4640 What I was trying to do was basically
mathematical, mechanical. It was basically like a dead end, it stopped being
interesting. I never really decided, it was just ‘I can’t play this thing
anymore’. … LSD made me want to hear longer sounds, be freer, not be
restricted, musically, and not be such a victim of self discipline 4704 – banjo
is a heavy discipline instrument, and I just didn’t feel like getting that serious,
I didn’t want to have that much discipline, I didn’t want to express that much
discipline. Plus, the thing of being loud was great.
Note to self the drugs-music connection here, too. For those who say that drug-talk is off-limits and that one should focus on music-talk, I’d note that Garcia himself acknowledged at least a little bit of a connection.
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.
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.
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