Jerry Garcia Lost Interview - on Addiction 

He was. He was an exceptional man and musician, flaws and all.

The Warlocks

A thousand lifetimes

Reminds me of the documentary "Jazz" where they discuss how the Doctor/Forensic person who went to see/take Charlie Parker's body at age 33 and thought he was 60+... and he was a physician who saw him in person...another musician who dragged himself over a hard road.

Dude, I’m 51 and I look about 25 years younger than Jerry in this video.

Very interesting. I work part-time in Novato and also visit San Rafael (Dead studios at one point) often.

@@EricD777 I havent been there in years. Its beautiful. My dad was with Alembic and electrical engineer. He wasnt super close with Jerry or anything they were seldomly around for long. He didnt tour with them but did work the bay area shows. He helped with Jerrys studio in Stinson , Bobbys studio and Front St.

He had more talent and put on a better show than NWA.

Do you know Wiz (Dennis) with Alembic? He was close with my housemate until my housemate’s passing.

@@EricD777 My dad didn't do too much at Front St but he did help install Jerrys home studio when he lived in Stinson Beach. He also installed a reel to reel machine and 2 track recorder at the Keith and Donnas.

Thus the emergence of research chemicals and synthetics

@@idontcare2851 those were really my downfall all the dissos psychs stims and more

Experimentation!? Jerry made dope a career move. He forsook all for it. Sad.

Hypocrite. Kiss-ass. Shut up and play your guitar.

Why not keep experimenting to find out if something’s different? I’m special I can do drugs successfully!

well, I know

I see what you guys did there !

Well for sure addicts lie anyway but I guess re the law he had legitimate reasons to say he was clean

He's high in this video.

@@bob733333 Absolutely 😂

How do you know when an addict is lying? His lips are moving….

​@@rossthomas159considering everyone in the world is addicted to something, youre right. Everyone is lying all the time because no one is or has ever been in contact with reality.

I wish Jerry would have done one of those 80s VHS guitar lesson tapes! 😅😅

Some of us did.

He did countless hours of guitar lessons, if you get confused just listen to the music play. He said paying guitar was like driving past a corn field on a curved road. It looks all mixed up then as you come around the curve you see that it's all is in rows. @@haikat4 Makes me think of The Wheel.

My music teacher growing up was an old hippie who was very much part of the San Fran scene back in the day to the point where he knew Jerry personally. One of the most open minded, creative and intelligent men I’ve ever met and I was beyond blessed to study w him. Shoutout Mr. Bagale

And Chris Hazard doin the upgrades.. so much left 😊

At least that young kid Phil has that honor...

The good news is, there is so much music that he left for us, he will be remembered as a musician who is still playing eighty years from now.

I’m a head through my dad, never got to see them as I was born in 91 but my father said the same thing, out of all the amazing bands and musicians he’s ever seen the only one that stood out the most and that’ he would pay anything to go see again today was Jerry. He first saw him open with Shakedown Street in 83 and saw him close in 94 with Midnight Moonlight with JGB… Beautiful music 🎶

I found out on my lunch break, and just left work and went home without telling anyone. I was heartbroken.

But the following Saturday you went to Stacks in Burlingame and made love to your pancakes/waffles ❤

I was 3 years old and had just shit my pants

@@chrisandme23 probably had undigested corn in it 💩 🌽

I was at Soldier Field '95 and I already stopped touring since '92 and a lot of Heads were saying this was the last of Jerry he's been back on the dope and he's not doing well. I was taken back because I had hopes of bringing my daughter to hear and see Jerry but she was just a newborn at the time. I thought back to all the good times growing up with the Dead and I realized how much respect I had for this artist that I wanted my 1st born to bear witness. Soon after he passed and I was in awe of that fate placed me that close to the last music leaving his hands. My daughter is a nurse in CA now and she recently sent me a pic of her walking away with the Shakedown Street dude patch on the back of her jean jacket.

@@Kirill_is_a_HOFer97 Heroin isn't bad for your body. So long as you never OD and don't go into withdrawal, the main impact is...literally that, impacted bowels.

And diabetes and heroine and cigarettes

Yes he was lmao

Jerry could have done anything he wanted. That's the difference between him and an out of control addict on the street. Jerry had resources readily available, the best $ can buy and the addict on the street has none. He chose to live the way he did because it was his idea of having 'fun'. The only time he attempts to get clean is when he doesn't want a wife to leave his side. Even the band couldn't get him to quit. He chose that lifestyle and that's hard for a lot of people to contend with.

Course it killed him. You don’t get away with freebasing cocaine and smoking heroin for twenty years. Sounds like he was going through a brief case full every day lol

They didn't do much to fry his brain obviously so..

It's cause that brain of his loved Heroin. As does mine!

@First Last, yeah but the fucking killed him… along with sugar and cigarettes.

@@tannermcgown7041 and cheeseburgers. He really let it all go when he was touring.

Does he have to name every single drug?

20 years of cocaine does insane damage to the heart

Not to even mention the speedballs and anxiety for being a shitty father and husband, Jerry made tons of bad excuse to keep having his hardcore drug addictions going

@@fchampd4512 And yet, there are people who still believe Jerry Garcia died of a drug overdose…and can’t wrap their heads around the idea that our beloved 60s icon with all of his indirect associations with 60s era rebel counterculture drug use might have actually died from the same prosaic diet and lifestyle malady that is sending thousands of contemporary teenagers to hospitals with fatty liver disease.

@@josephhuether1184 he didn't die of a OVERDOSE, he died cuz his hart gave out after years of massiva amount of drugs and unhealthy lifestyle

@@josephhuether1184 i never said overdose, that was your assumption.

So true! Losing a Father figure at such an early age probably was a major factor in his addiction. He was such an amazing musician , did it his way.

It makes me think ...him seeing tht as a kid and the effect had be straight fuckn torture forever in his life and yet i believe he found piece somehow bc he really got into snorkeling and scuba diving in Hawaii (awesome place to get into such a thing jerry grt idea..lol).but anyways i think he may had a fear of drowning as well ..and he fought all tht hell to find PEACE through tht gauntlet ..and tht shows me bravery and unfathomable courage in tht man and he inspired me to the same with my shit ..and when i die one day i hope im able to be front of him some how in the great beyond...So i can thank him ..i really do hope so ...and ill kiss his ass and we will laugh about lol....I THANK YOU ALL my dead family i love u and i kiss ur assses too and laugh about it ..i promise lol ........im trippn my ass off and i hope this makes sense to at least one person lol...gd night kisses

Jerry did Opiates.

@@bob733333 Jerry did everything*

@@ezpzyogi Ya, when he ran out of Heroin he would do Valium. Opioids are different from Opiates. Valium is a Benzo..

@@bob733333 yeah, I figured he just did a little bit everything & was a “how am I feeling” kind of user. I’m sure when he woke up he did some opiates/opioids, if he’s getting anxious take some benzos & maybe he’s trying to get some energy he’d do some blow. I’m sure his stash was choice.

Jerry loved drugs. He was never meant to be straight, mainstream, a sheep, or ordinary. He was destined for greatness, and he achieved it. Drugs played a powerful role in shaping him. Without drugs...no Jerry...no Grateful Dead.

Ken Cranston Many drug relapses, especially opioids, can result in respiratory failure and heart attacks.

Heart attack was related not only to drugs but multiple packs of cigarettes daily, severe diabetes w no matience and a horrible hot dog and milkshake diet. Those three alone are a recipe for a major heart attack. Plus he almost died of a diabetic comatose. They say 85% of his heart was clogged with cholesterol when he died.

@@jerry-st7rc ;( it's so sad I'll never get to really experience the grateful dead.

not with that attitude

@@chinacat3818 I am 19 years old and I never experienced them. My dad did in summer 89, there best year in my opinion, he doesn't act like it's big deal. Try learning to play the guitar, make you appreciate their brilliance even more.

Long johns?

I thought he was just saying "a lot of drugs will definitely kill you"

@@adambailey537 yeah, that’s what I heard too. Still going with “long Johns” though. Haha

He said, "a lot of drugs will kill you"

PCP and crack, like Jerry said, have no place...they are pure poison.

What’s not right?

Yep but so many intelligent and beautiful people are lost. Hard drugs provide a quick and effective "fix" but it's temporary and begins a long battle many lose. RIP JG

Can you imagine the stress of tens of thousands of people thinking you are God, and hanging onto everything you do and say? The weight of that would drive any person to hard drugs.

Maybe the drugs are what made him who he was

@@BigTyronie Yea the psychedelics, opiates and benzos do nothing but turn people into burnt out husks

@@nahnope8581 you're an idiot. psychedelics are a sacrament, a medicine. there is no such thing as an LSD fiend.

matheus campos lol what the fuck

impossible

More like coke and heroin

that's not normally known to happen with LSD.

@@ncrmh maybe if you're being dumb on acid your actions will get you killed but it's impossible to die from taking too much LSD