Wookies Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Happy Birthday Jerry Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Skian Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Happy Birthday Jerry!Thanks for all the great music.Happy to say I still really enjoy listening to it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caliber66 Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Happy Birthday, Jerry. "Here Comes Sunshine" came up on shuffle this morning. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Too many amazing memories to list. He's still greatly missed. I believe the Baltimore Symphony does their GD thing today, too. Out here, my friend starts his annual "9 Days of Jerry" at his bars with all GD-focused bands. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Yeah. We do the Jerry Week thing here. It's always nice to do a marathon of GD music - shit, there were years when that's all I'd play. Maybe we'll kick it off with 8/1/82. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Yeah. We do the Jerry Week thing here. It's always nice to do a marathon of GD music - shit, there were years when that's all I'd play. Maybe we'll kick it off with 8/1/82. Zoo Amp.! Playin-> Aiko->,,,, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gobias Industries Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Rest in peace, buddy. I'll pop on the show I have of you guys sometime today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Damn, I forgot all about Mr. Garcia's b-day, and yet I was already listening to Mars Hotel when I opened this thread. Fookin' ironic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Jerry Day 2008 This Sunday in SF Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 Old Jerry really fucked up. He had a great thing going, but just couldn't stay off the hard stuff. Still makes me sad really and I am not even a Deadhead. The man had it all and he couldn't keep it together. At 66 he could still be going strong (hell he died younger than I am now) and still touring for the fans and making boatloads of money (and taking all the soft drugs he wanted.) It really sucks.... RIP Jerry..... LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Old Jerry really fucked up. He had a great thing going, but just couldn't stay off the hard stuff. Still makes me sad really and I am not even a Deadhead. The man had it all and he couldn't keep it together. At 66 he could still be going strong (hell he died younger than I am now) and still touring for the fans and making boatloads of money (and taking all the soft drugs he wanted.) It really sucks.... RIP Jerry..... LouieBIn fairness, he did make several attempts (and a few of them temporarily successful, too) to rid himself of the junk. He died in a rehab facility, after all. Granted, the toll had already taken effect on his worn down body, but he made attempts to get off the highly addictive shit. Also, there's something to be said for living your life the way you want to and accepting what that may entail. I don't mean this in a pro-drug way at all, but I think he was just thick-headed and stubborn and nobody was going to tell him how to live his life. Sad as it is, I'm actually surprised he made it to age 53. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Sad as it is, I'm actually surprised he made it to age 53.Very true. Hell, he was 43 (younger than I am now) when he slipped into the coma in '86. Despite his overweening fondness for central nervous system stimulants, it could be said that the worst thing he did to his body was the lifelong 2-pack-a-day unfiltered Camels habit. None of this, of course, can explain Keef still rockin' out at age 64. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 None of this, of course, can explain Keef still rockin' out at age 64.Keith knows how to pace himself.... LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gobias Industries Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Keith knows how to pace himself.... LouieB Keef cannot be killed by conventional weapons. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tongue-tied lightning Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 the good die young Hope he's jamming with John on Dear Prudence, if ya believe in all that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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