Happy Birthday Jerry! Traditional Cache

A simple cache hide, with a bit of camo. Small sized will hold most TB and smaller trade items. BYOP if you have an extra maybe you could leave one, we are all out.

A few quotes from Jerry on life on planet earth:

A short, biography of the life of Jerry Garcia,

Jerry is most famous as the reluctant leader of the Grateful Dead. Any leadership roll in his life almost certainly saw him dragging his feet the whole way. He was named after the famous composer Jerome Kerne, and came from a very "musical" family. Around the age of 4 his right middle finger was chopped off by his brother Tiff while cutting wood, and barely a year later he lost his father in a river in northern California while fly fishing. His mother bought out her late husbands' partners half of the bar they owned, and Jerry went to live with his grandparents not far away. In 1960 he stole his mothers' car, and shortly after joined the army. He was discharged after not one full year for too many AWOL's. By this time garcia had traded in the accordion given to him as a youth for a guitar, and soon after his discharge was living in a car near stanford university. A horrible car accident that year (which killed the driver of the car, awakened him greatly. "That's where my life began. Before then I was always living at less than capacity. I was idling. That was the slingshot for the rest of my life. It was like a second chance. Then I got serious"

Soon after he began meeting what would be his partners for life in his musical career, Bob Weir, Bill Kruetzman, Phil Lesh, and Ron Mckernen, and later Mickey Hart (curator for indeginous musics at the Library of Congress). After various ensembles, and jug bands they found themselves an electric band the Warlocks. 1964 saw the majority of the band experiementing with LSD which was gaining in popularity in the San Fransico area, due to the CIA conducting paid experiements in mind control in the area. As an electric unit they took the name the Warlocks, but soon found a recording by another band with the same name.. (rumored to become ZZtop). One day while sitting around Jerry himself opened a dictionary and there on the page staring back at him was the name. The Greatful Dead: "a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial" the name was misspelled on their first poster as Grateful Dead, and even though most of the band members thought it was too much, the name stuck. And so did the spelling. From 1965 until his death in 1995 the Grateful Dead had a long strange trip indeed. Starting out as the house band for Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters at the Acid Tests, Garcia was given the moniker of "Captain Trips" by Kesey and company. A name he disliked, but which stuck with him through out the 60's at least. The Grateful Dead as a unit broke many many barriers and records with their unique playing style and seemingly endless touring schedule. Most well known for the most dedicated fans in the world, the "deadheads" which would travel across the United States and back to see them them play. Even following them to the Great Pyramids in Egypt in 1972. The "deadhead" ranks boasted many unique types of people, from Doctors and Lawyers, to housewives and Carpenters. Many famous people have been rumored to be Deadheads themselves, including star forward for the Boston Celtics Bill Walton "Big Red". Seen at many a deadshow backstage dancing to the music.

The band and their fans were also known to have a huge appetite for drugs, and the band itself was supported until late 1967 by the sale of LSD which was then legal.

One of the greatest contributions Jerry and the Dead brought to popular music was the creation of the "Taping Section" in the audience. A set of seats at each venue put aside for people with tape recording equipment and microphones, to record each show. The bands sound wizards Owsley Stanley (Alice D. Millionare), and Dan Healy even went so far as to give lessons to early tapers on the "sweet spot" for recording, and the methods which would produce the best results. This has left a huge legacy of Dead recordings which are available free through a network of fans, and audiophiles across the internet. Originally tapes were "traded" through the mail, and at taping parties after shows where people would daisy chain recorders together to get the shows out as quick as possible to as many fans as possible. The advent of this "taping section" is now seen much outside the "jam band" genre the dead led. Bands such as Pearl Jam, Metallica, Janes Addiction and the Black Crowes to name but a couple all allow taping at their shows albeit with some restrictions (most now require the medium to be of a compressed nature which gives a lesser quality recording). The band also led the fight against ticket master creating a "mail order ticket system" which is still in effect to this day. The band retains approx. half of the seats in each venue they play for sale on their own. Bands such as Phish and String Cheese Incident have picked up this cause, and some even go so far as to provide travel packages and hotel reservations. He was also an accomplished graphic artist, and sales of his paintings have reached quite astounding heights after his death. He has a line of Ties which also show many of his more famous paintings.

Garica was a well known drug user and abuser, and his fluctuating weight problem along with an enlarged heart from using heroin saw him slip into a coma more then once in his life. Each time saw him "comeback" with a bit more energy, only to be dragged down by the personal demons within, and the hangers on' that are recurrent on any stage in rock n roll. Ultimately it was this fight that Garcia lost, dying in 1995 after entering a private drug rehab, to fight the good fight. He was said to be found smiling, holding an apple. Garcia never wanted to be the leader of the band, but his true-to-life, soulful personality led him there no matter where he went in life. As the leader of the Grateful Dead and countless solo-band projects, he played with the greatest of the great in music. His legacy will always live on, if not in spirit then by the countless hours of recordings still being unearthed to this day.

Jerome John Garcia

1942- 1995

"There is a road, no simple highway, Between the dawn and the dark of night, And if you go no one may follow, That path is for your steps alone.

Thanks Jerry.