Ran into a rainstorm
Ducked into a bar door
It was all night pouring, pouring rain
But not a drop on me
musha ringum duram da
“See, there’s only two theaters, man… that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.” —Jerry Garcia
Live Debut - Bertha - Grateful Dead - Capitol Theater - Port Chester, NY - February 18, 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=701GTk1ReaYSecond Live Performance - Bertha - Grateful Dead - Capitol Theater - Port Chester, NY - February 19, 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDOaVFSOgaUQuote:
Interviewer: "What about Bertha? Is it true she was a fan? An electrical fan?"
Robert Hunter: "No, this was after the fact. I don't know where that story ... I think they started calling this fan in the office that would run around and try and catch everyone and cut their fingers off. They started calling it Bertha. But no, this is not true. Bertha, I think, is probably some vaguer connotation of birth, death and reincarnation. Cycle of existences, some kind of such nonsense like that. I wouldn't be surprised, but then again, it might not be. I don't remember."
OK, so Hunter alludes, in this brief and fairly vague snippet of interview conversation, to an entirely different possibility. “Birth (‘Bertha’ pun), death, and reincarnation.”
http://www.dead.net/features/greatest-s ... old-berthaRobert Hunter - "Bertha" / October 5, 2013 / Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2C2ew-WoSAWhiskey In The Jar [Club Front rehearsal, February 16, 1993] - Grateful Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x29CpX0Ml4Q"My brother, Buddy Holly" - Larry Holley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2cHUkUsoKoQuote:
Another writer came to Elvis's defense on September 4:
“Why must people make my Elvis suffer so? Stop criticizing him.
I love him and he loves me. He told me so himself—
a thousand times in every song he’s ever sung.
I bleed when I hear unkind words uttered against my love.”—Bertha Fleish, N.Y.C.
http://www.elvis-history-blog.com/elvis-letters-56.html
CONCOURSE, PENN STATION, NEW YORK CITY, JULY 3, 1956, BEFORE CATCHING THE TRAIN TO MEMPHIS.
IMAGE NO. 1956-001432 - WERTHEIMER