Fare Thee Well by Selvin Joel Turley Pamela

Author:Selvin, Joel,Turley, Pamela [SELVIN, JOEL / TURLEY, PAMELA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Published: 2018-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

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Furthur

THE BAND members arrived at Tim Jorstad’s office in downtown San Rafael for the final settlement conference after the tour. It had been successful and as much as a million dollars in residual funds needed to be distributed. Jorstad, who managed the tour, something he had never done before, had also represented some of the members as accountant and financial advisor for years, acting as Kreutzmann’s proxy for the GDP board when Kreutzmann was in Hawaii. Although he was financial consultant to other Marin County rock stars such as Carlos Santana and Grace Slick, Jorstad was no hippie. He was a small-town boy who graduated from the University of Northern Colorado and had owned his own bank, a straitlaced financial consultant. He was not accustomed to the rough-and-ready rock-and-roll world of the Dead or the complicated personal relationships that extended back more than forty years.

He had attended many performances by his clients over the years and enjoyed concerts as much as anyone, but Jorstad had never gone out on the road with his acts before. The experience on this tour had been revelatory, to say the least. No longer were the sales and revenues simply figures on a page; now he was conducting nightly settlements and paying out crew expenses. In addition, he was constantly negotiating among band members who could no longer communicate among themselves. Even with his hourly fees soaring, he felt compelled to stay on the road, for fear that without him the tour would fall apart. When the tour ended, he was relieved. Jorstad had witnessed many dire scenes in client meetings over divorces and other financial hardships over the years, but nothing had prepared him for dealing with the Dead.

In August 2009, after playing the final, one-off Fourth of July date at the Rothbury Music Festival, all four members of the band presented themselves in Jorstad’s office. Jorstad knew that the Leshes were still pissed off at the drummers and planning to extract their pound of flesh via a commission for Jill. Phil and Jill had taken him to lunch and ranted the entire meal over their perceived injustices. Jorstad was clear they were not going to let the matter drop. Finally, before the meeting, he told Hart and Kreutzmann about the Leshes’ demands. Kreutzmann exploded at Jorstad for keeping him in the dark about Jill’s work on the road and raged that the Leshes thought they could hold up the band for a commission at the end of the tour.

In Jorstad’s office with the four members, all the frustration, all the veiled resentments, all the years of being lashed together erupted, and Kreutzmann went off like a geyser. The furious drummer leveled his accusations at Jorstad before turning his attention to Lesh, whose haughty response caused Kreutzmann to explode out of his chair and go for Lesh with his hands. Lesh was no match for the enraged bull, but Kreutzmann was quickly pulled off. He sputtered in anger at Lesh.

“I never want to see you again,” he said.

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