It hadn't been running for a very long time. Thats what motivates me to continue to do licensing, Jerry Garcias daughter Trixie reflects, as she discusses her familys recent business ventures. "I suppose I would have been pretty good pickings for a cult," she laughs. But much of that time, Jerry was on tour. Now 76, with shoulder-length gray hair and black-framed glasses, she's reading me an excerpt from her unpublished memoir, which she just dug out of an old brown box. The Man Share Music Video for Dummy, Outline New LP, Joe Louis Walker: Scaling The Electric Fence. She saw Joan Baez at Kepler's, a local bookstore, and started taking guitar lessons at Dana Morgan's Music Store. "I was totally devastated," she says. Nobody can measure up. Caravans of Deadheads turned Jerry and Mountain Girl into godheads. "I had a little "spill,' " she laughs, "and got really high. The first in a series of archive releases celebrating the run of Jerry Garcia shows on Broadway in Oct/Nov 1987. I had a new baby. Destination #1: SpringfieldWhen: Friday, 2/17/17Where: Washburne Caf, Springfield, ORWhat: KLCC Staff rolled into Springfield in their mobile studio to meet the public and learn more about the community. But, says Gordon "Dass" Adams, Carolyn Garcia's oldest brother, "Jerry was a lousy husband.". Until then, Mountain Girl had always considered their relationship to be "buddy-buddy." Instead, it brought the year and the decade to a dark and violent end. It had been only two years since she'd met Kesey and taken up with the Pranksters, but it felt like a lifetime. Their adventures, as immortalized in Tom Wolfe's seminal book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," inspired legions of young people eager to break the shackles of the 1950s and embark on a new age of personal freedom. "Well," she asked him, "what are we going to do?". Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. "He was crazy and he'd been to too many Dead shows," she says. The intellectual climate at Kesey's was free of academic constraints," remembers Carolyn Garcia. "I'm not sorry about it particularly," she said. 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. It was not a mistake. ", Mountain Girl and Jerry divorced in 1993. 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. That she was 18, unmarried and pregnant with Kesey's child didn't really register until the birth was upon her. 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." Mountain Girl believes he was still suffering from the trauma of seeing his father, Joe, drown on a fishing trip when he was 6. Sunshine Kesey is one of renown author and merry maker, Ken Kesey's, children. "That hating is a quick step away from death - that going through your life being resentful and hateful and nasty about others is going to destroy your life. My moms memoir has become my number-one focus over the past six months. But from then on, Mountain Girl and Captain Trips were a pair. "You have to be a pretty big person to hold your own with Kesey and Garcia and their milieu. Sunshine Kesey, daughter of Mountain Girl and Ken Kesey, also recalls Garcia as an extremely laid-back father figure during the years she and her mother lived with him. Mountain Girl sued to get the money owned her. Well, I loved Kerouac.". "She was fascinated with Jerry and the Dead's trip. A framed photo of Kesey juggling apples hangs on a bright red wall. But I was a little envious of the glamour queens, you know. Occasionally, her voice could be heard floating the sound actually moving through the hall with a loving and humorous commentary on some piece of the action." All the Pranksters had nicknames the Chief, Slime Queen, Intrepid Traveler and now Hagen gave one to her. "I wasn't quite as daredevil as I had been. She was turning a corner so fast, she was leaning down, close to parallel with the pavement on this windy, twisty mountain road, her long, black hair flying out behind her, lookin' good. Movies. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. But part of it was MG and the family and wanting to embrace that. Neal is oblivious to any obstacles of destruction, and hogs the middle of the road, rocketing from one side to the other as the demands of the road dictate. They wound up at Kesey's spread at 5 in the morning. "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. [1] She attended Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park. She also says that she started putting on weight "out of self-defense. While life at home was an intellectual paradise, school was quite another matter. "You could come stay with me," he said. They're like a couple of grumpy bears who just woke up in the spring. The free concert, scheduled for December 6, 1969, would include performances by the Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Rolling Stones. "Of course, I was totally in denial about this. I actually call her and harass her about it pretty often. So too, she thought, were Kesey and the Pranksters. She quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter together named Sunshine. He stood there eyeing her up her long dark hair, her big bright smile the latest Alice to have fallen through the rabbit hole. The mist was coming through the trees, and Adams made out a large vehicle in the distance, painted like a kaleidoscope. Instead, he decided to hide it. 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.". "You could tell the number of people was way exceeding the ability of anybody to deal with it." "That was my golden destination.". Despite their open relationship, he was jealous. 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. How long have you been thinking about a cannabis brand? She named her baby girl Sunshine Kesey. Snacks, beer, giveaways! We're lucky to have geniuses around giving us art." 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. He could see the musical notes, he told her. Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead's exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. 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 With an entomologist for a dad and a botanical illustrator for a mother, Adams had grown up a brainy bug-lover with a mind for science and a passion for nature. so did Carolyn Garcia, with Sunshine, her baby daughter with . "I haven't had another relationship really since then. Over the summer, she took a waitressing job and put college on hold. "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". Ken Kesey was in a lot of trouble in 1965 with the authorities in San Mateo for a marijuana bust. He was living in a cheap motel in the beachfront town of Mazatln, conferring with his lawyer and looking jittery, skinny, and paranoid. His pedal steel and a chair the only furniture. 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"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. The machine was down. And then one day, he just kind of up and left. Before Garcia died of a heart attack in a dry-out facility in Forest Knolls on Aug. 9, 1995, he'd already paid Mountain Girl their agreed-upon $20,883 per month for a period of 18 months. "It worked for me to have a different identity," she says. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. But his antic exit was no joke to the broke, homeless, pregnant teenager he had unceremoniously left behind. I feel like we still have a relationship with the fans and are able to deliver things that delight and encourage more good vibes. The Altamont festival, meant to be a sort of "Woodstock West," was organized in their apartment. Says Rock Scully, the Dead's road manager for many years, "Jerry Garcia was married to his guitar and the muse and his human relationships suffered for it. Same with Jerry's two daughters too (I suppose Sunshine Kesey for that matter too), I'm so interested in learning what it was like having to essentially share their dad with the rest of the world. "She's imposing all right," says David Gans, the proto-Deadhead historian who hosts "Dead to the World" on KPFA-FM radio. "[4] Journalist Tom Wolfe described his first impression of a teenage Adams as "a tall girl, big and beautiful with dark brown hair falling down to her shoulders except that the lower two-thirds of her falling hair looks like a paintbrush dipped in cadmium yellow from where she dyed it blond in Mexico. She'd hitched a ride out west with her older brother, Don, determined to leave square old Poughkeepsie far in the rearview. "I was maintaining our home. It was warm," she recalls. "His whole thing was to drive to San Francisco, play a gig, go home, go to sleep, get up, have breakfast, drive to San Francisco, play a gig. I know they had a big love with one another. "God knows what Jerry was doing when they were out on the road," she says. Some of it is just knowing my dads personality and what things made him uncomfortable because he was a stylish guy. "Later MG told me that when she met Jerry," remembers McIntire, "she recognized in him that his music was the stuff of greatness. They rebooted their commune around him, reassuming their established roles. The band came back from Woodstock in August 1969 "looking like they'd been in a war zone," she says. "You could come stay with me," he said. Thats a whole thing that wasnt even acceptable in the fine art world like 20 years ago. I jumped in to make a few dinners and keep the pantry stocked. ", Cassady roused the owner of the bus and the ranch, the man he called the Chief: Ken Kesey. KLCC Staff visits Springfield 2-17-17KLCC Celebrates 50 years with a series of visits to our outlying communities. She hallucinated "pyramids and parrots and lush jungle vegetation," she says. Were real people. But Ive gotten more confident as far as using my creative impulses or intuition to help guide the look and feel of some of the brand licenses and products. she says with a big bright grin. Doyle, Jim. Menu. Bradley clutches my arm, massaging my knee and rubbing my ankle and chuckling to himself. And Mountain Girl wasn't sure how she felt about it. They ran a bar in San Francisco. The. Late one night, alone in the Stanford lab, she decided to try some other interesting stuff. KLCCs Tiffany Eckert speaks to Sunshine Kesey, daughter of Ken Kesey, about their family life, Keseys wrestling start at Springfield High School and his indelible mark on a generation. The bus is rusted and broken down. Biography [ edit] ", "School," writes Garcia in the beginnings of what may become her memoirs, "was an inner battleground. Garcia was married with a daughter of his own, but his wife had moved back to Palo Alto without him. And frankly, I'm glad we didn't, because I think if we'd fought it out too much, we would have lost each other. After so many years of struggling to fit in back in New York, she had finally found a place where she could be whoever she wanted. Deborah Koons Garcia declined to be interviewed for this story, but in a written statement, she said "we did not want this case to go to trial, but we have a duty to protect the Estate," adding that the "alleged agreement was for an amount which exceeded Jerry's net worth at the time, which was clearly unfair.". It would prove to be a pivotal moment in the history of the counterculture. But at the same time, he had a family and was "very married, with the cutest three little kids you ever saw in your whole life. Through her window she saw legions of young people with long hair and colorful pants, smoking, dancing, playing guitar. Snacks, live music, wine, beer & giveaways! We want to work with folks who bring a very high level of quality and integrity.. Please enjoy this full-length feature from our October/November Issue. ", But Mountain Girl and Jerry remained intertwined through it all. "I was very upset," she recalls. His eyes smiled. He certainly had me buffaloed on the dishwashing thing. She opted out of the Grateful Dead scene for the sake of her three little girls, Sunshine Kesey, her daughter with Ken Kesey, and Annabelle and Theresa Garcia, her children with Jerry Garcia. Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia were the stuff of hippie fairy tales, who dressed alike and thought alike and spoke as one person. [13] Garcia lives near her daughter, Annabelle Garcia, on the Kesey family farm southeast of Eugene, Oregon in Pleasant Hill.[1]. It's a piece of my childhood. It kept him very up. It began in 1966 and extended nearly 28 years until the couple divorced in 1993. Sunshine Kesey is known for Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday (2013). It was the honorable thing to do and it should be honored. "Where did you come from?" She was fired for dipping into the experimental psychedelic chemicals she was analyzing. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. I was way upset. Says Kesey: "There was never a question that she would not have the baby, gosh, no. We are on a rock hurtling through space, and its all amazing. "Nobody can measure up," Mountain Girl says of Jerry. With steely determination, she continued her way across a wide expanse of unmown grass with Kesey's black spaniel Happy yapping at her heels. The personal relationships within the band and their own personal relationships shattered under tremendous pressure. She took them East. The loss of his father was absolutely devastating for him as a little boy.". Her parents, Ruth and Alfred, prized knowledge over material possessions and she grew up the tomboy little sister of two older brothers whose excellence in academics and athletics challenged and frustrated her. Growing up, I went to the high school where 420 was coined [San Rafael High School], so theres that. Retired Prankster Lee Quanstrom, a Santa Cruz-based journalist, has vivid memories of Mountain Girl. It was like, Eww, thats folk art, what are you doing? But now theres a whole scene and a ton of people who are into it, and I think its beautiful. The father of Mountain Girl's baby was now a fugitive. For Carolyn Adams, the trip to wonderland started when a famously Mad Hatter offered her a ride. Its a balance, absolutely. She just gave Jerry a lot of slack. I rebelled against the Grateful Dead as a teenager. With Sunshine slung to her hip, Mountain Girl fell into communal living. 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