Jerry was a family friend of ours before the Dead. Los Trancos Woods, Portola Valley. Troy Weidenheimer was my brother in law. Sherry Huddleston was married to Troy. Jerry was a good guy before the famous days. Very kind to me and my little brother when my sister taught guitar at Dana Morgan's same time as Jerry did. He and Laird Grant lived at our house when their army tent got flooded one winter. They were very fun. Laird drove to Mexico with us summer of 1960. I was 7 years old. I know Jerry was a good person. And sensitive, and honest. And nice to little kids like me. 👩🌾 Right on, Trixie, your father was only human☮️✌️🕉️ ❤
Neat, thanks for sharing. I'm always interested in the pre-GD history. Laird describes a lot of that era well in Greenfield's book "Dark Star," but I've never heard him or anyone mention any army tent story.
Jerry was a humble & very intelligent, insightful man, all the man wanted to do is be an artist & most of all an incredible guitarist, unfortunately Fame isolated him of every day life, Miss him everyday 🎸🎶☮️🎵🎸
Thanks. Someone trying to get RUclips views off of 12 seconds of Trixie talking & basically telling heads what they already know. And little else! I saw your post after listening 5 mins. 5 mins I'll never get back but definitely NOT bothering with the last 5 mins. And yeah. Jerry was a human being. He was a great guitar player. And you can say he was kind of a "shitty father" BUT the only question I would EVER BOTHER ASKING HER IS= "Did you ever at any time doubt that your father had a very deep & sincere love for you? I don't necessarily know what her answer would be! But I'm very sure, & I never personally knew Jerry, but I have no doubt he loved his kids & they all knew it. A crappy father? Rich kids always wanna complain about something! I'm sure a lot of kids would have loved to have a father like Jerry. OMG! My father is human & has a drug addiction. Think about all the kids that grew up with an abusive alcoholic for a Dad. That would come home from work, get drunk & then beat them & their Mom for late night entertainment! Sorry Trixie! I'm oh so sorry you couldn't see how great of a Dad you had! I had a Dad that was an alcoholic that always cheated on my Mom. She divorced him & married Billy. Billy, my step-dad WAS AWESOME! AND now that my Dad was no longer cheating on my Mom we at least had a decent relationship. So I had 2 Dad's. They both worked regular jobs. Never gave me any money or bought me a car. So idk, maybe your just a spoiled rich kid? Maybe this video is just taking advantage of you too. I'm not going to pretend to know all the answers. But if it were. I love music & especially the guitar! If Garcia had been MY FATHER I'd probably have my own band! But anyway, little rich girl wants sympathy she can find it in the dictionary between $hit & syphilis is all I can tell her. Boo hoo, she had a father that loved her but he was very talented at music, art & was famous. And he was human & faced problems of his own. Sounds almost like a normal Dad there at the end.
@@kennethdeanmiller7324 Wow, your a bit of an A-Hole. Why would you directly attack someone's character or make comments towards Jerry's daughter(s) in such a demeaning way. Looking after a loved ones estate is literally a full time job no matter what the size of it is. Money does NOT buy happiness nor does it heal unresolved issues loved ones may have towards a family member that have passed. Most if not all of us will eventually go through this loss and pain but not to the extant of some who share the burden of being in the public spotlight due to fame. Privacy and freedom have a far greater self worth then any dollar amount one may inherit. Money can quickly become a negative encumbrance as i believe you have proven here. As they say "the grass is always dank(er) in someone else's pipe". With that I will end this simply with hoping that you will have a good day sir.
Guitarists like me understand how truly unique and talented he was. His use of chromatic runs ( the in between notes that are not in the basic key), modes, unusual timing, and eclectic combinations of rock, country, bluegrass, jazz broadened the horizon of rock beyond the 3 basic chords.
Very true. When you hear Garcia, you know it's Garcia. To my mind, that's one of the highest compliments you can pay a musician. I took a long time to really get into his playing, but learned to appreciate his 'heavy, but in a major sound' playing. He could write some really crazy ear worms.
@@dgreen3298 agreed. Whether Jerry, Jimi, Stevie or any of the greats, we know who it is instantly. The Edge has a guitar tech who said that, even if he uses his guitar, amps and effects he can't duplicate his sound.
Totaly agree. Nobody plays like Jerry. He is the reason that I picked up the guitar. Before I ever even thought of playing the guitar, I heard him on an album and knew that he was a self taught, playing by ear in a way no one else did. He was exploring and feeling his way around the neck.
Yeah, he got me into bluegrass, during the peak of 80s Metal and hard rock! Garcia is possibly the single most important player influence , in the development of my own style!
Jerry’s music save my life and soul in the 1970’s. I experienced such deep profound revaluations about life and myself that it lead me to a plant based diet, yoga, meditation, being kind and loving, and changing my college study from international marketing to music. I experienced unstoppable tear of ecstasy and joy from within that I never knew existed. At 68 years old I still feel like a child and I thank you Jerry with all my being for that. I even learned how to love myself and others from being in your presence. See you later Jerry
It's kind of funny that Jerry Garcia inspires healthy living. But honestly, for me he really did by being such a cautionary tale. When I aged past "this is the same age Jerry had his coma" I really thought about how young that was to be in such terrible shape. People blame drugs but it was obesity, sugar, inactivity, smoking, and to some degree stress. It can and will take your life much sooner than you think. It's such a shame, Jerry was never an overdose guy, if he'd have just put in more effort on his overall health he'd have lived so much longer. But life isn't fair, I'm just incredibly grateful I got to share a planet at the same time Jerry Garcia was making music, I couldn't fathom my life without it.
Jerry lived 10 lifetimes in the short time he was here. In a dimension where the body does not exist. It was his time to go when he passed. His presence is alive and will affect rising consciousness for generations to come. Besides where ever he is he has a new body. Keep our ears open we just might hear that sound again. The music never stops!
In retrospect, Garcia has been abused by comments like these. Garcia lived to play guitar and entertain people with his band. The mythology that has built up around him since his death tends to obscure two facts : one, that Garcia's drug use started out as a way for him to decompress from the weird reality of fans thinking he walked on water, and two, he didnt enjoy the touring so much after Trixie was born ( thats why the DEAD went on hiatus in 1974) but he resumed touring out of a sense that the crew and band depended on him for a living. Also he loved the music enough to continue a punishing life schedule.
I agree to a point but he really did live to play live. He would come off tour with the Dead and go right back out with JGB. And he picked up his instrument every single day.
@3340steve in retrospect, who in the world has ever actually walked on water? The one they say is born of a virgin, but he calls himself the son of man. I truly loved the real time gospel that was non stop and the way the band didn't shy away from it, but embraced it. Nurtured it. And rocked it. While so called churches were busy conforming to the world, they were truly about transformation and all the other miracles we read about in the scripture. Or hear about in the songs. The sheer power that a shared bond that came from the spirit of EL was is and will be a truly unique bond that allowed all who would look to see. They didn't start out to be a church which offered the perfect culture from which much growth did spawn. It's such a beautiful thing to see and be with others that were being about it and not talking about it. Of course as is sung, you aint gonna learn what you don't want to know. And still , what always amazed me is how some people hate pizza so much they go out of their way to go into a pizza place just to announce how much they don't like pizza. Wheels are muddy Got a ton of hay Who would dare say that this and so much more isn't cannon? Besides pizza haters? I don't think it's doing any dis service at all to lift Jerry and everyone else for that matter up to their rightfull place. I'm not sure how you find this abusive at all since Jerry himself was as bout it bout it as anyone. He is the truth. And he is alive. No its not abuse anymore than Jesus is still being abused by fanaticism. After all it would be weird if someone liked one and not the other.or at least that's my 2 bit piece on the matter. Peace and grace.
Trixie, I am so happy to see this healing continue! I have to admit when I met Jerry long ago at your mother's house, I couldn't really warm up to him because I saw the suffering and sadness of his absence from the family. Love does win the day. I have nothing but love and gratitude for the band, the culture (especially locally) and the continuing legacy. Jerry was my inspiration for my scuba certification and right there he has my heart! you may or may not remeber me, I will always remeber you! may all blessings continue!
@@tamarama2u Nice to Thank Tamara. I went to Lowell in High School, Very near Height- Ashbury in SF. Jerry Taught us all to THINK In a Loving Way! Naomi RADTKE, SONOMA
@@ScottSimmons-fn5dz I knew the dead in 67 n I didn't like that kind of carnival music. I hung out with Jerry and crew and did come with Garcia. He was incredibly egotistical and thought he was the center of the universe lol hahaha. I've known lots of dead heads n I never discovered anyone that was intelligent in the group but it's fine with me if people like that kind of music. Never liked the lyrics or the music but it's catchy I guess. I've been to a few dead shows n it puts me to sleep it's so boring
@@russelmurray9268 👈clueless. Liar. Carnival music?Why did you hangout with him/them if you didn’t like them/him. He was the center of the universe for the Grateful Dead. Plenty of intelligent people who enjoy the Dead, you don’t appear intelligent. The Dead’s music is not catchy and the lyrics are phenomenal but probably in some cases too complicated or spiritual for you. And if you’ve been to a few shows as you said which I doubt and fell asleep that just means your small smooth brain shorted out and shut down.
Still listening at 73, started at 20. My absolute favorite electric guitarist. Listen to his solo in Not Fade Away/Going Down the Road on the Live in Europe Record. If that doesn't get you...
I cried like a friend died when Jerry died. I was shocked but not surprised. I saw the last 2 Grateful Dead concerts in Chicago. I knew something was very wrong. Jerry wasn’t singing or playing well. He looked bad- he had no color. He was pure white. In hindsight he had no business being on tour and should have been hospitalized for a cardiac bypass which he knew he needed. Apparently he was phobic of doctors and hospitals so that surgery wasn’t going to happen. The big mistake was the rehab center admitted him when they should have sent him straight to the emergency room. He was in cardiac distress when they admitted him. Also, when Brent Mydland died in 1990, I never thought they were quite as good. I thought they were overdue for a sabbatical from the road- take 6 months or a year off. They had earned a break. But they didn’t. Their business model necessitated that the show kept going down the road. They were back on the road 2 months after Brent’s death with 2 keyboard players- Bruce Hornsby and Vince Welnick. That configuration lasted 18 months and then Vince took over the keyboards solo. So my interest and obsession with the band began tapering off. Basically, I stopped traveling to see them. But they were in the pattern of playing 5 nights a year in Chicago so I got my fill while staying local. Also, 1990 was the year I graduated college, priorities changed, and working limited my road time. But the dead concerts I saw in the 1980’s were excellent. It was a real high point for them. Finally, rock music got a real kick in the ass in the early 1990’s. I think the first major Nirvana album hit like a lighting bolt. Part of the reason for an OCD-like obsession with the Dead was a lot of 80’s music didn’t appeal to me. Rock got soft, neutered, shiny and sparkly for MTV. Part of the draw of the Dead was every concert was different- a different set of songs played in different orders. So if they showed up in town for 3 nights, one could go to see all 3 shows and hear 3 totally different concerts with no songs repeated and given the improvisational nature of their music, how a song was played could vary performance by performance. Ultimately, the Grateful Dead broke all the rules of the music industry and expectations of what a rock concert was supposed to be. They succeeded on their own terms. While this music was not for everyone, their influence is still reverberating. Because they allowed taping of their concerts, they ended up being the most documented live act ever. They took chances and risks most bands wouldn’t take, made their money the hard way, playing live and to hell with records, and are uniquely American.
Went to San Francisco abt a week or so after his death cried all the way there from Seattle. Just wanted to see the ocean as his ashes float out to sea. Listening to Jerry and Gresham sing Salor tunes.
U r right about Brent's passing it just didn't hold up as well after that IMHO also the Garcia weed brand concept is lame that's like selling Elvis brand barbituates
I adopted Jerry as my Dad, because my Dad was a broken alcoholic. I had a convo with this guy once back in 1980. My notion is that his particular person was a guy named Robert Hunter. I was like "he is kinda young to be turning grey. I think the Dead may be the death of him." I think he tacitly acknowledged the recognition in an '81 interview. You can't change change the stripe on a tiger. There's hell to pay if you try. He had a music problem that he facilitated with drugs. He lit himself on fire with kerosene for the sake of connecting with it, and there a many of us that live better lived because of it. Some not some not so much. Plant ice yad yad. I gotta get back to work. Love you Trixi. Some time a shitty dad is the best thing.
Realizing that some of these ultra famous people literally can't go outside without it causing a mass disturbance is so distressing! And that he had his own daughter buying drugs for him is very disturbing as well. If she'd been caught, she would have been arrested and maybe done jail time to support his addictions! I wish that people could control their star-struck behavior and ignore famous people when they're outside in public. You understand why people wear disguises!
Jerry Garcia, when asked his favorite song of his: "I can't. 'Cause often, the ones that get me don't get anybody but me (laughs),” but which song was his most loved? “I really loved 'Row Jimmy Row'."
Jerry was a beautiful person that brought joy to the world. The man was a musical genius. He was just as good with a acoustic guitar as he was with electric. His banjo playing was amazing. I miss him so much.
I suppose this came- up in my feed because I have been sharing the Dead' s song ' Ripple', the past few days. 4 days ago I lost one of my daughters at age 36. Not due to drugs, but aftee a decade of medical hell and suffering. Despite that, she is being remembered as one of the funniest people we ever knew. She dearly loved music and spent much of her time listening to it. She often said that Ripple was her most favorite of songs. Earlier today I dubbed her Ripple 87~~ (the year she was born ~~ forever). At the big concert in the cosmos now with all her favorite bands, no more pain. Ripple will be imprinted in my heart, along with her. Drugs have devestated our natiin and so many lives. Im glad Jerry' s daughter had a lobving relationship with him despite that. We all want more time with the beloved people in our lives. Hold them close.
All - Star pioneer who seemed to appreciate the effort from all involved! Rockin' is not always easy, but ALWAYS worth the effort! I know I enjoyed the output!!
I saw the Dead down at Golden Hall in San Diego and it was a spiritual event. Thinking back I wished I would have followed them more and now seeing Jerry Garcia makes me sad about fathers like my own that failed as a parent yet were successful at money. Jerry will always have a place in my heart. God bless the Grateful Dead.
I met Trixie the day Kurt Cobain killed himself. She looked exactly the same as she does in this video minus the gray locks. I was a kid working at a Starbucks on Union Street in San Francisco and she was a friend of one of my co-workers. She rolled in and told us the news. After our shift was over we met her and got into her VW van. It was kind of scary to roll up and down the hills of SF in that thing. We wound up at the place she was living (a warehouse in West Oakland). I got to meet Del the Funky Homosapien who was one of my favorite rappers at the time. He was living in that same warehouse at the time. I wasn't a fan of Kurt or the Dead at the time though now I am a big fan of both, especially the Dead. A day I hope to never forget.
I was always a bit disappointed that Jerry Garcia's daughter hung around with rappers. But it makes sense, talk about the ultimate rebelling against your father. I wonder if the sons of rappers ever do this and become huge fans of Bluegrass in their teen angst years.
“Little did he know how prophetic those words would prove” says the narrator when referring to the lyric ‘what a long, strange trip it’s been’ and seeming to say what Jerry ‘didn’t know’….Not so fast there, guy! You don’t know that. As a mater of fact, the DID ‘know’. The internal-group-gnosis of the Grateful Dead was quite prophetic even in the moment. There are plenty of story’s of them knowing and grasping exactly that along the way…One thing you will never see deadheads or even Dead scholars do, is insert thoughts into Jerry’s mind. That act is simply never necessary 🤓👍
I never liked their music at all but had a high degree of respect of how they rejected the record company invitation to creative slavery, made their music available long before streaming by encouraging taping of the shows, and being totally true to themselves and their fans. Oh, and also making music how it was always meant to be- a live celebration of a community of people. For a band who's music I definitely dislike I couldn't laud nearly every other aspect of them. And though I didn't like Jerry as a guitar player, whenever I heard him talk, I could tell there was an intelligent, sensitive person behind the voice.
Once you start to evolve, don't stop! Unfortunately, Jerry couldn't figure out how to escape the gutterball of heroin. The same thing happens to many musicians (Cobain, etc). As a society, we have to figure out how to allow celebrities the chance to get out of the addiction. Let them walk outside without being harrassed. Let them take time off to heal and grow. Encourage them to evolve. Wouldn't that be cool?
He wasn't just recognized, he was Idolized. People (and I was one of them, once) saw him as God, the way he lifted us all into the heavens with his guitar. He must have felt unbelievable expectations.
I was born on the way to a show; my mother was a head. I didn’t have a chance! She always said people don’t wake up and start doing drugs bc they’re feeling awesome. Jerry needed something to get through his day. The beatification of Jerry is what killed him in my opinion.
Jerry was a sweet, lovely guy that was too humble for what rock music fame brings. Besides his talent, this is what made him so endearing to his us…his fans. He basically lived on stage because it was one of the only places he was free from all the BS fame brings, and in the end even that became increasingly difficult with their/his soaring popularity. Jerry was also a talented visual artist…not touched upon here…and one can only posthumously wish he would’ve discovered this earlier as a way to escape the boredom and isolation instead of the hard drugs. Caring for his health would’ve been nice too! ❤️
Some of the best times of my life were seeing the Jerry and the Grateful Dead. Its not the same without him :( I feel for Trixie. It must have been very difficult
Right around the time JG died in August of 1995, a radio DJ said, "We've just lost our chief excuse for gathering; we've got to find new ways to keep the community alive." In Tucson, Arizona, for example, GD cover bands still play at a local bar as of 2024, and I would hazard a guess that the same thing is happening in Flagstaff, Santa Fe, Boulder, etc.
We used to have two that played weekly, on top of regular stops by your DSO's and JGB's and Terrapin Flyers and Forgotten Spaces (and all the post-GD projects by Weir, Lesh, and co). One year I saw live Dead music some 75 times within like a 20 mile radius of my home. I probably should have been more responsible but it sure was fun.
dude there are more Grateful Dead tribute bands than there are tribute bands for all other bands combined. it ain't just Tuscon. I play in one in south Mississippi.
It is almost scary how much she looks like her father. Same smile too, really endearing. I thought it was one of a kind, but apparently there are at least two.
He was off all the pills and powders in the summer of ‘87 when I spent a month with him in Hawaii. It was a blast. Last time I saw him, not so much so.
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The Dead were then, and remain still, singular in their entire endeavor. Never bending or folding to the pressures of the outside world. Always true to what they each beleived in. All of them lifelong warriors searching for the sound and creating something the world had never seen before, a new adventure.
all families of alcoholism and drug addiction are the same no matter who you are. One of the huge mysteries is how someone can make great art while also being possessed by the demon of alcoholism/ drugs... just shows that that we are made a lot differently than is portrayed by the mainstream. It doesn't rob me of my love for Jerry - this is just the way things are in this whirld.
IT WILL TAKE A LONG TIME FOE LEGND TO CATCH UP WITH THE MAN...Jerry was a true folk hero like Paul Bunyan or Davy Crockett! He was an Armstrong, Miles, a Hendrix, a Cash a Garcia. One of One...I feel very lucky to have shared the room with 20 times!
Trixie and I were briefly Facebook friends because of our mutual affection for the Bay Area's wealth of differently creative artists. Caroline Garcia was someone who agreed to an interview that got detoured for a bit. I saw the lead in to this narrator-driven-extension-of-gossip-with-a-few-direct-quotes, but the interview I expected never materialized. I saw a contrived mainstream media period piece that one again totally missed the point while pretending to reveal what we all freakin' saw every night and hundreds of audience tapes reveal... Jerry was a really cool guy, but an asshole of a junkie like every other junkie since William Biurroughs shared his pain with us so eloquently, as did Jerry. I learned a lot from Jerry in spite of himself. I had an episode of a brain damage that obliterated 40 years of guitar and music theory... I'm getting my mojo back, but this time I' m letting Garcia's example of space playing guide my rediscovery of the art and craft of living music.😶🌫 Miss him. So do you. We all do, and that's okay, too. Thanks... keep it rolling...🙃😉😇
I miss going to Dead shows. My parents have been Deadheads since the 60’sand I got to grow up going to Dead shows and touring. The Grateful Dead changed my life forever! I’m so sad for the loss of Phil Lesh. I hope Jerry, Phil and all the other band members are jamming away in Heaven! ❤Forever Grateful! ⚡️💀⚡️🌹🌈💨🙏 Im sorry you didn’t get that father, daughter relationship that you really wanted with your dad. I wouldn’t know what to do without my Dad, so I feel heartache for you! ❤
It's a damn shame that the Grateful Dead got into hard drugs namely cocaine and heroin. It didn't do anything for their music and it didn't do anything for them. I know that Kreutzmann shares my opinion. They were brilliant. They would have been more brilliant without that crap and who knows we might have still had Jerry. Jerry was known far and wide as being one of the smartest guys you could ever meet but I'm sorry he was a real dope about dope. I know he couldn't help himself.
So, Trixie doesn't use drugs, she just sells them?! In the early days there were rules that went along with using or distributing drugs. One rule was; "Never buy drugs from anyone who doesn't use them." Maybe she didn't get the memo. Jerry did a lot more good than people realize. NFA.
They pursued their own interests. Like selling cannabis with their fathers signature on it. Give them a break. I swear this lady knew Jerry as much as I did.
It was Trixie's older sister Annabelle who called Jerry "a shitty father" at his funeral. (Source: Robert Greenfield, Jerry Garcia: An Oral Biography).
He looked like it cause he lived that long in 53 years. He surely was up 20 years longer than the average persons life. 😝😜🤪 Love ya Jerry for being Jerry ❤💀🥀⚡️🏵️🌹
"find what you love and let it kill you" Bukowski. I have been listening to the Dead since I was 2-3, raised by a hippie Mom, dancing and listening to LPs all day. I'm now in my 50s and look back often.... Not everyone is meant to be sober, not my Mom, and not Papa Bear. He died in a rehab, not from an overdose. He died because other people wanted him sober and it was not meant to be. Keith Richards said, "let me be clear about this, I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem". the drugs didn't kill Jerry, society and it's forced norms did!
First heard the band on a jukebox in the lake camp in the Adirondack Park of New York I was trucking b-side Johnny be good and a sugar mag. I forgot what was on the b side but I never forget the sound of those drums and guitars. This was before I knew of all the pandemonium just love their music. I Still do!
I have a few comments: (1) while acknowledging the damaging effects of hard drugs, Jerry was also known to have a shitty diet and to have exercised hardly at all. He had severe diabetes much of his adulthood and died of a heart attack, both of which were certainly due to his diet. (2) In contrast to the group's association with marijuana, LSD, and other drugs, the Dead routinely set aside ample seating for those in recovery from drug use. They may have been the only, or one of very few, popular rock and roll groups to do so. (3) It's easy to judge people with drug or alcohol problems and their frequent seeming unwillingness to seek help, however, likely drug and alcohol addiction are due to factors including severely unbalanced brain chemistry, then made worse by drug and alcohol use. OTOH, effective recovery methods are still elusive. So easy to judge, often difficult to treat. (Of course, that doesn't deny the effects on the addict or their family and friends, or mean they shouldn't seek recovery.)
@@FactsVerse You are very welcome! I meant my comment as a value-add to the thread. My situation is that I've had a presence on another social-media site, Quora, and pride myself on the quality and accuracy of my content. The point here is that I'm well practiced in making comments. I appreciate your video. FWIW, and especially since the time the Internet and social media have given us some much information (certainly too much information!), I've learned much more about the Dead than back when I went to their concerts. It was interesting to learn about his daughter and their relationship. FYI, early in the tenure of the Grateful Dead Jerry's doctor told him that if he continued touring he'd work himself to death. Jerry calculated how many people's livelihoods depended on the Dead remaining viable and earning concert revenue. He was also very serious about performing music. He decided to continue touring, and, well, worked himself to death. I've known for a long time of his crappy diet. Possibly, even if he had done less drugs he would still have died of a heart attack about the time he did. I will look at some of your other videos and consider what I might want to see.
I use to the biggest drunk at shows & for one show in a run, dosing my nuts off! Then Jerrt died & I quit partying to become a Wharf Rat! After the Mary Jane haze lifted, I realized I'm a conservative & at 64 dead heads don't make America Great!
Thank you Garcia family. We love the art ........food stamps work!!!!!!! He personally sold me a ticket for chesterfields and Twinkies. I was 16 in 78. We just appreciate keeping the positive side going
Man had a job to do. You do what you need to do to get that job done for the bigger picture. Ppl make mistakes, sure they make good decisions as well. I think he fulfilled his purpose well here on earth. Man loved to play guitar and play music; that’s what he done and done it well.
The Garcia Hand picked is awful!. Jerry would not be happy about this!. A money grab under his name.I know he wouldn't approve or appreciate it ag all.The herb sucks and sells at 1990 prices.Onces go for a 100 bucks nobody is selling weed for 50 a quarter.Shame on you Trixie!. Are you that broke?. What a disgrace I never thought would come from Trixie!.
I remember when the Dead played in Pittsburgh in the early 90's and a DeadHead fan overdosed at a local hotel. He had been traveling with a group of fans who picked him up out of DeadHead comraderie. He had no I.D. on him and none of his fellow fans knew his real name, only some nickname they had bestowed on him. I never heard if he was ever properly identified or was just buried in a lot with other unknowns, a potter's field I believe they are called.
I'd certainly never promote using it but on its own it wasn't that destructive to his organs. What really did him in was obesity, smoking, inactivity, and a poor diet.
I had no idea she was his drug handler. That's sounds rough. It probably was one of the only ways she'd get to see him as often. Jerry just wanted to play music. But his energy and talents were indescribable-a kindred spirit, and very much missed.
People say I look like Jerry Garcia....some don't know about his demise 30 years ago.. ...they are sometimes like "uuhhh, I know who you are" Saw the Dead in 1968 when they crashed the party at the Sky River Rock Festival
i was 16 in 1966 in SF, I never had much taste for The Dead . I always felt like they were harmful and toxic. Now days I do get nostalgic over them . I liked The Sons, The Airplane, later Lee Michaels and a few other Bands. Jerry was found in the fetal position clutching a red apple with one bite missing in a building in which The Dead had partied in the early eighties. The Symbolism in the way Jerry was last found is indeed quite profound. There were people around Jerry who could have helped more. The Thursday Night before He died, Jerry honed in on two people at an AA Meeting in Mill Valley and was frantic. One was a blacked out Biker and the other a Drummer, his people. Jerry reached out but The Biker ' hard Loved Him ' and told Garcia to go take a seat. Jerry left. Later, to drag himself out to The Knolls later in the week. Too bad, middle aged diabetic herion addicts can be revived with adrenalin. There were a Number of Profound Misses around Jerry and I WISH things had gone another way and Jerry would have become a Voice of The Great Higher Power of Our Universe. Bruce S.
They edited in that one part about “she would go all over and get drugs for him and bring them back” and they made it sound like he was referencing Jerry’s daughter, but to be clear I’ve seen this interview and he was talking about somebody else. The way that it was edited made that very unclear as to who “she” was and coming right out of a“Trixie this, Trixie that” and then going right into “ he would give her money and she would go all over and get drugs for him“ wasn’t a very good editing job. That’s how ugly rumors get spread.💀
“There’s no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player. He really had no equal. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic, and subtle. There’s no way to convey the loss.” [Bob Dylan]
Ah, yes. The wisdom of a contemporary peer. Althouh these two guys came from two distinct other worlds, the synchronicity of their intersection produced an alchemical singularity as brilliant, and as mystical , as our sacramental catalystic use of Bears greatest offering. With that said, pick your favorite performance's version, and put all else on hold, for the durration of this one song. I feel it will have enough impact to let one travel through time, space, and beyond the lifetime being lived, and You Will Smile. The song ? It's all over now, Baby Blue. Peace and much love, to you.
@@cjnav7832 Jesus is now obsolete. Im living proof. Why did Jesus say Father, Father, when he died. A week earlier he preached to not repetitively pray. It's possible he was referring to 2 actual fathers. EE Eloi, Eloi...lama sabactiani?
And the paintings sell because they have the name Jerry Garcia on them. wile other way more talented painters who spent a life time at there craft cant sell . no different then Johny Dep and Paul Stanley.
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Jerry was a family friend of ours before the Dead. Los Trancos Woods, Portola Valley. Troy Weidenheimer was my brother in law. Sherry Huddleston was married to Troy. Jerry was a good guy before the famous days. Very kind to me and my little brother when my sister taught guitar at Dana Morgan's same time as Jerry did. He and Laird Grant lived at our house when their army tent got flooded one winter. They were very fun. Laird drove to Mexico with us summer of 1960. I was 7 years old.
I know Jerry was a good person. And sensitive, and honest. And nice to little kids like me.
👩🌾 Right on, Trixie, your father was only human☮️✌️🕉️ ❤
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right on
Very cool to know! 👍
Awesome share ❤
Neat, thanks for sharing. I'm always interested in the pre-GD history. Laird describes a lot of that era well in Greenfield's book "Dark Star," but I've never heard him or anyone mention any army tent story.
RIP Pigpen
RIP Kieth Godcheaux
RIP Brent Mydland
RIP Jerry Garcia
RIP Vince Welnick
RIP Robert Hunter
RIP Phil Lesh
RIP Rob Barlow
Now they are TRULY The Dead!
And RIP Bill Walton
😢Birdsong indeed
RIP Phil Lesh
Thank you for sharing your Dad with us all.
Jerry was a humble & very intelligent, insightful man, all the man wanted to do is be an artist & most of all an incredible guitarist, unfortunately Fame isolated him of every day life, Miss him everyday 🎸🎶☮️🎵🎸
He got tangled up in something he couldn't overcome. RIP, Jer -
Great , 10 minute video showing 12 seconds Trixie actually speaking
Seminole works...
Thanks. Someone trying to get RUclips views off of 12 seconds of Trixie talking & basically telling heads what they already know. And little else! I saw your post after listening 5 mins. 5 mins I'll never get back but definitely NOT bothering with the last 5 mins. And yeah. Jerry was a human being. He was a great guitar player. And you can say he was kind of a "shitty father" BUT the only question I would EVER BOTHER ASKING HER IS= "Did you ever at any time doubt that your father had a very deep & sincere love for you? I don't necessarily know what her answer would be! But I'm very sure, & I never personally knew Jerry, but I have no doubt he loved his kids & they all knew it. A crappy father? Rich kids always wanna complain about something! I'm sure a lot of kids would have loved to have a father like Jerry. OMG! My father is human & has a drug addiction. Think about all the kids that grew up with an abusive alcoholic for a Dad. That would come home from work, get drunk & then beat them & their Mom for late night entertainment! Sorry Trixie! I'm oh so sorry you couldn't see how great of a Dad you had! I had a Dad that was an alcoholic that always cheated on my Mom. She divorced him & married Billy. Billy, my step-dad WAS AWESOME! AND now that my Dad was no longer cheating on my Mom we at least had a decent relationship. So I had 2 Dad's. They both worked regular jobs. Never gave me any money or bought me a car. So idk, maybe your just a spoiled rich kid? Maybe this video is just taking advantage of you too. I'm not going to pretend to know all the answers. But if it were. I love music & especially the guitar! If Garcia had been MY FATHER I'd probably have my own band! But anyway, little rich girl wants sympathy she can find it in the dictionary between $hit & syphilis is all I can tell her. Boo hoo, she had a father that loved her but he was very talented at music, art & was famous. And he was human & faced problems of his own. Sounds almost like a normal Dad there at the end.
@@kennethdeanmiller7324 Wow, your a bit of an A-Hole. Why would you directly attack someone's character or make comments towards Jerry's daughter(s) in such a demeaning way. Looking after a loved ones estate is literally a full time job no matter what the size of it is. Money does NOT buy happiness nor does it heal unresolved issues loved ones may have towards a family member that have passed. Most if not all of us will eventually go through this loss and pain but not to the extant of some who share the burden of being in the public spotlight due to fame. Privacy and freedom have a far greater self worth then any dollar amount one may inherit. Money can quickly become a negative encumbrance as i believe you have proven here. As they say "the grass is always dank(er) in someone else's pipe". With that I will end this simply with hoping that you will have a good day sir.
Guitarists like me understand how truly unique and talented he was. His use of chromatic runs ( the in between notes that are not in the basic key), modes, unusual timing, and eclectic combinations of rock, country, bluegrass, jazz broadened the horizon of rock beyond the 3 basic chords.
Very true. When you hear Garcia, you know it's Garcia. To my mind, that's one of the highest compliments you can pay a musician. I took a long time to really get into his playing, but learned to appreciate his 'heavy, but in a major sound' playing. He could write some really crazy ear worms.
@@dgreen3298 agreed. Whether Jerry, Jimi, Stevie or any of the greats, we know who it is instantly. The Edge has a guitar tech who said that, even if he uses his guitar, amps and effects he can't duplicate his sound.
Totaly agree. Nobody plays like Jerry. He is the reason that I picked up the guitar. Before I ever even thought of playing the guitar, I heard him on an album and knew that he was a self taught, playing by ear in a way no one else did. He was exploring and feeling his way around the neck.
Yeah, he got me into bluegrass, during the peak of 80s Metal and hard rock! Garcia is possibly the single most important player influence , in the development of my own style!
@@sttarch5150 Jimi was far from great. Sad his name is ever mentioned in same breath as Jerry
"The root of my playing is that every note counts, every note has a personality, every note has a little spirit."- Jerry Garcia
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Yeah that is one of the most profound music quotes ever spoken.
Jerry’s music save my life and soul in the 1970’s. I experienced such deep profound revaluations about life and myself that it lead me to a plant based diet, yoga, meditation, being kind and loving, and changing my college study from international marketing to music. I experienced unstoppable tear of ecstasy and joy from within that I never knew existed. At 68 years old I still feel like a child and I thank you Jerry with all my being for that. I even learned how to love myself and others from being in your presence. See you later Jerry
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You still feel like a child? So you agree that you experience with the Dead led to Arrested Development?
@@johncasey1020 ha ha?
It's kind of funny that Jerry Garcia inspires healthy living. But honestly, for me he really did by being such a cautionary tale. When I aged past "this is the same age Jerry had his coma" I really thought about how young that was to be in such terrible shape. People blame drugs but it was obesity, sugar, inactivity, smoking, and to some degree stress. It can and will take your life much sooner than you think. It's such a shame, Jerry was never an overdose guy, if he'd have just put in more effort on his overall health he'd have lived so much longer. But life isn't fair, I'm just incredibly grateful I got to share a planet at the same time Jerry Garcia was making music, I couldn't fathom my life without it.
Jerry lived 10 lifetimes in the short time he was here. In a dimension where the body does not exist. It was his time to go when he passed. His presence is alive and will affect rising consciousness for generations to come. Besides where ever he is he has a new body. Keep our ears open we just might hear that sound again. The music never stops!
In retrospect, Garcia has been abused by comments like these. Garcia lived to play guitar and entertain people with his band. The mythology that has built up around him since his death tends to obscure two facts : one, that Garcia's drug use started out as a way for him to decompress from the weird reality of fans thinking he walked on water, and two, he didnt enjoy the touring so much after Trixie was born ( thats why the DEAD went on hiatus in 1974) but he resumed touring out of a sense that the crew and band depended on him for a living. Also he loved the music enough to continue a punishing life schedule.
Yea, he was under so much pressure to keep the ball rolling.
I agree to a point but he really did live to play live. He would come off tour with the Dead and go right back out with JGB. And he picked up his instrument every single day.
Please give Jerry an
Easy Rest In Peace!
He enjoyed every one of we Deadheads !
Naomi Radtke (SF Deadhead) since 1968
Phil said In his anger , "Jerry liked the drugs more than music. "
I am sure he meant , he liked music more than life.
Moving right along
@3340steve in retrospect, who in the world has ever actually walked on water? The one they say is born of a virgin, but he calls himself the son of man. I truly loved the real time gospel that was non stop and the way the band didn't shy away from it, but embraced it. Nurtured it. And rocked it. While so called churches were busy conforming to the world, they were truly about transformation and all the other miracles we read about in the scripture. Or hear about in the songs. The sheer power that a shared bond that came from the spirit of EL was is and will be a truly unique bond that allowed all who would look to see. They didn't start out to be a church which offered the perfect culture from which much growth did spawn. It's such a beautiful thing to see and be with others that were being about it and not talking about it.
Of course as is sung, you aint gonna learn what you don't want to know. And still , what always amazed me is how some people hate pizza so much they go out of their way to go into a pizza place just to announce how much they don't like pizza.
Wheels are muddy
Got a ton of hay
Who would dare say that this and so much more isn't cannon? Besides pizza haters? I don't think it's doing any dis service at all to lift Jerry and everyone else for that matter up to their rightfull place. I'm not sure how you find this abusive at all since Jerry himself was as bout it bout it as anyone. He is the truth. And he is alive. No its not abuse anymore than Jesus is still being abused by fanaticism. After all it would be weird if someone liked one and not the other.or at least that's my 2 bit piece on the matter. Peace and grace.
Trixie, I am so happy to see this healing continue! I have to admit when I met Jerry long ago at your mother's house, I couldn't really warm up to him because I saw the suffering and sadness of his absence from the family. Love does win the day. I have nothing but love and gratitude for the band, the culture (especially locally) and the continuing legacy. Jerry was my inspiration for my scuba certification and right there he has my heart! you may or may not remeber me, I will always remeber you! may all blessings continue!
@@tamarama2u Nice to Thank
Tamara. I went to Lowell in
High School, Very near
Height- Ashbury in SF. Jerry
Taught us all to THINK In a
Loving Way!
Naomi RADTKE, SONOMA
I miss him so much ❤and he is so awesome thanks for your years we spent together on tour.........respect 🤜🇮🇹🤛
Jerry used to jam with my dad on bass in the Hollywood Hills. His daughter played with my big sister, when they were tiny kids.
Started listening to the Dead and Jerry in 67. Still listening everyday at some point. Always will.
@@ScottSimmons-fn5dz I knew the dead in 67 n I didn't like that kind of carnival music. I hung out with Jerry and crew and did come with Garcia. He was incredibly egotistical and thought he was the center of the universe lol hahaha. I've known lots of dead heads n I never discovered anyone that was intelligent in the group but it's fine with me if people like that kind of music. Never liked the lyrics or the music but it's catchy I guess. I've been to a few dead shows n it puts me to sleep it's so boring
@@russelmurray9268 👈clueless. Liar. Carnival music?Why did you hangout with him/them if you didn’t like them/him. He was the center of the universe for the Grateful Dead. Plenty of intelligent people who enjoy the Dead, you don’t appear intelligent. The Dead’s music is not catchy and the lyrics are phenomenal but probably in some cases too complicated or spiritual for you. And if you’ve been to a few shows as you said which I doubt and fell asleep that just means your small smooth brain shorted out and shut down.
@@russelmurray9268 Great catch! AI FAiL.
..Keep your AI-bot-nonsense away from Jerry!!!!
Still listening at 73, started at 20. My absolute favorite electric guitarist. Listen to his solo in Not Fade Away/Going Down the Road on the Live in Europe Record. If that doesn't get you...
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I cried like a friend died when Jerry died. I was shocked but not surprised. I saw the last 2 Grateful Dead concerts in Chicago. I knew something was very wrong. Jerry wasn’t singing or playing well. He looked bad- he had no color. He was pure white. In hindsight he had no business being on tour and should have been hospitalized for a cardiac bypass which he knew he needed. Apparently he was phobic of doctors and hospitals so that surgery wasn’t going to happen. The big mistake was the rehab center admitted him when they should have sent him straight to the emergency room. He was in cardiac distress when they admitted him. Also, when Brent Mydland died in 1990, I never thought they were quite as good. I thought they were overdue for a sabbatical from the road- take 6 months or a year off. They had earned a break. But they didn’t. Their business model necessitated that the show kept going down the road. They were back on the road 2 months after Brent’s death with 2 keyboard players- Bruce Hornsby and Vince Welnick. That configuration lasted 18 months and then Vince took over the keyboards solo. So my interest and obsession with the band began tapering off. Basically, I stopped traveling to see them. But they were in the pattern of playing 5 nights a year in Chicago so I got my fill while staying local. Also, 1990 was the year I graduated college, priorities changed, and working limited my road time. But the dead concerts I saw in the 1980’s were excellent. It was a real high point for them. Finally, rock music got a real kick in the ass in the early 1990’s. I think the first major Nirvana album hit like a lighting bolt. Part of the reason for an OCD-like obsession with the Dead was a lot of 80’s music didn’t appeal to me. Rock got soft, neutered, shiny and sparkly for MTV. Part of the draw of the Dead was every concert was different- a different set of songs played in different orders. So if they showed up in town for 3 nights, one could go to see all 3 shows and hear 3 totally different concerts with no songs repeated and given the improvisational nature of their music, how a song was played could vary performance by performance. Ultimately, the Grateful Dead broke all the rules of the music industry and expectations of what a rock concert was supposed to be. They succeeded on their own terms. While this music was not for everyone, their influence is still reverberating. Because they allowed taping of their concerts, they ended up being the most documented live act ever. They took chances and risks most bands wouldn’t take, made their money the hard way, playing live and to hell with records, and are uniquely American.
Went to San Francisco abt a week or so after his death cried all the way there from Seattle. Just wanted to see the ocean as his ashes float out to sea. Listening to Jerry and Gresham sing Salor tunes.
U r right about Brent's passing it just didn't hold up as well after that IMHO also the Garcia weed brand concept is lame that's like selling Elvis brand barbituates
@@georgemarquardt4435 Nah. Weed is legal. Jerry's demon was heroin.
I adopted Jerry as my Dad, because my Dad was a broken alcoholic. I had a convo with this guy once back in 1980. My notion is that his particular person was a guy named Robert Hunter. I was like "he is kinda young to be turning grey. I think the Dead may be the death of him." I think he tacitly acknowledged the recognition in an '81 interview. You can't change change the stripe on a tiger. There's hell to pay if you try. He had a music problem that he facilitated with drugs. He lit himself on fire with kerosene for the sake of connecting with it, and there a many of us that live better lived because of it. Some not some not so much. Plant ice yad yad. I gotta get back to work. Love you Trixi. Some time a shitty dad is the best thing.
I miss Dead shows. My favorite church
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I love jerry, but my favorite 'church' is where they teach about the King of kings;
who is returning soon🎉
I miss it so much
This⬆️⬆️⬆️⚘️💀⚡️
John Mayer not cutting it? 😂
Realizing that some of these ultra famous people literally can't go outside without it causing a mass disturbance is so distressing! And that he had his own daughter buying drugs for him is very disturbing as well. If she'd been caught, she would have been arrested and maybe done jail time to support his addictions! I wish that people could control their star-struck behavior and ignore famous people when they're outside in public.
You understand why people wear disguises!
Jerry Garcia, when asked his favorite song of his: "I can't. 'Cause often, the ones that get me don't get anybody but me (laughs),” but which song was his most loved? “I really loved 'Row Jimmy Row'."
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Interesting choice!
Jerry was a beautiful person that brought joy to the world. The man was a musical genius. He was just as good with a acoustic guitar as he was with electric. His banjo playing was amazing. I miss him so much.
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He was a terrific pedal steel guitar player as well.
@matthewbudzinski8320 New Riders of the purple sage!
@@HeilwoodBeagles Ol' Marmaduke
There's no unit of measure that can explain how much I miss Jerry.....and now Phil has left us.I hope they are chasing the train together now.
I suppose this came- up in my feed because I have been sharing the Dead' s song ' Ripple', the past few days. 4 days ago I lost one of my daughters at age 36. Not due to drugs, but aftee a decade of medical hell and suffering. Despite that, she is being remembered as one of the funniest people we ever knew. She dearly loved music and spent much of her time listening to it. She often said that Ripple was her most favorite of songs. Earlier today I dubbed her Ripple 87~~ (the year she was born ~~ forever). At the big concert in the cosmos now with all her favorite bands, no more pain. Ripple will be imprinted in my heart, along with her. Drugs have devestated our natiin and so many lives. Im glad Jerry' s daughter had a lobving relationship with him despite that. We all want more time with the beloved people in our lives. Hold them close.
Jerry’s guitar, and the band’s music, always makes me smile. Always. That’s hard to say about anything else I know of.
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All - Star pioneer who seemed to appreciate the effort from all involved! Rockin' is not always easy, but ALWAYS worth the effort!
I know I enjoyed the output!!
Beautiful legacy 💚
Trixie's reflections on her father reveal such a complicated yet loving relationship.
@@thefamouspeopleus you don’t use your kid to mile for you.
I was hoping to hear Trixie give an interview.
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@@FactsVerseclick bait sadly Lol I’ll go listen to the music play.
I saw the Dead down at Golden Hall in San Diego and it was a spiritual event. Thinking back I wished I would have followed them more and now seeing Jerry Garcia makes me sad about fathers like my own that failed as a parent yet were successful at money. Jerry will always have a place in my heart. God bless the Grateful Dead.
I met Trixie the day Kurt Cobain killed himself. She looked exactly the same as she does in this video minus the gray locks. I was a kid working at a Starbucks on Union Street in San Francisco and she was a friend of one of my co-workers. She rolled in and told us the news. After our shift was over we met her and got into her VW van. It was kind of scary to roll up and down the hills of SF in that thing. We wound up at the place she was living (a warehouse in West Oakland). I got to meet Del the Funky Homosapien who was one of my favorite rappers at the time. He was living in that same warehouse at the time. I wasn't a fan of Kurt or the Dead at the time though now I am a big fan of both, especially the Dead. A day I hope to never forget.
I was always a bit disappointed that Jerry Garcia's daughter hung around with rappers. But it makes sense, talk about the ultimate rebelling against your father. I wonder if the sons of rappers ever do this and become huge fans of Bluegrass in their teen angst years.
“Little did he know how prophetic those words would prove” says the narrator when referring to the lyric ‘what a long, strange trip it’s been’ and seeming to say what Jerry ‘didn’t know’….Not so fast there, guy! You don’t know that. As a mater of fact, the DID ‘know’. The internal-group-gnosis of the Grateful Dead was quite prophetic even in the moment. There are plenty of story’s of them knowing and grasping exactly that along the way…One thing you will never see deadheads or even Dead scholars do, is insert thoughts into Jerry’s mind. That act is simply never necessary 🤓👍
“If I don’t play for a day I can tell, if I don’t play for a week my wife can tell, if I don’t play for two weeks everybody in the world can tell,”
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They called it "the devil hand". He basically could not go a day without playing a show.
@@FactsVersenothing end it here.
I never liked their music at all but had a high degree of respect of how they rejected the record company invitation to creative slavery, made their music available long before streaming by encouraging taping of the shows, and being totally true to themselves and their fans. Oh, and also making music how it was always meant to be- a live celebration of a community of people. For a band who's music I definitely dislike I couldn't laud nearly every other aspect of them. And though I didn't like Jerry as a guitar player, whenever I heard him talk, I could tell there was an intelligent, sensitive person behind the voice.
Once you start to evolve, don't stop! Unfortunately, Jerry couldn't figure out how to escape the gutterball of heroin. The same thing happens to many musicians (Cobain, etc). As a society, we have to figure out how to allow celebrities the chance to get out of the addiction. Let them walk outside without being harrassed. Let them take time off to heal and grow. Encourage them to evolve. Wouldn't that be cool?
He wasn't just recognized, he was Idolized. People (and I was one of them, once) saw him as God, the way he lifted us all into the heavens with his guitar. He must have felt unbelievable expectations.
Hands-down, the best band ever and I’ve seen way too many I can count. There’s nothing better than a Grateful Dead show. NOTHING!!!!
I was born on the way to a show; my mother was a head. I didn’t have a chance! She always said people don’t wake up and start doing drugs bc they’re feeling awesome. Jerry needed something to get through his day. The beatification of Jerry is what killed him in my opinion.
Jerry was a sweet, lovely guy that was too humble for what rock music fame brings. Besides his talent, this is what made him so endearing to his us…his fans. He basically lived on stage because it was one of the only places he was free from all the BS fame brings, and in the end even that became increasingly difficult with their/his soaring popularity. Jerry was also a talented visual artist…not touched upon here…and one can only posthumously wish he would’ve discovered this earlier as a way to escape the boredom and isolation instead of the hard drugs. Caring for his health would’ve been nice too! ❤️
we've all have a dead story or two. miss ya jerry,huggs
Jerry was the greatest person to have ever lived. His music will live on for millennia
Some of the best times of my life were seeing the Jerry and the Grateful Dead. Its not the same without him :( I feel for Trixie. It must have been very difficult
Right around the time JG died in August of 1995, a radio DJ said, "We've just lost our chief excuse for gathering; we've got to find new ways to keep the community alive." In Tucson, Arizona, for example, GD cover bands still play at a local bar as of 2024, and I would hazard a guess that the same thing is happening in Flagstaff, Santa Fe, Boulder, etc.
And Phoenix.
We used to have two that played weekly, on top of regular stops by your DSO's and JGB's and Terrapin Flyers and Forgotten Spaces (and all the post-GD projects by Weir, Lesh, and co). One year I saw live Dead music some 75 times within like a 20 mile radius of my home. I probably should have been more responsible but it sure was fun.
dude there are more Grateful Dead tribute bands than there are tribute bands for all other bands combined. it ain't just Tuscon. I play in one in south Mississippi.
Top Dead Center? ❤
@@2baers Yes!
It is almost scary how much she looks like her father. Same smile too, really endearing. I thought it was one of a kind, but apparently there are at least two.
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She talks like him too.
@@FactsVerse Nothing I can think of. I take it as it comes. Thanks.
He was off all the pills and powders in the summer of ‘87 when I spent a month with him in Hawaii. It was a blast. Last time I saw him, not so much so.
glad I mark my uploads...
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@@FactsVerse ones where you credit where you "borrow" material from. Again...glad I mark my uploads
As a guitarist I was struck by Row Jimmy Row as a teenager. Ive been a deadhead ever since.
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The Dead were then, and remain still, singular in their entire endeavor. Never bending or folding to the pressures of the outside world. Always true to what they each beleived in. All of them lifelong warriors searching for the sound and creating something the world had never seen before, a new adventure.
….if she can’t see the beauty in her dad… we certainly can….. thank you Jerry for being exactly who you were…🙏🙏🙏🪘🕉❤️😊🪘🪘🪘
I was at the grateful dead show at deercreek in Noblesville Indiana when the fence was knocked down
Dead n co is tarnishing his legacy
@420pigfarmer
I doubt that Jerry would feel that way, as Dead & Co. carries on his legacy. ❤
all families of alcoholism and drug addiction are the same no matter who you are. One of the huge mysteries is how someone can make great art while also being possessed by the demon of alcoholism/ drugs... just shows that that we are made a lot differently than is portrayed by the mainstream. It doesn't rob me of my love for Jerry - this is just the way things are in this whirld.
One or two actual spoken phrases/sentences from Trixie in this vid otherwise all narration
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She looks exactly like him!!❤❤
IT WILL TAKE A LONG TIME FOE LEGND TO CATCH UP WITH THE MAN...Jerry was a true folk hero like Paul Bunyan or Davy Crockett! He was an Armstrong, Miles, a Hendrix, a Cash a Garcia. One of One...I feel very lucky to have shared the room with 20 times!
Trixie and I were briefly Facebook friends because of our mutual affection for the Bay Area's wealth of differently creative artists. Caroline Garcia was someone who agreed to an interview that got detoured for a bit. I saw the lead in to this narrator-driven-extension-of-gossip-with-a-few-direct-quotes, but the interview I expected never materialized.
I saw a contrived mainstream media period piece that one again totally missed the point while pretending to reveal what we all freakin' saw every night and hundreds of audience tapes reveal... Jerry was a really cool guy, but an asshole of a junkie like every other junkie since William Biurroughs shared his pain with us so eloquently, as did Jerry.
I learned a lot from Jerry in spite of himself. I had an episode of a brain damage that obliterated 40 years of guitar and music theory... I'm getting my mojo back, but this time I' m letting Garcia's example of space playing guide my rediscovery of the art and craft of living music.😶🌫
Miss him. So do you. We all do, and that's okay, too. Thanks... keep it rolling...🙃😉😇
I miss going to Dead shows. My parents have been Deadheads since the 60’sand I got to grow up going to Dead shows and touring. The Grateful Dead changed my life forever! I’m so sad for the loss of Phil Lesh. I hope Jerry, Phil and all the other band members are jamming away in Heaven! ❤Forever Grateful! ⚡️💀⚡️🌹🌈💨🙏
Im sorry you didn’t get that father, daughter relationship that you really wanted with your dad. I wouldn’t know what to do without my Dad, so I feel heartache for you! ❤
It's a damn shame that the Grateful Dead got into hard drugs namely cocaine and heroin. It didn't do anything for their music and it didn't do anything for them. I know that Kreutzmann shares my opinion. They were brilliant. They would have been more brilliant without that crap and who knows we might have still had Jerry. Jerry was known far and wide as being one of the smartest guys you could ever meet but I'm sorry he was a real dope about dope. I know he couldn't help himself.
So, Trixie doesn't use drugs, she just sells them?!
In the early days there were rules that went along with using or distributing drugs.
One rule was; "Never buy drugs from anyone who doesn't use them."
Maybe she didn't get the memo. Jerry did a lot more good than people realize. NFA.
They pursued their own interests. Like selling cannabis with their fathers signature on it. Give them a break. I swear this lady knew Jerry as much as I did.
It was Trixie's older sister Annabelle who called Jerry "a shitty father" at his funeral. (Source: Robert Greenfield, Jerry Garcia: An Oral Biography).
So I’m 51 now, and always thought Jerry was somewhere around 70-75 when he died.
Yesssss. Crazy
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He looked like it cause he lived that long in 53 years. He surely was up 20 years longer than the average persons life. 😝😜🤪 Love ya Jerry for being Jerry ❤💀🥀⚡️🏵️🌹
"find what you love and let it kill you" Bukowski. I have been listening to the Dead since I was 2-3, raised by a hippie Mom, dancing and listening to LPs all day. I'm now in my 50s and look back often.... Not everyone is meant to be sober, not my Mom, and not Papa Bear. He died in a rehab, not from an overdose. He died because other people wanted him sober and it was not meant to be. Keith Richards said, "let me be clear about this, I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem". the drugs didn't kill Jerry, society and it's forced norms did!
Her Dad had one of the most honest sweetest voices I’ve heard and could knock the varnish of a guitar and any given moment.And yes herion sucks
First heard the band on a jukebox in the lake camp in the Adirondack Park of New York
I was trucking b-side Johnny be good and a sugar mag. I forgot what was on the b side but I never forget the sound of those drums and guitars. This was before I knew of all the pandemonium just love their music. I Still do!
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I have a few comments: (1) while acknowledging the damaging effects of hard drugs, Jerry was also known to have a shitty diet and to have exercised hardly at all. He had severe diabetes much of his adulthood and died of a heart attack, both of which were certainly due to his diet.
(2) In contrast to the group's association with marijuana, LSD, and other drugs, the Dead routinely set aside ample seating for those in recovery from drug use. They may have been the only, or one of very few, popular rock and roll groups to do so.
(3) It's easy to judge people with drug or alcohol problems and their frequent seeming unwillingness to seek help, however, likely drug and alcohol addiction are due to factors including severely unbalanced brain chemistry, then made worse by drug and alcohol use. OTOH, effective recovery methods are still elusive. So easy to judge, often difficult to treat. (Of course, that doesn't deny the effects on the addict or their family and friends, or mean they shouldn't seek recovery.)
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I appreciate your video. FWIW, and especially since the time the Internet and social media have given us some much information (certainly too much information!), I've learned much more about the Dead than back when I went to their concerts. It was interesting to learn about his daughter and their relationship.
FYI, early in the tenure of the Grateful Dead Jerry's doctor told him that if he continued touring he'd work himself to death. Jerry calculated how many people's livelihoods depended on the Dead remaining viable and earning concert revenue. He was also very serious about performing music. He decided to continue touring, and, well, worked himself to death.
I've known for a long time of his crappy diet. Possibly, even if he had done less drugs he would still have died of a heart attack about the time he did.
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I use to the biggest drunk at shows & for one show in a run, dosing my nuts off! Then Jerrt died & I quit partying to become a Wharf Rat! After the Mary Jane haze lifted, I realized I'm a conservative & at 64 dead heads don't make America Great!
The Lot of Jerry.. thanks y'all
Thank you Garcia family. We love the art ........food stamps work!!!!!!! He personally sold me a ticket for chesterfields and Twinkies. I was 16 in 78. We just appreciate keeping the positive side going
They’re coming out with a new Greatful Dead 6 CD set. They’re just having trouble deciding which 2 songs to put on it.
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Man had a job to do. You do what you need to do to get that job done for the bigger picture. Ppl make mistakes, sure they make good decisions as well.
I think he fulfilled his purpose well here on earth. Man loved to play guitar and play music; that’s what he done and done it well.
This is not an interview with the daughter. It's someone speaking for her
These “ confirm the rumours” titles gots GO. Enough.
A lot of people think what there parents do is cool
Same thought. Not me personally but I have seen those families!
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My kids always thought that I was cool even though I didn't think so myself. 😊
@@FactsVerse why don't you go somewhere and divide by zero
Absolutely agree.
How could the daughter say this at Jerry's funeral?
Jerry had troubles with addiction? What juicy gossip are you going to spill next? That he was the guitarist of the band?
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Jerry Garcia's told Janis Joplin that he loves her ever since the day he met her... I would think that would be a pretty cool parent.
She berates Jerry for drug use...understandable..but has no problem selling weed branded in his name..CMON MAN...REALLY...
Heroin is not in the same league as cannabis. C'mon man, we all know this now.
The Garcia Hand picked is awful!. Jerry would not be happy about this!. A money grab under his name.I know he wouldn't approve or appreciate it ag all.The herb sucks and sells at 1990 prices.Onces go for a 100 bucks nobody is selling weed for 50 a quarter.Shame on you Trixie!. Are you that broke?. What a disgrace I never thought would come from Trixie!.
@@srosen8121 The whole Garcia legacy is a big cash grab. Starting with Fare Thee Well in 2015.
So she isn't into drugs but manages his estate ... and they show a "garcia" branded cannabis. Hm.
Jerry spun the lysergic web for 30 years as Captain Trips.... he'll live forever in that timeless space.
Jerry couldn't have asked for a better person to carry on his legacy!!
this is not a good segment. it is misleading. hardly any interview footage of trixie. don't waste your time
I remember when the Dead played in Pittsburgh in the early 90's and a DeadHead fan overdosed at a local hotel. He had been traveling with a group of fans who picked him up out of DeadHead comraderie. He had no I.D. on him and none of his fellow fans knew his real name, only some nickname they had bestowed on him. I never heard if he was ever properly identified or was just buried in a lot with other unknowns, a potter's field I believe they are called.
MAY WE WORSHIP HIM WITH ONE SHOE OFF!!!!
What would the daughter of machinist say about her upbringing? All these lives are hard lives.
Trix is absolutely gorgeous
I never wanted to try or do heroin, I watched it take Jerrys health.
I'd certainly never promote using it but on its own it wasn't that destructive to his organs. What really did him in was obesity, smoking, inactivity, and a poor diet.
In a word. Icon.
I wonder what Jerry would think of Bob weir becoming a Bohemian Grove member
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And being a big supporter of Nancy Pelosi. Never meet your heroes. They always disappoint.
@@SJ77BAKER bobby songs were a great time to pee and get another brew 🙌😂
@@Charlieboy2680 look up Bob weir Bohemian Grove and you can hear him talk about it...be sure to read the comments...vidieo by ruzziduzzi
The counter-culture always becomes the culture eventually.
I was at his memorial in Golden Gate park when she said "Great guy - shitty parent" - i was like "yeah i could see that"
Just gets sŵeeter like a fine wine.
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Do what you do. Ty for sharing!
I had no idea she was his drug handler. That's sounds rough. It probably was one of the only ways she'd get to see him as often. Jerry just wanted to play music. But his energy and talents were indescribable-a kindred spirit, and very much missed.
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People say I look like Jerry Garcia....some don't know about his demise 30 years ago.. ...they are sometimes like "uuhhh, I know who you are"
Saw the Dead in 1968 when they crashed the party at the Sky River Rock Festival
Jerry wasn't the vocalist he was one of several vocalists .
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Jerry was the man and he was a GREAT FATHER I’m sure
click bit, she neer really speaks, just some guy narrating
Jerry was the best at everything
A grateful dad
i was 16 in 1966 in SF, I never had much taste for The Dead . I always felt like they were harmful and toxic. Now days I do get nostalgic over them . I liked The Sons, The Airplane, later Lee Michaels and a few other Bands. Jerry was found in the fetal position clutching a red apple with one bite missing in a building in which The Dead had partied in the early eighties. The Symbolism in the way Jerry was last found is indeed quite profound. There were people around Jerry who could have helped more. The Thursday Night before He died, Jerry honed in on two people at an AA Meeting in Mill Valley and was frantic. One was a blacked out Biker and the other a Drummer, his people. Jerry reached out but The Biker ' hard Loved Him ' and told Garcia to go take a seat. Jerry left. Later, to drag himself out to The Knolls later in the week. Too bad, middle aged diabetic herion addicts can be revived with adrenalin. There were a Number of Profound Misses around Jerry and I WISH things had gone another way and Jerry would have become a Voice of The Great Higher Power of Our Universe. Bruce S.
This video is false advertising. It was supposed to be an interview??? Very disappointed.
They edited in that one part about “she would go all over and get drugs for him and bring them back” and they made it sound like he was referencing Jerry’s daughter, but to be clear I’ve seen this interview and he was talking about somebody else. The way that it was edited made that very unclear as to who “she” was and coming right out of a“Trixie this, Trixie that” and then going right into “ he would give her money and she would go all over and get drugs for him“ wasn’t a very good editing job. That’s how ugly rumors get spread.💀
“There’s no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player. He really had no equal. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic, and subtle. There’s no way to convey the loss.” [Bob Dylan]
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Ah, yes. The wisdom of a contemporary peer. Althouh these two guys came from two distinct other worlds, the synchronicity of their intersection produced an alchemical singularity as brilliant, and as mystical , as our sacramental catalystic use of Bears greatest offering. With that said, pick your favorite performance's version, and put all else on hold, for the durration of this one song.
I feel it will have enough impact to let one travel through time, space, and beyond the lifetime being lived, and You Will Smile. The song ?
It's all over now, Baby Blue.
Peace and much love, to you.
Even if he wasn't perfect, Jerry saved the planet. Context pending.
Only Jesus saves🎉
@@cjnav7832 Jesus is now obsolete. Im living proof.
Why did Jesus say Father, Father, when he died. A week earlier he preached to not repetitively pray. It's possible he was referring to 2 actual fathers. EE Eloi, Eloi...lama sabactiani?
🐂 💩
Love You, J.G.
And the paintings sell because they have the name Jerry Garcia on them. wile other way more talented painters who spent a life time at there craft cant sell . no different then Johny Dep and Paul Stanley.
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