![]() ![]() I was pumping gas and this gal comes up, a hippie gal, one of us. After a couple of weeks, I decided to go to the gas station, get some gas. I knew I had to be around music with other people. Carter played the session, and I didn’t want him to go home. Carter Beauford was setting up drums in my home studio for some overdubs for an album I was doing. We hugged and then we went our separate ways. Phil and Bob were there, and Hunter, Vince, and Dennis McNally. It felt like someone had hit me with a hammer. It could have been a rumor, but I knew it wasn’t. But I turned around and walked back through the woods. ![]() It was early and I don’t know how he found out about it. I said, “What’s with the music?” He said, “Haven’t you heard?” He didn’t have to say anything else. I walked up to the front door and he was sweeping the floor, getting ready for a session. Right then, I knew something was in the air. But as I approached his place, he was playing music. He never played music we always tried to make it a bit more zen. I used to walk over there through a redwood grove. It was the morning, and I went to my yoga instructor, who lived in a little shack over the hill from my house. Everybody was ready for it, but you can never really be ready for it. Jerry wasn’t well to begin with, and he was winding down. I always remember where I was when I heard. ![]() Drummer Mickey Hart, who joined the Dead in 1967 and is currently part of Dead & Company, spoke with Rolling Stone about his memories of that day and what followed. From band employees to Deadheads, many were shaken, but few more so than Garcia’s fellow bandmates. Twenty five years ago this week, the world of the Grateful Dead was forever changed when Jerry Garcia died of a heart attack at 53. ![]()
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