Author Topic: Jerry Garcia (Read 190 times)

olieoliver · « **on:** March 21, 2006, 06:41:17 AM »

For all the Dead-heads in the bunch. The biography channel has a special on Jerry tonight 03/21/06 at 8 central time. Might be cool!

(Message edited by olieoliver on March 21, 2006)

laytonco · « **Reply #1 on:** March 21, 2006, 12:22:49 PM »

Thank you!

pace · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2006, 01:10:15 PM »

I dont get it........

olieoliver · « **Reply #3 on:** March 21, 2006, 01:13:30 PM »

Grateful Dead....a biography of Jerry Garcia... on the TV tonight.

flaxattack · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2006, 03:38:41 PM »

AGAINST AMERICAN IDOL?
what were they thinking?

David Houck · « **Reply #5 on:** March 21, 2006, 05:52:47 PM »

Thanks Olie; unfortunately, I don't get it either.

kmh364 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 22, 2006, 05:31:47 AM »

I missed it! Was it any good? Will it be repeated? Anybody record it?

olieoliver · « **Reply #7 on:** March 22, 2006, 06:05:30 AM »

I missed it too. Had a student I who didn't want to reschedule. But tonight they have one on Hendrix. Same bat time same bat channel!.

flaxattack · « **Reply #8 on:** March 22, 2006, 06:44:35 AM »

i saw pieces of it and it was enlightening
but we were watching idol and i could not make it to the replay at midnight....

tom_z · « **Reply #9 on:** March 22, 2006, 07:33:55 AM »

It was okay. Nothing too earth shattering. Interviews with Donna Jean, Barlow, Steve Parish, Tiff Garcia, Jerry's daughter, Theresa, I believe, and mostly footage from the eighties and nineties. It was kind of a slash and burn type of biography. Not much more one can expect in an hour.

It focused mostly on how magnetic, kind, and dynamic Jerry was as a person. Also, how insecure he was - his difficulty with family life - his drug use.

There wasn't a lot of information presented about his development as a musician - or about the music he wrote and performed. In fact, behind a few of the still photo sequences the music playing wasn't Garcia or the Dead, but rather, unrelated studio fill.

Jimi Hendrix tonight and Neil Young tomorrow - I expect similar treatment of these bios.

Tom