Jerry Garcia interview audio

Easter Weekend, 1987, backstage between sets at Irvine Meadows, CA

Jerry Garcia, with Bill Graham and members of the Grateful Dead; a conversation with Allan Dodds Frank and Ed Cone

Read the background story of the interview.

The interview is broken up into 10 segments, the meatiest stuff is in 6-9.

Track 1 chatter, intro

Track 2 suicide pact and human sacrifice

Track 3  the wall of money

Track 4 what matters

Track 5 (not) going down the road

Track 6 "jump around...try weird stuff"

Track 7 "existentially, that's the reality"

Track 8 "an extrapolation of the old me"

Track 9  Borges story

Track 10  Time, ladies and gentleman