Ten years ago today, Jerry Garcia passed away

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/national/09dead.html?hp&ex=1123646400&en=daf9724ea5ff9f32&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Jerry Garcia: The Man, the Myth, the Area Rug

By SETH SCHIESEL
Published: August 9, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8 - One of the icons of modern American culture now resides in a nondescript warehouse about 30 miles north of here, in a windowless, climate-controlled, heavily-alarmed room built like a bomb shelter that is called simply the Vault.

There, in towering rows of 13,000 audiotapes, 3,000 videotapes and about 250,000 feet of traditional 16-millimeter film lives the recorded history of the Grateful Dead, one of the seminal American rock bands.

The Grateful Dead ceased to exist on Aug. 9, 1995, when the band's lead guitarist and most recognizable figure, Jerry Garcia, died at age 53 of a heart attack at a drug treatment center. Yet 10 years later, the man and the band remain alive for millions of fans, and the once notoriously ad hoc Grateful Dead business operation has become a model for a music industry struggling with the Internet and digital democracy.

"When I first got into the record business I learned that it wasn't cool to be into the Grateful Dead," said Christopher Sabec, 40, a lawyer who said he saw the band more than 250 times and is now chief executive of the Jerry Garcia Estate L.L.C., controlled by Mr. Garcia's heirs. "But if you look at where the music business has been forced to go by technology, now it's not about selling records. It's about live shows and inspiring a fan base to be absolutely loyal. Hello? Who did that first? The Grateful Dead."

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1. astro trivia

Jerry shuffled off his mortal coil whilst the planet Pluto made it's last station in Scorpio for the next 236 years.

Ahhhhh. . .Pluto rules Scorpio which is believed to govern "power, sex, death, regeneration, and other people's money."

In light of that, the timing of his passing was extremely auspicious.

Oh and another little event that just happened to happen around that time was this guy named Bill met this girl named Monica. . .

[redqueen]

2. .

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[PinkTiger]

3. And the Manson Murders happened on August 9, too

Look at this list of deaths on August 9 from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_9

Deaths

117 - Trajan, Roman emperor
378 - Valens, Roman emperor (killed in battle)
803 - Byzantine Empress Irene
1048 - Pope Damasus II
1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark
1720 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
1744 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
1919 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer
1942 - Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) at Auschwitz
1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete
1962 - Hermann Hesse, German author (b. 1877)
1967 - Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1933)
1969 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered)
1969 - Jay Sebring, Hollywood hair stylist
1969 - Abigail Folger, Coffee heiress
1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer
1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
1995 - Jerry Garcia, guitarist (Grateful Dead)
2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist and peace activist
2003 - Ray Harford, football manager
2003 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)