{"id":47,"date":"2016-05-19T05:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T05:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unbridledpublishing.com\/lindakelly\/?p=47"},"modified":"2019-05-19T16:11:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T16:11:45","slug":"ramblin-jack-on-johnny-cash-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haightstreetvoice.com\/lindakelly\/ramblin-jack-on-johnny-cash-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramblin&#8217; Jack on Johnny Cash Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am incredibly joyful and honored to be blessed with a friendship with Ramblin&#8217; Jack Elliott for nearly 30 years now &#8230; He&#8217;s a storyteller incarnate, spinnin&#8217; yarns at every corner, making people smile all over the planet. Here he is on the Johnny Cash show many moons ago. Love you, Jack!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e4RFT8qkXQE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s an excerpt from my book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deadheadsbook\/\">Deadheads: Stories with Fellow Artists, Friends and Followers of the Grateful Dead<\/a><\/em>, where Jack shares stories of hanging with Bobby Weir and John Perry Barlow a bazillion years ago. GRATEFUL!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHAPTER 10: GETTING SILLY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ramblin\u2019 Jack Elliott, Folk musician, friend of Woody Guthrie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know which birthday it was, but John Barlow, Bobby Weir and I ended up going late into San Francisco in somebody\u2019s car, probably John\u2019s, for Bobby\u2019s birthday. So we went to this nightclub, had a few drinks, then we left there and Bob lay down on the sidewalk, perhaps the better to view sighting up the hollow tall spire of the Transamerica building that was pointing up at the sky, for he needed guidance about which way was up. I don\u2019t know! That reminded me of something, and I said, \u201cOkay!\u201d I suddenly had an inspiration. I knew where we had to go, so I became the tour guide at that point. I said, \u201cOkay, everybody in the car!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all got in the car, I gave directions, and we ended up down at the Balclutha. I\u2019m a permanent member of the crew, having worked on the rigging back when they first bought her. She was built in 1886. She\u2019s one of the oldest steel ships ever built in the world. She\u2019s one of the first ships ever made of steel. Up until that point, they\u2019d been making sailing ships and steamers out of iron. Iron still is a very good material for ships, but they thought steel was better \u2018cause it\u2019s stronger, and you can use thinner steel than you could iron, and it\u2019s lighter. This is, it\u2019ll rust through quicker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, we went down to the Balclutha, we arrived at the dock, and I said, \u201cAboard the Balclutha!\u201d You don\u2019t just walk on there. The night watchman came down and said, \u2018Who goes there?\u201d and I said, \u201cIt\u2019s Ramblin\u2019 Jack and some friends.\u201d And he said, \u201cOh, Jack! Come on board! How are ya, man?\u201d so we were welcomed on board, and this is about 2 o\u2019clock in the morning. I wasn\u2019t aware that they were getting ready to have an eclipse of the moon in a few minutes. He says, \u201cWelcome aboard. Show your friends around,\u201d and he just stood back and left us alone. I said, \u201cWell, the first thing we should do is get a bird\u2019s-eye view of the ship. So if you\u2019ll just follow me, gentlemen . . . \u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took them up aloft into the rigging, and we climbed up to the third yardarm up there, it\u2019s called the \u201cfour upper topsail yard.\u201d Drunk out of our minds, but still we could hang on. Nobody slipped. Nobody fell. We went to the yard there, and it had the sail, it was only half a sail really because full sail would be maybe too expensive, or maybe it might put too much pressure on the rigging in the event of a storm . . . I think It was probably due to expense. Because the sail was only like the starboard half of what would be the upper topsail, and it was printed with all this beautiful old-fashioned lettering, and it said, \u201cLast, Cape Horner. Open to the public.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we climbed up there and we were standing on the foot ropes with our bellies lying over the yard and our elbows resting comfortably on the yard and it was there that we saw the eclipse of the moon. And I said, \u201cHappy Birthday, Bob! Welcome, John. This is where I like to hang out when I come to San Francisco.\u201d That was the first time I ever met Barlow. I\u2019m sure everybody concerned enjoyed themselves to the utmost. It was like an acid trip. We were not on acid by the way. It\u2019s always important to mention this in a Grateful Dead story\u2014that were not high on acid on this particular day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One time Barlow invited me to come up to his ranch in Wyoming. So I went up with him in the Cadillac. That was great. I\u2019ve been there when Bobby\u2019s been there. A couple or three time. And I\u2019ve also been present when Barlow was having long phone calls with Weir at 2 o\u2019clock in the morning, one of which was back when Barlow used to drink heavily. There was a skunk that had been hanging and living under the floor of the milk room, which was off the kitchen. It\u2019s a beautiful, big, log ranch house with a nice dining room and a kitchen and a living room and an office room, kind of a parlor and some bedrooms upstairs, and there\u2019s a piano. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This skunk . . . John was on the phone talkin\u2019 to Bobby and he heard the skunk in the milk room and said, \u201cTake the phone, Jack. Talk to Bob. I gotta go see about that skunk.\u201d So I said, \u201cOh, okay. John just heard a skunk in the milk room, Bob, and he\u2019s gonna go off and visit with the skunk for awhile, and so here I am. Well, how you been anyhow?\u201d Then, all of a sudden, I heard a rifle go off. Barlow had taken a .22 rifle with him. So he comes back holding his head in grief. &#8216;Oh, I only winged him. He\u2019s gonna die a horrible death. Not only that, not only is the poor skunk gonna die a horrible death, but it\u2019s gonna stink under the kitchen milk room!'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"324\" data-attachment-id=\"737\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/haightstreetvoice.com\/lindakelly\/ramblin-jack-on-johnny-cash-show\/screen-shot-2019-03-20-at-2-28-37-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/haightstreetvoice.com\/lindakelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-2.28.37-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"496,324\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-2.28.37-PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/haightstreetvoice.com\/lindakelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-2.28.37-PM-300x196.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/haightstreetvoice.com\/lindakelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-2.28.37-PM.png\" src=\"https:\/\/unbridledpublishing.com\/lindakelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-2.28.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haightstreetvoice.com\/lindakelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-2.28.37-PM.png 496w, https:\/\/haightstreetvoice.com\/lindakelly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-20-at-2.28.37-PM-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><figcaption>Ramblin&#8217; Jack and Bobby Weir at the Sweetwater, Mill Valley, , June 2016<br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am incredibly joyful and honored to be blessed with a friendship with Ramblin&#8217; Jack Elliott for nearly 30 years now &#8230; He&#8217;s a storyteller incarnate, spinnin&#8217; yarns at every corner, making people smile all over the planet. 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