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Yessir............time to play some pre-rehearsal Dead tonight!

Heat Came Round And Busted Me

Weir: Interesting story with "The Other One." Uh, it was one of the first tunes I ever wrote. Actually, we came up with the "map," basically, for the song in a rehearsal somewhere, just kickin' stuff around. And then I took it and started shaping it up, and things like that. We for the song in a rehearsal somewhere, just kickin' stuff around. And then I took it and started shaping it up, and things like that. We went on a tour, in the Pacific Northwest, and I was, you know, I was not done with it, I was wondering what the song was about, and then one night it sort of came to me. Basically, it's a little, a little fantastic, uh, episode about my meeting Neal Cassady. I wrote the two verses - that's all there is to it, really, is two verses - and, uh, then, uh, we played the gig that night and came home the next day and when we came home we learned the news that Neal had died that night...

DG: Wow.

Weir:...the night that I wrote that. As legend has it, he died counting the railroad ties on the tracks -

Lesh: From Dallas to Denver.

Weir: Something like that. San Miguel de Allende [Mexico], I think, is where he was.

Lesh: Okay.

Weir: Um, so I guess that was a little visitation, that's - not unlike Neal.

Lesh: But if I remember correctly, as soon as you had, as soon as you had the words, then we did the song.

Weir: Yeah.

Lesh: I mean, we did it that night

DG: Wow.

Lesh: It didn't require any rehearsal.

Weir: Right.

Lesh:

[Over "The Other One:"] DG: Now, I remember a version from a little bit earlier, maybe the late in '67, you had a different set of lyrics; the first verse is about, you know, "the heat come 'round and busted me"...

Weir: Right.

DG: ... and then there was a second verse that was about "the heat in the jail weren't very smart," or somethin' like that...

Weir: Oh, I don't...

DG: ...and then you had - so...

Weir: Yeah, that was, that was after, uh, that was after my little...

Lesh: Water balloon episode?

MM: Uh-oh!

DG: Oh, I wanna hear this!

Weir: I got him good. Uh, there was this, there was, I was, uh, I was on the third floor of, uh, our place in the Haight-Ashbury. Um, and there was this cop who was illegally searching a car belonging to a friend of ours, um, down on the street - the cops used to harass us, uh, every chance they got. They didn't care for the hippies back then. And uh, and so I had a water balloon, and what was I gonna do with this water balloon, come on. And, uh...

Lesh: Just happened to have a water balloon, in his hand...

MM: See, I wasn't gonna bring that up...

Lesh: ...ladies and gentlemen.

Weir: And so I got him right square on the head, and uh...

Lesh: A prettier shot you never saw.

Weir: ...and, uh, and he didn't, he couldn't tell where it was comin' from, but then I had to go and go downstairs and walk across the street and just grin at him...

Lesh, MM, DG:

Weir:...and sorta rub it in a little bit.

DG: Smilin' on a cloudy day. I understand now.

Lesh, DG:

MM: It all becomes clear.

Weir: And, uh, at that point, he decided to hell with due process of law, this kid's goin' to jail. He didn't have a thing on me, they, they . It never got to court, but on the other hand, I did get thrown in jail and beat up a little bit.

MM: I still want to go back; you just happened to have that water balloon handy, it was kind of just like standard procedure.

DG: Gee, I wonder if...

Weir: He was the guy that was breakin' the law, too, the cop was.

MM: That's, that's - I agree.

Weir: I guess - what, what does a water balloon amount to, is that assault with a, uh...

DG: Friendly weapon.

MM: With a moist weapon.

Lesh, DG:

MM: That goes under the water laws.

DG:

MM: And if it was tap water, that also...

Lesh: Disrespect for an officer.

Weir: Right.

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