(10-24) 16:44 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Keyboardist Merl Saunders, the gentle lion of the San Francisco music scene best known as co-captain of guitarist Jerry Garcia’s solo excursions outside the Grateful Dead, died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center after fighting infections.
Not suprising, but I didn’t know:
. . .after Garcia fell into a diabetic coma in 1986 and lost some of his basic motor skills, Mr. Saunders spent hours daily with the stricken guitarist running scales, working him out on jazz standards such as “My Funny Valentine.”
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The shot of the two boys on MLK Day is also outstanding.
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There’s a train in the station that won’t release the brake.
It doesn’t want to leave because it has a stomachache.
Even though the passengers are screaming, “We’ll be late!”
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