I was going to my parents on Christmas Day in the early 1990's and there was no traffic. I was stopped at a red light, wondering when the light would change and I looked across over to the opposite lane: stopped there was Jerry laughing at me and my impatience with the light!
I was born in 1976 and always felt I was born a decade too late, but I did get to see The Dead with Jerry at least once. No music will ever compare to or make me feel as good as The Grateful Dead.
I first saw The Grateful Dead right after Woodstock at Fillmore East. I saw them a total of 8 times. The best shows IMHO are from 1970, 1971 and 1972. I am NOT a Dead Head but I love them. This was one of the best, most concise capsules of a man's life I have ever seen and give it two thumbs up. By the way, I have always sensed the sadness in the LP American Beauty. Perhaps that is why I mostly listen to Working Man's Dead.
Very kool. Did you have the opportunity to use some Owsley LSD or Orange Sunshine at a show? It must have been a great time to be there and a part of the experience.
I saw Jerry perform over 150 times starting on November 10th 1985 at Brendan Burn Arena in the Meadowlands NJ. He innovated an entire genre of Americana jam band hippy music. Robert Hunter, John Barlow and Bob Weir helped him.
I grew up at Grateful Dead shows, as my parents are Deadheads from the 60’s. I saw the GD way over 200 times! I will never forget the best days of my life! Forever Grateful for Jerry! RIP Phil Lesh! I hope you’re jamming away with Jerry in heaven right now! ⚡️💀⚡️🌹🌈💨
I was extremely fortunate to have seen him play with the The Jerry Garcia Band. For those of you who are not familiar with Jerry Garcia, you might not have known that he actually had two bands he played in. And the Jerry Garcia band was named after him because it was his creation. He was also the lead singer. But it was at the Fillmore and it’s such a small venue that I could literally see, everything! Sweat dripping off his head so on and so forth! Six months later, he left us!!!!???? And I’m always going to mourn his death❣️🫶🏻☀️ He was one of the most musically gifted people this that has ever lived❣️RIP Jerry you’re extremely loved and still relevant to the music industry, you are A LEGEND AND ALWAYS WILL BE❣️🫶🏻☀️
I saw my first Dead show the year you were born. They had just returned from their 2 year vacation, and were back in full force. They played new songs that weren’t out on albums yet, so we called them the new Garcia song (Franklin’s Tower) and the new Weir song (Estimated Prophet). It was magical, and the real downhill slide had not yet begun.
Yes. I enjoyed the photos though. And some of it was accurate. But yes I was surprised by the amount of subscribers. They cannot all be Dead Heads. The narrator was either AI or someone who read a script that was not accurate. There are enough books and videos to get all of this correct. I have read about 80% of them I think Weir's book is the only one that I haven't gotten to yet.
@@dr.barrycohn5461 Yes but doesn't someone have to at least outline or even write a script for the AI "voice". Either way don't do a video riddled with mistakes. Check it over. Anyway just my 2 cents.
Those nights Jerry was off were often because he couldn’t score heroin and had to take Valium or Xanax to keep from getting too sick. Just a note, the first time he went to rehab and got clean, he went into a coma. The second time, he died.
He was no were near clean when he went into that coma in 86..and when he died it was most likely because someone brang him dope at the rehab center..serenity Knolls was a laid back low security place..he hadn't done any in a few days and his dosage was to much which is the most common reason for overdoses..don't be romantizing hermon like it was good for him or anyone..
@@wolfsvision940 lol! You may not like it but it is the truth. You need to read Rock Scully’s book ‘Dancing With The Dead’. He was the Grateful Dead’s manager from the very beginning until around 1990 when he was fired by the band because he kept helping Jerry get dope. Jer subsequently began using pharmaceutical opiates around that time and began to develop medical issues associated with them like hypertension. It happened a long time ago. There’s plenty of literature to back it up. All you have to do is read. 😁
I first saw The Grateful Dead shortly after Woodstock at Fillmore East, and ended up seeing them a total of 6 times. In my opinion, their best shows were from 1971, 1972. While I wouldn’t call myself a Deadhead, I absolutely love their music. This was one of the best and most concise summaries of Jerry Garcia’s life I’ve come across.
You all can say what you will, I witnessed the Dead so many times & JGB many as well, Jerry may have stumbled over lyrics but the Man never missed a guitar licks 🎸🎶🎵☮️
He was coming into the Mill Valley Whole Foods drinking carrot juice up until and including the day he died. Koons was a regular at the Whole Foods and I was cashier. I did not know she was Jerry’s wife and got to know her a bit outside of that knowledge. Koons was anonymous and hardly anyone knew she was married to him. I found out about her marriage in the paper after he died. She told me about her filmmaking and we chatted. I heard that when the Dead tried to go on without him using other guitarists she refused to let them use any of his guitars. So I heard. I first met Jerry as a busboy in a Denver mexican restaurant that charles Sawtelle was a regular (one of the greatest flat pickers ever) when he was in town he would hang with Sawtelle. i know i am not special and many of you were close with the band and so on…. but even as a customer Jerry was very nice and funny.
There were some inaccuracies in this one. I still enjoyed it though. When I was 14 I saw my first show. I never dreamed that at age 60, I seem to not only never tire of this music, but keep loving it more. Even hearing and reading the stories and books and liking them more each time..
This is an Ai voice. Small tells like this give it away. Nothing wrong with an artificial narrator, but most people are unaware when they are listening to one, funny enough.
@@tuft9250 AI narration is a sure sign of laziness and greed on the content creator's part. I caught several copy & pasting from wiki and news articles to the point that I could search a string of text, find the website and follow along verbatim.
In a recent variant of the story about the grateful dead (folklore), the deceased was denied a grave because s/he had a debt to pay, or an amend to make. So when the hero of the story buries the corpse, the ghost of the deceased endeavors to pay the debt, or make the amend by associating with the hero, but obstruction to the resolution of the conflict results in the revolt of even more deceased with more unresolved conflicts.
Some friends of mine got to play at Jerry Garcia's wedding to Kunz. Their manager told them they were booked to play at "a wedding in Marin [County]." En route to the mystery gig, the band joked, "Hey, Jerry Garcia's getting married today. I wonder if it's his wedding!" It was. My friends told me stories about doing pot with Garcia's wife. For them, all Deadheads, it was the gig of a lifetime.
I saw Deb on some weird TV channel ten years ago. She was ranting about the health issues with that weed killer Round up. She remarked in it. "If jerry had taken better care of himself. He would still be here".
I'd never heard the details of Jerry's mother's death. Obviously- losing his father in the way he did, his mother in the way he did, a friend in yet another car mishap that almost killed him, & others along the way, not to mention his finger as a young kid- Jerry was quite scarred. While the Dead's music often has light element , as someone a bit scarred himself, I've been just as drawn to Jerry's and the band's music's darker side, too. People who don't get that side of him and the Dead don't get the full experience of them IMO.
as good as his music was and all the opportunities he had; it wasn't enough to save him. For people to blame his wife, band, or the rehab center for Jerry's demise, is a bad judgement. He knew for many years that his lifestyle/drugs along with heart problems and diabetes was going to send him to an early grave. The sad part is he left daughters behind, one was only 7.
Not surprised to hear about how cynical the band members were. A) you get that being on the road and out in the world; and B) carefully listen to their (the Dead's/Hunter's/Barlows) full body of lyrics- there's a LOT of darkness in there. As there should be- that represents the full range of life's experience, along with its lighter side.
This guy clearly got all of his info from reading a book. Doesn't know how to pronounce Kesey, doesn't know MG's name, etc. It offends me a little bit.
it's not ai, clearly not ai..... ai is much worse..... here in uk reporters seem to deliberately promounce things strangely and often differently to each other... people do promounce things strangely... this is not ai
@@jayrowe6473 Pretty much what I figured except I hadn’t considered the further aggravating factor of a foreign language. It is long past 1984, and we are already living in the midst of a well-disguised brave new world. Welcome to Illusions World, right?
You are likely right. According to recollections by Garcia's acquaintances in Robert Greenfield's book, Dark Star, Deborah and Jerry lived in separate residences. Jerry had a married couple, the Dibiases, acting as his full-time housekeeper/cook and business manager (art business). It is suggested that Deborah worked on Jerry to fire the Dibiases, so that he no longer had anyone living with him and watching his diet.
I didn't know about Jerry's father, or a couple other facts presented here and I'm assuming they are facts. But even 15 minutes of Jerry is interesting.
Those two tragic incidents may not have been related accurately. Many people say that Jerry was not 'right at the scene' of his father's drowning, but that he found out within minutes and obviously it was horrific. Secondly, the finger incident resulted from Jerry and Tiff horsing around and playing 'chicken' basically. I remember 'mumbly-peg' being popular among the more bad, bold and daring kids when I was that age in the late 1960s early 1970s. Playing chicken with fingers and a knife. It's stupid and indefensible. Edit: The car crash story may or may not be accurate, as well. Looking around the web, in 5 minutes I read '4 guys' in the car, and then just '2 guys', Jerry and Speegle, who was the driver, according to Jerry. Then, I read Speegle was thrown from the car, alternately found crushed, under the car, and then alternately found deceased inside the car. Literally, the only thing we KNOW is that Garcia almost died in a car accident in 1961.
What was most disappointing in Koon's bans was the band members did not stand up to her. She should have been thrown over board as soon as the boat left the dock and was turning back for MG. And she barred Sara as well? Shame on all who let her pull that shit.
He didn’t meet Koonz in 74. They were together in the early 60s, split up and he rekindled their relationship in the early 90s. This doc feels like you’re just reading from a Wikipedia page that someone altered to be mostly wrong. You should really probably take this down.
@@terr777 "Ahh, the book club, putting ghosts in children's fragile eggshell minds." ...Jim Morrison. I'm an anti-vaxer but my wife is a nuclear med tech who was mandated to get a couple shots. Btw, you have a quality song list, except for Springsteen.
Oh I agree. There's a ton of great book from the band and extended family! Billy's was really entertaining. The problem is that when I read these, I know how sad the ending is going to be.
The title about Deborah caught my eye and I wanted to hear something new and fresh that I didnt already know. However, this was regurgitated from a number of books about this histroy of the Grateful Dead, which 90% of all deadheads already know. The information about Jerry's last wife is old news from 1995/96. I was disappointed. Plus, your pronunciation of the name Ken Kesey was poor. It told me that you arent a Deadhead. Other feedback is your monotone voice did not excite me to listen eagerly. This is the first time I have ever written negative feedback but I felt I was hoodwinked by the title. I want my 14 minutes back even though it was 15:13 long.
Yeah AI or a non Dead Heads scripting and narrating on a subject they have no business presenting. Loved the photos thought. Even though some of the photos were of the wrong people being mentioned.
As a presentation, in terms of info this is pretty good but the hard rock background noise is as lame as all fuck... plus the ending was rushed And you know it's AI when the voice over pronounces "bassist" as "BAH-sist" instead of "BAY-sist"
Stop this shit. We knew what happened. Take Him for what he says. You don't need to report this. Show the videos. Listen to his words by his voice. Then you can understand his mind. This the new AI?
Please, if you're going to actually do a video on something that apparently you seem to have knowledge in, please pronounce people's names correctly. It is Ken Kee-zee not Kessey
Why mention Kilometres, when the US use Miles ? …..it annoys me to hell, especially that is narrated in English…..we still use Miles in Britain too !…not European Kilo’s
Left out his military service, his personality, his all Americanness including having a special ar designed for him, the acid test, cia involvement in supplying him the drugs and covering up the fatal accident he had leaving cia headquarters with a trunk full of acid… there’s so much missing it’s basically just a report on his woman troubles
Seems to me that if you're gonna make a documentary/video about something you should get your facts straight and at the very least know how to pronounce people's names. Someone like Ken Kesey deserves the respect of not being called Ken Kezey.
@@imanalien2222Yes I was there for both shows with Tom Petty &Heartbreakers,Bob Dylan.It was right after the second show on 7/7/86 he went into a coma.
@@denniswinters2541he left the stage leaving the band playing alone during the opening of Terrapin because he almost fainted from heat exhaustion… and as you stated, it wasn’t long after he fell into the coma. Tough tour for Jer because just days before on July 4th in Buffalo he had an awful tooth ache that was really painful…and no opiates because of recovery. Remember he was in his first few months of being clean.
I was there as well. Petty and the Heartbreakers were great. Dylan, not so much. On the first day, Garcia seemed irritable because he jumped Wier's ass because he was having trouble with his wireless guitar on the opening song. Bobby diddled around with it for a while, until Jerry came to the mike and said something like, "If you can't play the fucking thing, get rid of it." They then went into Hell in a Bucket."
'Pirates really, being followed by peace and love hippies.' Been almost 30 years since his passing and YOU are old now too. It's time to put the Dead and that entire era to bed. Night night.
I was going to my parents on Christmas Day in the early 1990's and there was no traffic. I was stopped at a red light, wondering when the light would change and I looked across over to the opposite lane: stopped there was Jerry laughing at me and my impatience with the light!
don't let a dirty rat get under your skin you had a reason to be impatient.
I was born in 1976 and always felt I was born a decade too late, but I did get to see The Dead with Jerry at least once. No music will ever compare to or make me feel as good as The Grateful Dead.
I first saw The Grateful Dead right after Woodstock at Fillmore East. I saw them a total of 8 times. The best shows IMHO are from 1970, 1971 and 1972. I am NOT a Dead Head but I love them. This was one of the best, most concise capsules of a man's life I have ever seen and give it two thumbs up. By the way, I have always sensed the sadness in the LP American Beauty. Perhaps that is why I mostly listen to Working Man's Dead.
72-75 are my favorite years. Helps that I was living in the city at the time.
Love that album, was the second album I had on vinyl. My first was the Door's Waiting For The Sun.
Very kool. Did you have the opportunity to use some Owsley LSD or Orange Sunshine at a show? It must have been a great time to be there and a part of the experience.
@@michaelmaher4328 Uhhhh......yup.
@@edwardgonczy3170 your an original deadhead , did you have the opportunity to attend any of the acid tests in 1966?
Jerry was a very nice guy , down to earth and real.
down to earth and real people don't become lifelong 700$ a day addicts.
I saw Jerry perform over 150 times starting on November 10th 1985 at Brendan Burn Arena in the Meadowlands NJ. He innovated an entire genre of Americana jam band hippy music. Robert Hunter, John Barlow and Bob Weir helped him.
I grew up at Grateful Dead shows, as my parents are Deadheads from the 60’s. I saw the GD way over 200 times! I will never forget the best days of my life! Forever Grateful for Jerry! RIP Phil Lesh! I hope you’re jamming away with Jerry in heaven right now! ⚡️💀⚡️🌹🌈💨
I was extremely fortunate to have seen him play with the The Jerry Garcia Band. For those of you who are not familiar with Jerry Garcia, you might not have known that he actually had two bands he played in. And the Jerry Garcia band was named after him because it was his creation. He was also the lead singer. But it was at the Fillmore and it’s such a small venue that I could literally see, everything! Sweat dripping off his head so on and so forth! Six months later, he left us!!!!???? And I’m always going to mourn his death❣️🫶🏻☀️ He was one of the most musically gifted people this that has ever lived❣️RIP Jerry you’re extremely loved and still relevant to the music industry, you are A LEGEND AND ALWAYS WILL BE❣️🫶🏻☀️
Nice sentiment but Jerry died in 95 not in the Fillmore days!
@@moviemarcnyc not gonna argue with you about this. I know where I saw him play!
New Riders of the Purple Sage were linked to him too.Great man and musician.
I saw my first Dead show the year you were born. They had just returned from their 2 year vacation, and were back in full force. They played new songs that weren’t out on albums yet, so we called them the new Garcia song (Franklin’s Tower) and the new Weir song (Estimated Prophet). It was magical, and the real downhill slide had not yet begun.
Man that last wife was a petty jealous nightmare smh
Another Yoko Ono.
No I have a better understanding of that song he sings.
Thank you for this beautiful history video of my favorite guitarist Jerry Garcia
You've got all your timeline wrong. You pronounce people's names wrong. This is just a hack job.
Yes. I enjoyed the photos though. And some of it was accurate. But yes I was surprised by the amount of subscribers. They cannot all be Dead Heads. The narrator was either AI or someone who read a script that was not accurate. There are enough books and videos to get all of this correct. I have read about 80% of them I think Weir's book is the only one that I haven't gotten to yet.
It's the AI narrator. It sucks.
@@dr.barrycohn5461 Yes but doesn't someone have to at least outline or even write a script for the AI "voice". Either way don't do a video riddled with mistakes. Check it over. Anyway just my 2 cents.
Those nights Jerry was off were often because he couldn’t score heroin and had to take Valium or Xanax to keep from getting too sick. Just a note, the first time he went to rehab and got clean, he went into a coma. The second time, he died.
He was no were near clean when he went into that coma in 86..and when he died it was most likely because someone brang him dope at the rehab center..serenity Knolls was a laid back low security place..he hadn't done any in a few days and his dosage was to much which is the most common reason for overdoses..don't be romantizing hermon like it was good for him or anyone..
What a bunch of crap!!
@@wolfsvision940 lol! You may not like it but it is the truth. You need to read Rock Scully’s book ‘Dancing With The Dead’. He was the Grateful Dead’s manager from the very beginning until around 1990 when he was fired by the band because he kept helping Jerry get dope. Jer subsequently began using pharmaceutical opiates around that time and began to develop medical issues associated with them like hypertension. It happened a long time ago. There’s plenty of literature to back it up. All you have to do is read. 😁
I first saw The Grateful Dead shortly after Woodstock at Fillmore East, and ended up seeing them a total of 6 times. In my opinion, their best shows were from 1971, 1972. While I wouldn’t call myself a Deadhead, I absolutely love their music. This was one of the best and most concise summaries of Jerry Garcia’s life I’ve come across.
I still love him so much ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹☠️💀🎸⚡️😘😍🥰😰🥲😥😢my heart is still broken over him !
You all can say what you will, I witnessed the Dead so many times & JGB many as well, Jerry may have stumbled over lyrics but the Man never missed a guitar licks 🎸🎶🎵☮️
I could see that happening as he wrote the music but not lyrics
Thank You For Making This & Sharing This ......! This Fills In A Lot of Gaps That I Did Not Know About !
He was coming into the Mill Valley Whole Foods drinking carrot juice up until and including the day he died. Koons was a regular at the Whole Foods and I was cashier. I did not know she was Jerry’s wife and got to know her a bit outside of that knowledge. Koons was anonymous and hardly anyone knew she was married to him. I found out about her marriage in the paper after he died. She told me about her filmmaking and we chatted. I heard that when the Dead tried to go on without him using other guitarists she refused to let them use any of his guitars. So I heard. I first met Jerry as a busboy in a Denver mexican restaurant that charles Sawtelle was a regular (one of the greatest flat pickers ever) when he was in town he would hang with Sawtelle. i know i am not special and many of you were close with the band and so on…. but even as a customer Jerry was very nice and funny.
They weren’t driving 144 kph.
Speedometers were only in mph back then
There were some inaccuracies in this one. I still enjoyed it though. When I was 14 I saw my first show. I never dreamed that at age 60, I seem to not only never tire of this music, but keep loving it more. Even hearing and reading the stories and books and liking them more each time..
He was doing somewhere around a hundred miles per hour.
It truly has been a long strange trip… at any speed
Cool tie dye shirts came out of that era too.
Ken "Keys-zee" not Kessy
This is an Ai voice. Small tells like this give it away. Nothing wrong with an artificial narrator, but most people are unaware when they are listening to one, funny enough.
@@tuft9250 AI narration is a sure sign of laziness and greed on the content creator's part. I caught several copy & pasting from wiki and news articles to the point that I could search a string of text, find the website and follow along verbatim.
@@tuft9250 blame it on the AI...LOL...The man deserves the respect
There are a lot of inacccuracies in here.
yes. I just commented on that myself.
Jerry's middle finger is a whole vibe
In a recent variant of the story about the grateful dead (folklore), the deceased was denied a grave because s/he had a debt to pay, or an amend to make. So when the hero of the story buries the corpse, the ghost of the deceased endeavors to pay the debt, or make the amend by associating with the hero, but obstruction to the resolution of the conflict results in the revolt of even more deceased with more unresolved conflicts.
Garicia never moved to Hawaii, but he vacationed there several times.
I loved him in pigtails ! He was so cute plus I wear them too still today !
Some friends of mine got to play at Jerry Garcia's wedding to Kunz. Their manager told them they were booked to play at "a wedding in Marin [County]." En route to the mystery gig, the band joked, "Hey, Jerry Garcia's getting married today. I wonder if it's his wedding!" It was.
My friends told me stories about doing pot with Garcia's wife. For them, all Deadheads, it was the gig of a lifetime.
I saw Deb on some weird TV channel ten years ago. She was ranting about the health issues with that weed killer Round up. She remarked in it. "If jerry had taken better care of himself. He would still be here".
She's as crazy as Kamala.
Well I agree with her on both things.
Not a Grateful Dead fan, but what a life that man had. Full tilt.
I'd never heard the details of Jerry's mother's death. Obviously- losing his father in the way he did, his mother in the way he did, a friend in yet another car mishap that almost killed him, & others along the way, not to mention his finger as a young kid- Jerry was quite scarred. While the Dead's music often has light element , as someone a bit scarred himself, I've been just as drawn to Jerry's and the band's music's darker side, too. People who don't get that side of him and the Dead don't get the full experience of them IMO.
Holy shit! It’s SenseiGolf doing the voiceover!
Didn’t Bob Weir say that Garcia’s ashes were scattered in the Ganges?
as good as his music was and all the opportunities he had; it wasn't enough to save him. For people to blame his wife, band, or the rehab center for Jerry's demise, is a bad judgement. He knew for many years that his lifestyle/drugs along with heart problems and diabetes was going to send him to an early grave. The sad part is he left daughters behind, one was only 7.
Not surprised to hear about how cynical the band members were. A) you get that being on the road and out in the world; and B) carefully listen to their (the Dead's/Hunter's/Barlows) full body of lyrics- there's a LOT of darkness in there. As there should be- that represents the full range of life's experience, along with its lighter side.
Mountain Girl's name was Carolyn Adams, not sure why you called her Mountain Girl the whole time, it was a nickname for her but her name was Carolyn.
That was her name from Ken kesey book.
Wow, that's unpleasant. Deborah Koons, is that you? Mountain Girl Mountain Girl Mountain Girl Mountain Girl Mountain Girl Mountain Girl Mountain Girl
Deborah screwed anybody of importance in the grateful dead especially is ex-wives in Mountain girl
This guy clearly got all of his info from reading a book. Doesn't know how to pronounce Kesey, doesn't know MG's name, etc. It offends me a little bit.
@@movingtrain1 it was her nickname, documentaries should address people by their real name. Not everyone called her Mountain Girl.
We had that spark of energy that made it hard for us to hug 🫂 the 1 st time we met ! I fell inlove with him that time we met !
Cool video. Don't care for the AI narration pronouncing everything wrong though 👎
bass-ist, as if Phil played a fish. 🤣
@@SSHitMan 🤣
You would think by this point they would teach AI about bass players in music related vids but no, every single one pronounces it like a fish.
it's not ai, clearly not ai..... ai is much worse..... here in uk reporters seem to deliberately promounce things strangely and often differently to each other... people do promounce things strangely... this is not ai
pronounce... (bloody phone autocorrecting badly again)
I thought the AI said "Tipp" - also Jerry's ride was deemed unsafe at any speed - enunciate and you got it
140 kph is about 85 mph in the US. Why the eurocentrism?
Ken KEE-zee not KEZZ-ee
Because it's an overseas AI-generated money grab channel.
@@jayrowe6473
Pretty much what I figured except I hadn’t considered the further aggravating factor of a foreign language.
It is long past 1984, and we are already living in the midst of a well-disguised brave new world.
Welcome to Illusions World, right?
The narrator makes me so confused and jumps to so many different stories I found it confusing.
I knew all of this years before I met them all ! I love Jerry very much forever ! ❤️🐇🐰🌹☠️💀⚡️🎸👻💥✨
Very good and informative video! Thanks😊
RIP Jerry
I think his marriage to her contributed to his death...I imagine she was not easy to get along with.
You are likely right. According to recollections by Garcia's acquaintances in Robert Greenfield's book, Dark Star, Deborah and Jerry lived in separate residences. Jerry had a married couple, the Dibiases, acting as his full-time housekeeper/cook and business manager (art business). It is suggested that Deborah worked on Jerry to fire the Dibiases, so that he no longer had anyone living with him and watching his diet.
@@lisica8458 she wanted him dead fast I assume
Photo @3:16 is of Mountain Girl, NOT Sarah Ruppenthal.
I didn't know about Jerry's father, or a couple other facts presented here and I'm assuming they are facts. But even 15 minutes of Jerry is interesting.
Those two tragic incidents may not have been related accurately. Many people say that Jerry was not 'right at the scene' of his father's drowning, but that he found out within minutes and obviously it was horrific. Secondly, the finger incident resulted from Jerry and Tiff horsing around and playing 'chicken' basically. I remember 'mumbly-peg' being popular among the more bad, bold and daring kids when I was that age in the late 1960s early 1970s. Playing chicken with fingers and a knife. It's stupid and indefensible.
Edit: The car crash story may or may not be accurate, as well. Looking around the web, in 5 minutes I read '4 guys' in the car, and then just '2 guys', Jerry and Speegle, who was the driver, according to Jerry. Then, I read Speegle was thrown from the car, alternately found crushed, under the car, and then alternately found deceased inside the car. Literally, the only thing we KNOW is that Garcia almost died in a car accident in 1961.
@@someotherdude Steve Parrish stated many times on his show that he witnessed his father's death, and he knew him as well as anyone.
This happened to my grandfather when he was a kid. His cut off 2 of his older brothers' fingers exactly that same way.
What was most disappointing in Koon's bans was the band members did not stand up to her. She should have been thrown over board as soon as the boat left the dock and was turning back for MG. And she barred Sara as well? Shame on all who let her pull that shit.
Untimely? Given his lifestyle, I would take issue with that.
He didn’t meet Koonz in 74. They were together in the early 60s, split up and he rekindled their relationship in the early 90s. This doc feels like you’re just reading from a Wikipedia page that someone altered to be mostly wrong. You should really probably take this down.
Pronounced Keezy.
I was hoping someone corrected him
@@keemandikotravels He must not have read The Electric Koolaid Acid Test!
@peteshallcross787 I got that from the book club when I was 13 because it had great cover art. I stayed a fan of Tom Wolfe.
@@terr777 "Ahh, the book club, putting ghosts in children's fragile eggshell minds." ...Jim Morrison. I'm an anti-vaxer but my wife is a nuclear med tech who was mandated to get a couple shots. Btw, you have a quality song list, except for Springsteen.
Numerous errors in this video. For (likely) more accurate accounts, consult Phil Lesh's memoir; or Robert Greenfield's Dark Star.
Oh I agree. There's a ton of great book from the band and extended family! Billy's was really entertaining. The problem is that when I read these, I know how sad the ending is going to be.
“Garcia was shaken” not “shook.”
Sounds like the Garcias kids weren’t properly supervised much of the time?
kilometers an hour?
“Bassist” as in he was playing a fish?? Jfc
That's Ken Keezee
Who narrated this? They sound like they don’t know a thing about the Grateful Dead? I’m getting lost in the facts that I already know about the band!
That photo @1:30 is NOT of Jerry and Ruth Garcia.
Yes it is
Filled with errors and obviously stitched together. Shameful effort to capitalize on Garcia. Shame on you!
Mostly focusing on the negative there was a lot wrong with this video. Rest in peace Jerry.
The title about Deborah caught my eye and I wanted to hear something new and fresh that I didnt already know. However, this was regurgitated from a number of books about this histroy of the Grateful Dead, which 90% of all deadheads already know. The information about Jerry's last wife is old news from 1995/96. I was disappointed. Plus, your pronunciation of the name Ken Kesey was poor. It told me that you arent a Deadhead. Other feedback is your monotone voice did not excite me to listen eagerly. This is the first time I have ever written negative feedback but I felt I was hoodwinked by the title. I want my 14 minutes back even though it was 15:13 long.
How do you not know how to say Kesey?
A.I.
Yeah AI or a non Dead Heads scripting and narrating on a subject they have no business presenting. Loved the photos thought. Even though some of the photos were of the wrong people being mentioned.
Dark star ✊
The CIA and LSD
MKULTRA😱😱😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯
@@maureentrant5588 exactly👍🏼
@@maureentrant5588 Stills and Morrison also had ties to military BS
I was at 4 th of July Buffalo 1985. Dead Dillon and Petty . Tom Petty was the best. Dead suuuuuucked so did Dillon but Dillon gets legend props .
As a presentation,
in terms of info
this is pretty good
but the hard rock background noise is as lame as all fuck...
plus the ending was rushed
And you know it's AI when the voice over pronounces "bassist" as "BAH-sist" instead of "BAY-sist"
Kessie?
A bit judgmental for a robot.
Key-see
140 kilometers an hour. You a...... Use mph.
Should’ve talked about all the band members that died along the way, especially pigpen come on stop this AI crap it sucks
Good point and why focus on His last wife when the whole history is incredible from the early 60s through today? WTF?
Stop this shit. We knew what happened. Take Him for what he says. You don't need to report this. Show the videos. Listen to his words by his voice. Then you can understand his mind. This the new AI?
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Please, if you're going to actually do a video on something that apparently you seem to have knowledge in, please pronounce people's names correctly.
It is Ken Kee-zee not Kessey
Computer written and narrated. Those are your red flags.
Enough, for God’s sake. Leave it alone.
Why mention Kilometres, when the US use Miles ? …..it annoys me to hell, especially that is narrated in English…..we still use Miles in Britain too !…not European Kilo’s
Mispronunciation of Kesey's name.
Terrible narrator, boring delivery, and names mispronounced.
Probably AI but whomever creates these videos should do some damn research.
More like Deborah KOONT. 😂
Left out his military service, his personality, his all Americanness including having a special ar designed for him, the acid test, cia involvement in supplying him the drugs and covering up the fatal accident he had leaving cia headquarters with a trunk full of acid… there’s so much missing it’s basically just a report on his woman troubles
It's pronounced "key-zee." Jesus. Gen Z'ers shouldn't be allowed to do these clickbait videos.
Rent, never buy
It's pronounced KEY-SEE
Even though it's spelled Kesey,, Dang man,geez
I Disapprove of the scattered, random selected, dis-tasteful expose' !
You should be ashamed of your self
The loss of Brent was another huge blow to Jerry and probably the band.🫤.
“There’s nothing you can hold for very long”
Lots of errors
Seems to me that if you're gonna make a documentary/video about something you should get your facts straight and at the very least know how to pronounce people's names. Someone like Ken Kesey deserves the respect of not being called Ken Kezey.
Enough with the AI voices...🥱
The diabetic coma occurred in 1985, not 1986.
Nope summer of ‘86. I was at east coast shows that summer and remember the RFK show right before it happened. Jer was real sick.
No 1986.
@@imanalien2222Yes I was there for both shows with Tom Petty &Heartbreakers,Bob Dylan.It was right after the second show on 7/7/86 he went into a coma.
@@denniswinters2541he left the stage leaving the band playing alone during the opening of Terrapin because he almost fainted from heat exhaustion… and as you stated, it wasn’t long after he fell into the coma. Tough tour for Jer because just days before on July 4th in Buffalo he had an awful tooth ache that was really painful…and no opiates because of recovery. Remember he was in his first few months of being clean.
I was there as well. Petty and the Heartbreakers were great. Dylan, not so much. On the first day, Garcia seemed irritable because he jumped Wier's ass because he was having trouble with his wireless guitar on the opening song. Bobby diddled around with it for a while, until Jerry came to the mike and said something like, "If you can't play the fucking thing, get rid of it." They then went into Hell in a Bucket."
Ken KEY-see… he’s an amazing novelist as well as the leader of the Merry Pranksters…c’mon man. These AI vocalizations are so lame.
Shit video made by someone that didn't know anything about the Dead! I knew it before I watched.
Terrible video
Weak.
Boring as fuck, gave up after 5 mins
Having a person who never saw the Dead tell us about Garcia is just a waste of time. Ken Cassy?
To each their own, nothing appealing abt that R&R era...
How do you know the acid is kicking in? The Grateful Dead start to sound good!
It’s the only way to experience a dead show.
Hey now
It doesn't work as well on the 2nd and especially the 3rd show. But it always sounds awesome when your close to the stage.
The music always sounded good. In fact I can't believe my first show was at age 14 and I'm 60 now. I keep loving them more and more. WTF?
Schitt, he blew every chance he was ever given, poor guy. ⬇ ☹
'Pirates really, being followed by peace and love hippies.' Been almost 30 years since his passing and YOU are old now too. It's time to put the Dead and that entire era to bed. Night night.
Good night
These AI narrators need to go back to school a learn how to pronounce words.
Q: What did the Deadhead say when the drugs wore off? A: What is this god-awful music?
Actually a terrible self serving egotistic person.
Who?