Category: family
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Alice Kahn Fall 1984 interview annotations
These are for my purposes, no pretense to completeness. I find his comments about Joe Garcia to be quite revealing. There are a few other good nuggets in here. Man, even in the depths of his Rock Bottom period, he sounds engaged and articulate. What a mind! ~~~~~~~~~~~ Fall 1984 interview by Alice Kahn. Date…
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Reading Notes: Henke 1991
LIA posted a quote from this, I stumbled across it amidst my materials, and I decided now was as good a time as any to annotate it. Henke, James. 1991. The Rolling Stone Interview: Jerry Garcia. Rolling Stone, October 31, 34-40, 103, 106, 108. Two September 1991 afternoons, hotel room overlooking Central Park. July 1991…
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“A Shitty Father”
The title of this post comes from Garcia daughter Annabelle’s remarks at his funeral on 8/11/95, probably not said in anger, almost certainly considerably true. I don’t recall Jerry speaking so frankly about this issue as here, ca. July 1981: I have a family – I am talking about the woman I used to live…
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Elves, Gnomes, Leprechauns and Little People’s Chowder and Marching Society Volunteer Fire Brigade and Ladies Auxiliary String Band
I cannot make any representation for the accuracy of any of this. It’s a fascinating piece, of course. Dister was a famous French rock journalist (wiki) who spent ca. 1966-early 1968 in San Francisco, apparently spending a ton of time with the Dead, if the narratives are to be believed. I am sure it is…
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RN Sandy Troy’s Captain Trips (1994)
Reading Notes Troy, Sandy. 1994. Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press. JG devoted to music Troy 1994, xiii JG was into all kinds of music: folk, bluegrass, country, acid rock, R&B, gospel, jazz. But he never dabbled, he always “plunged in” Troy 1994, xiii Jose Ramon Garcia emigrated from…