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Garcia and The Dead – The Blair Jackson Interview…
Blair Jackson was the editor of BAM magazine in the late seventies and wrote the definitive biography on Jerry Garcia.
http://blairjackson.com/
To have him on my program puts me one step closer to the pre-coma years that I covet so much. Blair was a great sport putting up with my eccentric questions related to Garcia's physical appearance in '84, how to tell what year a particular Shakedown Street was played and how the band traveled from Burlington to Rochester.
Slight tape warble at the 8:00 min. mark!
Have at it!
JF
Great interview. thanks Jake and Blair!
I like Blair’s work alot, but I’ve been having the same problem listening to this interview. I’ve tried it a few times now and I get to about the 9 minute mark (Jake and Blair are talking about Garcia’s obvliviousness to his appearance) and all of a sudden, the stream sounds like it’s going into a tunnel or turbulence and gets so garbled that it’s unintelligible. Is it just me? I’ll try rebooting again and see if that helps. Thanks again for the interview. Eric
Hey Eric-
A cosmic disturbance occurred for about 3 min of the interview.
If you fast forward through you should be smooth sailing from there.
Onward,
JF
Thanks for showing some serious Brent love. I hate how he has always been shunned, and portrayed as a manic depressive bi polar drug addict/alcoholic. Its really pretty sickening, from the “publicist” Scrib, and countless other books, that have failed to portray him in an accurate light. Blair did him justice the best he could in a book focused on Jerry. At times it seemed as if a man of his stature couldn’t hold all the weight being thrust upon him. His grave marker says it best – “He loved his Family, His Music, and His Friends”. Thanks again!
Brent Mydland was one of the best!!! Nobody made those keys scream like Brent. I love him and miss him!!!
Grateful ed!