The first time Mountain Girl climbed onto the mythic bus, she was 18. The Altamont festival, meant to be a sort of "Woodstock West," was organized in their apartment. But at the same time, there was a slightly Victorian tinge to the whole thing. In 1966, Kesey was still officially a fugitive. In 1975, when Theresa Garcia was not even a year old, Jerry disappeared. Complete independence. Occasionally, her voice could be heard floating the sound actually moving through the hall with a loving and humorous commentary on some piece of the action." I think everybody had a crush on her.". "It worked for me to have a different identity," she says. It's sad to see it crumble away. With Jerry at her side, Mountain Girl was at the center of it all, counting Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin among her growing family of friends. You know. During this period, he rekindled his relationship with Koons, who had been largely out of his life since the late 1970s; they would ultimately marry in February 1994. But being pregnant changed her outlook on life. "And then all of a sudden it was too much. So when a guy named Bradley and his fast-talking friend Neal approached her at the caf and offered her a lift, she decided to see where the adventure would lead. 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. Until then, she says, she had always considered their relationship to be "buddy-buddy." What the hell just happened? The tiny kitchen downstairs was the crossroads, we jammed in there for morning cornflakes and conversation. Jerry holds Sunshine Kesey as Mountain Girl looks on at the Heliport, the Grateful Dead's rehearsal space in Sausalito. as well as other partner offers and accept our. She and Jerry lived off his $50 a week in gig money. This year it also served as a major platform for charitable endeavors. "She's a person possessed of spirit and weight, will and energy," says Jon McIntire, the Dead's manager from 1968 to 1990. When it appeared that he would survive, she and the girls moved in with him in San Rafael and for six months, she had the family life she had always wanted. At times, the emotional intensity is too much and it makes things difficult. 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. Weve met lots of people and toured lots of different places, and thought about many different ways to structure this. Since coming back to the States, he'd been embroiled in legal battles over his marijuana charges. So too, she thought, were Kesey and the Pranksters. I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. But now that she'd fallen in love with Garcia, Kesey seemed to realize what he'd lost. It's a piece of my childhood. "He was aware of all this extra stuff going on in the music," she says, "which is one of the reasons it had so much power to move people. ", Cassady roused the owner of the bus and the ranch, the man he called the Chief: Ken Kesey. Menu. We did the best we could. It was really hard and frightening for her. The bassist Phil Lesh considered Mountain Girl "the Prankster Queen," as he wrote in his memoir. There are a lot of people like that. Mountain Girl gave Garcia enough latitude for him to play music, get involved with other women, and eventually, fall into the trap of what she calls "the white drugs" - cocaine and heroin. And he hadn't been supporting her and their child. he says to me, looking out, holding out some grimy bennies in his palm. Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Sunshine Kesey, Self: Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday. "You could come stay with me," he said. The decision on Holistic Industries as its official cultivation and distribution collaborator was up to the Garcia Family his daughters, Trixie Garcia, Annabelle Garcia, Sunshine Kesey and Heather Katz and Tiff Garcia's estate (Jerry's brother who passed away in 2017). 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. Kesey wasn't dead. "Nobody can measure up," Mountain Girl says of Jerry. ", David Kushneris a long-time contributor to Rolling Stone. "You could tell the number of people was way exceeding the ability of anybody to deal with it." He left a third of his estate to his wife of three months, Deborah Koons Garcia, but had a herd of creditors in his wake (including Mountain Girl) and the value of his estate in dispute. By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider ", But as much as the Chief held the power in the Pranksters' fold, Mountain Girl maintained her own. And I was like: What a bunch of baloney. She was caught napping each time. The group, she realized, "was his version of the nuthouse. 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. as well as other partner offers and accept our, Joe Rosenthal/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images. Theyre super high-end, creative, productive business people. Mountain Girl, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia, and Annabelle Garcia #Garcia75th : Jay Blakesberg Photography I know shes been working on her memoir. At Jerry's funeral, Annabelle, his older daughter with Mountain Girl, said, "He was a great musician and a shitty father." Bill is finally the right person for my mom. The paint is faded. "It wasn't (about) any one person," she says. Things weren't supposed to work out this way. "I wasn't quite as daredevil as I had been. I was into hip-hopI went out and forged my own life totally anonymously. She has no regrets. You mentioned your mom [Carolyn Mountain Girl Garcia, one of the original Merry Pranksters]. "I was mind-boggled and yet, there it was, happening inside my head." Throughout his adventures, he had always come back to Mountain Girl. 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? 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. If Mountain Girl wanted to come, she better hitchhike down to LA fast, before they split. Today, Carolyn Adams Walker Garcia is 51 years old. And these were Cocaine Katies? He put the mojo on me. Snacks, live music, wine, beer & giveaways! Their adventures, as immortalized in Tom Wolfe's seminal book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," inspired legions of young people eager to break the shackles of the 1950s and embark on a new age of personal freedom. "I'm so glad to see you!" She refused to rat her hair or wear makeup. That would have been a sin. The wind blew the cottony clouds around in a brisk Oregon morning and Mountain Girl, oh-so-daintily for her bulk, padded across a slippery board laid to traverse a narrow creek. Because for him, it was a living fluid.". "We didn't have the education that modern America has now to help us talk about our roles. The first in a series of archive releases celebrating the run of Jerry Garcia shows on Broadway in Oct/Nov 1987. At 710, Mountain Girl imposed order like a drill sergeant. In a loosely autobiographical screenplay he wrote called "Over the Border," he rhapsodizes about "her big brown eyes made even bigger by the electricity of the warm autumn night with the stars above and her man beside her. Adams was "willowy, with long, black hair, a bright smile and sharp mind," as Prankster Ken Babbs describes her in his new memoir. Her function? I just had to go with it. 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.". she says with a big bright grin. Mom escaped. Nothing Lasts didn't last. His new book is "Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game.". 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 understood men at that point." A friend had smuggled him across the border to an undisclosed location in Mexico. After. She eschewed the fashion pursuits of the time. ("I was taking just enough to get my job done," she says.) I want to carry a knife! "Crazy," she recalls. I made a few phone calls and everybody said the same thing: "I don't know. Ken Kesey was in a lot of trouble in 1965 with the authorities in San Mateo for a marijuana bust. ", Flush with cash, she bought a white Honda 50 scooter and took to riding up and down the coast. [2] Shortly after she was expelled from high school, she traveled to Palo Alto, California in 1963 with her older brother, Don. "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 just said, 'I have no idea he disappeared.' 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. Her eyes well with tears. "I think there was a realistic amount of sexual activity up there," Garcia says, "but it was certainly not out of bounds or weird or anything like that. I also have to plug her own parking-lot CBD brand, Mountain Girls Botanica. Mountain Girl had to "marry" her fellow Prankster George Walker to get the birth certificate. "The Beatles came to the old Cow Palace down in the mudflat south of San Francisco," she reads. Meanwhile, Koons Garcia's attorney, Paul Camera, has indicated that he will advise his client to appeal. "I could hear his voice and somebody else's voice," she tells me. ", "I never spoke with her about any of it until after the fact," said Sue Swanson. 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 Days Between is obviously based off a song, and the fans took it over after Jerry died. Garcia was married with a daughter of his own, but his wife had moved back to Palo Alto without him. But when choosing partners, products and people that are gonna go out there and represent Jerry, its important to pick the right people. And that level of his dedication really fired everybody. She took command of the situation, telling them that they were now the only family she had. "I felt bad when it was taken down into the woods and abandoned. In 1980, on New Year's Eve, they got married by a Buddhist monk backstage at a Dead concert. I mean, yuck! It kept him very up. She tried to get in the door but a tree had grown up and blocked her passage. As far as I know, it went boom! At first, in the disorienting wake of the Sixties, she and Jerry had retreated to a secluded home in Stinson Beach, California, where the girls grew up. "Because Mountain Girl went through this movement once before," says Rachel Anderson, the group's cofounder, "she's seen what worked and what didn't work.". she recalls with a laugh. The tiny sink was a hazard zone. I look carefully and ask for a quarter of one. Despite the free-love ethos of the Sixties, she could feel the tension her affair with Kesey generated in the group. Adams Garcia, a large woman with long, graying hair and no makeup, a former Merry Prankster who had two daughters with Jerry Garcia and another named Sunshine with Ken Kesey, undoubtedly. 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. Like any other rock and roller, Jerry Garcia was under tremendous pressure to fool around. And frankly, I'm glad we didn't, because I think if we'd fought it out too much, we would have lost each other. Thats also important. But part of it was MG and the family and wanting to embrace that. Mountain Girl found the celebrated writer, who was 29, to be dynamic, intelligent, and playful. He put the mojo on me. "I was more than seven months pregnant and I didn't have shit. I am quite certain that it was a comfort to him as well as to me. I was locked in. Once you've had a little kid, it's very difficult to focus on being a P.A. But I was a little envious of the glamour queens, you know. Mountain Girl (Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia) with her three daughters, Sunshine Kesey,(daughter of Ken Kesey), Theresa Adams "Trixie" Garcia, Annabelle Walker Garcia. "He was just the guitar player," she says. "There was a star they could look at who had to hide out. I should also point out that Im a huge cannabis fan. I'm not a great anti-abortionist, but it never came up.". I was just on board to do whatever.". The riotous paint job was murky and peeling, as if the bus had leprosy. For a long time, Mountain Girl clung to her anonymity. "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. "The band got to be very big and very much the nexus and focus of hundreds and thousands of people. Sunshine Kesey is one of renown author and merry maker, Ken Kesey's, children. When it comes to celebrity branding or whatever you want to call it, Paul Newman created a great model to work from in terms of contributing to charity. he asked me. He was 53. Instead, he decided to hide it. Courtesy Sunshine Kesey After moving in with Garcia, Mountain Girl became the "den mother," as she puts it, of the Grateful Dead: cooking, cleaning, rustling them out the door on time. "We mustered the instruments up on the roof thinking to lead a parade to the Cow Palace. Instead, she entered into an affair with Ken Kesey, the famed novelist and leader of the Pranksters, with whom she eventually had a daughter. He returned to the United States and, just nights after being sentenced to six months in the San Mateo County Jail, he was arrested again, this time with Adams, while smoking marijuana on the rooftop of Stewart Brand's home on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco. And now, The Bus was retired. The Bus had been abandoned in a muddy, mossy swale behind the Kesey compound for three years. Mountain Girl, second wife of Jerry Garcia, holds her daughter, Sunshine, backstage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. It was like permission to make something new out of the old stuff, which the bus kind of represented. "They're great together. 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 fashioned themselves as the hypermasculine heroes of their own stories. With the best of intentions and the best of relationships, things can go terribly wrong. ", Carolyn was born on May 6, 1946. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. Following Jerry Garcia's death, Carolyn Garcia was involved in litigation to obtain payments as per their divorce settlement agreement, ultimately agreeing to a $1,250,000 settlement to avoid further legal costs. Also, at the end of the day, the whole world is a mystery. It had been only two years since she'd met Kesey and taken up with the Pranksters, but it felt like a lifetime. ", She addressed it head-on. I dont need to come in there and tell Peter Shapiro how to interpret Jerry Garcias vibe. In exchange for the cash, she gave up claim to the fruits of his talent, his real estate holdings and any future earnings. For Carolyn Adams, encountering Kesey and the Pranksters was like coming home, as if she'd been looking for people like them all of her life. But she's come out ahead of the game. "He was aware of all this extra stuff going on in the music," she says, "which is one of the reasons it had so much power to move people. The resurgence of life. Dean Budnick on December 2, 2020 Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia and Annabelle Garcia "I sincerely believe that the more people that we can expose to Jerry's. Late one night, alone in the Stanford lab, she decided to try some other interesting stuff. Those two are the biggest people in every way - big souls, big hearts, big egos, big personalities. 21 aot 2022. in Divertissement, musik. Its part of what I want to share with othersthat whole inner freedom and expansiveness. Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead's exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. "His whole thing was to drive to San Francisco, play a gig, go home, go to sleep, get up, have breakfast, drive to San Francisco, play a gig. It was a tremendously exhilarating, positive experience about relating to everything around you. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. "Well," he replied, "you must be Mountain Girl. "Grateful Dead star's death leads to battle where it's GARCIA VS. GARCIA". Now, after keeping her writings in a box for years, she had decided to share her memoir with me. "I slept with some of the other Pranksters from time to time." Its not necessarily great business talk, but my ability to detach is also crucial. Inside was Kesey's suicide note: "Ocean, ocean, I'll beat you in the end," it read. I did try to run their sound board for a while, but I wasn't good at it. We are on this planet to live, not to die.". Circling back to Jerry, over the past few years, The Days Between [the period between Garcias birth on August 1 and death on August 9] has become a significant event. "I didn't want any whinging. Tibetan monks sang in strange, low tones. Countless companies vied for such a coveted collaboration. "He came out of a near death (experience) with this true resurrection feeling. "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". Both of them could be among the most open people I've ever run across.". Kesey describes that first meeting with a literary allusion: "Vonnegut's phrase a "karass' comes to mind. Despite the new light in her life, a darkness set in. They helped organize the Altamont festival, a sort of "Woodstock West." A natural athlete, Carolyn tried out for girls basketball but ran into trouble with her gym teacher who, she says, "was not my admirer. Biography [ edit] Ingram, Erik. Growing up, all this visionary artist stufflike psychedelic art, comic book artserved as my inspiration. I watched MG and Jerry connect. At home in Oregon, where she's down to shrooming twice a year. "The intellectual challenges of being a part of my family were certainly evenly shared by everybody, regardless of sex. I was hallucinating. 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. In October 1966, with her visa up, she rode back to San Francisco with her baby and the Pranksters. He had dumped all of his belongings in the Garcia driveway, including a box with a cat in it. A long, strange trip led Mountain Girl to Kesey's final home. "I haven't had another relationship really since then. Read more Discourse stories here. They wound up at Kesey's spread at 5 in the morning. And Faye, his wife, was struggling with the whole thing. Tiffany Eckert 10 of 15 The Kesey Clan surrounds Geneva Jolley Kesey Family 11 of 15 Springfield's Peter DeFazio at his Congressional Headquarters. Joy and excitement; uncertainty and pain. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. They were moving around, and I go, 'Oh, isn't that cute?'" He is her "handmaiden.' "God knows what Jerry was doing when they were out on the road," she says. 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. [Laughs.]. "I had disempowered myself by joining this group," she says. Mountain Girl had already had one abortion, during which she vividly recalls tripping on ketamine, which was used as sedative. I believe growers are artists and they need good management. The dealers were out there spreading bad, bad shit, telling them it was LSD, and it would be some nasty tranq from the nuthouse.". But, says Gordon "Dass" Adams, Carolyn Garcia's oldest brother, "Jerry was a lousy husband.". Were real people. When her youngest brother, Don, offered her a ride to California, she took it. To ensure that the baby, named Solano in Spanish (which, laughs Garcia, means "sun porch" ) would have legal U.S. citizenship, Mountain Girl married a pretty blond Prankster named George Walker. Through our Discourse journalism, Insider seeks to explore and illuminate the days most fascinating issues and ideas. We tried to keep the mess to a minimum. Certainly, for my own peace of mind, I cant work with anyone who thinks my dad was a deity or something. I also enjoy smoking weed around people who I dig. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. ", But Mountain Girl and Jerry remained intertwined through it all. Koons Garcia and Weir took a portion of Garcia's ashes to India two weeks ago and spread them . She arrived in California, like many at the time, eager to bloom. It happened in the summer of 1964 at St. Michael's Caf in Palo Alto, California. Nobody can measure up. And none of the Pranksters embodied that emerging spirit more than Mountain Girl. The quote from Trixie in Long Strange Trip about her "knowing not to . I think that two people hiding out in the same family would have been even more difficult. Caravans of Deadheads turned Jerry and Mountain Girl into godheads. "I would go over from time to time and hang out," she says. I think I did a pretty good job. When I came to, my boss was shaking me by the shoulder. "I accepted the position without really asking what it would be, because it was in a lab and I felt at home there. Adams soon lost her apartment and boyfriend as well. It felt as though the scene she had helped create was starting to lose its luster, the summer of love devolving into something chaotic and ugly. They traveled as a couple, for instance, when the Dead went off to Egypt to play at the Pyramids in 1978. God, I was so thrilled. While living together over the next decade, they raised Sunshine along with their two daughters. So its important that we all have been able to transform it into a time of reflection and celebration, which has helped to bring our community back together over time. Sunshine Kesey, daughter of Mountain Girl and Ken Kesey, also recalls Garcia as an extremely laid-back father figure during the years she and her mother lived with him. I actually call her and harass her about it pretty often. Ken Kesey's ranch in La Honda, California, where Mountain Girl joined the Pranksters. So Ive gotten much smaller. Kesey had just been sentenced to six months on a work farm for marijuana possession, and the Pranksters were two days away from staging their biggest Acid Test yet. Mountain Girl would ride Rush's bike over a rutted short cut to the hospital and sit by Jerry's bed, willing him to live. ", She and Kesey were "mutually attracted." Even as a teenager dedicated to "experimentation," as Carolyn now puts it, she was a fairly daunting personality. Billed as the Trips Festival, the immersive, three-day event would draw more than 10,000 people to revel in the city's underground art scene, from light-show artists and experimental theater troupes to bands like the Dead, which gave its first major performance in San Francisco. We want to work with folks who bring a very high level of quality and integrity.. Instead, it brought the year and the decade to a dark and violent end. It was never a mistake.". Other Pranksters went back and forth to America, but without money or means Mountain Girl felt trapped in Mexico. Until then, the strongest drug she'd ever had was coffee. "[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. Were proud of them and we want to share the best of what California has to offer. None of the various women and children in his life could dispute that. "Well," she asked him, "what are we going to do?". There was a gentleness and a simplicity about him. [5] Kesey was arrested for marijuana possession in La Honda, in 1965 and fled to Mexico. 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 was like, whoa, that was a really electric moment!" ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. "I was totally devastated," says Carolyn, now 76. At the police station, speaking with a reporter, Kesey suggested that he was being persecuted for his role in the counterculture. Not a subscriber? KLCC General Manager, News Director and other KLCC Staff met with Springfield listeners and dignitaries.KLCC Staff on their way to Newport!Destination #2: NewportWhen: Friday, 4/21/17, 4-6 pmWhere: Newport Performing Arts CenterWhat: KLCC Staff will meet with area listeners to learn more about the Newport community. that was it for him. Sunshine Kesey is known for Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday (2013). "I never did any therapy about it, but I've read all the books.". Movies. I absolutely love sativasI like getting stoned and then doing gardening work and stuff like that. He loved to work. "You could come stay with me," he said. As most suspected, it was yet another prank. He was living in a cheap motel in the beachfront town of Mazatln, conferring with his lawyer and looking jittery, skinny, and paranoid. As the '80s approached, the whole Dead zeitgeist was getting way out of control. "He just disappeared. Chips and Twinkies. The windows are busted. 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