Grateful Dad & Friends
Welcome to Grateful Dad & Friends! GD&F is a series of conversations with host and lifelong music lover, Andy Staib, and his closest friends touching on the common threads that bond them together - namely their shared love of music, family, friends, and life. The show was born from the notion that music helps keep us all connected throughout our collective long strange trip. We all have a story to tell. Here are a few of those stories. Join us and see where the energy takes us!
Grateful Dad & Friends
SAY YES. DON’T WAIT. A tribute to Rainer Jenss with Tim “Tmac” McGuire
I don’t always subscribe to the notion that “everything happens for a reason,” but as the universe would have it, the recent loss of a mutual friend, Rainer “TITAN” Jenss, has reconnected me with a gentleman that I am now proud to call one of my closest friends and confidants, Tim “Tmac” McGuire.
Among many of his distinguished designations, Tmac is the youngest of 8 children, a Villanova Wildcat alum, husband, and father of three, president of the National Merit Scholar Association, lifelong Deadhead and avid music fan.
Tim shares his stories of getting turned onto the Grateful Dead, forcibly in fact by his eldest sister, in December of 1979 when he was told by his sister that he was joining her and her girlfriends on a little roadtrip to Cleveland and Pittsburgh to see the band. Little did Tim know that those shows, and that experience in general, would change the course of his life forever.
We learn about how Tim first met Rainer at Villanova in the mid-1980’s and how their bond was formed through a common love of music. Tim shares the story of how that connection stayed true through to Rainer’s final days in the summer of 2024, when we as a group embarked on a pilgrimage of sorts so that Rainer could experience one of his favorite bands, Phish, for what would ultimately be the finale of his concert career.
And finally, Tmac and I share why these two mottos will forever be our true north - SAY YES. DON’T WAIT.
Join us and let’s see where Tmac and TITAN’S energy takes us! #IFE #NFA
I Know You Rider https://youtu.be/B3Xu-NbBy4Q?si=5BDVaP9vztwdFxfe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grateful-dad-friends/id1719166141?i=1000642887085
You Can't Always Get What You Want https://music.apple.com/us/album/you-cant-always-get-what-you-want-remastered-2019/1500642838?i=15006430658:03
Black & Blue https://music.apple.com/us/album/black-blue/259648487?i=259648531
Goin' Down The Road https://youtu.be/KgNT6wJAAYo?si=CzUttI1a9fffuxsb
Closing Song https://youtu.be/ukszF2RWLX8?si=lMvRE6NIksAAnUnV