the black artists who paved the way for the Dead at their own induction, class acts for sure

[@Thresholdmoment]

Yes and let's just pretend that the black youth of today are just like Willie Dixon and those black artists that they mentioned. Not drugging Thuggin gangbangin and pimping worthless pieces of shit. let's virtue signal to them even though they don't give a shit and would beat the living crap out of us or even kill us if they had the chance but of course Bobby and the guys they don't know anything about that because they're rich and are highly insulated from it and by the way Jerry and bill kreutzmann are masons and Bobby and Mickey are Bohemian Grove.

[@jc3127]

@@Thresholdmoment You are a racist

[@psst...heyyou6508]

I don't think it was a racial thing... He was just talking about people that influenced the Grateful Dead

[@MrRikk68]

The band who taught me what making music is all about: creation. Nothing but love. May Jerry enjoy being free. You know our love will not fade away!

[@wangson]

yeah - nicely said. these guys are my second favorite creators of music. miles is my # 1. though both have SO much in common! so much freedom and experimentation..i really appreciate bruce Hornsby suggesting that the GD were, "anti pop" they played with little structure - but man alive, does that ever take some serious instrumental talent! to improvise a song over and over, making at times looser or tighter...that is true art!

[@moodswingy1973]

Phil looks like a high school science teacher.

[@LearnerChess]

Probably a chemistry teacher - a very popular one. :)

[@P4NxC4K3]

No he drove the bus

[@namcat53]

My kind of science teacher.

[@lisica8458]

Phil bore a remarkable resemblance to Bill Gates in the early 1970s, shown in a video of the Dead playing in France 6-21-71.

[@OliveAmanita2682]

When showing my BF the Dead, I always said "Phil is the one who looks like a chemistry teacher remember that!"

[@121crew6]

These guys are so REAL, and SO flippin' good!

[@darkhorse651]

These guys are class. Mentioning those that came before like Count Basie who would say "one more once " and to also nod to Willie Dixon . There is a reason they are so good it was by accident it comes from pride in their craft

[@kewlbreez77]

... I think you meant "...wasn't by accident..."

[@jomo3989]

so glad they mentioned bret. R.I.P

[@bob733333]

Brent.

[@P4NxC4K3]

Rest in keyboard slayers paradise

[@gtt2806]

Brent

[@dustybottoms2780]

That would be Brent.

[@pgee4342]

RIP Bret Mayfield

[@MichaelG061282]

True story, when I was a teen my Dad absolutely hated the grateful dead. wouldn't allow any of their "shit" into his house. Well onetime just after turned 16, a friend of mine gave a Dead tape and I was listening to Ripple one night when Dad was walking past my room. He stopped and looked in and said "that's fantastic! who is that?" I was like err umm that's the Grateful Dead actually... He was like oh... ok. And up until the day he died he never said another bad word to me about the Dead.

[@danielg.s.8811]

What kind of music did your dad listen to? Like on a regular basis

[@MichaelG061282]

@@danielg.s.8811 he had A LOT of big band/Jazz records but I honestly don't remember him listening to any of them

[@waynej2608]

Back in the day, With the older generation, I think the band's name scared many of them off. If only they could just listen. I remember playing the American Beauty album, in my college years, to my grandmother. She started humming along to Ripple. After the song, she asked me who they were. I replied that it was The Grateful Dead and she said, 'Oh, I like that, I like the Grateful'. She omitted the 'Dead' part, but her endorsement was a real delight to me. I'll never forget it.

[@xianshep]

Yeah, he was put off by the name. My mom, who likes Truckin,' once said that the name made them sound like "a band who eats babies on stage."

[@gregberry1812]

My Father was part of that generation and I remember him commenting to someone in our home regarding the death of Janice Joplin based on a picture of her on an album cover a lack of suprise that she had died at such a young age and his feeling that it was no great loss.

[@willcasler4809]

its so fitting that Bob forgot/fumbled the quote he wrote down

[@gregberry1812]

But if Dylan had writen his acceptance speach he wouldn't have messed up.

[@skateboarding118]

Must be the dyslexia

[@TheInsaneAndy]

3:07 Bill and Phil give each other the look.

[@marleyaxton123]

instablaster

[@matthewbritt8498]

Bobs speech was beautiful

[@thomasjerome3845]

It was far out man!

[@waynej2608]

@@thomasjerome3845 it was the "the hippest ", man. 😎🤘

[@LucyLennon909]

@@thomasjerome3845 GrOOvY

[@justingalarza7013]

How can you not love the dead...? So not typical at everything they do

[@TheCursingYogi]

Same! That was a great acceptance speech and quite fitting! Nothing left to do but smile smile smile after that clip 🥀

[@LucyLennon909]

🎶 Like I told you ... ... what I said ... steal your face right off your head 🎶

[@HippieBuddah]

My boys! One of a kind, there is no other...love you guys

[@maxw.midgett4975]

I find it a little sad that everyone laughed when Phil tried to make a serious point about the incarceration of victimless offenders and the DEA targeting Deadheads.

[@erickdeveau8635]

Yup, what went down was real. Personally, I came close. Really close. Too many people, kids really, like me at the time went down and paid a huge price for way too long until they "Kind Of" got it right and let us out. Feds were all over, not just in the lot, but at our parents homes, you name it. I promise you I wasn't a paranoid person. They made it very clear they were coming. Those days are over now, and a word of advice for my young brothers, don't try to be "Big Dog on The Lot" Not really worth it, cause yeah it was real. Trust me.

[@joshuateubanks4302]

They take our dollars, let us rot.

[@stroudsvids]

Amen Max

[@rosecooke2328]

1993 or 94 I went to my first show in Inglewood California. The gate opened ( I believe) 10am we got there around 9:30am . We were the second car to arrive. The gate was still closed so we waiting in our vehicle for 10am yo roll around. After less than 5 minutes later a deadhead walked up to our car and asked if we were looking for " hits" of sid. We said absolutely and bought 3 each ( 9 total). I was sitting in the middle so I had the rear view mirror , as the guy was was walking away 2 DEA ( IM ASSUMING) agents jumped out the bushes and grabbed the guy and took him away. By away I mean into a van that appears out of nowhere. No one ever came to our vehicle. I never even mentioned what happened to that guy to my two friends. idk why, but I just watched it and thought wtf just hsppened.

[@jamespriest9658]

they don't get it.

[@leebaker5518]

Also not present was Robert Hunter. The only non-performing band member to ever be inducted. His words did glow with gold of sunshine. A man, whose roots run so deep that it's almost unfathomable. But there's a key, his words. They have so much meaning that they give new meaning to the word meaning.

[@derdytrout7123]

Thank you, Jerry Garcia

[@Shadow1776]

Hear the tune, feel the feel.

[@zachariahblackfyre8033]

Glad tom was there , got to see him with live dead , still rocking

[@kevincosta9228]

Bob even messed up the lyrics during his Hall of Fame acceptance speech LOL! I saw him do that do that live, once or twice... I was blessed to be able to experience the Dead during the '70s. There has never been anything like them, just a universe of their (our) own

[@brucegrunwald20]

Bobby. Brilliantly done

[@pakkmann]

If I'm not mistaken, Bruce isn't in the R&R HOF. He introduced the band and was simply still on stage with them. Too bad though, I hope he gets in someday on his own merits. Truly a great musician.

[@Rountree1985]

He’s was never an official member of the band, he was just the one who introduced them for their award. Robert Hunter was inducted as a band member and didn’t show up either, same with Donna Godchaux.

[@Skierguyca]

1 minute in.."I miss Pigpen, Keith and Brent.."

[@lisica8458]

I'm glad that Billy acknowledged all three of them, particularly Pigpen and Keith. Kind of strange to see Tom Constanten up there.

[@gratefuldrifter6588]

The best words of all speachess,fuck they were all grate

[@Rountree1985]

@@lisica8458 why? He was an official member of the band.

[@benkleschinsky]

Jerry was right, he saw what this place would become.

[@epb111]

what do you mean?

[@benkleschinsky]

@@epb111 A joke.

[@jc6594]

Happy 75th Birthday Mickey Hart

[@DennisCampbell777]

As I recall, Garcia wanted nothing to do with this induction. So the band brought the cardboard cutout as a gag, in fact they posed for pictures with it. True story.

[@jonlund5545]

Dennis Campbell Jerry was always shying away from awards

[@claymationwaves]

@@jonlund5545 it is such a dumb reward..

[@zackzallie8735]

Maybe he was sick or something, strange that it is a year before his death.

[@DennisCampbell777]

@@zackzallie8735 The R+R HOF Dissed Lowell George by refusing to admit Little Feat into the Hall. Jerry and Lowell were very close. I'm sure that was a factor in Jerry's lack of interest.

[@zackzallie8735]

@@DennisCampbell777 I read that Jerry refused to join the ceremony cuz of a conflict. Maybe it have to do with your comment.

[@lizziesangi1602]

Forking awesome to see Garcia stride in...

[@tgproductions97]

GOODNIGHT JERRY!

[@jackrussell108]

Long love The Grateful Dead.

[@dupreeblues4744]

Hall of Fame is bullshit . Garcia was right to ignore it

[@haroldcromack1065]

You got that fucking right👍🍄🇺🇸

[@thetruthfornow6045]

But if they never got in it would be a travesty. Trust me, they are proud of the recognition. They never had the radio hits. They did it their way.

[@dupreeblues4744]

@@thetruthfornow6045 ummmm...ok

[@lisica8458]

@@thetruthfornow6045 Agree -- I think they were proud of the recognition. Paul Kantner always poo-pooed the award, but you can be sure he showed up to get it when the Airplane were recognized. Apparently Kantner was so "dismissive" of the award, that he just had to write and sing a new verse of Volunteers, which they performed that evening.

[@mikedavis1084]

84 to 89 magic years for me. ..still loving that old stuff.

[@lisica8458]

That was the "commercial" era, when their songs were sounding more like pop-AM music.

[@jerryakbar6147]

@@lisica8458 sometimes, now it’s just pure shit every “ show” me the money. Show.

[@ufofan1980]

And I believe the guy on the very left is Vince Welnick, the late great keysman from The Tubes who passed away a few years back.

[@lisica8458]

Vince was underrated.

[@Nightmaregamer-y7n]

One of the few replacement band members who never played on a group studio album to be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame with that same group.

[@tedcarlson8176]

Jerry too humble & too cool to show

[@DJ-bj8ku]

He died the next year so I wonder if his health prevented him.

[@phrtao]

@@DJ-bj8ku It was a mixture of things - his health was failing at this time but apparently he just hated awards like this and would not have gone anyway

[@maxhirsch7035]

Jerry truly was too cool for school.

[@INDLIS]

My father was a big fan of the Grateful Dead and he was affected by the death of Jerry Garcia.

[@matthewstetson1840]

Sad for Vince Welnick. Shouldn't have ended that way.

[@anasfarahi4401]

Even sadder for TC, who is treated like he doesn't exist.

[@jasonhervey6067]

Anas Farahi - I'm not feeling too sorry for TC. The way I see it, he was in the band for what, 2 years? Then he made a lifelong career riding on that distinction (his brief affiliation with the band), by covering songs by the other members of the band, which they wrote long after he split? His tenure with GD was short b/c either he didn't have what it took, or else he just wasn't up for the journey. Then, more than 20 yrs after he left, he returns to accept what amounts to a lifetime achievement award with the rest of the group? Gimme a break. I heard that he was there b/c Jerry insisted that all members be included in the induction, past and present, which was really big of Jerry imo. BUT - we can see how much Jerry valued it, as he snubbed by not showing up. That's b/c he understood it was more about the big wigs turning a buck on their legacy, rather than honoring them. Anyways, back to TC. These guys busted butt on the road and in the studios for 30 yrs, and they more than deserved it, but TC just wasn't there. Can you imagine being Bill or Mickey or Bob, and suddenly TC shows up to receive the accolades? That's why he was being ignored.

[@justsayknow7632]

Disgraceful agree! TC is still touring & playing today. He is a highly skilled musician and the way Kreutzmann ignored him is sickening to me. May TC continue on as he deserves all of the respect he can get!

[@andrewptob]

Anas Farahi TC is on stage with them here.

[@janeseamore1370]

Tom is on the stage where is Donna is the question

[@ClueSign]

Should have included Robert Hunter. May his spirit rest in power along with Jerry, Brent, Ron, and Keith.

[@CrimsonJam]

ClueSign He was still alive when this happened you idiot

[@pevsfreedom]

@@CrimsonJam So was Jerry. He was saying he should have been included, at the time, which he was. Lmao.

[@michaelmohrle1773]

Billy K looks like he could be a famous actor here !

[@jacksprat3009]

Garcia once said nobody in the band would dare tell the others what to do. So Garcia didn't show for whatever reason is OK. When they played together is was individuals coming together to create music magic and that's what counted. All the rest was window dressing at first to freak out the "straights" and later to calm them down and turn them on. Big doin's and they did it well.

[@waynej2608]

@Timothy Lee Relax, man. It's just an awards show.

[@michaelmcloughlin8237]

Michael McLoughlin Yeah, it's nice to remeber "pigpen" He could sing the blues. He was still with us the first time I saw the Dead. They were a great band. I understand they did a farewell tour as "Dead& company" they were ar Citifield in Queens about a month ago. Wish I had seen them.

[@christopherkeating5436]

Where was Donna Jean?

[@patricias5122]

Yeah, they left the only female member out.

[@patrickreilly7256]

Even as a cardboard cutout... Jerry outshines.

[@briandrum1]

Because Bruce was a member of the band for a couple years after Brent died. Why they didn't mention Donna is beyond me. Have to say though, it's pretty cool seeing TC up there! I've been fortunate enough to share the stage w/ him numerous times over the last 10-15 years. Sounds a little selfish, but hey, I can say that I've played music with someone who's in the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame! :-)

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Donna should have been mentioned. She contributed alot to the band and each and everyone. Typical guy bs!

[@waynej2608]

@@lastnamefirst4035 I agree, wholeheartedly. My first show was with Donna and she added her magic to the band. I thought it was a good fit, and don't get the hostility she gets from some heads.

[@yourmomma2995]

@@lastnamefirst4035 it always bums me out when i hear donna, the band was much better when she wasn't around, in fact, lately i think i am starting to appreciate the JGB even more than the dead.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@yourmomma2995 I agree. I know what u mean. Wasnt she Garcia's gf for many years?

[@eunuchprovocateur4734]

@@lastnamefirst4035 Definitely not. Donna Jean was married to Keith Godchaux, the pianist. They both joined in 1971. Keith developed a big drug/alcohol problem and started playing like shit in the late 70's and they both left the band together to go solo in 1979(which totally failed), and Keith died in 1980. Brent Mydland replaced Keith. Donna only ever brought terrible backing vocals to the band. If it weren't for her husband being the piano player, she never would've been a part of The Dead.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Phil Nye the Tie Dye Guy should have wore trackpants and wristbands to the ceremony.

[@trueecho]

that speech by bobby was the most eloquent perspective

[@susanvonstehling7686]

The guy is a space cadet

[@leolealuianderson5291]

A friend of the 👿 is a friend of mine. ✌

[@susanh98110]

Surprised Jerry didn't show. Pity. It would have been a treat to watch him now.

[@phyisck5235]

Susan Harris he was very sick at the time as well he wouldn't of shown either way

[@Lootface]

He was not sick. He was opposed to the concept of the hall of fame, as one should come to expect from Jerry. He hated the idea from the get go. Nothing of that sort was ever of any meaning to him. Playing the music wa what mattered.

[@rondiggitydawg2010]

Forever Grateful, Forever Dead, Americas songbook, JAHs fav choir.

[@JakkuHunter]

GOODNIGHT JERRY!❤😆

[@Honey-Sanchez]

Vince, June 2, 2006, was soon to join the other brothers gone. When Vince and Bruce were on the same stage as Jerry,🔺🔹🔶🔻♒ Magic was soon to come.

[@dondon747x]

So many roads.

[@gratefuldank]

when things go wrong wrong with u it hurts me too

[@karengrimes980]

Deadhead here...

[@anthonynasti1279]

Is...is Phil wearing two bow ties? I also love Phil's look when Bob messes up the "Johnny B. Goode" quote.

[@commontater8630]

If Phil looks like his mama dresses him funny, it's not because he's wearing two ties (he's not), but because he he has the points of the dress shirt collar overlapping the bow tie, rather then being tucked behind it where they belong. Hilarious. Surely he knew better.

[@ttjesus4959]

@@commontater8630 You would like to think a grown man would know better. But, this is Phil we're talking about

[@commontater8630]

@@ttjesus4959 I think that Phil wore the points overlapping the tie in the same spirit that Billy wore a purple tie and cummerbund.

[@christophercampbell1677]

Legends

[@l8on99]

Very, very sad. He slit his...on their(wife) land over mental issues(not publicized) and...Jerry's death and other issues .Everyone(in the band) had to remove themselves for some time before hand and it was hard to deal with. He was not included(Further, Phil$&Friends, etc.) and the Dead was his favourite band from the get go. I remember shows where Vince was playing so F*n awesome cause he was in his favourite group ever. Miss him but what did you do to the love brother. I still love you Vince

[@karencobb3549]

PIGPEN and Janis were friends of mine !

[@sammyscotch9945]

Wow glad your still w us

[@justinmilam6899]

Really?

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

THANKS FOR MENTIONING SWING MUSIC BECAUSE I THOUGHT THE SAME THING MYSELF!!!

[@stunv9116]

I wonder which one of today's music creators will be honored like this 30 years from now 😅🤘😎

[@painterphilippe]

Ah, at the end, the Cardboard Cowboy!

[@Umberto2]

Levon Helm:The 1994 ceremony was full of no-shows. Levon Helm didn't attend the Band's induction due to lingering bitterness towards Robbie Robertson. Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Robbie Robertson did show up, though, and they performed "The Weight" together. It's the only time Robertson has performed with his former bandmates since The Last Waltz.

[@st1rjool]

Brent! He was already missed.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Reading bill kreutzmans book. He too grew up in Palo Alto

[@lisica8458]

Garcia came from a working-class family.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@lisica8458 yep. Im going to delete my old comment bc I don't know where I got that info. Just bc someone grows up in Palo Alto doesn't mean they're from a wealthy family. Idk what I was thinking...😀

[@lisica8458]

@@lastnamefirst4035 No worries. Garcia grew up in a working-class family mostly in San Francisco and Redwood City.

[@lisica8458]

@@lastnamefirst4035 No worries. Actually, Jerry Garcia was born to a working-class family and raised in San Francisco (and a few years in Redwood City on the Peninsula). He didn't live in Palo Alto until after he got kicked out of the army. Apparently at one point, he was living out of his car in Palo Alto, alongside Robert Hunter living out of HIS car.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@lisica8458 redwood city home of traffic court and sadly my very costly divorce and lousy divorce attorney

[@NickLandess]

If I'm not mistaken (and I very well could be), Bruce was never an official "member" of the group. He was a friend of the band who sat in quite often during the time periods you mention (particularly in the fall '90 tour after Brent passed away), but he was never an official member of the band.

[@lisica8458]

Neither was Tom Constanten(?).

[@yourmomma2995]

i remember seeing bruce with them for at least couple years in a row. im pretty sure it was 94 and 95. i also got to see brents last show in 90.

[@NickLandess]

@@yourmomma2995 Bruce sat in regularly and often over the last 6-7 years of the band's existence - probably played, overall, close to 100 shows with them, if not more. But he was never an official member. He sat in *very* regularly fall 90-Winter 91, while Vince was still getting his sea legs under him, and then sporadically after that.

[@Rountree1985]

@@lisica8458 Tom Constanten was an official member, douche.

[@lisica8458]

@@Rountree1985 Constanten was temporary, as explained by Phil Lesh in his memoir.

[@hallucin8-]

25 right now and I'm a deadhead we still are out there shits never gunna die

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

i hope this is on dvd

[@clarkewi]

Very cool.

[@truegangsteroflove]

Apparently he was official enough. Which raises the question of "officialness" in regard to the Grateful Dead. For some strange reason I doubt that any band members were given certificates of membership or Deadness. It didn't seem to matter to Jerry, or at least not enough to prompt him to show up at the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame induction as an official member. And yet, even stranger, no one questioned his officialness. The band played by its own rules, and membership was not so formal an idea.

[@oilyshoes9969]

why is Robert Hunter not there? SAD

[@sivartkralc7609]

Robert hated the spotlight even more than Jerry

[@Lootface]

Probably just as opposed to the concept of a hall of fame as Jerry was.

[@stacyblue1980]

Turn Phil's mic up!

[@nancychace8619]

Lol - all dressed up and nowhere to go... Bob's speech was beautiful. Never could figure out why Jerry didn't show up, unless maybe he was too sick. God bless - road ruts aside, thanks for the good times.

[@landonmccalmon7121]

Jerry did not show because he thought the "hall of fame" was a joke. He was sick from fame, not the flu.

[@phillipmarrone9462]

Anyone know why Donna wasn’t there? No sarcastic answer please 😂

[@geoffreyrussell1923]

The Fat Man, rocks.

[@Umberto2]

Not true: Jerry Garcia:The Grateful Dead frontman didn't show up at his induction, reportedly because he was opposed to the whole idea of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The rest of the Dead disagreed, and they brought a cardboard cut-out of the singer onstage.

[@mikepeacock4725]

Bill mentions Pig, Keith, and Brent, but no mention of Donna, who isn't there on stage w/ them. Interesting too that she was not invited to participate in the "Fare The Well" concerts in 2015

[@leifchurchill]

They kind of look strange in nice clothes

[@waynej2608]

Kreutzmann looking kind of sharp. He almost gives off a sort of tv game show host vibe. Lol.

[@efolson]

Why in the world was Bruce Hornsby inducted as a member of the Dead and why didn't they mention Donna?

[@waynej2608]

It's been quite awhile, and I still don't know the answer, to that one.

[@derekbullene3834]

Yah buddy s I Love it!?

[@efolson]

I know Hornsby sat in with the Dead a number of times after Brent died, but it didn't seem like he was a 'member' of the band. I never saw his name listed with the other band members as a member of the band. I'm glad that they listed Robert Hunter as a non-performing member of the band. They would have never had the success or longevity they did without Hunter. Cool that TC was included also. Why wasn't Jerry at the induction, was he too sick or cynical about the whole thing?

[@vinylanimyl]

Hornsby sat in with the boys a number of times BEFORE Brent passed. Then, he toured with the band from Fall 1990 to Spring 1992. So, yeah they considered him to be part of the band and was a personal friend of Jerry's.

[@waynej2608]

They should've invited Donna.

[@Rountree1985]

Hornsby was never an official member and was not inducted into the hall of fame with them. He’s the one who presented them with the award.

[@christopherorman5769]

Hornsby first played with the Dead in 1988 I believe, when the Range opened. Hornsby played more than a few shows: he played almost every show from mid-September 1990 through Spring of 1992. Whether he was a formal member, is unclear. But it is noted that Garcia talked to Hornsby a lot, including right before his death.

[@ryanallers9805]

The Dead family should honor PigPen with his own Documentary.

[@pevsfreedom]

There's a whole lot of nice stuff about him in (Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip) book which can be found for pretty cheap, and is fantastically huge.

[@Umberto2]

Where's Donna? (bring the hate)

[@waynej2608]

Good question.

[@janeseamore1370]

Yep and the 50th....

[@lisica8458]

If Tom Constanten was there, surely Donna ought to been there, too.

[@captainflops474]

It ain't easy bein cheesy Bobby

[@ufofan1980]

Wait a second, this was in 1994, and Jerry died in 95, where was Jerry? Did he have something against the RRHOF or was he just in poor health/rehab?

[@duanegibbons4862]

Both, but more or so his opinion on the RRHOF

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Hard to be far from your dope. Sure that was 1 of the reasons

[@peterbetts858]

u could never take a stimulant and Soar with this bands music.

[@Umberto2]

no idea on that. worth some research.

[@Evertnr11]

Where is Jerry?!!

[@iamryanallen]

i was thinking the same thing. she was inducted, but where was she?

[@blegit]

where is jerry at

[@MrMicalo]

Why no Jerry ?

[@jonathanlund590]

I was led to believe that in order to being inducted you had to have played on one of the band recordings, why would Vince be up their

[@bernlin2000]

Looks like this is the correct answer

[@NickLandess]

Official enough for what? He was *not* inducted here as a member, and I don't believe he has ever referred to himself as a member of the Band. If you want to consider him a member of the band, I guess that's on you, but as he and the actual members of the band don't seem to think so, that's what I am going with. He is certainly a member of the musical family that is the Grateful Dead, and none the less for it. None of this is at all intended as a dig at Bruce, whom I both like and admire.

[@marceloaraujo8728]

Rock!!! L S D

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

HELL YEAH!!! PIGPEN RULES!!! where is jerry?

[@subslament]

Yeah where is Jerry?

[@chicklets4ever51]

Where was Jerry? He didn't die till 1995.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member- Groucho Marx

[@Thresholdmoment]

Jerry was too busy doing drugs to show up for something that he was not contractually obligated to show up for.

[@ToldAlthea]

BIOYA

[@EyeMixMusic]

Considering the raging dumpster fire this institution has been for many years now, ignoring it might have been the best decision Garcia ever made.

[@calburge4338]

I’m glad jerry wasn’t there. Not to take anything away from the rest of the band but jerry had class. He knew these awards shows are nothing but shows. He loves to play music and spread love. So wat if he had a drug problem,?? It’s wat made jerry, jerry. Jerry was and will always be The Grateful Dead. RIP Jerry

[@pevsfreedom]

Well said

[@methyod]

jerry wasn't jerry because of his addiction, but in spite of it. he didn't make great music because of heroin, but in spite of it.

[@jonlund5545]

So other bands could only induct members who played on a recording! Not to take away Vince's contribution but he was only in the band just more than a year

[@cheapthrilll6323]

Vince was in the band for about 5 years.

[@91thebossman]

why was jerry just a cutout? it says 1994..

[@Shadow1776]

I don't think he wanted to have anything to do with it. Or he may have been in rehab at the time

[@methyod]

Bill's on a lil shrooms, Phil's on a whole lot of L, Mickey's an alien so I'm not sure how drugs even effect his alien metabolism, and Bobby's crossfaded as hell. Love to see it

[@maxhirsch7035]

Just don't give Mickey shirt for being a Vulcan trying to play it cool as a goofy earthling.