Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garciawas an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s. Though he disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth1 August 1942
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.
It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ...
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!
I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.