Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia by Robert Greenfield

Author:Robert Greenfield [Greenfield, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Music, Biography
ISBN: 9780062268310
Google: 7qdFtwyxu7cC
Amazon: 0061715727
Goodreads: 645087
Publisher: It Books
Published: 1996-12-30T11:00:00+00:00

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John “Marmaduke” Dawson: I actually got a toke on Jerry’s dragon one day. This was probably around ’75. He was chasing the dragon down a piece of aluminum foil. Because that was what he did. He never shot it. He would have never been a shooting junkie. He would have harmed himself in any other kind of way but I don’t think he would have stuck a needle in. I said, “Can I check some of this out?” He was not willing to share it or talk about it. It was just, “This is what I’m doing. If you want to have something to do with it, I’ll give you a hit because you’re here and I’m about to do it. I’m not going to stop because you’re in front of me. I’m going to do it and if you want a hit, then fine.” But he wasn’t particularly volunteering it.

Elanna Wyn-ellis: At the Keystone years ago was where I first noticed him doing it but I didn’t understand. I said, “What are you doing, Jerry?” He looked at me and he said, “You’re just like Marmaduke. You want to know everything.” Instantly, he regretted being snappy. He said to me, “This is what I’m doing,” and he showed me.

Richard Loren: It got brought to us in 1976 and I’ll never forget the first time it came. This brown powder. People were saying how wonderful this stuff was. You just smoked it. It was not really heroin. It was Persian opium. People said, “Hey man, let’s try it. Whew. This is great.” I’ll never forget telling Jerry, “Jerry. This stuff is great but I’m going to wait till I’m fifty-five years old. When my bones start to creak and things start to hurt, maybe that’s the time for it. But I don’t want to get strung out on this now.” It was very seductive. So I stayed away from it. I never really got into it. But Jerry did. The guy could never say no. He had what I would call an addictive personality. Whether it was sugar or cigarettes or coffee or whatever, it was very difficult for him to say no. His thing was, “If you’re not having fun, don’t do it.” Besides music, fun to him was cigarettes, pot, coffee, cocaine. If he had a weakness, that was it. He was human, after all. For all his other incredible traits, this was his weakness.

Owsley Stanley: Garcia started in ’75 or ’76. Someone gave him what he was told was opium to smoke and it wasn’t. It was ninety-five percent pure heroin base, so-called Persian. I don’t think he knew what it was that he was getting. Garcia smoked the stuff thinking it was a very pure form of Persian opium. The thing about heroin when it’s smoked is that the material condenses in the lungs in a sort of tar that is soluble and the body slowly absorbs it. So it’s like sticking a needle in your vein with a drip.

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