And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.
Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
And the live show is still our main thing.
What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit.
I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.