Jerry Garcia: Read Excerpts From Unpublished Interviews

When it’s gone, it’s gone. … I mean, in a way I’m sort of a different person. The material is all there, but every once in a while I run into a blank. Like working down in the studio, every once in a while I look at something and I know what it is and I know that I know that I’ve used it and I know that it has a name and I know that somewhere I know the name, but usually I have to get somebody, “Hey, what do you call this thing again?” … I mean, I lost about four, about five days, maybe, a week. They’re gone. I don’t know how I got to the hospital. I don’t know any of that stuff. I mean, when I woke up in the hospital. I don’t know when — I remember a couple of times kinda surfacing. You know? Tubes and everything, you know, and I didn’t understand where I was or what was happening … so I went back under, kind of. It was strange, though. It had a kind of science fiction–y quality. I didn’t know how sick I was. It’s nice to have come away from it really clean. I mean, I don’t have to take insulin. Or any of that kind of crap. I’m pretty lucky. Lucky for sturdy genes, you know.