can't never get tired of this clip:
missin' Jerry real bad today...
seeing this makes me smile.
peace.
thankx, marye.
I also remember hearing a story about a dude who saw Jerry before some show, must have been 88 thereabout, post-coma Jerry; maybe walking around, anyways, Garcia was smoking a ciggarette, and the dude yelled out 'hey Jerry, I heard you quit smoking' to which Garcia replied with a stubby, right handed middle finger gesture type of reaction with a smile as he did it. that is the only confirmed rumor of which finger Garcia used in his adult life, though this is only anecdotal evidence and hardly enough to form of a sample to gather the proper level of statistical integrity.
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apart from Polo and breeding Arabian horses....
Garcia was a real pip. a real pip.
peace.
Can't answer any of those, Joe, but I do seem to recall that the new Senator from Minnesota once offered to have Jerry give the "finger" to someone on Halloween night in 1980...
All you had to do was give generously to Jerry's Kids!
Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
welcome back!:-)
as most of us know, Jerry lost the first two joints of his 'middle' finger in an accident when his brother Tiff chopped it off. Jerry was around 4 years old.
here's the trippy hippie questions of the day:
1) had Jerry ever given anybody 'the finger' with his right hand before his finger got chopped off?
2) was Tiff the very first recipient of Jerry giving somebody 'the finger' with his right hand after the bandage came off?
3) in his adult years, did Jerry tend to give people 'the finger' with his left or right hand?
been wondering about all of that for a long number of years...
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peace.
"Walking along in the mission in the rain" Mission district of SF, after getting out of court on some ticket thing ( & getting out of the ticket)...about 1976 or so......the song ringing through my head @ the time............xoxo Gypsy Cowgirl
Mission In The Rain
Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
I turn and walk away
Then I come round again
Looks as though tomorrow
I'll do pretty much the same
I must turn down your offer
But I'd like to ask a break
You know I'm ready to give anything
For anything I take
Chorus
Someone called my name you know I turned around to see
It was midnight in the mission and the bells were not for me
Come again
Walking along in the mission in the rain
Come again
Walking along in the mission in the rain
Ten years ago I walked this street, my dreams were riding tall
Tonight I would be thankful Lord, for any dreams at all
Some folks would be happy just to have one dream come true
But everything you gather is just more that you can lose
[chorus]
All the things I planned to do, I only did half way
Tomorrow will be Sunday, born of rainy Saturday
There's some satisfaction in the San Francisco rain
No matter what comes down, the mission always looks the same
[chorus]
Locations
thx, ccejjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj! i remember sneaking to the tv in the basement to watch playboy after dark as a kid (probably 13-14), i think it was wgn in chicago, it was on real late, and i saw THIS show. how could ya forget that poncho. another one of those brushes with my future before i knew... it would still be a few years before i found myself escaping though the lily field : )
peace