The WELL: deadsongs.vue.209: Uncle John's Band

#17: Robin Russell (rrussell8) Fri 28 Sep 07 10:43

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:43:00 PDT

I always took it to mean "(our) kind". The working people have no country.

Now, of course, it has been heavily draped with kindness. [Read entire topic]

#16: Alex Allan (alexallan) Mon 24 Sep 07 03:21

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:21:00 PDT

(Copied from another thread). This quote from a Bob Weir interview in Uncut magazine from May 2007 gives a new perspective on the "Are you kind?" line:

"Robert Hunter wrote lyrics for Workingman*s Dead. He could use fewer words, and say more, than anyone. 'Are you kind?', was, I assumed, a sci-fi allusion. 'Kind' meaning 'my kind', 'humankind.' In the context of Workingman*s Dead, it meant: 'Are you simpatico * In solidarity with other working men?'" [Read entire topic]

#15: Lightning in a Box (unkljohn) Fri 14 Jul 06 06:04

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:04:00 PDT

Don't leave us in suspense......... [Read entire topic]

#14: Brendan Riley (bpriley) Thu 13 Jul 06 23:29

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:29:00 PDT

It's about my famous uncle, John Phillips, an heroic NYC fireman who fought fires in the Empire State Building and on the famous French ocean liner Le Normandie, which was mothballed in Brooklyn and caught fire from a welder's torch when it was in the final stages of being converted into a troop carrier (WWII); Uncle John was photographed doing a sailor dive from the deck of the listing Normandie, some 60' into Brooklyn harbor. He later retired and became a collector and master repairer of [Read entire topic]

#13: % (jewel) Mon 10 Jul 06 10:30

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:30:00 PDT

Billy Jack? What are the parallels between Rolling Thunder and Billy Jack? [Read entire topic]

#12: Marked from the Day That I was Born (ssol) Mon 10 Jul 06 10:02

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:02:00 PDT

Aye! [Read entire topic]

#11: David Dodd (ddodd) Mon 10 Jul 06 09:43

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:43:00 PDT

It's about everyone! [Read entire topic]

#10: Marked from the Day That I was Born (ssol) Sun 9 Jul 06 18:24

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:24:00 PDT

Dang! I thought it was about you <unklejohn> ! [Read entire topic]

#9: Lightning in a Box (unkljohn) Sun 9 Jul 06 16:40

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:40:00 PDT

That's what I've always thought/heard. [Read entire topic]

#8: Christian Crumlish (xian) Sun 9 Jul 06 16:25

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:25:00 PDT

I've come to be convinced over the year's that Uncle John is largely John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers and to a lesser extent Jerome John Garcia. [Read entire topic]