Bob Weir Remembers The Late Rock Scully

As we reported, longtime Grateful Dead manager Rock Scully has died. Scully managed the band from 1965 to 1985 after first seeing the Dead at one of the Acid Tests.

Weir took to Facebook to share his thoughts on Scully:

Well, OK, our old friend Rock has moved on. *Way* more than nine lives, by my count.

Where to begin? When last we spoke, he was as full of wonder and curiosity as when we first met him back at the Acid Test. His mischievous sense of adventure made him a perfect candidate for the position of manager for a band with similar sensibilities and and an equally similar disregard for the way things were supposed to be done.

We bowled ahead and made history together, -the kind people write books and make movies about. Rock was a BIG part of it all. He put in the miles with us. He knew the words to all the songs. He knew the right things to say, to tell people, to let them know what we were all about without ever actually explaining anything, because he knew it couldn’t be explained.

What a guy.

Vaya con Dios, Rock, we’ll be catching up…

Cheers,
Weir

Update: Dennis McNally put together a Dead.net obituary for Rock Scully. Within it, McNally shares Rock’s description of the first time he saw the Grateful Dead. “An hour or so into the set and something very odd starts to happen. It’s the room, doctor. The room is breathing. Breathing deeply, like a great sonic lung from which all sounds originate and which demands all the oxygen in the world. We inhale and exhale with it as if to the great collective heartbeat of an invisible whale. We are all under the hypnotic spell of this ghostly pulse,” Rock said. We highly recommend reading McNally’s essay about Scully.