Quote of the Week- Jerry Garcia

Yesterday (Aug. 1) would have been Grateful Dead lead singer Jerry Garcia's 68th birthday (he died in 1995), so today we quote him for our weekly Quote of the Week segment.

I had the opportunity to see Cosmic Charlie, a Dead tribute band from Athens, Ga., at The Cat's Cradle in Carrboro (Chapel Hill), NC, on Friday night. They were quite good. The band next performs at The Pour House in Charleston, SC, on Friday night (Aug. 6th).

As for The Cat's Cradle, they host the '80s New Wave band The English Beat ("Mirror in the Bathroom") on Tues., Aug. 24. As the Raleigh newspaper "Indy Weekly" said: "It's time to go to the closet, and get the fedora." I was unsure what they meant until I saw a Youtube video from the band last night. Sure enough, they were wearing the hat that Humphrey Bogart made famous!

Here is Garcia's quote:

"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."

Quote of the Week- Jerry Garcia

Today, we are commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's opening in Cleveland with some quips from folks who are there.

Here is one from the late Grateful Dead singer Jerry Garcia.

Since I am not far-left politically (or a libertarian), I am not immediately inclined to fully agree with it, but he does have a point!:

"Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison."