Blair Jackson Discusses, Garcia: an American Life
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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A comedy with tragic relief.
Thank you Jerry.🐣
Fantastic. I read that book back in 2004 or 2005. I’ve been meaning to read it again; here is the sign.
Completely understand and respect your point of view. It takes all kinds I suppose, from those who had a sticker that said,
“ I’ll be grateful when they are dead” to the spinners who figured Garcia was some kind of quasi deity! For me I started listening to them again after a 20 year break. I was listening to a Russian Lullaby from 75’ yesterday (with Nicky Hopkins). Then I listened to Ella Fitzgerald sing it. It was moving to be sure. Irving Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald, Jerry Garcia. Some of the best the 20th century had to offer. It was a heckuva boat to be sure and I am so glad I got to ride in it tragedy and all…..
I was very moved by GD and Jerry in the 80's but I was also a person that NEVER wanted to get caught in one boat - being surrounded by such vibrant music other than GD and Garcia. The inspiration of the GD was an invitation to adventure in life, music and exploration - never to be a follower of a long gone era, single individual or band. I was never "rudderless" - I was surrounded by too many incredible authors, musicians and experimenters. All of the cover bands (including Dead and Co) have probably missed the point of origin and the spirit of celebratory failure. They provide some folk tradition of passing on the songs of the GD and the songs they covered - but for me its just too limiting. Most deadheads struck me as "greedy", singular (vs decentralized) and too comfortable and dependent on a band of men. For me the story of JG is a deeply sad and tragic one and with all of the mythos - it was a culture that he himself could not extricate himself from in the end.
Was Jerry Dishonorably Discharged from USArmy?
I was thinking about the stones playing Vegas today and the 900 tickets and the dead $ company grift and about Jerry. I think about him every day probably because I listen to him every day, anyway I put on candy man from radio city, I was 16 and was in line for 5 days outside radio city, which was as much fun as the shows. Anyway I’m learning the song and watching Garcia too hi to play as good as he could, or even close to as good as he could. And thought to myself seeing the dead from 79 to 95 was hit and miss. Miss a whole lot more than I have admitted. Saw some great shows, but the first 15 were the time to catch him. A lot of the shows on UA-cam are way too sad to watch. Or hear especially 95.
79 to 95 is a huge lump to generalize about. There are a dozen great shows in any given year and hundreds over all, and their level of play through 91 was remarkably and consistently high. The myth of the wasted burnt out Jerry of the 80s is disproven by thousands of hours of recordings. And there was then, nor in the years before , no band anywhere that could do what they did 60-80 nights a year, playing a shifting, evolving, accumulating, reviving rotation of over 100 songs in any given year. Virtually all of them are available for listening here and elsewhere on the internet. Check it out for yourself. Jerry lives.
Thank you for the honesty - its rare with such rabid fandom and allegiance. There is much more sadness than meets the eye here.
@@jimpowell6789 thanks jimmy, I was there for over 200 and at least 75 jgb including the sandy Alexander benefit for his kid that fell out a window in the lower east side at the academy of music. I also listen to the show of the day on archive. The man was a dope fiend, that’s a big problem no matter what you do for a living. Very cringe and selfish.
@@jerryakbar6147 I don't think it's my business to judge Jerry's private life. I feel for him, plenty, but I don' presume to know the balances of his heart. I find plenty of delight in his music from all periods. Even in 95, when most of his chops were gone, he could still put the notes in the right place to lift my heart, or break it -- Jerry Band shows at the Warfield, where he cared. To my ears 88-90 and trailing off into 91, was one of the Dead's peak eras. Every show can't be top ten, of course, but then, and in any given year ... Jerry is not the only great artist who got involved with the poppy. Coleridge, Cocteau, Parker, Billie ... What matters is their work. Judge not lest ye be judged.
My first show was at Winterland in October 69. I saw over 250 Dead shows and about 150 with Jerry in other groups -- NRPS, Old and In The Way, all the variations of Jerry Band from Saunders & Garcia forward, Garcia & Kahn and other acoustic configurations, with Dylan and sitting in with Dylan, with Los Lobos ... I'm grateful for every second of it. In my heart always.
The trouble with so many Garcia enthusiasts is that they listen to Jerry. Jerry listened to Django, Charlie Christian, and a million others. You have to arrive at Jerry the way he did. I hate playing with people who think playing dead music is an excuse to be sloppy. I’d rather play it with non deadheads who have a deep vocabulary and play from within themselves, not a 2D Jerry xerox.
I agree and disagree at the same time. Personally, Garcia was the reason I picked up the guitar in the first place, and it opened up this wide world of other music. Exactly what you mentioned, but more in the Old Timey lane. Elizabeth Cotton, Jimmy Rodgers, Bob Wills, I could keep going. Then there’s the space music side of things: Sun Ra, Ornette ect. Without Garcia I wouldn’t have found my way to half of that stuff. And regarding trying to play dead music with non heads, good luck. I could never make it work. Anyway thanks for the provocative comment. I appreciate it✌️
@@crazylegscabs5659 I hear you, my original inspirations were Jerry and Dickey Betts when I started playing around 1971 and it took me years to develop my own style. My real issue with it is that people who play Jerry, only play what they think Jerry was playing, and don’t play things that he didn’t play, but in reality, his playing was never the cliché that people think, to quote Mickey Hart ‘we are playing notes, but not the notes people suspect”. Sure, Jerry had his rote riffs, and his little tags, but listen to the 7 hour compilations of 73-74 Playin’ jams and he never ONCE falls into a riff, it is all linear improvisation, how you clear your mind in an arena and just listen and play is pire genius for all of them, never falling into a riff, or into a finger position pattern. I have my Jerry rig and my Jerry guitar, and I find with that setup, I can only play like Jerry, I find it very limiting and it actually stifles creativity, and to copy an innovator is like xeroxing the Mona Lisa, but I always have a Dead band ready to go when the mood strikes. Sure, I love to do it and it’s fun, but the Real Music I make comes from inside and is my own conglomeration of all my influences. The Grateful Dead only happened when they were onstage playing together, it wasn’t a formula, it was their musical sensibilities that created a sound, If you have people who can listen and play, you can play this music with anyone, it won’t sound like the tape playing in your head, but it furthers the genre. Anyhow, hey, I am in NJ and would love to jam sometime. Love your channel.
Thanks pal, I'd love that too. I love these kind of discussions because the are so many threads to tug on. Thanks for you support! Listen to the opening solo of the 7/8/78 Warf Rat. Great example of what you're talking about. Jerry is playing OUT just in those few bars. I never hear that kind of improv from anyone who "plays" Garcia, myself included.
Garcia ?….What a knucklehead!!!…Had a few good years then made himself sick and spent more energy dealing with it than his gift…Nothin left to do but smile smile smile.🍿
Life is a comedy with tragic relief.
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Jerry is looking bad ...where the beard ...talk about mendella affect..holy shit......