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The last time I saw Derek Taylor was well over a year ago, when he accompanied Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir on a cross-country promotional junket designed to rustle up some attention for Weir’s solo album. What happened at the Detroit stop-over was devastating: Taylor, with perfect British civility and non-stop charm, dominated the table even when he wasn’t talking.
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The last time I saw Derek Taylor was well over a year ago, when he accompanied Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir on a cross-country promotional junket designed to rustle up some attention for Weir’s solo album. What happened at the Detroit stop-over was devastating: Taylor, with perfect British civility and non-stop charm, dominated the table even when he wasn’t talking. I can’t be sure how often this scene was repeated (though I suspect it was often), but by the end of the tour Weir must have been left to shake his head and wonder at how he was so effortlessly upstaged by his publicist.