Subject: 2nd New York Times article Sadness From the Streets to High Offices I A photo of: A Grateful Dead fan, Paul Van Houtte, yesterday contemplated a picture of the band's guitarist, Jerry Garcia, that was part of a San Francisco store's window display tribute to the late musician. By JOHN MARKOFF SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 Wildflower bouquets lay on the steps of 710 Ashbury Street today and a small group of people gathered quietly to mourn the death of Jerry Garcia, with the sound of ritual drums rising from the intersection at Haight Street a few blocks away. Only the faithful knew that the neat blue Victorian house was where the Grateful Dead started in 1965. Some mourners wore tie-dyed shirts and black armbands, while others had left their jobs after hearing the news and were still in office attire. They all came to talk about the passing of an era and a man who made a community with his music. Bob Meola, 43, of Grosse Pointe, Mich., who said he had been a fan of the band since 1971, said it meant "the guru coming off the strings." The "Tourheads" who spend years following the band in Volkswagens and renovated school buses and the professional people who use their vacation time to travel to shows and talk on computer chatlines for "Deadheads," were part of a broad cross-section of Americans who expressed sadness about an event many had long feared because of Mr. Garcia's precarious health. Cars honked as they passed, and one man leaned out of a truck and cried, " Later on, Jerry!" In New York City, Mr. Garcia's death prompted a similar outpouring of emotion. At the Wetlands Preserve bar in TriBeCa, telephone calls poured in from Deadheads looking for others to share their grief with. Jenny Rubin a receptionist said one caller had implored her: "I really need to find out where everyone is because all I have is my dog to hold." The bar's owner, Larry Bloch said Wetlands, a hippie-style bar replete with a sticker-covered Volkswagen mini-bus on display, would hold a memorial for Mr. Garcia next Tuesday. Jake Szufnarowski, Mr. Bloch's assistant, said that if any Grateful Dead lyric could best capture Mr. Garcia's message, it would be two lines from the song, "Scarlet Begonias": "Once in a while you can get shown the light/ In the strangest places if you look at it right." Les Kippel, founder of Relix magazine, a Brooklyn publication that specializes in the Grateful Dead, said: "We have five lines coming in here, and they have been ringing nonstop and they have been ringing nonstop the entire day. Between that the fax machine and E-mail we have been inundated with calls, notes and messages and even now at 7 P.M. it hasn't stopped." In the San Francisco Bay area where the Grateful Dead has been an institution for three decades, the band's music was played even on allnews AM radio stations, where the only music is usually heard on commercials. Rock music critics and friends of the band gathered on talk shows to recall stories of Mr. Garcia. Most people said they were shocked when they heard the news. In Oakland, Quilley Powers, a friend of the band and several staff members, said: "I feel kind of numb. I'm not sure why, but the first thing I did was to wash a shirt that shows Jerry meditating." The Grateful Dead, with Mr. Garcia as its leader has virtually defined the counter-culture for parts of three generations of Americans. "Some of the things the hippies got right came out the strongest and the clearest in the Grateful Dead," Stewart Brand, an author who was involved in the band's early days, said today. The band, he added, "stuck by their knitting and stuck by their principles; they didn't sell out." Mr. Garcia's death was widely viewed in deeply personal terms, even by many people whose position in business or society might not immediately identify them as followers of such a counter-culture group. "I feel like a member of my family died," said Roger McNamee, a general partner at Integral Capital Partners in Palo Alto. He also said that the day was one of emotional contrast for him. As a technology investor, he had been elated by the early success of Netscape Inc., a hot new Internet company that had its first public stock offering. But when he learned that Mr. Garcia had died, he felt devastated, he said. But the many commercial products linked to the band, including Jerry Garcia ties and the Cherry Garcia line of ice cream, frozen yogurt, T-shirts and other frozen desserts made by Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. of Vermont, seemed certain to continue being made. "Cherry Garcia was meant as a tribute to Jerry while he was still alive," Ben Cohen, a co-founder of the ice cream company, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying. "It's certainly a continuing tribute now that he's gone." The ice cream, which is loaded with chunks of cherries and chocolate, consistently ranks among the top five of the company's more than two dozen flavors and frequently is among the top three, a company spokesman said. Among the band's followers are many in positions of power. Vice President Albert Gore Jr. and his wife say they are fans of the Grateful Dead, as does Gov. William F. Weld of Massachusetts and other political figures. Wearing a black ribbon on his lapel, Mr. Weld called a news conference today to express his sadness. "I listened to the Dead for a couple of hours last night," said Mr. Weld, adding that he last attended a Grateful Dead concert in 1993 at the Boston Garden. Mr. Garcia began playing informally in the coffee houses and bookstores around Stanford University in the early 1960's, and some followers remembered him from then. "I first saw Jerry Garcia playing his guitar at Kepler's Bookstore in Menlo Park in the early 1960's," said Vic Lovell, a psychologist, who lived near Mr. Garcia in a Bohemian neighborhood in Menlo Park from 1960 to 1965. Mr. Lovell, now 60 years old, said he still occasionally attended concerts and was struck by how the Grateful Dead had managed to extend its following across generations. "I see kids who look just like I remember we used to look," he said. "We seem to have produced a band that extends from generation to generation. " ------------------------------------------------------------------ AP Online August 10, 1995; Thursday 03:59 Eastern Time HEADLINE: Dead Heads Mourn In DC AP-Garcia-Capital Several fans of late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia held an impromptu vigil at the Lincoln Memorial to mourn his death. U.S. Park Police had no estimate of how many ''Dead Heads,'' fans of the band, turned out for the candlelight commemoration. Word of the vigil was relayed mostly on the Internet, but announcements were also made on local Washington area radio stations. Candles were placed below several pictures of the 53-year-old Garcia, who died Wednesday from a heart attack he suffered while at a drug rehabilitation center in California. Meanwhile, longtime fan Sen. Patrick Leahy said news of Garcia's death left him feeling ''like I've been kicked in the stomach.'' ''I just feel terrible about it,'' said Leahy, D-Vt., a fan since the 1960s and personal friend of Garcia for about 10 years. ''When they were here last just a few weeks ago, I was talking to Jerry,'' Leahy said in an interview with The Associated Press. ''He was talking about how he was watching his diet and being careful. I took my oldest son with me. We were on stage for the whole show.'' Leahy's friendship with the guitarist developed after someone representing the band called to find out if it was true that Leahy had attended a Dead concert. ''I said 'I go all the time,''' recalled Leahy, 55. Then came the first of many invitations to sit backstage. ''I got a call one night from the White House operator while on stage. ... The president and secretary of state are looking for me. I got on the phone with the secretary of state (Warren Christopher) and he asked me if I thought I had my radio on rather loud.'' Last year Leahy invited Garcia and other band members to lunch in the senators' dining room. ''The most remarkable thing about that was Senator Thurmond came up, introduced himself to Jerry Garcia and said, 'Boy I understand you're a rock star.''' Garcia acknowledged that he was. The then-91-year-old South Carolina Republican then responded: ''Well I'm Strom Thurmond. I'm the oldest member of the U.S. Senate.'' During that lunch, Garcia asked Leahy which was his favorite song. At the concert this year at RFK Stadium, the band played that song, ''Black Muddy River,'' as its encore in honor of Leahy's presence. ''I thought he looked better than he had in years,'' said Leahy of Garcia at that concert. Leahy said he had wanted to attend the band's recent performance in Vermont, but couldn't. It had been their second show there after being urged by Leahy to go to the state. He couldn't count the number of concerts he's attended. ''I go very time I can,'' said Leahy. ''They have probably kept the most loyal cadre of fans you can image. They have always treated their fans and their own people right.'' Leahy said he keeps track of the band on the Internet. ''I even have their Web page on my list of bookmarks,'' he said. The senator said he felt different kinds of people could read their feelings and hopes into the Dead's music and lyrics ''even though they may be diametrically opposite.'' ''I've never left one of their concerts not feeling better than when I went in,'' said Leahy. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Jerry's Funneral from AP 12:15 AM (ET) 8/12 Private Funeral for Garcia BELVEDERE, Calif.--After days of impromptu memorials, a private funeral was held Friday afternoon for Jerry Garcia in a church that shares the name of one of the Grateful Dead's most beloved songs. Family, close friends and band members gathered at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church for a service that ended with one final standing ovation for the legendary band leader. As word of the funeral leaked, the media converged on the small town about 10 miles north of San Francisco. Bob Dylan, Ken Kesey, Bruce Hornsby and basketball great Bill Walton were among the mourners. Kesey and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter were among those who spoke at the 90-minute service, said band publicist Dennis McNally, who handed out portions of Hunter's eulogy. "If some part of that music is heard in deepest dream, or on some breeze of summer a snatch of golden theme, we'll know you live inside us with love that never parts, our good old Jack o' Diamonds become the King o' Hearts," one portion read. Garcia's casket was open, and he was clad in his signature black T-shirt and black sweats, McNally said. The family hasn't said if he will be buried or cremated. Garcia died Wednesday at a drug rehab center in Marin County. A Marin County coroner's investigator said the cause of death could not be determined until toxicology tests come back, which could take 2 weeks, but said early findings point to natural causes. The decision to hold the service at St. Stephen's, which overlooks tranquil Belvedere Lagoon, had nothing to do with the name, McNally said. "Saint Stephen," written by Garcia and Robert Hunter, is among the band's most popular songs, though it was rarely played in concert. Some of its lyrics--"St. Stephen will remain, all he's lost he shall regain"--were sure to resonate for fervent fans who have held impromptu memorials, public and private, since Garcia's death. The band had tried to keep the exact time and location of the funeral private, though the family has said a larger public service is likely later. As the service closed, the Rev. Matthew Fox, who conducted Garcia's wedding on Valentine's Day a year ago, asked the audience of about 250 to give the guitarist-composer-singer one last standing ovation, McNally said. The roar could be heard outside. A makeshift memorial at 710 Ashbury St. in San Francisco, where the band was born in 1964, was littered with flowers, candles and 5 marijuana joints. A letter addressed to "Jerry" on a nearby window read: "I love you, and when I die we'll jam together in Heaven and smoke out a lot." Garcia, a diabetic, had battled drug addiction and weight for years. The band made its name at the LSD parties thrown by Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, and the Dead and their fans always have been associated with mind-expanding substances. A doctor who treated Garcia for nearly 3 decades said the guitarist was trying to kick a long-term heroin habit when he checked into the Serenity Knolls center. In Washington, President Clinton expressed hope Garcia's death would help steer young people away from "self-destructive behavior" like drug abuse. Clinton, in an interview with MTV, said he and his 15-year-old daughter, Chelsea, represent 2 generations of Grateful Dead fans. "He was just a great talent," Clinton said. "He was a genius." Also Friday, police arrested a 16-year-old Montana girl who allegedly stole the family car to go to Garcia's funeral. The girl and 5 friends were stopped after they pulled into a gas station in Larkspur to refuel from the roughly 1,000-mile drive. The teen-ager's mother had figured the girl was headed to Marin County and asked officers there to look for her, police said. (From AP) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: SF Chronicle Editorial 8/11 EDITORIAL -- American Beauty OF ALL THE WORDS of mournful praise that have followed the death of Jerry Garcia, leader of the Grateful Dead, the one adjective that runs consistently through the commentaries on his life and times is ``integrity.'' In an industry that thrives on hype, glitz and greed, Garcia never succumbed or aspired to pretensions of self-important celebrityhood; for three decades, he and the band offered open and accessible celebration and entertainment to their countless Deadhead fans, who were treated as members of an extended family, not as suckers to be fleeced. In a music form where concerns for commercial success outweigh artistic considerations, Garcia never sold out to screaming metal and showy theatrics, remaining true to his own vision of a unique fusion sound of improvisational rock music. In a popular culture that sacrifices every value to merce nary pursuit, Garcia never lost the romantic ideals of San Francisco in the 1960s, the special era that spawned his music and nurtured it into the 1990s. ``The Grateful Dead and Jerry have been the one band that has been about not just the music but the socialization of people,'' said Gregg Perloff, president of the concert promotions firm Bill Graham Presents, ``allowing people to assemble and escape the drudgery of everyday life and experience joy, true joy.'' Whatever private demons drove Garcia to drug addiction -- a child of the Mission District, at the age of 5 he saw his father drown while on a camping trip -- he died while trying to heal himself, checked into a recovery center in an effort to get clean before another Grateful Dead tour in the fall. In the end, what will be remembered is the gentle image of Garcia's smiling, bearded face atop his bearlike body -- that and his matchless music. ``There's no way to measure his greatness or magnitude as a person or as a player,'' said Bob Dylan. ``He really had no equal. His playing was moody, awesome, sophisticated, hypnotic and subtle. There's no way to convey the loss.''