Fare you well Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia passed away 28 years ago today.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
I was getting off of a bus in Martinez, CA and was met by my parents.
I was going to the Children's Hospital in San Francisco to see a neurologist to have my diagnosis confirmed.
The news came over the P.A. system in the bus. Some awhole belched out a nasty remark and I got off of the bus ... 
RIP dear brother! There will never be another one of YOU.
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The outpouring of grief in the days that followed was incredible. I went to the Haight/GG park a couple of days after and there were just so many 1000's of people everywhere, who came together to collectively grieve. People made pilgrimages from everywhere, man.
I don't think the USA will ever see anything quite like that again where so many 1000's converge on 1 city to mourn the loss of a musical icon.
Wish I'd gone to the Wake at the Polo Fields but I IIRC I had to work that day.
Jerry, gone but not forgotten
