He certainly had me buffaloed on the dishwashing thing. The court case turned into a high-profile free-for-all, with Koons Garcia's side claiming that Jerry had stopped loving Carolyn years before, that their marriage on New Year's Eve, 1981, was a sham and had been for tax purposes only and that in circumventing the legal system, their agreement was basically not worth the paper it was written on. And that was a faith in the rightness of our relationship. As far as I know, it went boom! 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. ", Flush with cash, she bought a white Honda 50 scooter and took to riding up and down the coast. But she's come out ahead of the game. In 1980, on New Year's Eve, they got married by a Buddhist monk backstage at a Dead concert. "It took the edge off me, to be carrying a kid," she says. After moving in with Jerry, the teenage matriarch of the Pranksters became the "den mother," as she puts it, of the Grateful Dead: cooking, cleaning, rustling them out the door on time. He could see the musical notes, he told her. (There is an apocryphal tale of Mountain Girl throwing Deborah Koons through a sliding glass door at Bob Weir's recording studio, which both women hotly deny both to the press and in private. I was floored. ", At the same time, she says, "it was joyous.". 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. "That was just a zap! "The price is very high and the price is personal relationships and time away from the family.". What really happened, Garcia says, is that she marched into a film studio in San Rafael and handed Deborah Koons a one-way ticket back to New York which, Koons Garcia told the press, "Jerry and I cashed it in.". Her eyes well with tears. mixer. "But Ken by that time was also aging, not too gracefully, and I don't drink. 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. Their pad had become a hub for the burgeoning scene around the Dead's extended family of dealers and musicians and psychedelic poster artists. The paint is faded. After splitting with Walker, she took up with Jerry Garcia, but they did not marry for many years after. The week after the Trips Festival, on January 31, 1966, Furthur was found abandoned on a cliffside road, high above the crashing shore of Eureka. What was happening is that we were working on stuff together and collaborating on things and I was supporting him in a lot of the writing and the fiddling around and the taping and the filming you know. "I was mortified," she says. But as the Dead began putting out records, Garcia spent most of the time on tour. It's a familiar story from a revelatory point of view: her own. His new book is "Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game.". I also enjoy smoking weed around people who I dig. "The first time I saw her, she was riding a 175 Honda motorcycle, driving east on La Honda Road. We are on a rock hurtling through space, and its all amazing. Thats a whole thing that wasnt even acceptable in the fine art world like 20 years ago. As the '80s approached, the whole Dead zeitgeist was getting way out of control. I watched MG and Jerry connect. "There was a star they could look at who had to hide out. Both of them could be among the most open people I've ever run across.". She hallucinated "pyramids and parrots and lush jungle vegetation," she says. "Yes," admits Carolyn Garcia. Occasionally, Mountain Girl would ferry the kids away to Oregon and once, during one long separation, took them all the way back East to be near her parents. His pedal steel and a chair the only furniture. Adams, who was 19 when she heard Garcia that day in 1964, was on the precipice of a stunning personal transformation. It was definitely a mild psychedelic experience with a lot of long, complex dreams, mostly about ancient ruined cities - Mayan - and jaguars. His life as a fugitive seemed to be taking a toll on him, along with his seemingly unlimited intake of speed. They had not lived together for years, although once in a while they got together with the children during a holiday or when the Dead were in town playing a concert. This construct of human civilization is not the end all, be all. But now that she'd fallen in love with Garcia, Kesey seemed to realize what he'd lost. They ran a bar in San Francisco. "You could come stay with me," he said. The family moved from house to house (Annabelle Garcia says that she went to no less than 13 schools, "just like an Army brat" ). "And then all of a sudden it was too much. "Ken was upset that I hooked up with Jerry," she says. "I wasn't a hundred percent Ken's girlfriend," she says. Carolyn Adams is very proud of her family history. Mountain Girl had already had one abortion, during which she vividly recalls tripping on ketamine, which was used as sedative. [1] She attended Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park. "I was more than seven months pregnant and I didn't have shit. Not at all. She was judge and jury in those days. Having it be so intimate and humble is totally cool. Read more Discourse stories here. They helped organize the Altamont festival, a sort of "Woodstock West." Attractive in every possible way. 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. A beautiful woman. It was warm," she recalls. "She is the real deal.". ", She addressed it head-on. And there it was. "Now what will that do?" A framed photo of Kesey juggling apples hangs on a bright red wall. Menu. Why, I take four or five to go to sleep!". They separated in December 1966 and were divorced in 1978. "She came and stayed with me," says Goldie Rush, who was living in Greenbrae at the time, right behind the hospital. He had a very bright, engaging repartee going all the time, which I just loved. She eschewed the fashion pursuits of the time. After an acid trip, it's always desirable to have a cozy warm spot to retreat to and sleep, even outdoors. They didn't have kids and it looked like they were having some fun. The Days Between is obviously based off a song, and the fans took it over after Jerry died. And boy, do I run from that stuff. "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.". "My heart opened," she says. It was really hard and frightening for her. At Stanford University, researchers were exploring the potential of psychedelic drugs. It's still owned by Sunshine and the Kesey family. The bus, however, was in a hiccupy mood and would only get moving 25 miles an hour up the hill, choking and gasping, overloaded and full of very high Pranksters.". "I was like, 'Whoa, that was a really electric moment!'" With the New York trip done, he was planning what he called a "Prankster Farewell Party," a send-off for those who now had to return to their jobs and lives. In October 1966, with her visa up, she rode back to San Francisco with her baby and the Pranksters. Kesey (left) with Neal Cassady, who introduced him to Mountain Girl when she was 19. What the hell just happened? ", The Pranksters, ever dutiful, came to his aid. I think I did the best I could with a tough situation. The Dead was scheduled as the final act, but the band never took the stage. The name stuck. Our room at the top of the stairs was small, a comforting retreat, with a huge flag covering one wall, and a window looking out over the weedy garden. 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. Evangeline Gomorrah Let It Rock That Lucky Old Sun Tangled Up In Blue I'll Take A Melody They Love Each Other Get Out Of My Life Woman Run For The Roses Stop That Train Mission In The Rain My Sisters And Brothers Deal The Harder They Come Waiting For A Miracle I Shall Be Released Think I Hope It Won't Be This Way, Always Don't Let Go Evangeline I'll go through with my heels at your hungry ribs.". "She's a person possessed of spirit and weight, will and energy," says Jon McIntire, the Dead's manager from 1968 to 1990. I still enjoy making art as part of my range of hobbies and skills. The City of Springfield is installing a two-story, photorealistic painted mural of Ken Kesey downtown on the side of the Odd Fellows Building, current, Renowned author and Merry Prankster Ken Kesey grew up in Springfield. Mountain Girl, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia, and Annabelle Garcia #Garcia75th : Jay Blakesberg Photography "There was something that needed to be done and when you got all these people together, it was suddenly possible to do it. She was turning a corner so fast, she was leaning down, close to parallel with the pavement on this windy, twisty mountain road, her long, black hair flying out behind her, lookin' good. "Well," she says, "I wasn't a musician. "I was a total tomboy. It happened in the summer of 1964 at St. Michael's Caf in Palo Alto, California. I don't know if she was threatened by me. It would have been like a ballplayer missing a game. "His glasses were broken and he had a couple of (bruises) where people might have punched him. Some of it is just knowing my dads personality and what things made him uncomfortable because he was a stylish guy. The future Mrs. Garcia was taking guitar lessons at Dana Morgan's Music Store in Stanford, California, when she heard Jerry's voice coming from the next room. In early 1964, she met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to countercultural figure and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey. At home in Oregon, where she's down to shrooming twice a year. ", Today, 60 years since she took that ride with Neal Cassady, Mountain Girl is still forging her own path. It seems like theres often a charitable component. She wasn't a judgmental kind of person, she was just brutally frank. ", She addressed it head-on. In 1966, Kesey was still officially a fugitive. 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. The resurgence of life. She was very bright, very fast. ", She's still a psychedelic priestess, though she's down to shrooming twice a year. "The Beatles came to the old Cow Palace down in the mudflat south of San Francisco," she reads. But I went for it. The legend crumbled. "I couldn't freak freely and stay up all night and run up and down the ladders," she says. And she wanted to help that greatness.". Photo: Gene Anthony: 1966 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. "I could hear his voice and somebody else's voice," she tells me. Until then, Mountain Girl had always considered their relationship to be "buddy-buddy." "She was fascinated with Jerry and the Dead's trip. Even back in those pre-women's liberation days, Carolyn Adams was an in-your-face challenge for any male. A A. And in what medium do you prefer to work? 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. But they wanted to do something to make things better, to restore new life to the countercultural movement to which they had helped give birth. "There were always girls coming out of the woodwork," says Mountain Girl. She had finally gotten a divorce from George Walker who, she said, "was living on a sailboat in Samoa." By the time she returned, her confidence was at an all-time high.She had had an opportunity to develop her own talents, including a gift for writing, in a brief sojourn at an eastern college. Chuck dan Sue Kesey mengharapkan sekitar 5. "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. he says to me, looking out, holding out some grimy bennies in his palm. "I cry when I see the bus now, are you kidding?" ", "I never spoke with her about any of it until after the fact," said Sue Swanson. He came and went for the next year." I didn't know how to ask for help. For the Acid Test at San Francisco State, the Pranksters set up in the gym while Kesey sat in the broadcast booth of the college radio station and taunted the authorities. At 710, Mountain Girl imposed order like a drill sergeant. Our writers provide thought-provoking perspectives, informed by analysis, reporting, and expertise. [3] She got a job at Stanford University, working for Carl Djerassi in the organic chemistry lab analyzing psychiatric drugs, and she was eventually fired for "dipping into the experimental psychedelic chemicals she was analyzing. For Carolyn Adams, the trip to wonderland started when a famously Mad Hatter offered her a ride. So not wanting to put dumb flourishes on his face or have Jerrys face on top of a pyramid or all these things that people have wanted to do. They wrote their one-paragraph separation agreement and went separate ways. Thirty years ago, in the dawning of psychedelia, Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, that tatterdemalion pre-hippie/post-Beat caravansary of performers, musicians, poets, magicians, gypsies, tramps and fools crammed into their gaily-painted 1939 International-Harvester, and drove their way into the American consciousness on the rollicking prose of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Theyre like musicians; they just need assistance. 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. "We were trying to do an end run on the legal system and get the ball around to the other side of the court without having to engage a whole lot of people in the process. She'd also just lost her job, and was going broke. They just fell in love. "You could buy bennies over the counter in Mexico, and I think he'd been doing more than his share," she says. "It's an old story. 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"You have to be a pretty big person to hold your own with Kesey and Garcia and their milieu. "We mustered the instruments up on the roof thinking to lead a parade to the Cow Palace. "I always wanted to be a writer," she tells me with a sly smile. It was cozy enough, and I felt perfectly safe. he asked me. Getting on it was a liberating feeling. ", It was not difficult to get Mountain Girl away from Kesey, says McIntire. I feel like we still have a relationship with the fans and are able to deliver things that delight and encourage more good vibes. And these were Cocaine Katies? Sunshine Kesey is known for Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday (2013). You can't do drugs when you're in a coma.". The Man Share Music Video for Dummy, Outline New LP, Joe Louis Walker: Scaling The Electric Fence. I believe growers are artists and they need good management. A few days later, Adams rode her white Honda 50 back to La Honda for Kesey's party, where she accepted his holy sacrament: LSD. But she turned down their offer to become a member. "Girls didn't have as much personal freedom as boys did," she remembers. It's sad to see it crumble away. 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. "He'd fill it with music, drugs, girlfriends, whatever. He was one of these people where the first time you see him, he's kind of personable, and then the next time, he's starting to disintegrate.". Like any other rock and roller, Jerry Garcia was under tremendous pressure to fool around. 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. She'd fled her hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York, to become the unlikely teenage matriarch for the counterculture's most celebrated influencers, the Merry Pranksters. Koons Garcia and Weir took a portion of Garcia's ashes to India two weeks ago and spread them . "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. In exchange for the cash, she gave up claim to the fruits of his talent, his real estate holdings and any future earnings. That would have been a sin. By then, things at their Stinson Beach aerie, Sans Souci, on a ridge high above the beach, had gotten pretty weird. "That hating is a quick step away from death - that going through your life being resentful and hateful and nasty about others is going to destroy your life. I would question every single thing. Certainly, for my own peace of mind, I cant work with anyone who thinks my dad was a deity or something. Mountain Girl, second wife of Jerry Garcia, holds her daughter, Sunshine, backstage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. She was about to become the unlikely teenage matriarch for the counterculture's most celebrated influencers, the Merry Pranksters, who gave her a new name: Mountain Girl. I walked over to look, amazed. 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. 1 "Later MG told me that when she met Jerry," remembers McIntire, "she recognized in him that his music was the stuff of greatness. "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. She had intelligence, joie de vivre and a directness that is really remarkable. It's got little mottos written all over it." It's the price the individual pays for the overall benefit of the planet. The tiny sink was a hazard zone. "Jerry and I had our arguments, but it never led to anything good. "I didn't know what to do. "I was no longer in charge of my own destiny.". In 1975, when Theresa Garcia was not even a year old, Jerry disappeared. I wanted to get it right. I jumped in to make a few dinners and keep the pantry stocked. What the hell is going on? ", Kesey was, she says, "attractive and very engaging. I was obliged to hang onto Bradley. Lihat Semua Hasil . At times, as she puts it, it was a "horrible story" one that's much starker and scarier than suggested in Wolfe's book. It was a complicated situation but there's one thing that anyone close to the couple agrees upon: It was a very big love. She was, she recalls, "a beatnik." "I didn't want to compete for attention," admits Mountain Girl. While she was fast approaching her due date, Kesey was off dealing with his lawyers. Or, as Kesey told Tom Wolfe: "Either you are on the bus or off the bus." Back when she was riding with the Hells Angels and tripping with the Dead, she was a teenager coming of age at a moment the whole world seemed to be coming apart. The concert had been meant to revive the spirit of a generation. With steely determination, she continued her way across a wide expanse of unmown grass with Kesey's black spaniel Happy yapping at her heels. she says with a big bright grin. She never taught me any rules and benched me forever." Before I leave Kesey's farm, Mountain Girl and I walk outside to the old brown barn where Furthur now rests. "I haven't had another relationship really since then. Dawn was breaking as they arrived at a ranch in La Honda. And more and more people were getting admitted to the hospital from bad drug reactions. But I was a little envious of the glamour queens, you know. ", "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. "He was kind of a wreck. Browse 85 sunshine kesey stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. He faked a suicide and split for Mexico, basically leaving a pregnant 18-year-old - Mountain Girl - behind him. Sunshine Kesey, Self: Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday. Happy the dog, her head splotched with a huge drop of blue paint, flushed a covey of peacocks which rose above the trees and the parked bus, scattering rainbow feathers and squawking bloody murder. 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.". Again, it was time to extricate herself and rescue her children. "He came out of a near death (experience) with this true resurrection feeling. When I came to, my boss was shaking me by the shoulder. "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? 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. "I was totally devastated," says Carolyn, now 76. [9][10], Carolyn Garcia currently sits on the boards of the Rex Foundation and the Furthur Foundation, and is on the advisory board of the Marijuana Policy Project. Things weren't supposed to work out this way. "I slept with some of the other Pranksters from time to time." I am just kind of there to encourage all this stuff to happen. I made a few phone calls and everybody said the same thing: "I don't know. His eyes smiled. "I didn't want any whinging. But Carolyn Garcia says, "nobody seemed to notice me for a second." I absolutely love sativasI like getting stoned and then doing gardening work and stuff like that. Written in red paint, the front bumper proclaimed "CAUTION WEIRD LOAD. Because for him, it was a living fluid.". Mountain Girl had seen the Dead in its earlier incarnations, but she didn't take special note of Jerry. When she came to the one on the door that read "Nothing Lasts," she stopped in her tracks. ", Still facing pot charges in San Francisco, she had to hitchhike up and down the coast for her court appearances, five hours each way. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. Kesey dug how she spoke her mind, made him laugh, and dazzled him with beauty. Garcia had indeed gone to live with a slender, intense and dark New York City film student named Deborah Koons whom he had met at a show in 1973 and who had hitched a ride back to New York City on the Dead's bus. "He was crazy and he'd been to too many Dead shows," she says. ("I was taking just enough to get my job done," she says.) The bus is rusted and broken down. "Hitchhiked up I-5, pregnant with no money whatsoever, begging cups of coffee off of people." All there was was Synanon, and I wasn't going to call them!" If you were stupid, she'd tell you so. "He was not happy to see me," she says. Mountain Girl is so awesome, I would love to read her memoir or autobiography. Its a balance, absolutely. I painted that bus! Mountain Girl and Garcia divorced in 1993. But I went because I thought Bradley was cute and here is this older guy with him who was kinda weird. I was flabbergasted. 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