Musicians, industry veterans and basketball legend Bill Walton remember the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, who died 25 years ago today, and where they were when they heard the news.
The accomplished basketball player, who held positions with the L.A. Clippers and the Boston Celtics, first saw the Grateful Dead at age 15 in 1967I found the Grateful Dead, or maybe they found me. I’m not sure. That’s the way it works in the world of the Grateful Dead. Because they’re traveling salesmen, and they sell hope, and they sell purpose, and they sell passion, and they sell all the things that I believe in and try to live for and stand up for.
On August 9, 1995, I was at home in San Diego. I’m an early riser, and the rest of the family is not. My wife Lori and our children were all still sleeping and I was up playing the piano, practicing for an upcoming lesson that day. The phone rang. I generally don’t answer, but someone — something –told me, “You better go pick it up.”Jerry was a rare and different dude. He was a creative genius and a supremely powerful force of nature. He could do, and he did, a lot of things for a lot of people.
And the news was everywhere. I had gone to see RatDog at Central Park SummerStage on August 8, the day before he passed away. That was very strange, but I also feel fortunate that I had the music fresh inside me when I heard the news. I remember watching Bob Weir do an interview the day Jerry died at the venue in New Hampshire that he traveled to after playing Central Park.
Some fragments of an idea for the song had begun four years earlier when we had played in Telluride, Colorado at a 3-day festival. After the show, backstage banter was similarly muted and there was very little after-show partying. What little there was, was more akin to the hours after a funeral. We all shared some stories and shook off the feeling, every few minutes, of reality sinking in. He was gone. The scene was devastated.
In March, the Dead spring tour of 1995, they called me up out of the blue, I hadn’t been playing with them for a while and they asked me: if we get a piano and fly you out here will you come and play with the band in Charlotte? It was the day before the show, so I said, “Okay, I can do that.” So, they set up a Grand piano and I sat in with them. They brought me down there because they thought maybe I could pick up Jerry.
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