Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests | Blank on Blank

Note to self: don’t drink tap water at Jerry Garcia’s

jerry has one of the most calming voices i’ve ever heard

"Everybody there was as much performer as audience." Sounds like every Grateful Dead show I ever went to. "If you get confused, listen to the music play."

2:26 "Luckily the following week we got fired."

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it - Jerry Garcia

so good to hear your voice, Jerry. love from a deadhead household.

jerry's got such a good vibe

"We just set up the equipment. Everybody got high. And stuff would happen" - Jerry Garcia on the Acid Tests. Our latest in full, groovy color. 

Whenever I listen to the dead home alone I feel like I’m momentarily escaping all the bad in the world:)

Jerry Garcia always gave a solid interview. He had a very bright mind. I'm sure he did not regret how he lived.

Jerry literally lived to have fun. Playing was his joy and he was never going to stop. In the end he lived on his own terms and died doing what he loved . Having fun. How many of us will ever get the chance to say that, and leave a legacy of recreating American music by mixing rock, folk, blue grass, jazz, and other various forms of "Americana" music into timeless masterpieces. In my humble opinion, Jerry is in the top three for the most important and influential American musicians of all time and yeah....acid was a major factor in his spiritual logistics.

I'm so glad I joined the caravan and got to experience 8th wonder of the world dead show 93-95. Rest easy Jerry and rest in peace you did more for the world then anyone could ever do.

Preserving the history of American art and culture is a very important undertaking. Thank you for also making it fun.

Miss you Jerry, miss your wit and ever so cool chuckle! Damned glad I made my way to all those shows, magic, magic! 

The very first Acid Test was a party at Ken Babbs' house on 27th November 1965. That may be the moment the Sixties began.

groovy

thanks PBS

The most magical eccentric time of the 20th century ✌

Grateful Dead, the acid tests, the Palo Alto and Laurel Canyon scenes, the "summer of love," Manson family, the People's Temple/Jim Jones cult (and the murders of Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk which tie into that), Hell's Angels, the stuff that went on at the Stanford Research Institute back then, the work that people like Andrija Puharich and Jim Parsons were doing, the flood of LSD that appeared in the mid-1960's and then dried up almost completely in the early 1970's etc etc - It was all a large joint military research and development operation between the Department of Defense, secret intelligence services, "Hollywood," and a myriad group of post-modernist, existentialist, moral relativist scientists and researchers. People either directly related to and/or operating on behalf of the super rich, elite "powers that be" (for lack of a better term). Certainly no coincidence that almost all of the Hollywood studio lots and sound stages were built in "former" military installations and buildings. For anyone not glibly rolling their eyes and might be interested, I'd reccomend the book "Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon" by David McGowan as a light starting point/introduction. I'd also recommend the movie "Inherent Vice" which although doesn't outright explain what was going on, gives a good glimpse for those who pay attention. Look into almost any celebrity actor, musician, writer, politician or notorious murderer from any time in American history but especially back then and you start finding all kinds of family connections to the military and/or secret intelligence. Truth is stranger than fiction and all the world's a stage.

So I am responding to JG saying many times there was no “pressure to play” at the acid tests. This made it the player’s choice, they were feeling it. That totally changes things. I get it now.