Jerry Garcia, full-on exploding hair, fully armed, and on the cover of Guitar Player. If that doesn’t scream April 1971 at you, you’ve missed a memo somewhere.
The leader of the Grateful Dead sat down with Fred Stuckey and amongst much else, discussed how music had become central to the counter-culture.
“It could be that music is one of those things left that isn’t completely devoid of meaning. Talk – like politics – has been made meaningless by endless repetition of lies. There is no longer any substance in it. You listen to a politician making a speech and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music.”
There is plenty more new age wisdom from the mighty Jerry here.
