The bus, however, was in a hiccupy mood and would only get moving 25 miles an hour up the hill, choking and gasping, overloaded and full of very high Pranksters.". His pedal steel and a chair the only furniture. Jerry promised that they would get a house together. "The Haight-Ashbury era," as Tom Wolfe later wrote, "began that weekend.". Annabelle remembers encountering a junkie shooting up on their doorstep. "Well," she asked him, "what are we going to do?". With the New York trip done, he was planning what he called a "Prankster Farewell Party," a send-off for those who now had to return to their jobs and lives. Ken Kesey's girlfriend Mountain Girl holds her baby daughter Sunshine. But I was a little envious of the glamour queens, you know. After leaving Kesey in Mexico, where he was hiding out to avoid US drug charges, Mountain Girl returned to San Francisco with a newborn and an uncertain future. It was really hard and frightening for her. KLCC General Manager, News Director and other KLCC Staff met with Springfield listeners and dignitaries.KLCC Staff on their way to Newport!Destination #2: NewportWhen: Friday, 4/21/17, 4-6 pmWhere: Newport Performing Arts CenterWhat: KLCC Staff will meet with area listeners to learn more about the Newport community. However out of step she had felt among the kids back home, she now found her place among the generation's leading artists, writers, and radicals: Timothy Leary ("I thought he was kind of an actor he was busy playing a role"), Albert Hoffmann, the chemist who discovered LSD ("a saint and a mystic, and a gay man, just a sweetheart"), Hunter S. Thompson ("an important guy for the country"). I don't know.' He was living in a cheap motel in the beachfront town of Mazatln, conferring with his lawyer and looking jittery, skinny, and paranoid. And that was a faith in the rightness of our relationship. "After he had left and moved in with Deborah. I want to be a pioneer!" It is to Pleasant Hill that Carolyn Garcia retreated many years ago, during her nearly three decade liaison and marriage to Jerry Garcia - the totemic Captain Trips, guitar-genius/linchpin of the Grateful Dead - when the druggy Deadhead scene got too weird and dangerous. "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". Kesey (left) with Neal Cassady, who introduced him to Mountain Girl when she was 19. But, for me, its kind of like a meditative practice. ", But, laughs Scully, "Nobody ever saw her and Jerry because they never came out of their room. The Pranksters were gassing up the bus to head to Mexico. The previously unreleased complete performance is mastered from John Cutler's original soundboard recordings. For MG, which is how her intimates shorten her name, the Pranksters were her college, the University of Fun. The hood was open. After splitting with Walker, she took up with Jerry Garcia, but they did not marry for many years after. It's a clear, cold afternoon in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, and Mountain Girl, dressed in a black parka and jeans, is sharing a joint with her three grown daughters. The mythology of the time, and the dynamic young woman at the heart of it, was written mostly by men Wolfe, Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady all of whom. In 1966, Kesey was still officially a fugitive. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. I couldn't understand why I was born a girl. "You could tell the number of people was way exceeding the ability of anybody to deal with it." But to her, it didn't feel like the same party anymore. I had heard rumors and didn't want to say anything because I knew that it would hurt her very deeply.". Dean Budnick on December 2, 2020 Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia and Annabelle Garcia "I sincerely believe that the more people that we can expose to Jerry's. Happy the dog, her head splotched with a huge drop of blue paint, flushed a covey of peacocks which rose above the trees and the parked bus, scattering rainbow feathers and squawking bloody murder. "It was not a fun trip, let's put it that way." I would go home and make some orange juice and he'd show back up again, sleep for a couple of days and recharge. So youve gotta stay grounded, stay humble, be realistic. As most suspected, it was yet another prank. A friend had smuggled him across the border to an undisclosed location in Mexico. "Hitchhiked up I-5, pregnant with no money whatsoever, begging cups of coffee off of people." The battle between Mountain Girl and the woman some people secretly call "Dark Deborah" or the "Black Widow" has a long and difficult history going back more than 20 years. Jerry Garcia is just the latest celebrity to have his legacy immortalized in Colorado with a weed brand. We are on a rock hurtling through space, and its all amazing. [Laughs.]. When it appeared that he would survive, she and the girls moved in with him in San Rafael and for six months, she had the family life she had always wanted. How long have you been thinking about a cannabis brand? Like Mountain Girl, he was looking for family. Ken (Kesey) could have made yard art out of it. It was the summer of 1963. With Jerry at her side, Mountain Girl was at the center of it all, counting Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin among her growing family of friends. She took command of the situation, telling them that they were now the only family she had. He could see the musical notes, he told her. ", The joy and harmony in the Garcia family was challenged further in 1975, shortly after the birth of the Garcias' second daughter, Theresa, nicknamed "Trixie" by Kit Candaleria, one of the Dead's roadies. "It was fall. And his nuts were actually well-educated college students with athletic prowess mostly pretty, athletic people." The personal relationships within the band and their own personal relationships shattered under tremendous pressure. It was such a special thing," she says. The tiny sink was a hazard zone. I never socialized with the fan base or anything like that. But as Garcia's addiction worsened, Mountain Girl took their daughters and moved to a farm in Oregon, where some of the other Pranksters had moved. The fight over his intellectual and real property continues. ", At the same time, she says, "it was joyous.". I think I went for a lot of stuff. It was a minor note, although I suppose it wasn't minor for me at the time because I was young and attractive. I understood men at that point." The first in a series of archive releases celebrating the run of Jerry Garcia shows on Broadway in Oct/Nov 1987. "We mustered the instruments up on the roof thinking to lead a parade to the Cow Palace. "I didn't want any whinging. Im really proud of what weve done with the space at Garcias at The Capitol [Theatre] and the whole concept behind it. For Carolyn Adams, it was her second brush with genius. "I began to realize the dangers of celebrity that had to do with the Grateful Dead attracting a lot of people to themselves who were unconventional. "It's a perilous society if you don't look a certain way," he said. "It worked for me to have a different identity," she says. Everybody was attached to it.". Menu. Special Thanks to: Trixie Garcia, Annabelle Garcia, Heather Katz, Sunshine Kesey, Carolyn Adams Garcia, Keelin Garcia, Manasha Garcia, Coran Capshaw, Jonathan Blaufarb and Vivek Sridharan at Counsel, LLP, Elliot Groffman, Paul Gutman, Ira Friedman and David Keady At Carroll, Guido and Groffman, LLP, Mark Pinkus, Jeffrey Norman, David Lemieux, Steve Parish, Bill Orner, AND A VERY SPECIAL THANK . "My father was not a person who was ambitious in a materialistic way," says Carolyn's brother, Gordon Adams, 57, who runs a computer help line for architects and designers in Seattle. It was definitely a mild psychedelic experience with a lot of long, complex dreams, mostly about ancient ruined cities - Mayan - and jaguars. Read more Discourse stories here. It takes a monumental person to be with them.". Browse 85 sunshine kesey stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. She wasn't a judgmental kind of person, she was just brutally frank. At Jerry's funeral, Annabelle, his older daughter with Mountain Girl, said, "He was a great musician and a shitty father." Six months later, Garcia had some dental work and got involved with pain relievers. And boy, do I run from that stuff. Until then, the strongest drug she'd ever had was coffee. And then this sort of unusual set of circumstances occurred whereby Jerry " Her conversation tails off into an uncomfortable silence. I fear she did most of the adapting.". The engine had been cannibalized for parts for Furthur II, the "new bus" that Kesey was taking on what fellow Prankster Kenneth Babbs was calling the Grand Furthur Tour to the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. So Garcias Hand Picked means that we are actually in there tasting and trying these products. Although Garcia and Adams reconciled after the dissolution of his relationship with Koons in 1977, they stopped cohabiting a year later (save for occasional holiday reunions) due to the guitarist's heroin and cocaine addictions. Initially. "I wanted to stay on the bus," she says. Thats a whole thing that wasnt even acceptable in the fine art world like 20 years ago. Not even when she and Jerry, after two children and 15 years together, got married on New Year's Eve 1981, between sets at the Dead's traditional New Year's show. ", "If you're involved with somebody with a talent like Jerry's, the richness of his gift to everybody was so powerful, you have to give them a lot of latitude to express that gift," she says in retrospect. And Mountain Girl wasn't sure how she felt about it. He was sad. When I met Kesey and the Pranksters, I had that understanding immediately - that these guys were going to be my friends for a very long time. And then there was a former Philadelphia assistant district attorney who drove West, determined to "move in with Jerry.". In the course of a few months, some 100,000 young people from all over the world descended on Haight-Ashbury to get high and make love and protest the war. Tibetan monks sang in strange, low tones. Jerry had that fortune or misfortune, that when he falls, he falls hard." Looking back on it, Adams realized that Cassady was handing her over to the Chief, along with the drugs. ", It was her first glimpse of Furthur, the bus Kesey and the Pranksters had just driven to and from the World's Fair in New York, becoming poster children for the promise and perils of life, liberty, and LSD. She never taught me any rules and benched me forever." [1] Despite her maiden name, Garcia, she is not related to Jerry Garcia, an incorrect assumption made by some because of her involvement with Furthur, a post-Garcia incarnation of the Grateful Dead. He had a very bright, engaging repartee going all the time, which I just loved. Like her, he was looking for family. I painted that bus! Ken Kesey's ranch in La Honda, California, where Mountain Girl joined the Pranksters. I was way upset. Soon after they coupled up, Mountain Girl moved with the baby into 710 Ashbury, the Dead's commune in the Haight, coincidentally on the day that Tangerine moved out. I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. After moving in with Garcia, Mountain Girl became the "den mother," as she puts it, of the Grateful Dead: cooking, cleaning, rustling them out the door on time. "We were trying to do an end run on the legal system and get the ball around to the other side of the court without having to engage a whole lot of people in the process. He stole her white Alfa Romeo and drove it into a ditch; he papered the town of Stinson Beach with bad checks and told people that she would pay his bills and he let the air out of the tires of her VW van. Chips and Twinkies. And that level of his dedication really fired everybody. A month after the Grateful Dead's summer 1995 tour concluded, Garcia died at a rehabilitation facility in August 1995. "I was sitting on the ground, and all of a sudden the redwood needles started to rearrange themselves. Carolyn "went to war with her" and eventually, the gym teacher saw to it that she was expelled only six weeks before graduation. But for Mountain Girl, it lives forever, an emblem of everything her generation believed in, and all that they achieved. Bob Campbell/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images. Can you share a status update on that? mixer. If Mountain Girl wanted to come, she better hitchhike down to LA fast, before they split. Were trying to live up to a set of ideals and work with folks who understand what Jerry means to people. "She came and stayed with me," says Goldie Rush, who was living in Greenbrae at the time, right behind the hospital. ", "Bill is a wonderful man," says Sunshine Kesey, who, with her halo of white-blond curls resembles her father, Ken Kesey. We tried to keep the mess to a minimum. So not wanting to put dumb flourishes on his face or have Jerrys face on top of a pyramid or all these things that people have wanted to do. "There was a star they could look at who had to hide out. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. The mist was coming through the trees, and Adams made out a large vehicle in the distance, painted like a kaleidoscope. another Prankster, Mike Hagen, asked her. Some of it is just knowing my dads personality and what things made him uncomfortable because he was a stylish guy. She was amazingly beautiful. She was the plaintiff in a court case seeking the balance of the $5 million settlement arrived at in a contract that she and Garcia had drafted as their divorce agreement in 1993. Cassady, she learned, had come across her at the caf while he was making a drug run to pick up the amphetamine pills Kesey needed to stay alert. Thats also important. The week after the Trips Festival, on January 31, 1966, Furthur was found abandoned on a cliffside road, high above the crashing shore of Eureka. And he hadn't been supporting her and their child. ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. It would have been like a ballplayer missing a game. No matter how peeved you get with people, the bus always makes your heart jump. The resurgence of life. ", She and Kesey were "mutually attracted." He could see the musical notes, he told her. "It was a very egalitarian moment a lot of sharing, a lot of caring," she says. "It'll ruin my calluses if I do the dishes,' he told me. A A. It was never a mistake.". One of her father's progenitors was Dr. Samuel Adams, a physician in General Burgoyne's army during the Revolutionary War. "I was like, whoa, that was a really electric moment!" Tracks Festival Fever K.C. In Carolyn Adams, the Pranksters instantly recognized one of their own. Eventually, the rest of the Pranksters loaded themselves onto Furthur and trekked down to Manzanillo, where they lived in a small rancho with a red and white checkerboard roof. "You could come stay with me," he said. at Red Rocks Garcia's 75th Bday. "I was mortified," she says. Caravans of Deadheads turned Jerry and Mountain Girl into godheads. Jerry holds Sunshine Kesey as Mountain Girl looks on at the Heliport, the Grateful Dead's rehearsal space in Sausalito. I think everybody had a crush on her.". I walked over to look, amazed. I believe growers are artists and they need good management. ", It was August 31, 1965, and everyone piled into Furthur, the painted school bus that would soon become one of the most renowned icons of the Sixties. Evangeline Gomorrah Let It Rock That Lucky Old Sun Tangled Up In Blue I'll Take A Melody They Love Each Other Get Out Of My Life Woman Run For The Roses Stop That Train Mission In The Rain My Sisters And Brothers Deal The Harder They Come Waiting For A Miracle I Shall Be Released Think I Hope It Won't Be This Way, Always Don't Let Go Evangeline "I cry when I see the bus now, are you kidding?" State. I rebelled against the Grateful Dead as a teenager. Mountain Girl, second wife of Jerry Garcia, holds her daughter, Sunshine, backstage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. She and Garcia lived off his $50 a week in gig money. She named her baby girl Sunshine Kesey. I jumped in to make a few dinners and keep the pantry stocked. And this is no ordinary late-night, East Bay, marijuana mind game. Our writers provide thought-provoking perspectives, informed by analysis, reporting, and expertise. She wrote about the ride, and reads it to me: Meanwhile, fumbling in his pocket, he produces a handful of pills, and an assortment of newspaper clippings and matches. "The first time I saw her, she was riding a 175 Honda motorcycle, driving east on La Honda Road. Instead, it brought the year and the decade to a dark and violent end. It was like opting to be an alien. They were monumental. And in what medium do you prefer to work? Garcia to Deborah Koons and Mountain Girl back to Oregon and the big, rugged logger she had met, Bill Burwell. I dont need to come in there and tell Peter Shapiro how to interpret Jerry Garcias vibe. I say that after talking to so many Deadheads, who have testified to me that the Grateful Dead changed their lives.. She'd gotten to know Jerry a little better, having spent a cold night in the bus platonically huddling between him and Pigpen, the Dead's keyboardist, for warmth. The. At home in Oregon, where she's down to shrooming twice a year. In those days, Mountain Girl was the brash, 19-year-old "it girl" of the nascent psychedelic underground. "As the new attraction, I was getting a lot of interest from the unattached males," Adams recalls. Special thanks to: Trixie Garcia, Annabelle Garcia, Tiff Garcia, Heather Katz, Sunshine Kesey, Carolyn Adams Garcia, Keelin Garcia, Manasha Garcia, Coran Capshaw, Jonathan Blaufarb and Vivek Sridharan at Councel, LLP, Elliot Groffman, Paul Gutman, Ira Friedman and Kelly Corson at Carroll, Guido and Groffman, LLP, Mark Pinkus, Nicholas Meriwether, Jeffrey Norman, David Lemieux, Steve Parish . The free concert, scheduled for December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California, would include performances by the Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Rolling Stones. Nobody can measure up. A Hells Angel, she later learned, had stabbed a gun-wielding concertgoer to death at the foot of the stage. I think I did the best I could with a tough situation. We tried to keep the mess to a minimum. Somehow she and Garcia remained intertwined through it all. "Cassady was on a speed run, looking for bennies," Garcia remembers. She was judge and jury in those days. "It seemed the only safe place," she recalls. "I was on the hunt for compatible people," says Garcia now. But Mountain Girl had been around long enough to know that, in the words painted on the Pranksters' bus, Nothing Lasts. Complete independence. Once you've had a little kid, it's very difficult to focus on being a P.A. Any sign of a trap and I'm moving. "She had the ability to meld her energy with the energy of others to do more than what one person could do by themselves. Im so stoked that we found professionals who were already successful in other markets. But, she emphasizes, the gestalt of the Dead, that the whole was so much greater than the parts, kept her a believer. "Where did you come from?" Photo: Gene Anthony: 1966 Meals got planned; bathrooms were cleaned. After. I think I did a pretty good job. Meanwhile, Jerry would wander in and out of her life. Snacks, beer, giveaways! For Carolyn Adams, the trip to wonderland started when a famously Mad Hatter offered her a ride. And she wanted to help that greatness.". Growing up, all this visionary artist stufflike psychedelic art, comic book artserved as my inspiration. [1] The family had a house in San Rafael, California, as well as a beach house in Stinson Beach, California.[7]. Left to moulder in the weeds. The whole vibe of the Capitol is amazing and authentic. "Marijuana is an ancient plant, cultivated for centuries all over the world for rope & papermaking, for its oil, resin, & seeds," she writes in her memoir. GarciaLive Volume 19: October 31st, 1992 Oakland Coliseum Arena showcases Garcia's return to the stage with the Jerry Garcia Band following a second major health crisis. Inside her plant-filled home lined with scientific books on psilocybin and posters of the Grateful Dead, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, legendary godmother of the hippie counterculture, Jerry's ex-wife, and mother of their two daughters, sits on a red leather couch dressed in a red shirt and purple pants. It began in 1966 and extended nearly 28 years until the couple divorced in 1993. Theres a simplicity with the no-nonsense, real-deal, getto-the-good-music feel of the space. "Neal basically dropped me off there like fresh meat or something," she says. This year it also served as a major platform for charitable endeavors. I mean, there were no "scenes.' "I went down for a long time." She spent every minute she could out of doors, exploring the local terrain and, she writes, "imagining myself running long distance over the old Mohawk trail or hunting deer or making the clothes and foods of the Indians." After an acid trip, it's always desirable to have a cozy warm spot to retreat to and sleep, even outdoors. I was very much in love with Jerry's music and supported it, but our personal relationship was sort of outside that. But as Jerry's addiction worsened, MG took the girls and moved to a farm in Oregon, where some of the other Pranksters had moved. When you hear a pitch, to what extent can you be swayed by someone who has a deep and personal connection to your fathers music? It's got little mottos written all over it." "She spoke her mind and was quite tolerant except for anything that approached ignorance. And I was like: What a bunch of baloney. I decided not to do much. I had f - - - - d up the sample and taken the thing out of commission for a day. "Just about nothing. Adams felt, as she puts it, "in a juvenile state of admiration for a good writer, for a famous person who is now taking me into his scene.". Suddenly, as Kesey and Mountain Girl were sharing the joint, they found themselves surrounded by a phalanx of cops. In a loosely autobiographical screenplay he wrote called "Over the Border," he rhapsodizes about "her big brown eyes made even bigger by the electricity of the warm autumn night with the stars above and her man beside her. "She is the real deal.". In 1980, on New Year's Eve, they got married by a Buddhist monk backstage at a Dead concert. But there was a part of Jerry's and my relationship that was unshatterable by any means that's persisted until today. Also, at the end of the day, the whole world is a mystery. But when the day arrived, the crowd of 300,000 grew increasingly unruly as the Hells Angels, who had been brought in to provide security, grew increasingly drunk. "She was Jerry's girlfriend. But she's come out ahead of the game. ", "I never met a woman with quite as much machismo as this girl had," marvels Scully. PLEASANT HILL, Oregon - "Come on and see The Bus," ordered Mountain Girl over her shoulder as she rushed hell-for-leather down the back steps of Ken Kesey's red barn home. Mountain Girl would ride Rush's bike over a rutted short cut to the hospital and sit by Jerry's bed, willing him to live. And that was the end of the conversation. Her eyes well with tears. So that kind of separated me. 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