Remembering Jerry


Today Aug. 9th. marks the 9th. anniversary of Jerry Garcia's death at age 53. I hope he's in a place with no MP3's, no leisure suites, but in a land of big resin laden buds, jamming and partying with all of the other musical illuminati who left us far too soon!
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Sorry, but Jerry needed to grow up and use his brain. To be a drug addict into your mid 50s? Stupid. I also think his music was primarily 'noodling' along on his guitar, although I do like his stuff with people like Dave Grusin, etc.
Blah, blah, blah...O.K. guys, you make some good points. I listened to "Working Man's Dead" last night and it is a damn good record and I did used to really like Live/Dead from 1969 or 70. I bought those when they came out along with Howard Wales' "Hooteroll?", and they're all real good. (Wish I could find a good sounding CD version of "Hooteroll?". The CD I have says 1972 but I swear it was earlier. Maybe I'm thinking of something else by Wales but I actually remember it from 1969. A lot of those years are a bit fuzzy, though.) "American Beauty" is another great album.

By the way, demons didn't kill Jerry, he killed himself. But he's still makin' money off me...my wife buys me garcia ties and boxers.