I've decided it's not about me at all. It's a protective mechanism for them, a way of buffering themselves against my future death, like when teenagers distance themselves from their parents in preparation for leaving home.
Quotes about buffering (3 Quotes)
We've also added some buffering in the plan and rearranged the flow in the parking lot to address some of the other issues raised with how traffic was flowing.
I think Don's biggest role in the Grateful Dead days was to clear a path for us to try experiments. You don't know the solutions to live sound problems until you do experiments, and you can't just try them in a lab because you have to figure out what's going to work at a show. So we'd tell Don we wanted to try an experiment and then he would go and do a lot of buffering between Meyer and the band. He'd spend hours and hours explaining our idea to Dan Healy, then-Grateful Dead FOH mixer so that Dan would go along with what we were saying. Don took a lot of abuse for that sometimes.