A beautiful woman. I was just on board to do whatever.". Before I leave Kesey's farm, Mountain Girl and I walk outside to the old brown barn where Furthur now rests. ", "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. But now that she'd fallen in love with Garcia, Kesey seemed to realize what he'd lost. View All Result . She quit LSD, but she fell into a postpartum depression as her reality came into focus. Joy and excitement; uncertainty and pain. Palo Alto in the early 1960s was a dynamic crucible of the radical changes to come. As it was, he always knew he could come home and there would always be a place for him, no matter how weird it got out there. Nothing Lasts didn't last. Annabelle remembers encountering a junkie shooting up on their doorstep. Eight months pregnant, Mountain Girl stepped off the Dead's helicopter at Altamont just in time to see Mick Jagger get punched in the head by a concertgoer. 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 . she recalls with a laugh. For KLCC, Tiffany reports on health care, social justice and local/regional news. He faked a suicide and split for Mexico, basically leaving a pregnant 18-year-old - Mountain Girl - behind him. "I was totally devastated," says Carolyn, now 76. It seems like a logical fit. My moms memoir has become my number-one focus over the past six months. Weve met lots of people and toured lots of different places, and thought about many different ways to structure this. Koons Garcia and Weir took a portion of Garcia's ashes to India two weeks ago and spread them . "Garcia's Ex-Wife to Get $1.25 Million: 'Mountain Girl' had sued star's estate". 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. The tiny kitchen downstairs was the crossroads, we jammed in there for morning cornflakes and conversation. Shes @bluebelle42 on Instagram. "We didn't have the education that modern America has now to help us talk about our roles. 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. He was one of these people where the first time you see him, he's kind of personable, and then the next time, he's starting to disintegrate.". Her eyes well with tears. "It was a very egalitarian moment a lot of sharing, a lot of caring," she says. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has worked in a variety of media including television and daily print news. When Thompson and the Hells Angels showed up for parties, Mountain Girl was soon giving them rides on the back of their own Harleys. Now, after keeping her writings in a box for years, she had decided to share her memoir with me. Somehow, however, Garcia and Mountain Girl established a life, albeit one that was quite unconventional by Leave It To Beaver standards. The hood was open. I made a few phone calls and everybody said the same thing: "I don't know. Things weren't supposed to work out this way. ", "School," writes Garcia in the beginnings of what may become her memoirs, "was an inner battleground. "I had a personal myth about independence that was getting shattered," she says. Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia (ne Adams; born May 7, 1946), also known as Mountain Girl, is an American Merry Prankster and the former wife of Jerry Garcia, the lead vocalist and guitar player with the American rock band, Grateful Dead . "I could hear his voice and somebody else's voice," she tells me. 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. The fight over his intellectual and real property continues. "I had never heard any of that before," she says. They would go and do these long, drawn-out scenes at the studio that would go on for weeks, where nobody slept and they'd stay up. "And then all of a sudden it was too much. "The price is very high and the price is personal relationships and time away from the family.". "God knows what Jerry was doing when they were out on the road," she says. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. ", But she "wasn't happy about the (female stuff). ", With Cassady behind the wheel, the Pranksters rode the bus down to Los Angeles for a series of Acid Tests. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. ", David Kushneris a long-time contributor to Rolling Stone. Trixie Garcia, her youngest, has come up from Oakland. As the Stones launched into "Sympathy for the Devil," Mountain Girl heard a gunshot and took cover in the back of a tour bus. "I went down for a long time." But they were reluctant to tell Mountain Girl, lest they hurt her. But, says Gordon "Dass" Adams, Carolyn Garcia's oldest brother, "Jerry was a lousy husband.". For MG, which is how her intimates shorten her name, the Pranksters were her college, the University of Fun. By the time she returned, her confidence was at an all-time high.She had had an opportunity to develop her own talents, including a gift for writing, in a brief sojourn at an eastern college. 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. ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. She received her diploma by mail. "It's an old story. But she's come out ahead of the game. "We felt guilty at having called for this." Mountain Girl, eight months pregnant, hitchhiked to get groceries. Six months later, Garcia had some dental work and got involved with pain relievers. One of their cats was killed. I kind of nodded out. I dont need to come in there and tell Peter Shapiro how to interpret Jerry Garcias vibe. It was a minor note, although I suppose it wasn't minor for me at the time because I was young and attractive. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. We are on this planet to live, not to die.". ", One night in San Francisco, four months after the Beatles show, Kesey and Mountain Girl were up on the roof of a home in Telegraph Hill, smoking a joint. Getting on it was a liberating feeling. Bradley clutches my arm, massaging my knee and rubbing my ankle and chuckling to himself. It never happened. The intellectual climate at Kesey's was free of academic constraints," remembers Carolyn Garcia. Lihat Semua Hasil . ", "I never spoke with her about any of it until after the fact," said Sue Swanson. The. In October 1966, with her visa up, she rode back to San Francisco with her baby and the Pranksters. I am also happy that we found companies that are privately owned and family run. But who is this woman who attracted Ken Kesey and Jerry Garcia, two of the most powerful influences on the popular culture in the past three decades? They helped organize the Altamont festival, a sort of "Woodstock West." Eventually, rejection by her peers got easier to handle. "And I was like, 'Oh, my God!' "I was no longer in charge of my own destiny.". But she embraced it nonetheless. [5] Kesey was arrested for marijuana possession in La Honda, in 1965 and fled to Mexico. Thats a whole thing that wasnt even acceptable in the fine art world like 20 years ago. It was like permission to make something new out of the old stuff, which the bus kind of represented. "The Beatles came to the old Cow Palace down in the mudflat south of San Francisco," she reads. The name stuck. He put the mojo on me. He is her "handmaiden.' I went to the San Francisco Art Institute because my dad had a history there, and I was kind of looking for direction when I was younger. "She didn't say anything of any note except to acknowledge my presence. "He went with it," she says, "and made sure that I had a place to sleep and food to eat. "Later MG told me that when she met Jerry," remembers McIntire, "she recognized in him that his music was the stuff of greatness. That was home for me, I made that abundantly clear." Under the isolation and pressures of the road, Jerry slipped into cocaine and heroin addiction. He was 53. The city recently commissioned a two-story, photo-realistic mural to honor their, This Halloween marks an auspicious occasion: the 50th anniversary of the Acid Test Graduation. While living together over the next decade, they raised Sunshine along with their two daughters. The personal relationships within the band and their own personal relationships shattered under tremendous pressure. So I faded out of that position. A A. The windows are busted. Since coming back to the States, he'd been embroiled in legal battles over his marijuana charges. From her parents, young Carolyn inherited an adoration of nature. ", But as much as the Chief held the power in the Pranksters' fold, Mountain Girl maintained her own. Her legend leaps off the pages of books, in the annals of the Grateful Dead in her role as Jerry Garcia's consort and then wife for nearly 30 years and in the transcripts of a high profile trial last winter which pitted her against Garcia's widow, Deborah Koons Garcia, in a Marin County courtroom. "I had disempowered myself by joining this group," she says. ", It was not difficult to get Mountain Girl away from Kesey, says McIntire. Mountain Girl believes he was still suffering from the trauma of seeing his father, Joe, drown on a fishing trip when he was 6. What was happening is that we were working on stuff together and collaborating on things and I was supporting him in a lot of the writing and the fiddling around and the taping and the filming you know. 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. GarciaLive Volume 17 showcases highlights from three stand-out shows captured in the Jerry Garcia Band's native Northern California. Today, vestiges of the slender, heart-stoppingly beautiful girl-woman who caught Kesey's eye in 1964 remain - the fierce intelligence, the take-control bossy stick, the intellectual acuity, the ability to cut through a morass of pretense to the heart of the matter, the boisterousness, the guilelessness, the curiosity, the laughter. And his nuts were actually well-educated college students with athletic prowess mostly pretty, athletic people." Somehow she and Garcia remained intertwined through it all. 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