Accurately, Lydon described Lenny Hart and Bear as being “like two selves of the Dead at war, with the Dead themselves sitting as judges.” Noting that Jerry Garcia had described Bear as “Satan in our midst,” Lydon wrote that he was a “friend, chemist, psychedelic legend and electronic genius; not a leader but a moon with a gravitational pull. He is a prince of inefficiency, the essence at its most perverse of what the Dead refuse to give up. They [i.e., Bear and Lenny Hart] are natural enemies, but somehow they have to co-exist for the Dead to survive. The skirmishing has just begun.”
