Was G. Gordon Liddy the First Person to Let You Know That Jerry Garcia Kicked the Bucket? I`ll Never Forget It?
Question by DOGFOOD: Was G. Gordon Liddy the first person to let you know that Jerry Garcia kicked the bucket? I`ll never forget it?
…it! How strange! What were you doing when Waco burned? When the space shuttle blew up?
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Answer by Charles K
Jerome John “Jerry” Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or “spokesman” of the group.
One of its original founders, Garcia performed with The Grateful Dead for their entire three-decade career (1965–1995). Garcia also founded and participated in a variety of side projects, including the Saunders-Garcia Band with longtime friend Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, and Legion of Mary. Garcia co-founded the New Riders of the Purple Sage with John Dawson and David Nelson. He also released several solo albums, and contributed to a number of albums by other artists over the years as a session musician. He was well known by many for his distinctive guitar playing and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” cover story. Later in life, Garcia was sometimes ill because of his unstable weight, and in 1986 went into a diabetic coma that nearly cost him his life. Although his overall health improved somewhat after that, he also struggled with heroin addiction, and was staying in a California drug rehabilitation facility when he died of a heart attack in August 1995.———–
On August 9, 1995, at 4:23 AM, Garcia’s body was discovered in his room at the rehabilitation clinic. The cause of death was a heart attack. Garcia had long struggled with drug addiction, weight problems, and sleep apnea, all of which contributed to his physical decline. Phil Lesh remarked in his autobiography that, upon hearing of Garcia’s death, “I was struck numb; I had lost my oldest surviving friend, my brother.”
On the morning of August 10, Garcia was rested at a funeral home in San Rafael, California. On August 12, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Belvedere, Garcia’s funeral was held. It was attended by his family, the remaining Grateful Dead and their friends, including former basketball player Bill Walton and musician Bob Dylan, and his widow Deborah Koons, who barred Garcia’s other two wives from the ceremony.
On August 13, a municipally-sanctioned public memorial took place in the Polo Fields of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, and was attended by about twenty-five thousand people. The crowds produced hundreds of flowers, gifts, images, and even a bagpipe rendition of “Amazing Grace” in remembrance.
On April 4, 1996, Bob Weir and Deborah Koons spread half of Garcia’s cremated ashes into the Ganges River at the holy city of Rishikesh, India, a site sacred to the Hindus. Then, according to Garcia’s last wishes, the other half of his ashes were poured into the San Francisco Bay. Deborah Koons disallowed one of Garcia’s ex-wives, Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia, from attending the spreading of the ashes
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