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Message: [QUOTE="August_West, post: 4455899, member: 1047"] So other than the coke on the shirt, his fingers are blackened with soot from smoking Heroin off of a Tin foil "ramp". The interviewer did a summary of the actual interview (the Interview was in 85 2 weeks before Jerry got busted in golden gate park) a few years back: Here is his recollection: "As soon as that meeting was over, I switched cassettes in my tape recorder and headed over the Golden Gate Bridge to meet Grateful Dead spokesman Dennis McNally at a restaurant in San Rafael. Dennis led me to the home of a Grateful Dead supporter who, it turned out, was letting Jerry Garcia live in her basement. My mission: Interview Garcia for a cover story in Frets, a magazine devoted to acoustic music. I've never been a Deadhead, but friends who are tell me that my meeting with Jerry took place during one of the lowest points of his life. Garcia, unwashed and disheveled, shuffled slowly into the living room, his black T-shirt sprinkled with white powder. His fingertips were blackened in a manner consistent with "chasing the dragon," as smoking heroin was commonly referred to in the Bay Area. Ten minutes into our interview, Garcia nonchalantly chopped a large rock of cocaine into about twenty lines and consumed all of it during the next hour" [/QUOTE]