On 7/18/2014 11:43 AM, TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
*From:* "TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
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... On principle, I don't believe in "throwing the baby out with the
bathwater" when it comes to creative artists. For many of them, the
moments they spent writing or painting or making music were probably
the high points of their lives, the times when they were "the best
they could be." For me, if the works they created during those moments
still stand up over time as inspiring, I'm not going to write them off
because it later comes out that when these people were *not* writing
or painting or making music they were real shitheads.
For whatever reason, shortly after writing this, I found myself
thinking of Jerry Garcia.
Now if that's not a guy whose levels of fan adoration did not quite
match up with his real-life, off-stage self, who is? For many people,
Jerry was a fuckin' God. I do not indulge in hyperbole by saying
this...they really did think of him that way. But off-stage, he was
increasingly a drug-dependent fuckup, and often hard to be around.
When such an artist kicks the bucket, which parts of his life do you
choose to focus on or remember? The fuckups, or those magical moments
in which he just *transcended* all of the fuckups, and for a few
moments really did channel God onstage?
>
How in hell would you be knowing anything about Jerry Garcia's personal
life? I just listen to and enjoy the music, which speaks for itself -
I'm not all that interested in the personalities like you seem to be. Go
figure.
Jerry Garcia - August 1, 1942 -- August 9, 1995. RIP. Every silver
lining has a touch of grey.
Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey
http://youtu.be/mPmfZHXaU7g
>
This was Jerry's last performance. You decide.
Grateful Dead - So Many Roads (complete) - 7/9/95
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Grateful Dead - So Many Roads (complete) - 7/9/95
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sFyRQPraJ8>
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