Looking back on it, Adams realized that Cassady was handing her over to the Chief, along with the drugs. Her eyes well with tears. ", But at La Honda and in other communities around the country, a new movement was taking place. "I was taught every plant name as we passed it on a hike," she says. Mountain Girl kept her gig as the projectionist, painting the walls with colors as the trippers danced to the Dead. They ran a bar in San Francisco. Mountain Girl cherished the quiet moments with Garcia in their room, nursing Sunshine in bed as he noodled her favorite tune, "Viola Lee Blues," on his guitar. "I ran home to mother for the first time in my life," she says. But when the day arrived, the crowd of 300,000 grew increasingly unruly as the Hells Angels, who had been brought in to provide security, grew increasingly drunk. Were trying to live up to a set of ideals and work with folks who understand what Jerry means to people. Mountain Girl gave Garcia enough latitude for him to play music, get involved with other women, and eventually, fall into the trap of what she calls "the white drugs" - cocaine and heroin. Ken Kesey's girlfriend Mountain Girl holds her baby daughter Sunshine. "I was maintaining our home. But I went because I thought Bradley was cute and here is this older guy with him who was kinda weird. When she stepped off the bus holding Sunshine, she recognized a familiar face coming up to greet her. It was a form of synesthesia: little notes with different little cartoon beings, each with its own personality. ", The closer she grew to Jerry, the further she drifted from Kesey. But there was one glaring problem. So youve gotta stay grounded, stay humble, be realistic. Often, it was very difficult. ", One day, when she was up in San Francisco, her attorney got a call. "I would go over from time to time and hang out," she says. "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. Jerry was married with a daughter of his own, but they had moved back to Palo Alto without him. Its a place for people to get together and still be able to connect with Jerry. mixer. Browse 85 sunshine kesey stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. ", She addressed it head-on. ", "I never met a woman with quite as much machismo as this girl had," marvels Scully. It hadn't been running for a very long time. We weren't exactly a coven, we weren't a cult but we did seem to be involved with each other before we even met each other." I couldn't believe it. She tried to get in the door but a tree had grown up and blocked her passage. The Days Between is obviously based off a song, and the fans took it over after Jerry died. Everybody was attached to it.". Jerry, I think, fits the Alfred picture as a kind of verbally interesting person, rather than the swashbuckler Kesey was. Dean Budnick on December 2, 2020 Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia and Annabelle Garcia "I sincerely believe that the more people that we can expose to Jerry's. ", "I never spoke with her about any of it until after the fact," said Sue Swanson. After so many years of struggling to fit in back in New York, she had finally found a place where she could be whoever she wanted. "He was very connected in the world of literature and we were constantly being visited by graduate students or writers or people doing interviews. Be the first to know about the Grateful Dead's exclusive limited-edition releases, breaking news on the band, community events, and so much more. It kept him very up. Getting into the cannabis industry was something I was determined to do. And in what medium do you prefer to work? You can't do drugs when you're in a coma.". Or, as Kesey told Tom Wolfe: "Either you are on the bus or off the bus." "I was on the hunt for compatible people," says Garcia now. She had $600 in her pocket and she was 17 years old. It was completely nuts. For a long time, Mountain Girl clung to her anonymity. But as the Dead began putting out records, Garcia spent most of the time on tour. When her boss found her slumped over her desk the next morning, he fired her. ", Her mother, a botanist and a school teacher, "abhorred gender classification," says Garcia. "Now what will that do?" The engine had been cannibalized for parts for Furthur II, the "new bus" that Kesey was taking on what fellow Prankster Kenneth Babbs was calling the Grand Furthur Tour to the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. The intellectual climate at Kesey's was free of academic constraints," remembers Carolyn Garcia. It never happened. No money, hardly any clothes, and no real concept of what was coming. Left to moulder in the weeds. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. In October 1966, with her visa up, she rode back to San Francisco with her baby and the Pranksters. "I didn't want to compete for attention," admits Mountain Girl. I fear she did most of the adapting.". another Prankster, Mike Hagen, asked her. "The Haight-Ashbury era," as Tom Wolfe later wrote, "began that weekend.". Snacks, beer, giveaways! 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 it is in Pleasant Hill, in the bucolic greenness of the Willamette Valley, that she now lives on 16 acres with her new love, Bill Burwell, 49, a huge, shambling, robust ex-logger with a split between his teeth, ruddy cheeks and a long, salt-and-pepper gray pony tail. We're lucky to have geniuses around giving us art." 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. "Now she's with this guy who is a perfect match," says Tangerine. he asked me. The dealers were out there spreading bad, bad shit, telling them it was LSD, and it would be some nasty tranq from the nuthouse.". As a result, the prevailing narrative of Mountain Girl in the popular imagination reads like a comic-book male fantasy: saucy, sexy, sassy, "swinging into every situation like on a vine," as Wolfe wrote, "like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.". "They gave you enough so that you were transported to the geometrical universe where everything was in squares and triangles," she says. That is really something." At Stanford University, researchers were exploring the potential of psychedelic drugs. Shes @bluebelle42 on Instagram. This is absolute magic, she thought. "And I was like, 'Oh, my God!' When she stepped off the bus in October 1966 with her daughter, Sunshine, she recognized a familiar face. The Mountain Girl-Jerry Garcia relationship was fraught with enough drama and see-sawing emotion to resemble a hippie soap opera. He was losing me and Sunshine.". "I couldn't freak freely and stay up all night and run up and down the ladders," she says. During this period, he rekindled his relationship with Koons, who had been largely out of his life since the late 1970s; they would ultimately marry in February 1994. She has a garden, a greenhouse with a new outdoor shower, a painting/writing studio guest house, a hot tub, an aging BMW convertible and a split-log conservatory Burwell built where she grows redwood trees. I know they had a big love with one another. The band, which was making waves in the Haight but hadn't yet recorded an album, shared a rambling Victorian on 710 Ashbury Street in San Francisco. When they returned, Jerry's heroin use was getting so extreme even Mountain Girl was noticing it. I look carefully and ask for a quarter of one. The legend crumbled. Were proud of them and we want to share the best of what California has to offer. "She's a person possessed of spirit and weight, will and energy," says Jon McIntire, the Dead's manager from 1968 to 1990. Not a subscriber? And there it was. KLCCs Tiffany Eckert speaks to Sunshine Kesey, daughter of Ken Kesey, about their family life, Keseys wrestling start at Springfield High School and his indelible mark on a generation. I also have to plug her own parking-lot CBD brand, Mountain Girls Botanica. My mom raised me, and she protected us from all of that by moving us to rural Oregon. I look at it another way as well. "I got comfortable, as much as possible, on the overloaded bus bunk with my very few possessions," she writes. "I just couldn't deal with it," Mountain Girl says. She hallucinated "pyramids and parrots and lush jungle vegetation," she says. But I was a little envious of the glamour queens, you know. It was a toxic environment. Initially. Kesey dubbed them the Acid Tests. ", With Cassady behind the wheel, the Pranksters rode the bus down to Los Angeles for a series of Acid Tests. The bare-bones feel of the bar was definitely pulling from the Garcia familys past. She'd also just lost her job, and was going broke. The tiny sink was a hazard zone. So when a guy named Bradley and his fast-talking friend Neal approached her at the caf and offered her a lift, she decided to see where the adventure would lead. 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 "[4] Journalist Tom Wolfe described his first impression of a teenage Adams as "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 paintbrush dipped in cadmium yellow from where she dyed it blond in Mexico. ", Still facing pot charges in San Francisco, she had to hitchhike up and down the coast for her court appearances, five hours each way. One must brace against the turns to avoid sliding into the driver. There were daisies growing up through the floor boards. In her unpublished memoir, she writes: Jerry and I were head over heels in love, and radiant with happiness. The band is comprised of former members Bob Weir (guitar), Mickey Hart (drums) and Bill Kreutzmann (drums) and new additions John Mayer (guitar), Oteil Burbrdige (bass/drums) and Jeff Chimenti. I didn't know what to do. Carolyn is such a big, energetic person and you could see, even at 17, the frustration with the mildness in her family situation (along) with the kind of isolation she had and lack of involvement in rough and tumble life. [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. After his death, Koons Garcia stopped the checks. "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. At 710, Mountain Girl imposed order like a drill sergeant. Please enjoy this full-length feature from our October/November Issue. ", All along Garcia understood that she had elected to keep the home fires burning and give her genius husband plenty of "space. Not even the Sixties. I think that two people hiding out in the same family would have been even more difficult. There were people everywhere looking for anything, looking for a place to lie down. The farm hasn't changed much. She decided to take the wheel again. Rock Scully's girlfriend of the time, Valerie Ann Steinbrecher, who still is called "Tangerine," remembers watching Carolyn Adams and an unbearded Jerry Garcia literally fall in love on the spot: "The first time I saw Mountain Girl was at this gig at S.F. He did not want to share that information or even have to dig into all that information. They're like a couple of grumpy bears who just woke up in the spring. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. Although Garcia and Adams reconciled after the dissolution of his relationship with Koons in 1977, they stopped cohabiting a year later (save for occasional holiday reunions) due to the guitarist's heroin and cocaine addictions. They didn't have kids and it looked like they were having some fun. "She's imposing all right," says David Gans, the proto-Deadhead historian who hosts "Dead to the World" on KPFA-FM radio. Its nice to lose yourself in a piece of art. Everyone would drink the LSD-spiked Kool-Aid and dance under the kaleidoscopic lights to their very own house band, the newly anointed Grateful Dead. While that led to a lengthy period of cohabitation in which Carolyn Garcia played an integral role in her husband's recovery, they gradually drifted apart once more when Garcia began an extramarital relationship and fathered a child with Manasha Matheson. "As the new attraction, I was getting a lot of interest from the unattached males," Adams recalls. It sounds like all of these endeavors require a balance between your free-spirited nature and a need to focus on business matters. "She is the real deal.". ", One night in San Francisco, four months after the Beatles show, Kesey and Mountain Girl were up on the roof of a home in Telegraph Hill, smoking a joint. ", "I'm not sure he "got her away' from Kesey," says Sue Swanson, who calls herself "the Grateful Dead's first official fan" and who runs the Dead's merchandising office in Novato. I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. Meanwhile, Mountain Girl took her three girls to Oregon. I don't know.' She received her diploma by mail. When Thompson and the Hells Angels showed up for parties, Mountain Girl was soon giving them rides on the back of their own Harleys. Chuck dan Sue Kesey mengharapkan sekitar 5. Kesey wasn't dead. "I had a little "spill,' " she laughs, "and got really high. When the Summer of Love devolved into a plague of bad drug trips and homeless teenagers, Mountain Girl and Garcia set out to restore new life to the countercultural movement to which they had helped give birth. It was a form of synesthesia: little notes with different little cartoon beings, each with its own personality. She quit LSD, but she fell into a postpartum depression as her reality came into focus. It was like permission to make something new out of the old stuff, which the bus kind of represented. 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. The moment she hugged him, she felt a flash. And there were dogs and Pranksters, the bus and a whole huge scene all around them. [Laughs.]. It was meaningful to me because its a way for us to participate in the scene. They were moving around, and I go, 'Oh, isn't that cute?'" The name stuck. "It was fall. Mountain Girl, eight months pregnant, hitchhiked to get groceries. A Hells Angel, she later learned, had stabbed a gun-wielding concertgoer to death at the foot of the stage. "My father was not a person who was ambitious in a materialistic way," says Carolyn's brother, Gordon Adams, 57, who runs a computer help line for architects and designers in Seattle. I couldn't understand why I was born a girl. ", But Mountain Girl and Jerry remained intertwined through it all. If Mountain Girl wanted to come, she better hitchhike down to LA fast, before they split. And then there was a former Philadelphia assistant district attorney who drove West, determined to "move in with Jerry.". "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". Dawn was breaking as they arrived at a ranch in La Honda. And they had the smallest room in the house at that point. "The band got to be very big and very much the nexus and focus of hundreds and thousands of people. I still enjoy making art as part of my range of hobbies and skills. And he hadn't been supporting her and their child. The free concert, scheduled for December 6, 1969, would include performances by the Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Rolling Stones. But part of it was MG and the family and wanting to embrace that. she recalls with a laugh. "Neal basically dropped me off like fresh meat," she recalls. ", "She is an authentic personality," says Dennis McNally, former public relations manager for the Grateful Dead and now publicist for Grateful Dead Productions. In 1975, when Theresa Garcia was not even a year old, Jerry disappeared. ", Her affair with Kesey happened fast. "We didn't have the education that modern America has now to help us talk about our roles. Our writers provide thought-provoking perspectives, informed by analysis, reporting, and expertise. But at the same time, there was a slightly Victorian tinge to the whole thing. In 1993, Jerry Garcia asked Mountain Girl for a divorce. From the Merry Pranksters to the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia's widow opens up about what the age of free love was really like. As far as I know, it went boom! Mountain Girl walked around it, peering in the windows. Both of them could be among the most open people I've ever run across.". It was all over the newspapers, and it was a huge story, and we felt guilty at having called for this." The middle is a lousy place to sit. He was 53. Had a quick mind - quick on the pickup with puns, jokes and comments. Sunshine Kesey is known for Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday (2013). "It wasn't (about) any one person," she says. The first in a series of archive releases celebrating the run of Jerry Garcia shows on Broadway in Oct/Nov 1987. The moment she hugged him, she felt a flash. I was very much in love with Jerry's music and supported it, but our personal relationship was sort of outside that. Certainly, for my own peace of mind, I cant work with anyone who thinks my dad was a deity or something. 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. Tiffany Eckert 10 of 15 The Kesey Clan surrounds Geneva Jolley Kesey Family 11 of 15 Springfield's Peter DeFazio at his Congressional Headquarters. The Oregon connection centered her and gave her the strength to go on. The personal relationships within the band and their own personal relationships shattered under tremendous pressure. We are on a rock hurtling through space, and its all amazing. Both felt the $5 million figure was fair, she said. ", It was August 31, 1965, and everyone piled into Furthur, the painted school bus that would soon become one of the most renowned icons of the Sixties. This is a 3 CD set of music from the two October 28, 1987 shows, featuring the acoustic set from the matinee show and the acoustic and electric sets from the evening show. "It was written all over his face. Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, former wife of late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, and her daughter with late author Ken Kesey, Sunshine Kesey, recent. What other considerations are important to you when selecting a partner? There wasn't a whole lot I could do to go chasing around worrying to see what had happened to Jerry. He was living in a cheap motel in the beachfront town of Mazatln, conferring with his lawyer and looking jittery, skinny, and paranoid. If you were behaving badly, she'd tell you that, too. She was broke. ", But, laughs Scully, "Nobody ever saw her and Jerry because they never came out of their room. After a trial noted for the animosity between the two warring sides and full disclosure of the Garcias' private life and Jerry Garcia's assets - the very things he wished to avoid - the judge decided in Carolyn Garcia's favor. "I was mortified," she says. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. They produced two daughters. And that was a faith in the rightness of our relationship. Once you've had a little kid, it's very difficult to focus on being a P.A. ", The joy and harmony in the Garcia family was challenged further in 1975, shortly after the birth of the Garcias' second daughter, Theresa, nicknamed "Trixie" by Kit Candaleria, one of the Dead's roadies. But Jerry had up and died. ", Flush with cash, she bought a white Honda 50 scooter and took to riding up and down the coast. Weve met lots of people and toured lots of different places, and thought about many different ways to structure this. "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. View All Result . [Laughs.]. Kesey dug how she spoke her mind, made him laugh, and dazzled him with beauty. Having it be so intimate and humble is totally cool. And none of the Pranksters embodied that emerging spirit more than Mountain Girl. Says Kesey: "There was never a question that she would not have the baby, gosh, no. Mountain Girl would ride Rush's bike over a rutted short cut to the hospital and sit by Jerry's bed, willing him to live. The bus is rusted and broken down. The whole vibe of the Capitol is amazing and authentic. Jerry Garcia For the two of them, says Scully, "it was a great big love.". Garcia to Deborah Koons and Mountain Girl back to Oregon and the big, rugged logger she had met, Bill Burwell. "Jerry decided to spend more time away from the house and in his studio. But the event ended in tragedy when a member of the Hells Angels, the notorious biker gang who were hired to provide security, stabbed a concertgoer to death at the foot of the stage. Not at all. She quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter together named Sunshine. They wrote their one-paragraph separation agreement and went separate ways. Like Mountain Girl, he was looking for family. We were there for 18 months. I also enjoy smoking weed around people who I dig. "There was something that needed to be done and when you got all these people together, it was suddenly possible to do it. "I was glad he wasn't there," she says, "but I was a little hurt he didn't come to see me." I was way upset. At the police station, speaking with a reporter, Kesey suggested that he was being persecuted for his role in the counterculture. "I was like, whoa, that was a really electric moment!" "She spoke her mind and was quite tolerant except for anything that approached ignorance. "Ooh man," she told him, "there's something. "That was my golden destination.". Because Jerry and I honorably tried to do a deal that covered everything, that made me happy. The mist was coming through the trees, and Adams made out a large vehicle in the distance, painted like a kaleidoscope. Her function? "I wanted to stay with my Prankster buddies. I feel like we still have a relationship with the fans and are able to deliver things that delight and encourage more good vibes. In a loosely autobiographical screenplay he wrote called "Over the Border," he rhapsodizes about "her big brown eyes made even bigger by the electricity of the warm autumn night with the stars above and her man beside her. I'll go through with my heels at your hungry ribs.". And Faye, his wife, was struggling with the whole thing. Inside her plant-filled home lined with scientific books on psilocybin and posters of the Grateful Dead, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, legendary godmother of the hippie counterculture, Jerry's ex-wife, and mother of their two daughters, sits on a red leather couch dressed in a red shirt and purple pants. GarciaLive Volume 17 showcases highlights from three stand-out shows captured in the Jerry Garcia Band's native Northern California. ", Jerry never said a word, said Mountain Girl. 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