tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post8831220571111305451..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: January 1970: Jerry Garcia InterviewLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-58589043680048299702018-10-16T11:33:05.992-07:002018-10-16T11:33:05.992-07:00That is an amazing find. Yea you are right it can&...That is an amazing find. Yea you are right it can't be all Garcia's words but it's pretty fascinating. Once again props to you LIAAriellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15217024397796056858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-5919772613225854882018-09-19T19:12:30.333-07:002018-09-19T19:12:30.333-07:00In an article in the next week's issue, Lichte...In an article in the next week's issue, Lichtenberg included a random non-sequitur quote from Garcia: <br />'Smack and reds are the current San Francisco street drugs. "Everyone in New York has to hustle," said Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. "And everyone in San Francisco has a gun. That's a gross exaggeration, but it gives you an idea."' <br />(from "Three or Four Feet From Home," East Village Other 1/28/70) Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-89129692591984921622018-09-19T18:28:18.921-07:002018-09-19T18:28:18.921-07:00A writer for the underground NYC paper the East Vi...A writer for the underground NYC paper the East Village Other caught Garcia in his hotel room around the time the Dead played the Fillmore East in January '70, and this came out. <br />At first I was suspicious, since this sounds nothing like Garcia; he didn't talk like this. But there are a number of things in here the reporter could only have heard from Garcia, and looking at Garcia's radio interview with Howard Smith a month later, he talks about Altamont in almost the same words, so this is genuine. My guess is that Lichtenberg just took notes instead of recording the interview, and "reconstructed" it in stream-of-consciousness style (perhaps more in his words than Garcia's). <br /><br />They dwell on Altamont at length (I'm not sure if it was bothering Garcia that much, or if Lichtenberg like most other reporters at the time just kept asking him about it). Oddly, the lyrics of Dark Star (on the new Dead album) are used as commentary on Altamont! - an early example of Hunter lyrics being applicable to all things. <br />Garcia also talks about his concern for the ecology, his feeling that it's all over unless people act fast - he discussed this in other interviews the following year too. <br />Most interesting to me, the music talk: seeing them at the Fillmore, Lichtenberg was struck by the "tight vocals" and harmonies, and the new songs, particularly Uncle John's Band. He astutely notes the influence of the Band, and Crosby Stills & Nash. Stills had said he was going to help the Dead make their next record (though in the end, he didn't, other than giving them advice). <br />Some early inside scoops from Garcia - Stills will produce the next album, which may be called "The Working Man's Dead," and "some of the songs are only two weeks old." (The most recent song, ironically, was an Altamont-inspired song obliquely criticizing Ralph Gleason.) <br />In free-flowing EVO manner, the article ends with some other acts that played the Fillmore recently.Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com