Morrissey couldn’t be that serious when he sang, “Burn down the disco, hang the DJ…” in The Smiths’ 1986 hit single “Panic” — though, apparently, it was “because the music that they constantly play / ...
But he had largely put both instruments aside and was driving a mail truck and working as a sound engineer for a small radio station in 1965 when Garcia recruited him to play bass in a fledgling rock ...