Category: interviews
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Nina Blackwood Interviews Jerry Garcia for MTV, ca. June 2, 1983
Some classic lines here, like the studio as building a ship in a bottle and playing live like piloting a rowboat in the ocean. I wasn’t super careful about getting everything 100% perfect, especially not where there’s GD talk. I am not 100% certain about the geolocation, but it’s got to be about right. Jerry…
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DOWN in South Jersey? JGB at Glassboro State College, February 15, 1981
LN jg1981-02-15.jgb.all.aud.137422.flac1644 Rock Scully’s book Living with the Dead (1996) gets mixed reviews for all kinds of reasons, among them that he presents lots of factually inaccurate information. But, on another intepretation –and, I think, relaying something Corry has expressed– the book may not be right, but it contains lots of truth. Here is some of his…
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We Need A Jerry Garcia Interviews Project
Jerry did many hundreds of interviews over the years. He had a lot of interesting things to say about a lot of topics. There are also lots of quotes and so forth that circulate without any proper metadata. So, we, and by we I mean the community, need a Jerry Garcia interviews project. Collect ’em…
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Garcia Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, ca. fall 1975
jg1975-xx-xx.interview.ben-fong-torres.gdao-379555 Garcia, Jerry, 1942-1995, “Ben Fong-Torres interviews Jerry Garcia. Interview recorded circa 1975 for the documentary radio program “What was that?” broadcast on KSAN-FM in San Francisco [radio broadcast],” Grateful Dead Archive Online, accessed November 10, 2013, http://www.gdao.org/items/show/379555. The interview is given as 1975, at least some of it takes place at His Master’s Wheels,…
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MTV Interview, June 2, 1983
I don’t know where this would have taken place, but the date of June 2, 1983 seems right, in between shows at the venerable Roseland Ballroom on 52nd Street and promoter John Scher’s main room, the Capitol Theatre in Passaic outside of Philly. I have gotten direct quotes on the Garcia-on-the-side (GOTS) material, and sketchily…
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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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Howard Rheingold Interviews Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir
https://archive.org/details/RheingoldGarciaWeirInterview Not sure I know this one, pinning it here so I can find it again!
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Come back for Garcia Band. Come back, come back.
LN jg1978-03-10.interview.all.fm-zimmerman.82210.flac1644 I love these March ’78 interviews. 3/11/78 is my absolute favorite, all kinds of great stuff. This one has less going on, but still interesting to the likes of me. Jerry Garcia Band InterviewWCMF-FM Studios129 Leighton AvenueRochester, NY 14614March 10, 1978 (Friday) afternoon46 minute Alan Zimmerman FM cassette (7 tracks, 46:25)jg19780310d3t001. Reuben and…
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“When you add a new member, it becomes a new band”
LN jg1979-11-07.interview.26mins.fm.xxxxxx.flac1644 This is a nice little interview with Garcia after the 11/6/79 Philly Dead show. He talks about “Mission In The Rain” and “Reuben And Cérise”, picks some gospel Dylan to spin, tells the story of the Rambler Room gig in ’78, and drops the titular line, which I like a lot. JERRY GARCIA…
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Reading Notes: McNally 2015
McNally, Dennis, ed. 2015. Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers. I didn’t quite know what to expect. On a read, it felt like this was all material that I already knew. From a strictly informational perspective I didn’t feel like I got anything I didn’t know…