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hey Eric-Andrea was married to Loren Rowan in the 1970's-maybe Nelson got confused or forgot.........peace & love Rocky

It was sold out, so I went just to hang out outside and get petition signatures. I could hear the whole show from outside the front door on the sidewalk. After the show we were standing on the pavement and someone said, "Phil is about to come out through these doors!" Everybody stood to the side. I didn't believe it; I've been to 80-100 shows and once I saw Jerry come out through an outer linked fence around a stadium in a college in Utah alone in the back of a chauffeured limousine and nobody knew in advance. But, sure enough, out comes Phil, with his beautiful blonde or brown long hair (I hadn't gotten inside or seen any of the show, just heard it through the front wall), walks around the back of his car with the girl in the passenger seat (maybe people in the back), gets behind the wheel of his shiny metallic silver BMW 530i, and drives off north down Divisadero Street, the thrill of a lifetime. The last time I'd seen him was in Los Angeles signing his autobiography Searching for the Sound: My Life In the Grateful Dead in Borders with his own two black security guards, one male and one female, and a few days before speaking and answering questions with a microphone in the auditorium in the Department of Music building on the campus of UCLA (he says in the book that he studied music for a year at Cal before electronic music at Mills before joining the Dead and becoming their bass player) and signing the book at the L.A. Times Book Fair they hold every year for 2 days at UCLA. Then I saw Barry Sless loading a car and asked him if that was him, and for the second time I've spoken to him he didn't answer, because he is too great. The first time was a David Nelson Band concert at 14 Below club in Santa Monica where Cubensis (Grateful Dead Tribute) used to play every Sunday. Mookie Siegel, their keyboard, did talk to me, though, for 15 or 20 minutes, about his keyboards and about how they lived in Baltimore and came out and played and went back, and about how he, and the drummer, and Barry were all Jewish. I got to talk to David Nelson too, and asked him whether he knew my old friend (now deceased) Little Richie Shirley and his wife Andrea from the Hog Farm. Richie was still alive then and I told him he was on the Dead's backstage crew and Andrea worked in the Dead's office near their apartment in San Rafael and was cook at Wavy Gravy's Camp Winnarainbow. Nelson told me that Andrea used to be married to Peter Rowan.

It was private, I noticed.