Before he was ever a basketball star, Bill Walton was a Grateful Dead fanatic. The A.V. I live by the motto of “chase your dream, make your dream your job, make your job your life.”. AVC: The book was written before the Fare Thee Well concerts last summer. Bruce Walton Tribute; Bill Walton hosts Legends for Basketball Clinic; TV Schedule; Book List; Best of More Recently; Back From The Dead, NY Times Article; Best of Recently; Fare Thee Well—Celebrating 50 years of the Grateful Dead; Grateful Dead Original Members Reunite to Celebrate 50th Anniversary; Ezra a Finalist for SportsKid of the Year! AVC: Did developing close personal friendships with the Grateful Dead change the way you experienced their music? In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I’m selling hope and life and success and that’s why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead. AVC: How did you make music part of your pre-game routine? It was so fantastic and forever more I will be able to say “I was there.” And I was in the pit. That’s what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope.

I’ve got my iPod and I’ve got it on shuffle. I was 15. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.

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Club: On the opening page of the book, you describe a time of intense pain and difficulty by saying that not only had the light gone out of your life, but the sound as well. I love to play music. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes.


Now 63, the San Diego native who went from signing the richest contract in the history of team sports to being, as he describes it, “the most injured athlete in the history of sports,” has published a memoir that covers his life both on and off the court.
I went to my first show, got right up front and never left. I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time. And it’s so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

My relationship, my friendships with them, has shaped me. Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-’60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana.

My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end. Back From The Dead: Searching For The Sound, Shining The Light And Throwing It Down shows equal reverence for the legends he’s encountered along the way, no matter if it’s Larry Bird or Jerry Garcia. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

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When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. During the course of my life, they played all the time. I’m a different person today than I was yesterday.

What was your experience being a part of the Grateful Dead’s closing chapter? Our house is full of musical instruments. If I’m not ready for one, I’ll click to the next one. I’m with those guys. Were there particular songs you played to get psyched up? limit, Report: USC bans WR amid possible fraud probe, Big Ten: Any COVID cancellations a 'no contest', Wentz: Comeback win vs. Giants 'a sigh of relief', World Series roundtable: Everything we learned in Games 1 and 2.

“It all rolls into one.”. AVC: Was there a band or artist you wished you could have seen in concert but weren’t able? I’m terrible at it, but I love learning about it and to study the way they put the songs together and the timing and the beat and the pace and the rhythm and the lyrics, it’s fantastic.

I got to see Jimi Hendrix. Bill Walton: I grew up in a classical music household. Has music always played such a huge role in your life? There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on. BW: I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me. In the ven diagram of hardcore skiers and Grateful Dead fans, there is a healthy overlap and those that fall in the middle will enjoy this movie to no end.

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I’ll be in Portland and I’ll be at the Gorge, I’ll be in San Diego, I’ll be at Shoreline. Everything that we dreamed about was blow away by an exponential power that is incalculable. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.

I’m healthy enough, I have positive things going on in my life, and I get to go. They’re going out again this summer and I’ll be out again too. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I’m involved in all of that stuff. Wilson: AB has taken right steps, 'been humbled', Rivera cites 'gut feelings' for quarterback change, Khabib-Gaethje official as both hit 155-lb. I got to see The Doors. AVC: What did you enjoy so much about the Grateful Dead performances that you kept going back, more than 850 times? So many of them are still around and still going strong. We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house. I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about. BW: I’m a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. BW: Don’t ever think of it as a closing chapter. I never thought that I’d be in the pit again, with all my health problems, with the inability to move and to stand, and now I spent all five shows in the pit and I am ready for more. BW: I started going when I was in high school. I’ve been doing for a long time and I can’t get enough. It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling.