Garcia Kahn interview Rochester 1978

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https://youtu.be/h6fijoFd8v0

From WCMF on 3/10/78 recorded before a JGB show, talking about Punk and other music of the day.  I never knew that Jerry liked Cheap Trick. 

3/10/78 Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, NY
I: The Harder They Come, Mission In The Rain, Russian Lullaby, Second That Emotion, Mystery Train
II: Love In The Afternoon, They Love Each Other, Tore Up Over You, Simple Twist Of Fate, I'll Be With Thee, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down E: Midnight Moonlight

That was nice.

 

I love punk.

That was interesting it’s too bad John was there 

Did Kahn get any blowback from other members of the Dead or fans for Jerry's addictions? Scully said in his book a primary reason the JGB toured was it brought Jerry extra Persian money, and him and Kahn could get strung out till their heart's content. Not that Scully was throwing blame around, he freely admitted he was Jerry's supplier and junkie buddy for years.

I know Jerry had a healthy appetite for drugs his whole adult life, but wondering if Kahn enabled a post-coma and early-90s Jerry who might've been looking to clean up for good? I don't know much about this dude. Thoughts?

 

I don't think that Jerry required any enabling.

And this....

"Later in 1978 Garcia later brought a punk-influenced aggressiveness to his playing and singing"

is ridiculous.

And "glib slickness" pretty much describes "Heaven Help the Fool".

Did Kahn get any blow back from other members of the Dead or fans for Jerry's addictions? Scully said in his book a primary reason the JGB toured was it brought Jerry extra Persian money, and him and Kahn could get strung out till their heart's content. Not that Scully was throwing blame around, he freely admitted he was Jerry's supplier and junkie buddy for years.>>>

One of the reasons JGB toured with both Melvin & Jimmy Warren in the early 1980's?

Quote from one of Blair Jackson's post GD books...

Electric pianist Jimmy Warren was, to put it delicately, sympathetic to Kahn's and Garcia's offstage behavior ... even John Kahn admitted that 'things got kind of out of control around then. Jimmy Warren was just sort of a friend. It didn't work out and it went on too long. 

I always laugh at the rumors that Hunter did a tour with JGB in early 1980 to try to help control Garcia's hard drug use.  He would know as well as anyone on Earth that you can't tell Jerry Garcia to stop getting high. 

John Barlow talks about going to Jerry's house to talk to him one of one  about his drug issues.

Garcia walked away, went into his bedroom and put up a Do Not Disturb sign.

 

As far as the "early-90's", I'd always heard it was some dentist who cluelessly prescribed some prescription painkillers for his dental work that got Jerry using opiates again after he'd kicked in the late '80s.  Kahn would have been around from then until the end.  Whether he was enabling Jerry's use then?  I don't know.

Marilyn Monroe was John's babysitter. 

"He would know as well as anyone on Earth that you can't tell Jerry Garcia to stop getting high. "

Hunter says that he did do that tour as part of an effort to get through to Jerry but that each night Kahn and Jerry would just disappear to the back of the bus.

https://youtu.be/nvB7M-n5zPE

Lesh told the story of an intervention with Garcia in which Jerry’s reaction was essentially “fuck you.”

>>> I never knew that Jerry liked Cheap Trick. 

 

who doesn't like Cheap Trick?

Read somewhere that at some point (mid 80s?) that Jerry would smoke crack just so he could stay awake to smoke more heroin.

That's dedication to his craft. Plus he was probably getting great shit so no sense in wasting it by nodding off. Jerry was an innovator in more ways than one. 

^^^^Sounds like something Kahn woulda talked somebody into.