Lee Ranaldo Quotes

The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the formality of a concert into more of a lifestyle thing.

Go out and support your local rock n' roll band.

'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.

There is still nothing under the sun quite like a Grateful Dead concert.

My first concert I can remember was AC/DC when I was 9 years old, in Paris. It's a good first one!

I have a memory of this experience when I was young, watching 'Stop Making Sense,' the Talking Heads concert movie, which is one of the best concert movies ever, and I saw it in a full house in New Zealand, and everyone was cheering between songs, and you really felt like you were part of the audience at the gig.

The last Company Flow reunion show in New York City was pretty insane. Everybody knew all the words to every song; everybody had smiles on their faces. Those shows are what you hope for every time you get on the stage.

I think there's this primal need to go to a show when you're a rock fan. And it's about that camaraderie and about that intangible feeling that we all get.

And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.

To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.

I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.