Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests | Blank on Blank
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- "When we fell in with the Acid Tests we a started having the most fun we had ever had."
- Jerry Garcia
Interview by Joe Smith
May 23, 1988
Cassette Tape
Recorded during the writing of Off the Record
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jerry has one of the most calming voices i’ve ever heard
Hell yes. It's so crazy that he dealt with so many demons, but sounded so serene and at peace with everything.
"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."
“Roll away the dew”
Note to self: don’t drink tap water at Jerry Garcia’s
Vegan tap water.
I’m not Jerry gclssic gex one liner
Lmao gex
This reminds me of Christmas at Jack Nicholson’s house
This is like having dinner at Armie Hammer's house
jerry's got such a good vibe
so true
"sounded like hell" love that
yeah such good vibes especially when he was beating the snot out of his wife
where did that i say i beat my wife? spoiler alert: i didn't.
sorry to harsh your mellow, hippy, but your acid head rainbow kid leader jerry garcia was a woman beating piece of garbage. that heart attack was too good for him.
ting ting why don’t you go ahead and post the link for your source on this discussion feed. Can’t seem to find a single web page that includes each of the respective terms “Jerry Garcia”, “woman”, and “beater”. There also is no information that can be found for other various yet similar search phrases like “Jerry Garcia sexual/physical abuse”. Please inform me... where exactly are you getting your information from?
"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.
Blank on Blank I adore this series! Keep it up! Really cool!👍
Long before his unhealthy lifestyle destroyed his ability to play the guitar, Jerry told a guitar magazine that the acid tests "were just parties, man." It was Tom Wolfe's book that made them such a big deal. Remember, in those days, LSD was legal, there was no such thing as big sound systems or Deadheads, and they had Ken Kesey. Kesey could talk people into doing things, and also could talk them out of bad acid trips. So everyone had a good time, and these "parties" were remembered for that. Thats all. It was long ago - nobody could make events like them happen anymore. Fortune Passes Everywhere.
@@DavidSmith-ss1cg Create the myth.
Then,
sell it.
Ahh, America. 🇺🇸
2:26 "Luckily the following week we got fired."
fuckin' jerry lol : ' )
just so accepting lol
The most Jerry thing ever said
Fired from a shit job, is luckily.
Magic is what we do, music is how we do it - Jerry Garcia
Love that quote, perfect description of what they do.
He’s not speaking figuratively
so good to hear your voice, Jerry. love from a deadhead household.
it is great to hear him talking about having fun... especially the bit @ 5:10
Jerry Garcia always gave a solid interview. He had a very bright mind. I'm sure he did not regret how he lived.
What's to regret? Jerry had a nice home and several different kids from different partners and ate cheeseburgers every day, but still outlived Michael Jackson and a host of others.. Also, he went painlessly.
@@johnschneidhorst3406
Mj died in 2009 Jerry died in 95 unless you mean outlived by age
Yes by age @@OPENYOURDOOR
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.
He had that "devil hand" too.... which is what they call it. I know the families of the people that were there. Jerry couldn't go a day without playing a show.
Whenever I listen to the dead home alone I feel like I’m momentarily escaping all the bad in the world:)
This made me smile
I feel the same when I watch home alone. Fuller can't have Pepsi after midnight, he'll wet the bed! Kevin, your such a disease.
You are. Go to a show. (~);}
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.
Great years (~);}
Preserving the history of American art and culture is a very important undertaking. Thank you for also making it fun.
The very first Acid Test was a party at Ken Babbs' house on 27th November 1965. That may be the moment the Sixties began.
I would've thought it began after JFK assassination
@Stevospeedo 60's began with the beats in the 50's. Or when Bob plugged in.
Its funny Jerry says this because, its written in the electric kool-aid asid test that Jerry and his folks were a bummer. Ken hated them. Jerry has his own crew. They were party crashers and they would steal stuff and try to butt into peoples trips, like if they're trying to be peaceful Jerry would come up and just be loud and rude, so man....wow.
True.
Psychedelic music began with an incredible San Francisco band called the Charlatans. They played at a place called the Red Dog Saloon, in Nevada. The dressed like they were from the 1800's, took acid and played music that was a strange cross between early 1900s, rock and roll, and freak out. See this . th-cam.com/video/NoCwTmu4_cY/w-d-xo.html
Miss you Jerry, miss your wit and ever so cool chuckle!
Damned glad I made my way to all those shows, magic, magic!
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.
Those tests came back in the 90’s, on the Portland Homeless Youth, allegedly. I just did a vid on it, for those interested. It was horrifying.
GD were cool guys though. Saw them once live when young. Peeps should check my wall. A lot of it made it into rock music in the 90’s. But many aren’t here anymore also.
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.
Damn, If i could just go back into time and jam it out with Jerry, that would be everything!
Followed the Dead from Maine to Sacramento in Summer of 91’....My favorite “Jerry” bumper sticker read: “It ain’t over till the fat man melts”!
Tell them about the time you guys dosed the whole floor at Winterland in May, 1971. I was right in the middle of it. First time I'd done acid and the first time I saw the Dead. Oh Boy, what a night.
Man i would love to sit down and smoke a joint with you and listen listen listen. 23 yesr old grateful dead head i was conceived by my parents at the dead show okland Collisom 1194
That is awesome my first live concert Woodstock 99 fucking insane
@@jordanpufahl8577 damn that makes you what...827 now?! 😏
thanks PBS
The most magical eccentric time of the 20th century ✌
Very cool. I remember Kesey's house in La Honda. Its still there.
groovy
I learned the other day how their tours would be like a river of LSD to replenish all of Americas nooks and cranny's. It's a good read. I wish I had the link. Some story about getting a "thumb print"
holdmybeer look I like some of the dead music but it's pretty clear they were Cia assets used to distribute drugs and create and control the counterculture.
Give me a break. I suppose you also think the world is flat and we've never been to the moon.
Stuart Angel LSD doesn’t control it frees you. Try it.
As a hoosier and a deadhead from the heart of Indiana, this still holds true. Went to the show last week at deer creek and shakedown street was looking very healthy
Isaiah Keiser for real ?
These tests came back in the 90’s on the Portland Homeless Youth, which was a homeless crisis at the time. Just did a vid on that subject. Some of it made it into rock music history in popular songs, so it’s the stories behind those songs, for those interested.
Also GD were cool guys. Very kind. Saw them once live when young. Super nice. We helped promote Cherries Garcia back then when it came out. On opening day kids lined up across ice cream shops everywhere. Fun day.
I also wanna say that what happened in the 90’s when those tests came back, was not nice or cool or funny. Many lost their lives. And testing on people isn’t ok or legal. Seems they knew the effects from the 60’s anyway. Often there’s people who get paid when that stuff occurs. The test coordinators & sponsors make a ton off of others suffering. It should ever be allowed to happen again. It’s one thing if people do recreational stuff on their own cuz they want. It’s another when it’s across so many who might not be being told everything, & might end up injured as a result.
*never
Hey was always so humble, and I love that about him. I love when he talks about the forming of the band and dude asks "how did it sound?", and Jerry replies "it sounded like hell".😀
blank on blank does the BEST interviews.. started on Hunter Thompson about 2hrs ago and just kept going... brilliant!!!!
The most humble rockstar that has ever existed.
Happy birthday, Jerry!
You guys should do one with Geddy Lee or one of the other members of Rush.
Frijolero18 R.I.P Neil
There was a similar scene going on in Woodstock, NY. And down the road in New Paltz, at the college.
And Millbrook.....
Some of that acid is made for reunion... it's so beautiful it makes you cry.....
I enjoy their music i love playing guitar And i really appreciate their contributions to the music industry
All the beautiful people’s sentiments in these comments make me real happy. Thank you Jer, it’s incredible to think how many lives you & the dead contributed an immense amount of good to(~);}
Jerry sounds like Jerry, he sounds like a nobody, like a friend or just a voice I need not to focus on, as if there is no threat or any worry. Truly he was peace at heart.
Miss Jerry 😢🙏🏼🕯✨
I want to hug Jerry.
Thank you Jerry. And Grateful Dead. For changing my life. And. pointing me in the right direction.
Jerry sounds like the most purely innocent person. You could never imagine him saying something mean.
@Mary's Catholics That was when they all started doing coke.That damn drug makes you crazy.Check out that Amazon movie on The Dead.It really explains a lot.
@@danieltessier8036 I agree.
Ole Jerry was a AGENT for the CIA Charlie , in case U didnt know that
Phil's playing on "Friend of the Devil" is STILL phenomenal.
Well done. This will become popular.
the acid tests sound like the house that my step brother and I rented out for about 7 years, at this time in my life i was taking L almost every night, I would have 3 "sometimes 4" nights off a week, and every Saturday night we would have a few friends over and of course I would dose them, and then about an hour later there would be like 2- to 30 people at my house who either my Step brother or I would dose. Everyone would be chilling outside, or in the house somewhere and we never had an issue with our neighbors or the cops because everyone would just be either relaxing, talking quiet, zoning out on something, or in the basement playing video games quietly or playing music which was at a level where it wasn't too loud, you couldn't hear it upstairs that well and you couldn't hear it outside at all. these were some of the best nights of my life. My S. brother and I would sometimes leave with a couple of friends and take a ride downtown along the lakefront on LSD, so we be on LSD driving down LSD "Lake Shore Drive" in Chicago, and yes, everyone calls it LSD which is kinda funny
You can't take syd every night, it would quit working after first couple of days, and only work two days in a row if you double or triple dosage. Do your research before you tell stories.
I'm just old enough to have caught 2 Dead shows when I was 18 before Jerry died. I wish I could have gotten to more, but am thankful for those two shows. My generation picked up where they left off with Phish. I've been to something like 50 of their shows now. Mostly in the late 90s, but I still go occasionally. It's a similar experience, but different in some fundamental ways too.
Thanks Jerry
Jerry was the best
Why does the drawing of Jerry have 5 fingers? :/
David Harrison for quick and witty aware people like you..so to keep your extra special senses alert ;)
LOL! Good point!
In death he is whole again.
His brother (when they were kids) accidentally chopped his middle finger off his right hand with an axe at the second knuckle!
Ratko Mladic this comment just won the internet
Good work .. Jerry will always be missed !
Jerry is such a blessing
There's a lot of wonderful music being made out there. In someways, better than ever. But there is something that grows out of 6 nights a week/5 sets a night thing that could be missing today.
These interviews helped me through college
I read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Still have vivid images of La Honda, but that’s because of Tom Wolfe’s writing. I can well imagine myself being zonked out and wandering around the place.
Me too! Id kill to go back to the mid 60s bay area before it got publicized and ruined in 67. Have you seen the documentary about that bus ride, they use the footage and audio of Ken Kesey and the Merry pranksters? Its free on TUBI too!
Love this..wish I could've been there then...don't you?
sounds like an absolute blast
“Stuff happened” THAT WAS A MOMENT FOR A GOOD FOLLOW UP QUESTION
What a wonderful interview! Funny how Jerry talks about having adventures. I love that band. I was out riding the rails hopping freight trains and going to Festivals where the Dead played back in the day. Life was hard -running from railroad bulls, cops and starving- but the music was awesome. 15 years later in the mid ‘80s Deadheads had it easy but the music was awful-hard drugs killed that band.
I so love the Grateful Dead, been a deadhead since the 70s...
I heard Jerry do some great riffs and Bob sang with his real serious look on his face we loved it when they played box of rain
You can definitely hop freight and hitchhike in America still. I've been doing it for years now.
O hell yeah!
Now you got us on The Bus, mofos!
Warlocks, cartoons, & dictionaries changing societies....
Pranksters, Acid & The Grateful Dead's space-age military nightmare stuff....
Jerry Garcia's On The Phone & He's telling this story....
Crazy stuff I'm seeing on PBS these days!
Y'all got me hooked!
these are all awesome, i am addicted...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!! i love these interviews!!! MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE...
I love that guy!
2:15, actual footage of the gig that night hahaha.
LMFAO!!!
wish I could've got to hang out at ken kesey's with the merry pranksters.... bet it was a beautiful time to be alive... I was 30 years to late
Yeah, me too. But I just wish I could've seen the Dead perform at some point in the 70s (in particular, '72 would've been amazing). The music lives on, though...
Kevin Wright Hang in there; the wheel keeps turning and it's all coming back around again right now. This time it's just in different clothing and less 'in-your-face' and public. They had Timothy Leary, but we have Rick Doblin. The new psychedelic Renaissance has aligned itself with science instead of anarchy, and this will be a good thing in the long run. Anarchy can be fun, but it, and anything associated with it, gets immediately targeted and quickly decimated by western 'dominator' culture every time. Luckily, science has realized how important and fascinating psychedelic drugs are, and even a dominator culture like the US can't crush science, at least not forever.
Gautama Buddha said it best- "Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." Ideas are invincible, and as long as there are psychedelic drugs humans will want them, and science will study them, and revolutions will continue to happen until psychedelics are accessible and available to us with all of the great personal and cultural freedoms they have in tow.
Last time psychedelics were crushed. This time I think they're here to stay, eventually legally. Psilocybin is set to be an FDA-approved treatment option by the year 2021, MDMA even sooner. You may have actually been born at *just* the right time!
I have to check out this Rick Doblin guy. Other than a goog;e search, what can I expect?
my thoughts exactly
Nick C I Came Eye Ball 2 Eye Ball With Jerry At 1st Show (March 21 1971 RI Auditorium Providence ri) Grokked Them 1966. Went Well As He Let Me Get Behind Amp Line , Making A Long Fantastic Story Small, But This Is For Intrepid Travelers, Who Find Way Here. UR Wise Nick, True Words! Anyway, Met Bear Armed With His Murine Bottle & He Says To Me Holding Out Hand Palm Down & He Was Dropping Drops On Back Of Any Hand Held His Way & Says With A Devilish Gleam In His Eye 2 Me " Oh, You Want Some Too?" Never Flinched, So,3 Drops Later,Plus A Half Hour,& I Was Feeling Those Around Me, Thoughts! I Am Naturally Inclined , You Understand. What A Intro To LIVE DEAD! Can U Say Mind Expansion 🙀! Sat Behind Pig,Whole Show (2Feet!) & At End Of 2ed Set, End Up In A Circle With The Boys! Pigpen On My Right,Bobby On My Left,Phil,Jerry,Billy,On Jerry's Left.Pig,Left Of Billy,Me! I'am Directly Across From Spud Boy! The Swilling Electricity Swiping Around The Circle Was Mentally Overwhelming! I Had To Close My Eyes! When I Did, I Look At Jerry,He's Smiling! I Will Never Forget His Eyes, It's Carried Me , Beautifully For 50 Years! Thanks Boys, Bear,& Especially Jerry,&Phil, For A Rush That's Burning Through Me Still! I Was A Phycoalfadiscobatabioaquadoodoo Acid Delivery Man For Bear,Until He Was Busted,A Sad Sad Day In My Life! The Supply Has Never Stopped! U Want To Lift Off Go 2 Any Dead Related Show,Just Ask Those On Shakedown Street,If It's Meant 2B,It's Gonna B There 4U,The Summer Of Love Never Stopped! It EXPANDED, The Ripples,Keep Flowing Outward,2 The Universe. There Is Hope,UR Not Alone 🖖🏽S.
Wish i could have heard more of this interview.
Awesome band, awesome animator. This series is great.
Great stuff, thanks for the creation and upload.
Could listen to Jerry talk all day long.
makes me wanna drop! haha RIP Jerr Bear
Do Dr. Hunter S. Thompson!
MrFartboy79 :-D Good luck. Is there a good interview with him that would lend itself to this format?
MrFartboy79 Just posted one about his days with the Hell's Angels
Jerry was the prophet standen on the burnin shore. Jerry your gone but certainly not forgotten my friend.
Wish there was video of that acid test at Keseys
The lampoonery in the visuals is off the hook hysterical. Hope they made it into LOC, for future generations to jive with.
Nice video! Thanks for sharing it!
Lived and died by drugs, miss you Jerry.
Dumbass. ❤️
Daawww, Jerry
I have to agree with Myron Buck, below, Jerry " had a certain pragmatism that was hard not to love". He had been through the wringer and had come out on the other side distilled but whole. He is missed sorely at least 3 or 4 times a week in my home.
And I know this is just an animation, but you need to get Jerry's right hand fingers right, man...
H.Neill Augustine Hey Man,Look Close,They Got It Right,His Right Hand Is Missing The Correct Digit! I'am An Artist,4Ever,It's Missing, With The Loose Style It's Not Blatant,Dude,Just Saying ✌🏽⚡️⚡️⚡️
I meet jerry in 1989 at the UBC Vancouver outdoor venue, people were approachable somewhat in dem days(close enough to say hows it going "EH") I said, HI Jerry(thought he might tip his head of something) and he stopped and looked at me and said Hey man, how's it going, you look like you got some sun today haha ...and he walked off... he was all sweety and wet, looked pale and breathing heavy I remember that.
thank you guys!
This is so vry interesting, all of these Acid Test Stories amaze me!!
I was never a big Dead fan, but I never thought for a moment that they weren’t talented guys, and that they weren’t really intelligent.
Maybe one of the secrets to their success, was that they really didn’t care about being successful; as Garcia mentions here, they were mainly just out to have a good time... and that was probably very liberating for them, allowing them to develop their own unique musical style, because if commercial success wasn’t their main motivation, then they didn’t need to adhere to the music business’s status quo of looking for artists/bands who were the “next big thing” that always seems to be based upon an already-existing “big thing”. That happened then, and it still happens now...
Record execs saying to their label reps, “Give me another Elvis” in 1957, to label owners saying, “We need another Beatles” in 1964, to A&R people saying, “We need another Michael Jackson” in 1982, to both saying, “Give me another Nirvana” in 1990... ad infinitum.
The Grateful Dead didn’t fit into any category, they didn’t feel the need to, and as a result, they became their own thing... which of course, ultimately made them hugely successful.
IMHO.
“We played for about 5 minutes. The. We basically freaked out, you know”
You should make a LENNY BRUCE ONE, he was a ICON! {And basically a sacrificial Lamb -...on the lamb!-}
What I would do to go back in time and experience being a hippie :(
greatest story ever
these drawings are fucking hysterical , this is some classic shit
Reminds me of the scene in "Spinal Tap" when they talk about the origin of the name.
Thats so cool how they could start a band by just being able to walk up and play , like crowd and band were the same.
These animations are awesome.
Thank you!
ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT JERRY!!!
Awesome. Thank you.
Congrats !
Great stuff
Just found this channel fucking brilliant mate cheers
Long live Jerry Garcia in our hearts and minds 😻☮️😻. JGB was the best ! Luckily he escaped this ConJOB 19 BS ! He raised our vibrations and was real life evidence that our creator loves us ! 😻
hell yes. love you jerry
smiles from ear to ear, mucho mahalos kimosabe
"luckily the following week we got fired" indeed...
YES
So cool.
2022 RIP CHRIS ALEXANDER 10/22/21