Dennis Hopper

it.

Because if you haven't seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2... there's a couple of things that are insane about it one of them is Dennis Hopper who plays a deranged uh Texas Ranger who at one point outfits himself with two chainsaws and his dual wielding chainsaws to fight Leatherface specifically he's like I'm gonna fight him on his own terms ah uh two The Sawyers, who are the Firefly—not the Firefly family.

Jesus Christ, that's Rob Zombie.

The Leatherfaces, I believe are the Sawyers, are their last name, have basically taken refuge and are living inside this weird— roadside monument that's supposed to be like...

I love her.

Stretch is amazing.

And Dennis Hopper going psycho in there with his twin chainsaws.

And you could do a whole game just like that.

Did they have any knockoffs they could bring by? They did, and the one that arrived was pink.

there was another quiet precaution in the room that spring the summer before at a stadium show in washington dillon had sat in with the dead and broken a string part way through the first song steve parish went to the guitar stash for a replacement a guitar that had not been used in a long while and handed it over david nelson the dead's old friend from the bluegrass days was watching from the sound booth the guitar was horribly out of tune he said and he knew garcia died a thousand deaths so before the rehearsals garcia called nelson and asked a favor he could not promise nelson any playing but would he come along and look after the guitars keep them strung up and in tune nelson said sure the pink guitar had a short history of its own before it ever reached the rehearsal room a music store man named phil garfinkel a modulus dealer and a friend of the company's founder jeff gould had come out to see the dead's new year shows at the kaiser in oakland and he dropped in at the modulus factory there was a pink guitar there with a graphite neck garfinkel had gotten good at installing pickups and soldering and gould made him an offer if garfinkel could wire bobby's guitar in 30 minutes he would give him tickets for that night's show and here's the odd thing about that night Garfinkel did it, in the half hour, and went to the show.

Years later on the Dead's own podcast, he laughed about it.

So I guess y'all can blame me for the pink guitar, he said.

Weir's own telling is different.

In his version the music store Strats were the plan, and the Modulus was a single afterthought.

The choice came a couple of days in, at the end of a rehearsal when it was just weir and dillon left in the building dillon stood there scratching his head over three or four guitars almost counting them off eenie meenie miney moe this one sounds good he said this one plays good then he looked at the modulus this one's really the right color isn't it and then there is garfinkel who calls the pink one bobby's guitar so was it built for weir all along was it a factory knock-off that happened to be pink and when dillon said it was the right color did he mean the color or was he joking or was he just tired of choosing the rehearsal room is empty now the borrowed strats are back in their cases and the pink guitar leans at the end of the row freshly strung perfectly in tune smoke before anything else it hangs in a soft gray layer just under the ceiling of the crew room cigarette smoke mixed with old coffee and the warm dusty smell of amplifiers that have been switched on since morning the air is a little too warm a chair creaks somebody laughs on the far side of the room this is the room you had to cross to get into the dead studio on front street Visitors came in off the street, through the crew's hangout, and there were always a couple of large men from the road crew sitting there when work was going on.

They were meant to be slightly intimidating.

No. Yeah.

Dennis Hopper, not Egyptian.

See, I keep trying to start, but then he's just doing his things.

Like the mummy.

connection is.

I knew about Bruce Willis in the one video, but I don't know why I couldn't figure out why Dennis.

Yeah.

It's the, the, yeah, the mountain.

That makes sense.

Yeah.

I saw him up there and I went, Riley, why is Dennis Hopper up there? I don't know.

Yeah.

it's about getting to the narrative and there's nothing else you can do with a one take sort of show you know you're just getting straight to the narrative it's just like we're just one of the people so I took a lot of that away but then I've worked with other greats man I've worked with Yanda Manj I've worked with you know Sam Masood I just worked with M.

Night Shyamalan you know yeah we're just taking bits Dennis Hopper Dennis Hopper Yeah.

I mean, even though he wouldn't stay to read lines for me.

Oh, wow.

And again, memorable when you're

around Dennis Hopper, good God.

I just want to say it.

Can I just say, my wife had never seen Blue Velvet.

There's a great Christopher Walken scene where he's the Italian Don.

Dennis Hopper is in that.

I think it might be Brad Pitt's first movie.

He's Floyd.

It's crazy.

Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper.

Sheen.

Martin Sheen.