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Gary Lambert
Co-host of "Tales from the Golden Road" on SiriusXM's Grateful Dead Channel; former editor of The Grateful Dead Almanac.
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Jun 28, 2026
World Cup 2026: Panama review, DR Congo preview
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7:26Gary LambertGUEST
No, and I think the worrying thing about the Panama game more so is that Panama didn't sit deep.
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7:31Gary LambertGUEST
I mean, they were doing a high press throughout the game and you just felt like, OK, then there's going to be some gaps in behind.
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7:40Gary LambertGUEST
And I think the most worrying thing I've seen is in that first half, I think it was within the first 10 minutes, Marcus Rashford made a great run and it caught to Thomas Tuchel on the side and he was waving his arms around, clapping.
Bobby Weir, Part 2
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91:42Gary LambertGUEST
He, he went for that kind of harder edge tone because he was sort of the soul guitar voice in some of those bands, you know, and, uh, espe- especially Wolf Bros, you know? [clears throat] Um, I mean, I, I was a huge fan of the Bobby incredibly clean jazz guitar tone of the, of the, the '73, '74 period with that ES-335, but I totally appreciated that he was, he wasn't willing to get stuck in that.
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92:08Gary LambertGUEST
So Bobby had this inner avant-gardist [laughs] which he could deploy in, in the context of these rock bands, and that, that always really kind of knocked me out.
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92:18Gary LambertGUEST
In the early days of Wolf Bros, Don Was and I used to talk a lot about Bobby's playing, which Don found amazing, and said, "He's really, he, he's like someone like Marc Ribot.
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92:29Gary LambertGUEST
You know? He play, play, play, play these, like, these unexpected lines." [rock music]

Jesse JarnowHOST
That was Marc Ribot's 1992 version of Caravan from Requiem for What's His Name.
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93:10Gary LambertGUEST
And then one day at a Wolf Bros soundcheck at The Beacon, great guitarist Jimmy Vivino showed up, you know, from the Conan O'Brien Band and the Midnight Ramble and all of that, you know, just, just brilliant, brilliant guitarist.
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93:26Gary LambertGUEST
And, uh, and he, uh, he was standing in the wings listening to Bobby play, and he said, "Man, you know, Bobby's a ma- I never knew this.
Bobby Weir, Part 1
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50:15Gary LambertGUEST
My personal relationship with Bobby was the most continuous with anyone in the Grateful Dead, and it was easy early on, if I was hanging out at the stage door at Fillmore East and just chatting up the band, they weren't just hopping into someone's VW bus and going to the Albert Hotel after the show, you know? [laughs] They were, they were par- they had more of an entourage.
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50:36Gary LambertGUEST
So, if people sort of looked at me ex- askance, like, you know, "Who's that guy?" Bobby was the guy to say, "He's okay." He was so welcoming.
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50:45Gary LambertGUEST
He made me feel comfortable there, in a scene that is alwa- not always intended to make you comfortable.
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50:51Gary LambertGUEST
The most guilelessly nice person you could imagine, especially in a situation like that, where lots of people wanted a piece of him, lots of people wanted his time, uh, and he was incredibly accommodating and, and had this lovely equanimity about him.
20 MINS LATER
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71:15Gary LambertGUEST
And he had this beautifully articulated sense of who he was and what his job was.
