On May 6, 1:10*pm, Andy <q> wrote:
> merryb said...
>
> > Kinda off topic, but my parents went to high school with Jerry Garcia-
> > I have the yearbook to prove it!
>
> merryb,
>
> KEWL!
>
> Jerry was GREAT!!! We used to see The Grateful Dead practically every
> weekend in S.F.
>
> I once sat with the sound crew center/balcony at Winterland. I was making a
> bootleg and was sitting right behind them. The usher saw my tape recorder
> and tried to remove me but the sound crew graciously said "he's with us!".
> The usher backed off and roped me in! Spent the show having beers from
> their bottomless garbage can of ice cold Heinekens, and "other" stuff. They
> even listened to my bootleg after the show and to my surprise, they liked
> it. SURE they did. LOL!
>
> Never got to meet the band other than Jerry getting out of a U-Haul truck
> and a cloud (more a fog!) of pot smoke drifted into the street as he walked
> in for the show.
>
> Santana who always played first, were equally as great and Carlos is still
> with us!
>
> Thanks for the memories!
>
> Best,
>
> Andy

Very cool story! Did you grow up around there? Me, born in Sebastopol,
grew up in Santa Rosa, and moved to Puyallup,WA when I was a teen-
talk about a culture shock!! San Francisco is one of my favorite
cities!!