"[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. Either you were with Kesey or not with Kesey. Transferred from the original analog reels and fastidiously mastered for release, these recordings exhibit some minor lapses in fidelity which can be expected due to age and circumstance. "I wasn't quite as daredevil as I had been. "Jerry loved his work," says Garcia in retrospect. I should also point out that Im a huge cannabis fan. If you were behaving badly, she'd tell you that, too. Not even the Sixties. ", "Bill is a wonderful man," says Sunshine Kesey, who, with her halo of white-blond curls resembles her father, Ken Kesey. She has won awards from Oregon Associated Press, PRNDI, and Education Writers Association. I would question every single thing. As far as I know, it went boom! "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. The farm hasn't changed much. Ive been trying to find a partner for five or six years. I think I did the best I could with a tough situation. By the time Jerry Garcia met Carolyn Adams she was the iconic Mountain Girl - the outrageous, free-spirited teenaged Merry Prankster who captivated Tom Wolfe's imagination in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. It was this concentration on the domestic side which certainly was not intentional on my part. But there was one glaring problem. While living together over the next decade, they raised Sunshine along with their two daughters. 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? I think that its very important for her voice to be in the mix and very important that she is able to share how these different events unfoldedthe way she remembers them. "I had a personal myth about independence that was getting shattered," she says. She decided to take the wheel again. I wanted to sidestep that rock star wife thing as much as possible. She sampled ibogaine, a powerful psychoactive being studied by the researchers she worked with. Kesey describes that first meeting with a literary allusion: "Vonnegut's phrase a "karass' comes to mind. "I just couldn't deal with it," Mountain Girl says. She named her baby girl Sunshine Kesey. (December 12, 1996). We are on this planet to live, not to die.". In those days, Mountain Girl was the brash, 19-year-old "it girl" of the nascent psychedelic underground. He was 53. 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. "I always get emotional about the old bus. I know he had asked for space, as he put it earlier in the year, and I said, "Sure, whatever you need.' And these were Cocaine Katies? Annabelle was in pre-school and Sunshine was in school. "They gave you enough so that you were transported to the geometrical universe where everything was in squares and triangles," she says. Until then, Mountain Girl had always considered their relationship to be "buddy-buddy." 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. "I suppose I would have been pretty good pickings for a cult," she laughs. 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. "I had never heard any of that before," she says. The Sunshine Kesey Interview - YouTube 0:00 / 3:57 The Sunshine Kesey Interview Jake Feinberg Show 2.14K subscribers Subscribe 15 646 views 1 year ago Natural Expression by Sunshine Kesey. by Petrus A. Somehow she and Garcia remained intertwined through it all. It was never a mistake.". I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. ", At the same time, she says, "it was joyous.". It was all over the newspapers, and it was a huge story, and we felt guilty at having called for this." It hadn't been running for a very long time. So youve gotta stay grounded, stay humble, be realistic. "Well," she asked him, "what are we going to do?". Garcia was married with a daughter of his own, but his wife had moved back to Palo Alto without him. "I had been taking birth-control pills, but then I ran out, and we were up there on the mountain, you know what I mean? In October 1966, with her visa up, she rode back to San Francisco with her baby and the Pranksters. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. Through our Discourse journalism, Insider seeks to explore and illuminate the days most fascinating issues and ideas. "I ran home to mother for the first time in my life," she says. she recalls with a laugh. The guy teaching in the room next to her was a 21-year-old named Jerry Garcia. Lihat Semua Hasil . Garcia to Deborah Koons and Mountain Girl back to Oregon and the big, rugged logger she had met, Bill Burwell. What she didn't realize, until Neal had peeled off the road and started driving the wrong way down a railroad track, was that he was none other than Neal Cassady, the inspiration for Jack Kerouac's 1967 Beat classic "On the Road.". From her parents, young Carolyn inherited an adoration of nature. Instead, it brought the year and the decade to a dark and violent end. The machine was down. "I got comfortable, as much as possible, on the overloaded bus bunk with my very few possessions," she writes. None of the various women and children in his life could dispute that. "She ended up being responsible (if that concept is even thinkable in this context) for mixing the multiple mutable audio loops connecting every part of the space with every other. "Grateful Dead star's death leads to battle where it's GARCIA VS. GARCIA". "We thought we had everything settled and that I was going to go up to Oregon and raise dahlias have some goldfish or something that would keep me happy. What the hell just happened? It was episodes like these, coupled with Jerry's inconstancy with other women, that precipitated her escape to Oregon, the place where Kesey, Faye, their children, Ken Babbs and a bunch of her Prankster family had settled. Like Mountain Girl, he was looking for family. Photo: Gene Anthony: 1966 But at the same time, there was a slightly Victorian tinge to the whole thing. A buxom, big-boned woman wearing green velvet pull-on pants, a shapeless black wool sweater and a voluminously floppy, long black coat, Mountain Girl is a force of nature - difficult to ignore when she's under sail. "Hitchhiked up I-5, pregnant with no money whatsoever, begging cups of coffee off of people." "He seemed to be a dangerous kind of guy, sort of angular, like a trucker. You recently announced a partnership with Holistic Industries on Garcia Hand Picked. ", With Cassady behind the wheel, the Pranksters rode the bus down to Los Angeles for a series of Acid Tests. "We felt guilty at having called for this." "She had the ability to meld her energy with the energy of others to do more than what one person could do by themselves. On April 3, Marin County Superior Court Judge Michael Dufficy handed down a 10-page decision stating that the one-paragraph agreement drafted by Garcia and Mountain Girl is a valid contract and legally binds the estate. It's the price the individual pays for the overall benefit of the planet. A 6-CD box set featuring two complete, previously unreleased performances from the Jerry Garcia Band and Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman recorded September 5th, 1989 in Hartford, CT and September 6th, 1989 in Uniondale, NY. Her entomologist father was 40. But the event ended in tragedy when a member of the Hells Angels, the notorious biker gang who were hired to provide security, stabbed a concertgoer to death at the foot of the stage. ", 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. And there were dogs and Pranksters, the bus and a whole huge scene all around them. Any sign of a trap and I'm moving. It was not to be. "I was sitting on the ground, and all of a sudden the redwood needles started to rearrange themselves. Mom escaped. 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.". Adams, who had been a bus monitor in elementary school, had a soft spot for the rides, especially a vintage 1939 International Harvester like this one. "I'm standing there, it's like 6 in the morning," she recalls. Six months later, Garcia had some dental work and got involved with pain relievers. Or, as Kesey told Tom Wolfe: "Either you are on the bus or off the bus." Sunshine Kesey, Self: Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday. Can you talk about that challenge? ", The trial was "an unexpected development," she says, as she sits in her rural kitchen. ", She and Kesey were "mutually attracted." "[5], Cassady took her to La Honda, California, Kesey's base of operations, where she quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter by him named Sunshine. Thats what motivates me to continue to do licensing, Jerry Garcias daughter Trixie reflects, as she discusses her familys recent business ventures. Led by Ken Kesey, the swashbuckling author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the communal crew of seekers and misfits road-tripped the USA in Furthur, experimenting with the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that would come to define their generation. The name stuck. Carolyn's daughter Sunshine was born in a Manzanillo hospital where the water was turned off 12 hours a day. I appreciate whats going on with the Alex Grey scene and these shamanistic visionary artists. His pedal steel and a chair the only furniture. Then came the Summer of Love. You mentioned your mom [Carolyn Mountain Girl Garcia, one of the original Merry Pranksters]. Instead, she entered into an affair with Ken Kesey, the famed novelist and leader of the Pranksters, with whom she eventually had a daughter. Before we talk about more recent developments, can you share your thoughts on Port Chester, N.Y.s Garcias, which opened more than seven years ago? "Jerry decided to spend more time away from the house and in his studio. Mountain Girl had seen the Dead in its earlier incarnations, but she didn't take special note of Jerry. The Bus had been abandoned in a muddy, mossy swale behind the Kesey compound for three years. I know they had a big love with one another. ", Kesey was, she says, "attractive and very engaging. Everybody was attached to it.". When I came to, my boss was shaking me by the shoulder. Often, it was very difficult. Getting on it was a liberating feeling. That was what was available, & it is still the best. "It's the thing that runs through all of this history. He was sad. But I was anti-cocaine," she says pausing. "I was more than seven months pregnant and I didn't have shit. "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". She was very bright, very fast. The seeds she'd helped sow were beginning to bloom. "God knows what Jerry was doing when they were out on the road," she says. He did not want to share that information or even have to dig into all that information. I couldn't believe it. Nobody can measure up. "It'll ruin my calluses if I do the dishes,' he told me. I was way upset. "He was just the guitar player," she says. It kept him very up. While she was fast approaching her due date, Kesey was off dealing with his lawyers. he asked me. Sunshine Kesey sits with her Grandmother, Geneva Jolley. I was flabbergasted. I just ran my life that way and it mostly worked out.". Caravans of Deadheads turned Jerry and Mountain Girl into godheads. 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. "The moment we came back, Jerry was at my door to visit and within a month he was asking to move back in," says Mountain Girl. 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. The fight over his intellectual and real property continues. "That was just a zap! ", Today, 60 years since she took that ride with Neal Cassady, Mountain Girl is still forging her own path. Inside was Kesey's suicide note: "Ocean, ocean, I'll beat you in the end," it read. Tiffany Eckert 10 of 15 The Kesey Clan surrounds Geneva Jolley Kesey Family 11 of 15 Springfield's Peter DeFazio at his Congressional Headquarters. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. No Result . But they were reluctant to tell Mountain Girl, lest they hurt her. ", Still facing pot charges in San Francisco, she had to hitchhike up and down the coast for her court appearances, five hours each way. I say that after talking to so many Deadheads, who have testified to me that the Grateful Dead changed their lives.. 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 (Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia) with her three daughters, Sunshine Kesey,(daughter of Ken Kesey), Theresa Adams "Trixie" Garcia, Annabelle Walker Garcia. he says to me, looking out, holding out some grimy bennies in his palm. When she came to the one on the door that read "Nothing Lasts," she stopped in her tracks. But Carolyn Garcia says, "nobody seemed to notice me for a second." Tiffany Eckert 12 of 15 The Simpsons family are from Springfield, Oregon Matt Groening 13 of 15 Jerry was married with a daughter of his own, but they had moved back to Palo Alto without him. When her boss found her slumped over her desk the next morning, he fired her. I had no idea what he was doing. View All Result . Someone had alerted the police that America's Most Wanted Acid Preacher was up on the roof getting high with a girl. 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. The father of Mountain Girl's baby was now a fugitive. The seeds of hippiedom - question authority, love the one you're with, share and share alike - were fueled by marijuana and psychedelics and accompanied by the twang of guitars and banjos. There were daisies growing up through the floor boards. No money, hardly any clothes, and no real concept of what was coming. The. Beatniks and folk musicians were flocking to the area, and Adams fell in love with the music scene. Mountain Girl was equally defiant about their arrest. Tibetan monks sang in strange, low tones. she realized she needed to make a change. "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. He had dumped all of his belongings in the Garcia driveway, including a box with a cat in it. 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. Along with the stories she told me over hours of interviews, it's a monumental lost chapter of American literature a funny, vivid, heartbreaking account of an indelible time and place, as told by the woman at the center of the wildness. The tiny kitchen downstairs was the crossroads, we jammed in there for morning cornflakes and conversation. "I cry when I see the bus now, are you kidding?" Jerry didn't really do a lot of maintenance. We weren't exactly a coven, we weren't a cult but we did seem to be involved with each other before we even met each other." They were moving around, and I go, 'Oh, isn't that cute?'" "They pressured me to tell them where he was," she says. 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. He came and went for the next year." After an acid trip, it's always desirable to have a cozy warm spot to retreat to and sleep, even outdoors. Cassady had told Kesey that he met this girl who was a little wild, "like she was kind of a mountain girl," says Kesey. "Oh, I came from up on the mountain there," she said. "The Beatles came to the old Cow Palace down in the mudflat south of San Francisco," she reads. "I didn't witness it," he says carefully, "but I heard from (one of her best friends) that Garcia pursued her with a focus that could not be broken. I rebelled against the Grateful Dead as a teenager. Carolyn Adams is very proud of her family history. I used to do large paintings but storage got to be an issue. As Wolfe first described her, she was: "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 paint brush dipped in cadmium yellow from where she dyed it blond in Mexico.". ", "Jerry was extremely jealous," says Goldie Rush, who met the Garcias, as she puts it, "in a child care situation," and has continued to be a business manager and accountant for a number of people associated with the Dead's extended family. Jerry Garcia exclaimed. "I'm not weeping with remorse.". "He just disappeared. His life as a fugitive seemed to be taking a toll on him, along with his seemingly unlimited intake of speed. The first time any of Kesey's literary mob ever saw Carolyn Adams, late of Hyde Park, N.Y., she was seated in a Palo Alto cafe, reading a book when Prankster and Beat icon Neal Cassady and a handsome young blond guy with a Beatle haircut named Bradley picked her up and invited her for a ride. GarciaLive Volume 17 showcases highlights from three stand-out shows captured in the Jerry Garcia Band's native Northern California. Eventually, Kesey and his rag-tag band returned to the States, Mountain Girl and the baby in tow, to produce the final of the Acid Tests, the combination concert-performance-mass LSD trip (often courtesy of Owsley Stanley, who provided the psychedelics and was the money behind the house band, the Grateful Dead). The bare-bones feel of the bar was definitely pulling from the Garcia familys past. Adams, who was 19 when she heard Garcia that day in 1964, was on the precipice of a stunning personal transformation. "She came and stayed with me," says Goldie Rush, who was living in Greenbrae at the time, right behind the hospital. Sunshine Becker (born Sunshine Flower Garcia on July 1, 1972) is an American singer who performed backing vocals for the band Furthur. She reconnected with Garcia a couple years later after leaving Kesey in Mexico, where he was hiding out to avoid U.S. drug charges, and returning to San Francisco with her daughter Sunshine.. Self-reliant as always, MG constructed her own little home in the woods: I had built a small shelter in a grove of trees by the creek. The police advised Mountain Girl that there was not much she could do about him because he had established some sort of homestead on her property. "Garcia's Ex-Wife to Get $1.25 Million: 'Mountain Girl' had sued star's estate". 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 is the real deal.". You can't do drugs when you're in a coma.". From the Merry Pranksters to the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia's widow opens up about what the age of free love was really like. "I would go over from time to time and hang out," she says. Kesey wasn't dead. "It was awful," Mountain Girl says. 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. She was fired for dipping into the experimental psychedelic chemicals she was analyzing. But to her, it didn't feel like the same party anymore. One of their cats was killed. She uttered a huge sigh. So I faded out of that position. They're like a couple of grumpy bears who just woke up in the spring. She was pregnant by Kesey, 11 years her senior, who was married with kids. Like any other rock and roller, Jerry Garcia was under tremendous pressure to fool around. In 2020, as a board member of the Edelic Center for Ethnobotanical Service, a nonprofit advocacy group, she helped legalize magic mushrooms for therapeutic use in Oregon. 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. The acid tests were a series of psychedelic parties held in, KLCC's Tiffany Eckert sits down with Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia and George "Hardly Visible" Walker to talk about their experiences as Merry Pranksters, A New Ken Kesey Mural to be Painted on the Odd Fellows Building in Springfield, Acid Test Anniversary Reunites Merry Pranksters In Eugene, Merry Pranksters Swap Stories; Extended Interview With Mountain Girl and George Walker. In my case, with a powerful talent like Jerry and this tremendous culture-changing thing he'd found to do, it was a tough place to try to carry on a relationship. Why, I take four or five to go to sleep!". 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. Jerry promised that they would get a house together. State. Theres so much scrutiny and I just wanna enjoy it. "And I was like, 'Oh, my God!' [Laughs.]. I am just kind of there to encourage all this stuff to happen. [1] She attended Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park. "That was my golden destination.". Until then, she says, she had always considered their relationship to be "buddy-buddy." He was losing me and Sunshine.". If you were stupid, she'd tell you so. ", She's still a psychedelic priestess, though she's down to shrooming twice a year. ", "Jerry and MG were absolutely a blessing to hang out around," says McIntire. For the two of them, says Scully, "it was a great big love.". Mountain Girl's girlfriends had an idea where he was - living with Deborah Koons, a filmmaker he'd met at a concert in New York in 1973 with whom he'd stayed in contact. But Mountain Girl had been around long enough to know that, in the words painted on the Pranksters' bus, Nothing Lasts. 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. As most suspected, it was yet another prank. ", Jerry never said a word, said Mountain Girl. "It's a perilous society if you don't look a certain way," he said. She realigns her shoulders and runs her large hands through a luxuriant mop of silver and black hair. Kesey (left) with Neal Cassady, who introduced him to Mountain Girl when she was 19. Jerry and Carolyn were married by a Jewish friend who was also a Tibetan monk in a ceremony missed by most of the band members. When she stepped off the bus in October 1966 with her daughter, Sunshine, she recognized a familiar face. Mountain Girl walked around it, peering in the windows. That was my big goal as a child. Looming out of the deep shadows across the yard was an enormous painted bus, dim and bulbous and mysterious as Moby Dick. And that level of his dedication really fired everybody. Rock Scully's girlfriend of the time, Valerie Ann Steinbrecher, who still is called "Tangerine," remembers watching Carolyn Adams and an unbearded Jerry Garcia literally fall in love on the spot: "The first time I saw Mountain Girl was at this gig at S.F. Surrounded by towering redwoods, the place seemed to be recovering from an epic bender: cars and motorcycles everywhere, the ground littered with assorted detritus. Biography [ edit] But after spending a night in jail, she soon had another reason to weep. Chuck dan Sue Kesey mengharapkan sekitar 5. By the time she walked into the Dead's kitchen, Mountain Girl had attained iconic status, although it was not her way to pay any attention to it. [11][12] She formerly served on the board of the Women's Visionary Council. "I never did any therapy about it, but I've read all the books.". It's so sad.". 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. "You know, we lost him out of our family. The band, which was making waves in the Haight but hadn't yet recorded an album, shared a rambling Victorian on 710 Ashbury Street in San Francisco. 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. "But Ken by that time was also aging, not too gracefully, and I don't drink. A friend had smuggled him across the border to an undisclosed location in Mexico. In that the guy gets this beautiful woman and wants to keep her all to himself and he doesn't care if she changes, and one day looks around and wonders why she changed.". A A. All the Pranksters had nicknames the Chief, Slime Queen, Intrepid Traveler and now Hagen gave one to her. 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