Long Live Jerry Garcia

This article appeared in the November 1996 San Francisco Focus The Burden of Being Jerry Garcia TWO WRITERS – BOTH INSIDERS IN THE GRATEFUL DEAD COMMUNITY – DISCUSS THE TROUBLE BEHIND THE LATE JERRY GARCIA. By David Gans For the last ten years of Jerry Garcia’s life, his health and lifestyle were major topics of discussion in the Grateful Dead world. From the innermost sanctum to the far edge of the parking lot and beyond — the band, its extended family, the Dead’s business organization, the businesses that did business with the Dead and the Deadheads, and the

