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Jerry Garcia: Grateful Dead
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Edited by April Higashi, art curator and archivist of the Jerry Garcia estate, each chapter opens with a commentary on the art presented in the context of Jerry's life and times. Punctuating these essays are "interludes," illustrated by candid photographs, featuring interviews, anecdotes, and remembrances by key cultural figures as well as those closest to Jerry. Participants include Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Herbert Gold, Donna Godchaux, Victor Moscoso, Carlos Santana, Baron Wolman, Paul Pena, and members of the Garcia and Grateful Dead families.
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Rhino has put together a very comprehensive picture of Jerry Garcia's solo work outside of the Grateful Dead. Two discs, one studio and one live, give an aural picture of one of the best guitarists ever.
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This special 2-CD collection from J. Garcia Records and Rhino Entertainment salutes one of the most legendary figures in American music, beloved Grateful Dead lead guitarist, vocalist and eternal goodwill ambassador Jerry Garcia. Outside the realm of the Dead, Jerry pursued a broad array of folk, bluegrass, blues, and roots rock side projects that fully enriched his storied career. His solo albums capture the heart & soul as well as the rich talents of this incomparable genius. This deluxe package features an in-depth essay from Blair Jackson, and all tracks have been remastered in HDCD to sound better than ever.
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This seems to hit on a second major point that can explain the thriving existence of Jerry Garcia's conservative children. The rigid humorlessness of the politically correct crowd during the 1980s and 1990s was one of the right wing's greatest recruiting tools. The evolution of the American left-wing from "We Shall Overcome," peace-and-love advocates to angry, blame-America-first guilt mongers had the effect of turning campus liberals into the mirror image of the uptight conventional conservatives of the 1950s and 1960s. It became rebellious to resist their influence: reading Hunter S. Thompson led to appreciating P.J. O'Rourke; attending a Dead show and admiring Ronald Reagan were not contradictory. The optimistic "live and let live" atmosphere of Grateful Dead shows were a welcome asylum from the increasingly personal attacks levied on college campuses during the height of the culture wars.
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In 1964 Garcia formed Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, with Bob Weir (whom he met in 1963), McKernan (Pigpen) and Nelson. Around this time Jerry and his many friends starting experimenting with LSD, (thanks to the prior appearance of the elusive "Captain Trips", which led to performances (as the Warlocks) for the "Acid Tests", collective drug experiments where Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters wanted to see how LSD users would be affected with no regulations or external influences. Jerry met "Mountain Girl" - Carolyn Adams and the group renamed themselves The Grateful Dead during this same time.
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In the beginning of the Grateful Dead's 1993 tour, Garcia and his girlfriend Barbara Meier separated after meeting during December of 1992. In 1994, Garcia encountered Deborah Koons, with whom he had been involved around 1975; she married Garcia on February 14, 1994, in Sausalito, California. The wedding was attended by family and friends.[17] Garcia previously divorced Adams in January of 1994.
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