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Great one!

Soulful musician

The guy is so damn interesting and intelligent.

Date of interview?

The Anticipation of Expectations 🎉😁💛🎵✌️🏞

Some of this footage and the rehearsal seem to be from the 3 Bands for $3 concert that the Airplane, The Dead, and Quicksilver gave at Winterland Ballroom in November of 1969 (I attended). Unfortunately Quicksilver was allowing Dino Valenti to sing too much, rather than playing their usual jam-based R&B and Blues. Some Quicksilver footage seems to be from a concert they gave at Sonoma State University with Nicky Hopkins on Piano`. Valenti had just been released from prison after serving a couple of years for selling weed. There is some avuncular BS from Jerry Garcia mixed in. Then Quicksilver finally does Mona. Finally we sail away on Wooden Ships.

This was a program on KQED San Francisco in 1970. You can tell the date because Joey Covington is the Airplane drummer. This was just before the Airplane broke up for good.

"It [Grateful Dead] has the property of exceeding my own imagination pretty regularly. That's one of the things that's fun about it." 😍

For someone so intelligent and astute he was very humble and would say, "I don't know" quite a bit. That's a refreshing combinaton.

LSD is fun!

I’m the one that makes music that nobody likes😂😂😂😂 he is lucky that his massive talent was accepted

The gentle giant

I would not doubt that people are still talking about the Grateful Dead 200 years from now.

I adore the way he handles interviews. He will chuckle and scoff at the question or premise usually with an “oh jeez …”but then launch into 5-7 mins of a completely eloquent, intelligent, deep and honest exploration and answer. Even that for Frets ? where he is at his lowest point doing lines mid interview, he is so engaging and insightful.

Great interview. Sad to see how his health started to decline around that year

I think Jerry, having lost his father very young, had a strong appetite for tearing down the normal order of things. Somewhere in there was a scared, hurt little boy screaming "my dad is gone! things are NOT normal!"

P who has that drug addled freak? Charlie Manson's, brother?

A Great interview! I've never seen this one. Jerry in his prime. Every time that I would meet up with Jerry, his first question would always be, "Johnny, how's your Mom?" I thought that was very cool. He has got to be one of the most sincere, giving, and unselfish people that I have ever been lucky enough to know. If it wasn't for my Dad Neal, I probably would have never met any of my heroes, musicians or otherwise. It's a long list, but I say, "Thanks Again, Dad!" He and Jerry were great friends, even before the infamous "Acid Tests." Someday I'll share Jerry's stories that he told me about Neal's driving. For example, Jerry would say, "Neal would know instinctively, as if by telepathy, when a truck was coming up the hill on a blind turn, so he would scoot back into the right lane, in front of the line of cars that he had just passed. I never asked him how he did it, but it was truly remarkable!" We all miss you, Jerry and Neal, and I'll see you on The Other Side. It's a date, so don't be late. I'll pick you on up in my "88," (Dad's favorite Buick). Till then, "Keep The Beat." JC

Jerry would be so disappointed with America today.

By now he was well aware, that they became even too big to stop. The poor guy knew hundreds of employees counted on the tours and millions of fans as well. The Dead will always be an historic phenomenon!

Maaan, I know that opiate sweat and skin tone….

I would love to hear Jerry’s take on today’s social climate,I’m sure he’d have some interesting things to say.

Just the coolest dude

God he looks awful.

❤ Jerry ❤ is the King ,

thank a taper

There are people that structure their life around the Grateful Dead. We certainly do- Garcia. Love it miss it Grateful for the memories ❤

I would think this is real early '83, he looked way different by the end of the year.

Garcia would no doubt deny it but he was obviously, clearly a Genius.

Can someone name the title of the book to which they refer? Incredible story about the disappearance of that Dude at the Cap; wonder if he ever turned up?

good video! america died with the Dead.

What he gets into starting at the 9:00 mark and going on for the next several minutes is 🤌 The respect he has for the music is always on display but here we get a peek into his mind on how it works for him internally. At 11:15 he says it's tough to talk about, and he kinda shakes it off. No wonder he hated the hero worship. You get the sense that the only hero to him was the music. And that is the magic of Jerry Garcia.

He makes my heart happy.

how cool would it be to be there when they listen back to a show they just did?

Sounds like an interview on condition of his parole lol

bought that book at our local Safeway when it came out. was my introduction to the dead. wore it out so bad that i threw it away eventually. need another one.

Thank you Jerry for being with us all and spreading love and joy through your voice and guitar that touched my soul in such a way that no other artist ever has. You gave me hope in humankind and the inspiration to make the most of my adventure through this life. 💎🙏😇

Thanks for posting this, it’s a nice little vid with two distinct segments, the official interview in the first 2/3rds followed by the casual hanging out in the final part. Happy to come across this since I’ve never seen the interview part of this, and have only seen a portion of the hanging out. So thanks again, this gives a great glimpse into 1983 Garcia and Dead worlds, both fascinating during this period and there were some spectacular performances on stage from 1980 to 85, including 83.

I think everyone has had that moment where they think the performers have made eye contact with them or that in some way they have cosmically enhanced the performance.

Love this interview. Music is like an archaic form of quantum computing.

I like when live music and musicians get the funky and jazzy jams and songs going and when the sound in the venue is really clean and sharp

There are a handful of people who have passed on that, if I had a wish come true, it would be to have a long conversation with; Abraham Lincoln, John Steinbeck, and Jerry Garcia

There's a parallel between being an eloquent communicator verbally and being an effective communicator in another language known as music. It's almost as if the facility with the spoken word and the ability to effectively convey information in a non-verbal language such as music use similar operating systems of the human mind, and, boy, did Jerry have a gift for both.

These interviews from this period are awful. Like the infamous 85 Relix interview and cover. This one is as bad as that. His hands clearly have heroin tar on them. His mustache brown from smoking heroin. He’s was such a smart man as anyone who hears him talk can clearly see. Wish he figured out how to keep off those hard drugs and just as important quit smoking cigs and exercise. His heart blocks is what killed him. It’s crazy but 83 he was playing amazing on guitar. 83-86 he was using so much but still was tearing it up on stage.

Thank you for sharing this historic footage. Grew up in the heart of San Francisco during this era. Cheers.

What book are they referencing?

Very fun and interesting interview. Thank you...

Jerry is very Catholic. He would've made a wonderful priest.

Iconic performance on a Sunday morning 🌄

Here we are now left to deal with the fallout from late stage capitalism and corporate consolidation and monopoly that has almost completely stifled the creation of heady live improvisational music.