I loved seeing Jerry Garcia & listening to all of his music, Grateful Dead,NRPS, JGB, Old And In The Way. I still listen to Garcia nonstop, I guess I always will. I have a beautiful original numbered lithograph poster of Jerry that is matted and framed on my bedroom wall, where I can always see it, it’s from March 24, 1968, my best friend, who sadly died in 2020, gave it to me for my 50th birthday 🥳 It’s a wonderful painting of young Jerry surrounded by clouds with huge Angel 👼 Wings, which is perfect, because I saw my 1st concert, Jefferson Airplane in 1968. My girlfriend and I tried to see the Dead in 1968, bought tickets, but show got canceled. Same thing happened on my birthday in 1973, but in 1974, I took a midnight flight from LA to San Francisco, just so I could go with my cousins, to a Day On The Green with New Riders and the Grateful Dead. A year later, I moved to Northern California and was able to see Jerry all the time! Yay!!! Saw him with JGB several times and some of the best Dead concerts ever. I left California, but I still went to see the Dead, every chance I got❤❤❤❤❤
His guitar playing is like looking into a kaleidoscope. I personally believe him to be the greatest player to have touched the guitar, or banjo. He was so virtuous in his skill-work he didn’t even need to look at his fret board most of the time. Transcending the world around him through soulful music was as effortless as riding a bicycle. And look at that smile. Always smiling. Love Jerry, and Love the Dead ❤️⚡️💙
Such an eventful time to capture. "Yeah Altamont was 6 months ago and Kent State just happened and we're here in Europe for the first time and Sam Cutler is now our manager and Bear can't travel cause we got busted over the winter and we just started a new band called the New Riders and btw we just started playing acoustic sets a couple weeks ago and..."
This is a interesting clip. It appears to have been filmed when they arrived at the airport before their first performance in England at the Hollywood Music Festival in May of 1970. There's a brief discussion of music festivals in the US, and Jerry shares his thoughts on Altamont (he calls Sam Cutler an "innocent victim of circumstance"), Jefferson Airplane, side projects and even Frank Zappa.
Yes the Altamont and Zappa insight is gold. He yes is a nice guy! My favorite part though is regarding the students from Vancouver and the "raid" on Washington. Jerry says "I don't know, I don't really know anything about that" Then at 6:00 Jerry says "British news, you know".
portrait of the artist as a young man. he did have an expanse vocab and probably easy to see why he was the one the others elected to do press junkets.
Wow Rex Jackson behind Jerry. My dad knew the Oregon crew pretty well. He grew up in Pendleton. This era in the video kicked off the Warner years where Lenny Hart would rip them off and Mickey would be removed from the band. Mickey was in bad shape.
This interviewer "feels like" he angling to "get something" on Jerry and / or the band, and Garcia's not playing the interviewer's game. (or "outplaying" him - one or the other)
