Garcia: An American Life
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Rifkin, Danny, 95, 104, 117, 147, 334, 444
“Ripple,” 195–96, 312
Robertson, Robbie, 164
rock ‘n’ roll, 67; first exposure, 18
Rolling Stone, 206–7, 369
Rolling Stones, 172–74, 341
“Rosemary,” 159
Rosenberg, Neil, 61
Rothman, Sandy, 371–72, 373
Round Records, 247, 278
Round Reels, 260
Rowan Brothers, 213
Rowan, Chris, 213, 240
Rowan, Lorin, 213, 240
Rowan, Peter, 240, 241
“Row Jimmy,” 237
Rubin, Jerry, 121
Run for the Roses, 326
“Run for the Roses,” 326–27
Ruppenthal, Sara, 54–57, 61, 62–63, 71, 98, 101, 114–15, 118–19, 199, 349, 402–3, 419, 457
Sadat, Anwar, 299
Sadat, Madame, 299, 301
Sage, Nora, 337–38, 344, 345, 350, 413–14, 414
“Saint of Circumstance,” 308
St. Dilbert the Arch (pseudonym, Robert Hunter), 220
St. Michael’s Alley, 31
“Saint Stephen,” 154, 163
Sandperl, Ira, 30
San Francisco: as hippie mecca, 131–32; music scene, 103
San Francisco Mime Troupe, 87
San Rafael, 370–71
Santana, Carlos, 421, 456
Saturday Night Live, 303
Saunders, Merl, 205, 227–28, 269, 306, 351, 467
Sawka, Jan, 385
“Scarlet Begonias,” 250
“Scarlet Fire,” 284–85
Scher, John, 278, 310, 468
school, 16–17
Scientology, 62, 179
Scruggs, Earl, 46
scuba diving, 376
Scully, Rock, 94–95, 104, 117, 127, 147, 153, 160, 175, 255, 289, 306, 322, 332, 457
Seals, Melvin, 321
Sears, Cameron, 468
Seastones, 262
Seburn, Roy, 98, 101
Seeger, Mike, 38–39
sense of humor, 476
Serenity Knolls, 454
Shakedown Street, 294–97, 302–3
“Shakedown Street,” 295
“Ship of Fools,” 249
Shore, Jonathan, 416
Shoreline Amphitheater, 443–44, 468–69
Silberman, Steve, 317–18
The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut), 339
Skullfuck (Grateful Dead, also “Skull and Roses”), 217–18
“Skull and Roses,” 218, 233. See also Grateful Dead
Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers, 47, 49
Slick, Grace, 88, 116
slide guitar, 159
“Slipknot,” 265
Smith, Joe, 116–17, 211, 217
Smoke (movie), 438
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” 438
Soldier Field (Chicago), 450
solo performance, 52–53
“So Many Roads,” 412, 450–51
“Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves),” 206
songwriting with Hunter, 163–64
Sound and Light Theater (Giza), 298–99
“The Star-Spangled Banner,” 426–27
Speegle, Paul Jr., 32–33
“Spidergawd,” 216
“Stagger Lee,” 296
“Standing on the Moon,” 381
Stanley, Owsley (“Bear”), 90–91, 99–100, 127, 145, 179, 180, 233, 248
“Stella Blue,” 231, 445
Sting, 428–29
Stinson Beach, 212
Stoneman, Scott, 75–76
Storace, Eric, 469–70
Straight Theater, 132–33, 137, 138, 139
string band music, 371–74
“Stronger Than Dirt,” 263
“Sugaree,” 214–15
Summer of Love, 130
Surrealistic Pillow, 116
switches guitars, 157–58
taping at concerts, surreptitious, 277
“Tennessee Jed,” 222, 359
Terrapin Station, 283, 286, 288
“Terrapin Station, Part One,” 279, 281, 282, 283–84, 286, 287
“That’s It for the Other One,” 142, 146
“They Love Each Other,” 237
Thompson, Eric, 45
Tibetan Buddhist Gyuto Monks, 444
Tiger Rose, 262
“To Lay Me Down,” 195
Toluzzi, Peter, 319
“Touch of Grey,” 328–29, 366, 369
tours. See Grateful Dead tours
Trips Festival, 95–97
Trist, Alan, 30, 32–33, 41–42, 232–33, 299, 332
“Truckin’,” 197
Tutt, Ron, 263, 292, 293
“Unbroken Chain,” 441
“Uncle John’s Band,” 177–79, 188, 189–90, 360
“U.S. Blues,” 237, 249
“Valerie,” 326
videos, 403
“Viola Lee Blues,” 124
Vitt, Bill, 186
voice, 478
Wake of the Dead, 244–46
Wales, Howard, 186–88, 205, 228
Wall of Sound, 272–73
Walton, Bill, 457
Wang, Wayne, 438
Warfield Theater (Bay Area), 310, 437
Warlocks, 69–71, 74, 76–77, 83–84
Warren, Jimmy, 321
Wasserman, Rob, 388
Watkins Glen, New York, 243–44
“Wave That Flag,” 237
Wavy Gravy, 169
Weir, Bob, 60, 60–61, 65, 75, 128, 142, 153, 155–56, 162, 197, 207, 222, 223–24, 226–27, 283, 308, 309, 316, 339, 352, 383, 388, 457, 461, 464, 467–68, 468, 471, 472
Weiss, Peter, 137
Welnick, Vince, 396, 398, 402, 415, 417, 461, 465, 471
“West L.A. Fadeaway,” 327
Wexler, Jerry, 233
“Wharf Rat,” 209–10, 357
“What’ll You Raise,” 308
“What’s Become of the Baby,” 155
“The Wheel,” 215–16
White House visit, 426
Who, 133
Wildwood Boys, 51
will, 469
Winter, John “The Cool,” 41, 42
Winterland, 201, 217, 257, 264
Without a Net, 399
Wolfe, Tom, 86, 91, 114
Woodstock, 169–71
“Working-Class Hero,” named, 206–7
Workingman’s Dead, 165, 180–81, 188–89, 196, 202, 217
Yale Bowl (New Haven), 217
Zodiacs, 66
1. Jerry’s mother, Ruth Clifford (right), with her brother Bill in San Francisco, early 1920s. (Courtesy of KrisAnne Clifford Crow)
2. Part of the Garcia clan in the late 1930s. Left to right: unknown, Manuel Garcia Jr. (Jerry’s uncle), Leonor Garcia (Jerry’s aunt), Manuel Garcia (Jerry’s grandfather), Ruth Garcia (Jerry’s mom), and (with head between the legs) Leonor’s husband, Barney Ross. (Courtesy of Daniel Garcia)
3. Jerry and his dad, 1947. (Courtesy of Daniel Garcia)
4. The fateful day. Jerry and Joe on the banks of the Trinity River on the day Joe drowned, August 25, 1947. (Courtesy of Daniel Garcia)
1. Cowboy Jerry, circa 1949. (Courtesy of KrisAnne Clifford Crow)
2. The old swimmin’ hole in Lompico, near Santa Cruz, early 1950s. Left to right: Tiff, Jerry and cousin Diane Clifford. (Courtesy of KrisAnne Clifford Crow)
3. Outside the Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco’s Crocker-Amazon district, 1954. Left to right: Jerry, Tiff, grandma Tillie Clifford (aka Nana); uncle Bill Clifford, Jerry’s mother, Ruth (holding baby Julie Clifford); stepfather Wally Matusiewicz, aunt Ruth Clifford and cousin Diane Clifford. In the foreground are Jerry’s young cousins Dennis and Michael Clifford. (Courtesy of KrisAnne Clifford Crow)
4. Christmas 1957, the year Jerry got his first guitar and started smoking pot. Rear, left to right: Jerry, aunt Ruth Clifford, Diane Clifford and Tiff. Front: Nana, Julie Clifford, Pops, Michael and Dennis Cl
ifford. (Courtesy of KrisAnne Clifford Crow)
With Robert Hunter, Stanford University, 1962. (Jer Melrose)
Pickin’ at the Hamilton Street pad in Palo Alto, 1963. (Rick Melrose)
With Barbara Meier at Disneyland, 1962. (Courtesy of Barbara Meier)
One of the first photos of the Warlocks, 1965. Clockwise from back left: Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Jerry, Pigpen. (Herb Greene)
Haight-Ashbury Americana. Jerry at 710 Ashbury, 1967. (Herb Greene)
Snuggling with Mountain Girl in Golden Gate Park, 1967. Note the cool Pigpen T-shirt. (Herb Greene)
1. Billy, Pigpen and Jerry at the Newport Pop Festival in Costa Mesa, California, August 4, 1968. (Jim Marshall)
2. The Dead at the Family Dog on the Great Highway, February 4, 1970. (Robert Altman)
3. Resplendent in tie-dye at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York, June 24, 1970. (Randy Berge)
Early New Riders in the wilds of Marin. Left to right: David Nelson, Garcia, John “Marmaduke” Dawson, Mickey Hart, Dave Torbert. (Herb Greene)
Playing pedal steel guitar at a New Riders recording session at Wally Heider’s studio in San Francisco, December 1970. (Robert Altman)
Cosmic cowboy, 1971. (Herb Greene)
1. Sitting in the empty Boston Music Hall during a sound check, November 30, 1973. (Randy Berge)
2. Backstage at the Golden State Bluegrass Festival in San Rafael, California, April 27, 1974. This show was the final gig for Old and in the Way. (Jon Sievert)
3. In front of the Wall of Sound in Reno with his first Doug Irwin custom guitar, May 12, 1974. (Bruce Polonsky)
Garcia, Weir and Lesh at Winterland, October 1974— the “retirement” shows. (Bruce Polonsky)
A free concert in Golden Gate Park, September 28, 1975. Jerry’s playing a Travis Bean guitar. (Bruce Polonsky)
Jerry enjoys a joint and some red wine during a photo session for the cover of BAM magazine, November 1977. This was the day the author first met Garcia. (Jim Marshall)
Stockton Civic Center, January 18, 1978. (Bruce Polonsky)
Acoustic Dead at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, October 1980. (Jon Sievert)
A Robert Hunter recording session at Club Front, fall of 1981. John Kahn is playing the stand-up bass. (Herb Greene)
Jerry on the comeback trail, jamming with Los Lobos’ Cesar Rosas at New George’s in San Rafael, California, November 1986. (Bruce Polonsky)
Backing Dylan in Eugene, Oregon, in 1987. (Jay Blakesberg)
Mickey, Bob and Jerry, clowning in the band, 1987. (Herb Greene)
The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band on Broadway, Halloween 1987. Left to right: Kenny Kosek, John Kahn, Sandy Rothman, David Nelson, JG. (Jay Blakesberg)
The view from Garcia’s amplifiers, Frost Amphitheater, April 30, 1988. (Jon Sievert)
With Manasha Matheson and daughter Keelin in Europe, fall 1990. (Vince DiBiase)
Pickin’ with David Grisman backstage at the Summer Music Festival in Squaw Valley, California, August 25, 1991. (John Sievert)
Hangin’ at Club Front, 1992. Left to right: Vince Welnick, John Cutler, Bill Kreutzmann, Steve Parish, JG. (Herb Greene)
Jerry in 1992. (Jay Blakesberg)
“This parrot is deceased!” Jerry and Barbara Meier in Lahaina, Maui, January 1993. (Courtesy of Barbara Meier)
The Dead and guest Ornette Coleman jamming under Candace Brightman’s trippy but moderne light show at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, December 9, 1993. (Stephen Dorian Miner)
Desert Sky Pavilion in Phoenix, March 6, 1994. (Stephen Dorian Miner)
Cal Expo Amphitheater, June 10, 1994. (Stephen Dorian Miner)
The JGB at Tosca’s café in North Beach during a video shoot for the song “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” from the film Smoke, early 1995. Left to right: Melvin Seals, John Kahn, Don Baldwin, Smoke actress Ashley Judd, Jackie LaBranch, Gloria Jones, JG. (Jay Blakesberg)
At the memorial service for Garcia in Golden Gate Park, August 13, 1995. Front row, left to right: lyricist John Barlow, Natascha Muenter, Bob Weir, Deborah Koons Garcia. (Stephen Dorian Miner)
Golden Gate Park, August 13, 1995. (Stephen Dorian Miner)