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History of the Grateful Dead1

told him. This tragedy took Jerry and his pp 2family much longer to overcome.After his father’s death Garcia’s life changed forever. Moving in with his grandmother who had a strong passion for country music gave Jerry a huge influence for that style of music.. Living with his grandmother, Garcia was beginning to admire country and folk music more and more.Turning fifteen, Jerry got turned on to marijuana. “Me and a friend went up into the hills with two joints, and just got so high, laughed and roared and went skipping down the streets doing funny things and just having a helluva time”, said Garcia. ( Troy 11) Garcia’s moving in with his Grandmother had given him too much freedom for a child his age. Garcia took full advantage of his grandmother’s permissive ways, by skipping school and staying out late. The San Francisco Beatnik era can trace its beginnings to the literary parties that the radical poet Kenneth Rexroth had been throwing in San Francisco since the 1940's. After school, Jerry and a buddy would walk into the city and explore the whole beatnik scene. “I was going to art classes on Saturdays and some summer sessions. This is when the beatniks were happening in San Francisco, so I was in that culture, I was a high school kid and a wannabe Beatnik”(Troy 14). Engaging in the Beatnik counter culture gave Garcia a feeling of togetherness and an outlet for his individuality and creativity.Jerry witnessed his first live performance of a rock’n roll concert, at a place called Studio 13, the musicians performed some type of early jazz. Jerry watched intently and was wondering if he could do what they were doing. Jerry would play rock’n roll on his mother’s piano and sing with his brother “Tiff”. Surprisingly, on his fifteenth birthday, his mother bought him an accordion. Acting ungrateful towards his mother, he told his mom he reall...

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