Jerry Garcia's Rip-Snortin' Cocaine Interview
I extracted this audio from an informal pre-show backstage interview from the Paramount Theater in Portland, Oregon, October 2, 1977. I don't think it's a coincidence they opened the show with "Casey Jones." Why did Jerry Garcia go to Disney World? Because he heard the lines were long.
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Driving that train high on cocaine Casey Jones ya better watch your speed.
1:45, interviewer asks a girl the room “do you wanna scrape another line here?” and goes right back to his Garcia questions.
Ambient 70's sounds to study/work to - a looped track of long haired people hoovering up mounds of coke.
@tenbroeck1958
8 ай бұрын
That was me with some people two days ago!
@BlackNicholson97
8 ай бұрын
Top tier comment
@atravelerofbothtimespace4172
7 ай бұрын
God damned longhairs...
If this was too intense, watch the 1974 interview of Keith Richards high on smack to come down.
Ah man, these guys sound like they're about to run out of tissues. They must have caught the flu on the road, but you have to admire their energy!
@TroyOuellette-zs7ue
8 ай бұрын
Lol😂
@daveyboy8907
7 ай бұрын
Great work ethic
@420Gold
6 ай бұрын
That Colombian flu
@user-nj5qp5lq4n
5 ай бұрын
Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu!!!!!!
Love to hear Jerry talk.
@thumper8869
8 ай бұрын
And gag lmaoo
@MrWallybones
8 ай бұрын
Me three! 😁
@jeffyounger2624
7 ай бұрын
Booger sugar 🎉
Miss my dearest Brother Jerry beyond belief!
Blastin' lines with Jerry...good times!
Legit, thanks for pointing this out. I wouldn't have know what that loud wooshing sound in the background was😂
2:07, the drip made whoever the snowblower is choke. 🤪 You can hear someone chopping on a plate.
Can almost smell the cocaine.
@michaelb.42112
Ай бұрын
Those were the days when Pablo ran it and it tasted like bubble gum.
In the mid 70's, just about every band was surrounded by cocaine. It wasn't even thought to be addictive.
@warshipsatin8764
8 ай бұрын
by whom? lol its immediately addictive and anyone whos done it knows that
@kamurray67
8 ай бұрын
@@warshipsatin8764back in the mid 70’s it wasn’t considered addictive. I was in church as a child in the early mid 70’s and it was a service that was centered around drug use in society. A state police officer that dealt in drug investigations talked about the different drugs out there at the time. He stated that cocaine was not addictive and was not considered to be as big a problem for the young due to the high price it cost at the time. Little did he know in a decade it would become the epidemic of the 80’s and 90’s
@stevefadrosh6506
8 ай бұрын
It only gets addictive if you happen to run out of it.
@warshipsatin8764
8 ай бұрын
@@stevefadrosh6506 haha yeah but you run out pretty quick when you do it all in a single shot
@kamurray67
8 ай бұрын
@@stevefadrosh6506 LOL
This is awesome lol. At this point in time it started being heavily regulated. But in '66 my dad start working at a pharmacy. He had to make the codeine and other meds from scratch. There was a safe where they kept pure cocaine. It was never really that big of a deal. He jokes about how he even had to call the orders in when it was getting low. Lol, with a wink and a nod I know they never kept track of what was there either. So, I'd hazard to guess even in the '70s with the right connections they were not doing something imported. Crazy to think about nowadays...
How lucky were they to always have access to the pharmaceutical grade disco blow. The purest acid, quaaludes, etc.
@danielwilliams1921
8 ай бұрын
Me too (I’m 73).
@JimmyTony-uu2xs
8 ай бұрын
Glorifying coke lol. Yeah ok. Sh"t is pure evil.
@psst...heyyou6508
8 ай бұрын
@@JimmyTony-uu2xs yet here you are for the interview and in the comments section
@teledan105
8 ай бұрын
It put ol’ Jer in the grave at 53
@jordancressley7385
8 ай бұрын
It was heroin that really did Jerry in. He liked most of it though
Jerry is SOOOO funny.
I so loved the tone of that guitar Jerry is holding, i believe he used it thru 77 for sure and i dont know when he began using it??? The earlierst i seen him with it was 74. It sounded so nice its my favorite guitar of his.
Starbucks of the 70's!!!
Darby, I can tell how you get down brother, this being your only video and all
He was living reds, vitamin c and cocaine...
Gotta go fast to catch up to them riffs that were droppin at the time and damn did these dudes have riffs
1:47 ' You wanna scraped out another line'? 😂 😮 😳
They had me at rip snortin
He's so cool
I like the William S Burroughs interview saying to look in your own house as far as that goes.
Damn this is classic
Just some good old school raw.
Sadly many Jerry interviews have cuts, with him returning with the sniffles. It was part of the man his voracious appetites and the dark emptiness he battled. He was a walking contradiction like many geniuses.
@kurtisschilk1218
8 ай бұрын
"A walking contradiction" would imply he was a hypocrite, not a genius. If did drugs in secret but openly opposed drugs in his songs (which he did not), then he would be a "walking contradiction."
@brad5392
8 ай бұрын
@@kurtisschilk1218 I’m not sure you are familiar with the term walking contradiction my dood.
@kurtisschilk1218
8 ай бұрын
Pic up your phone and ask google "What is a walking contradiction".....You're welcome@@brad5392
@gameofadages6847
5 ай бұрын
@@kurtisschilk1218check out leading Contradictions Expert Walt Whitman for more info on why it doesn’t matter if the math checks out or not
@FIGGY65
5 ай бұрын
Great comment. I recently read a lengthy transcript of an old Dan Peek interview. He said that he and the other members of America had been playing together as teens, from 1963, gigging , practicing, and touring right until their success hit full bore ( 1970?)….He said that he was a multimillionaire at age 19, going on 20. Pretty much overnight. Anything he wanted, he could buy, and he had the best of everything. The problem though, for him at least, is he said that because of their newly born fame , they had huge a huge responsibility to tour for their label. He hated the travel, groupies, and the partying. He said that he was miserable being with his band mates and they had to be together 24/7…..practically hated each other most of the time… His escape was drugs….LSD , Hash, quaaludes, amphetamines, alcohol, and LOTS of cocaine. I believe he had over a six year run with his abuse before he got squared away. His biggest point was that it was the most horrible feeling to have everything ( money , fame, possessions) and be emotionally drained, miserable, and addicted, while not enjoying their music in those prime years . Apologies for the lengthy reply, but your comment struck a chord ( no pun intended) and I immediately thought of Peek’s interview about the drugs and conflicts with immense talent as artists.
The coke in the 70’s was excellent. Very high quality. Not like the shit that’s out there today.
@ClueSign
8 ай бұрын
And they had access to the best of it.
@humanbeing5300
8 ай бұрын
Same shit out there if ya know the right people
@claybladzik6755
8 ай бұрын
@@humanbeing5300 Yeah. Life in a small town can have it's drawbacks. Scoring some " Primo" is on my Bucket- List.
@Tyrannosaurine
8 ай бұрын
The stones had medical grade and traveled the world with it. Crazy to think of.
@timburdsey
8 ай бұрын
@@humanbeing5300I live in hope, lol! 😉
Someone gagged on that good first drip...,,
53 years old
Pace of conversation goes into cokerdrive around 2 min mark. Jerry, however does not seem particularly geeked. In fact, he does sound just a bit opiate faded to me. Perhaps there are a couple moments when the white wins out. God bless the man!
@SoberHighDrunk
7 ай бұрын
God bless him? for what? Doin drugs?
@Raviolli
7 ай бұрын
@@SoberHighDrunkfor being a great man.
can almost feel them plateauing out on stage, high as a kite
Chain smoking heaters in between scrapes.
the sniffles, huh ?
Just listening to this makes my bowels move... Natural laxative
Drivin that train high on cocaine Casey Jones better watch your speed!
I can't feel my face!!!
Gotta sugar the booger
Egyptian Kush
They're playing with Marilyn Chambers Ivory Snow Box in the laundry room.
What show was this before?
Boycott cocaine!
@1:36.......DRIVING THAT TRAIN......
Jerry was no lightweight, thats for sure. SNURFFORAMA!
I suspect Bill and Bob were the ones hoovering most of the blow. And whoever’s doing that damn weird laugh either bob or Phil maybe? You can hear people sniffing and coughing the whole time Jerry’s talking though he definitely had plenty…good interview if the nasal sounds weren’t overwhelming the dialogue, they’re sniffing that stuff way too hard anyway you want it in your sinus not your lungs😅, noses were probably sore the next morning…the cure? More cocaine!
Lol imagine being geeked out at the Giza pyramid and being electocuted while trying to shred the guitar 😂 Didnt they encounter the same situation at woodstock? Lol If i had a nickel for every line of coke inhaled by rockstars in the 70s id buy the farm
@rickits4798
8 ай бұрын
A coke cane farm in Bolivia
@poreese2726
8 ай бұрын
A coca farm?
@PatrickSantos-sn8ox
8 ай бұрын
I hear that coke cough....oh yeah some 70 and up to 83 percent....white lady......no Cain is 100 pure.....not off the key....but 75 percent is pretty damn good ....but yeah that tickle in the back of the throat cough.....slight nausea.....and drip .....goes away..to the good energy..
@atravelerofbothtimespace4172
7 ай бұрын
@PatrickSantos-sn8ox it's garbage any way around the board 🙄
Next up..an interview with John Belushi...
Do’n gaggers
@businessofrhythm2315
8 ай бұрын
Big fat strappers
he enjoyed a toot now and again
@Zilla__man
8 ай бұрын
No freebase though
@michaelchevalier9777
8 ай бұрын
Well, not if he was in a moving car, anyway..
@dupreeblues4744
8 ай бұрын
@@michaelchevalier9777 you ever married to Carol ?
@michaelchevalier9777
8 ай бұрын
@@dupreeblues4744 I'm from the Delco Chevalier clan -- got an aunt Carol, though
@Tyrannosaurine
8 ай бұрын
@@dupreeblues4744carol moved to Ontario.
It’s sad as fuck. These guys are the type that helped off Jerry. Listen to the coughing, choking and anxious laughs. These guys were a absolute wreck. Keep snorting it tho…
Herzog
Hmmm... Everyone caught a cold or something???
No reason to comment or judge.
Been there done that and had good times.. just got do it on occasion.. Lol
I'd like jordan spieth to build the world a home. And furnish it with turtle doves. Grow dank bud weed pollinated by honey bees.and snow white turtle doves. Spieth would like to teach the world to swing in three part harmony. Spieth wants to baptise john the baptist in his arms in front of some hippies company. Spieth would like the world for once to see Jon rahm baptized by his hand. And hear the laughter roll thru the hills throughout the land.
Jer sounds stuffy? 😂
🤣
as much as i love him it hurts to know this is one key to what killed him
@greenmachine1890
8 ай бұрын
Diabetes
@radialmusic77
8 ай бұрын
@@greenmachine1890 that too
@poreese2726
8 ай бұрын
@@greenmachine1890diabeetus
@marine4lyfe85
Ай бұрын
Chili dogs
Groovy !!!
They opened w/ one of the longest Casey jones ever played that night’s shows
😂😂😂😂👃
nobody knows wtf they're saying here... nice...
You must have eatin the brown acid
I’m convinced Jerry had an IQ over 200, and was a visiting Buddha. Seems to have the sniffles in this interview???
@ajisstillright
8 ай бұрын
Probably not a powerful demon such as "buddha" but more so just a really good guy :)
@rickmcgough8048
8 ай бұрын
No dr. buzz, he was just a man.
@adamurban1979
8 ай бұрын
all humans have a buddha nature but few harness it as well as jerry - a master @ cause & effect; really knew how to positively impact an environment but rarely seemed to be trying to change it.
@rickmcgough8048
8 ай бұрын
@@adamurban1979 I believe your comment to be absolute bullshit. I'm pretty sure Garcia would agree.
@adamurban1979
8 ай бұрын
@@rickmcgough8048 i appreciate your opinion; thanks for reading mine.
All those good drugs and about the only thing they managed to play was noodley doodley. With the energy of sloths on ludes.
@billaball3
7 ай бұрын
What an original and wrong take. Some shows were duds, sure, but there are tons of shows where the energy is through the roof and the stage was literally moving. GD fucks hard.
@Aboriginalmetazoan
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for letting me know that my opinion is wrong. My 40 + year obsession with music has been informed by your reply. GD sucks hard. It's all relative. 97% of deadheads I've met have been far more interested in drugs and alcohol than music
Yuk, god knows how anyone can play music high on coke, after 10 minutes you’d be twitching like made. How can you get in to it if you wanna go do another bump🤷🏻♂️
@jnouli
8 ай бұрын
Pure is a different ballgame
@drpacman9996
8 ай бұрын
@@jnouli perhaps, or maybe it’s just not my bag whilst others may just deal with that aspect of it better.
@kyzor-sosay6087
8 ай бұрын
Not if you’re on ludes too,coke and ludes and Xanax and all mixed, no twitch,man.Coke only,bad twitch.
@michaelchevalier9777
8 ай бұрын
When the band is doing key bumps on break, you know the second set is gonna be stupid fast, with endless opportunities to solo.
@pagebartowanderson
8 ай бұрын
a bump is like a shot of espresso. the first one or two feels fine, the fifteenth starts to scare you little.
Ssssnnnniiiifffff....oh god that's good!....😊😊 I bet they blew at least a teener during that short interview....ssssnnnnniiiiiiffff....(cough... cough)