About Bill Kreutzmann: William "Bill" Kreutzmann, Jr. is an American drummer who played with the music group the Grateful Dead for its entire thirty-year career. He also performs with his own bands BK3, 7 Walkers and Billy & the Kids.
I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days.
I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.
I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.
Maybe because I'm a Taurus, I like to watch plants grow.
I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.
I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.
In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife at the time to the helicopter. He's just this little bundle of joy in her arms. And it's 1969.
Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I l...
I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the Dirty Dozen and all that.
I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.
