That was great. I was a bit of a Deadhead in high school, and then moved on. But when Jerry died, my interest got rekindled and I found myself buying all the magazines and articles that chronicled his life and death.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> ... 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? This was Jerry's last performance. You decide. Grateful Dead - So Many Roads (complete) - 7/9/95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sFyRQPraJ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sFyRQPraJ8 Grateful Dead - So Many Roads (complete) - 7/9/95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sFyRQPraJ8 View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sFyRQPraJ8 Preview by Yahoo
