2000 Sunday August 13, 1995 Golden Gate Park Polo Field, San Francisco CA Jerry Garcia Memorial Gathering Mississippi Halfstep - Wake of the Flood Dark Star - 4/27/69 Sugaree - Garcia Dark Star->Spanish jam - 2/11/70 Dire Wolf - Reckoning Lovelight - 2/28/69 Days Between - Spring tour 1994 composite St. Stephen - unknown 1968 Terrapin - 9/3/77 Doin' That Rag - 3/2/69 Mason's Children - 12/28/69 I've Been All Around This World - Bear's Choice Good Lovin' - 4/10/71 jam (in Dark Star) - 9/19/70 PARADE The parade featured two of the large heads that have appeared at many of the "holiday" shows at Oakland, dragons, a Dixieland band played on a flatbed truck, drummers in a New Orleans funeral procession. The procession ened at a little stage above a shrine for Jerry. People that initially went on the stage included members of the band, Babatunde Olatunji, Paul Kantner, Zakir Hussain, Pete and Sheila Escovedo... CEREMONY speakers in order (Everything was interpreted in sign language for hearing impaired): Babatunde Olatunji (Incantation: call and response with crowd.) "This world is without end. And so was the life of our friend and our brother, Jerry Garcia. (More call and response with crowd, in Olatunji's native language: Ah-ye, ah-ye Jerry Garcia long (?). In this world without end, ah-ye, ah-ye.) The celebration of the spirit of a-jah-jah, say a-jah-jah (crowd responds). Eh- mi-lu (crowd responds). The I am that I am, he has become one of the great spirits, the only spirit that you and I shall become. The one spirit that rules the whole universe. More call and response with crowd: Ah-ye, ah-ye , Jerry Garcia long. Oh, long. Ah-ye, ah-ye. Ah-ye, ah-ye. (More in his native language -- I couldn't even attempt to spell it!) Oh ya. "Thank you all, thank you all for being here. We are celebrating ourselves. We are celebrating the great spirit of our brother and our friend. Yes, please remember that he has played his role, his part. The rest is left to you and I. Remember his contribution to make our lives much richer, happier and beautiful. Please, I am very honored to introduce to you a very wonderful lady. His wife, Deborah." Deborah Koons Garcia: "What a great guy Jerry was! He would have loved this, he is loving it. He was a big-hearted, generous, wonderful, hard working man. I want everyone to know that he died in his sleep with a smile on his face. He was working hard to purify himself and we thought it was gonna be for a good long life, but it was for another journey. But he loved his life, he loved ALL of you. And what I learned from Jerry was to open my heart and live fully in the moment. And for that, and for everything else, and for all the beauty in his life, I want to say thank you, Jerry, I love you." Annabelle Garcia: "I know that he's watchin' us all. And my Dad always told me that if it weren't for you guys there was no way it could've lasted the way that it did. And I want each and everybody here to know that even though he's gone, every single one of us has to keep it going. And if that means by being kind to someone we don't particularly care for, and if that means being kind to a cop who's givin' us a hard time, and if that means making sure that you're kind to your children and to your children's children, and to their children. You gotta make sure above all that you're kind to our Earth that we belong to and that gave him life and gave me life and gave each one of us life. And there's no way that this could happen in any other country in the world than America. And I want you all to remember that we are Americans and my father was one of the greatest Americans that was ever born. And I also want you to know, on behalf of my other sisters, we love each and every one of you guys -- y'all put us through college! And made it so we didn't have to work in Dairy Queen. And we're gonna keep the faith for as long as we can. And I want you guys to respect each other and love each other. And think to yourself when something's wrong: what would Jerry do? And keep it up, you know? You gotta keep together. And be grateful." Wavy Gravy: "Two words I got from Charles Schulz and "Peanuts": Good Grief! We are havin' some good grief today. John Luis Borge (sp.?) says every time you say a line of William Shakespeare you become William Shakespeare at that moment. Well I've been asked to speak for Robert Hunter, so Bob, like the Dalai Lama says, all I can do is my best. This is an elegy for Jerry. "Jerry, my friend, you've done it again, even in your silence the familiar pressure comes to bear, demanding I pull words from the air with only this morning and part of the afternoon to compose an ode worthy of one so particular about every turn of phrase, demanding it hit home in a thousand ways before making it his own, and this I can't do alone. Now that the singer is gone, where shall I go for the song? "Without your melody and taste to lend an attitude of grace a lyric is an orphan thing, a hive with neither honey's taste nor power to truly sting. "What choice have I but to dare and call your muse who thought to rest out of the thin blue air that out of the field of shared time, a line or two might chance to shine -- "As ever when we called, in hope if not in words, the muse descends. "How should she desert us now? Scars of battle on her brow, bedraggled feathers on her wings, and yet she sings, she sings! "May she bear thee to thy rest, the ancient bower of flowers beyond the solitude of days, the tyranny of hours-- the wreath of shining laurel lie upon your shaggy head bestowing power to play the lyre to legions of the dead "If some part of that music is heard in deepest dream, or on some breeze of Summer a snatch of golden theme, we'll know you live inside us with love that never parts our good old Jack O'Diamonds become the King of Hearts. "I feel your silent laughter at sentiments so bold that dare to step across the line to tell what must be told, so I'll just say I love you, which I never said before and let it go at that old friend the rest you may ignore. "And then this short one is from me, the old psychedelic relic, Jer. We're a double dip. This is a haiku for Jerry on the day of his demise: "The fat man rocks out Hinges fall off Heaven's door "Come on in," says Bill" Bob Weir: "I don't know where to start, but here I go. Um, you know, I think I owe Jerry an immense debt of gratitude for, you know, showing me how to, how to live with joy, with mischief. And so, what I think I want to do is give some of that back to him now, make him complete, make him whole. And so, I want to ask you all to join me, not just now, but daily. Take your heart, take your faith, and reflect back some of the joy that he gave you. He filled this world full of clouds of joy. Just take a little bit of that and reflect it back up to him, or wherever he is, just shine it back to him. Thanks." Steve Parrish: "You've seen us up here scurryin' around, runnin' around all these years. I wanna just tell you we did it because we loved you, too, all of you, you were great. You're the best people there are. Thank you. Thank you VERY much." Mickey Hart: "Well, if the Grateful Dead had been anything, it was about, it gave you the power. You have it now. You have the groove, you have the feeling. We've been working on it for almost thirty years now. So what are you going to do with it? That's the question, okay? Now you take it to your, take your Dead heads, and you take 'em home, and you do something with all this. We didn't do this for nothing, you know. I mean, so it's not over, you see. That's the thing about music, it's what is the commodity, you know, what do you get at the end, you know, beside just the ya-yas and a new car and all that. You get the power and you get the wisdom and the insight to de b70 al with the everyday life. And that's what music is all about. And it'll help you. It'll help you in these times, it'll help you forever. So. That's what we were all about. We shared thousands of great grooves, magic moments. All of us. You were as much a part of the Grateful Dead as anyone. You made us go on, you know, in the Midwest when we were playin' and no one was there and then you started comin' and then these more people, and then more. So this means a lot to all of us, and you kept us goin', y'know, and you were the fuel. You were part of it, a big part of it. You should know that, take that with you. We all love you for that. Thank you." Phil Lesh: "Jerry was a friend of mine. He was my brother. He was a wounded warrior. And now he's done with becoming. Now he is being. Jerry, God bless you. Go with God. I love you. And he loved you, too. And WE love you. Keep it comin'." Bill Kreutzmann: "Hello. For me it is about the highest moment of my life was when the band was playin' and cookin', and playin' with Jerry and these guys behind me. That's the best. There's nothin' higher for me. I've not found it any other way. So keep it alive, and I love you very much, and thanks for your support. It's amazing." Paul Kantner: "Dudes. Jerry in his weaker moments used to call me Pauly. Nobody else does that and I'm sorta gonna miss it. (Crowd shouts "Pauly" at him.) Okay, that's it. I brought a poem along that I read for Bill a while back. Some of the words that fit here today, I hope. It's called "For the Good of All". (I didn't transcribe this poem because it's very long.) Vince Welnick: "Hi there. The first time I ever lay eyes on Jerry I believed in Santa Claus. And he could be ornery at times, but that was just his body talkin', not his soul, because I never ever met a kinder man in the whole world. Everybody's askin' the big question, and love is the answer. And I'll always believe in Santa Claus." John Barlow: "They asked me to come up here and speak a word, and rarely in my life have I had so few of them. And so I'll just speak one: love." == Drummers lead crowd in "Not Fade Away" chant and procession files off stage. == It's All Too Much->Iko Iko - 3/18/95 Beautiful jam->Dark Star - 2/18/71 Scary jam - 10/25/73 Alligator->Caution - 8/23/68 drums->space - 3/18/95 That's It for The Other One->New Potato Caboose-> Born Cross-Eyed->Spanish jam - 2/14/68 Death Don't Have No mercy - 9/29/89 Scarlet Begonias->Fire on the Mountain->Corrina->Matilda - 3/23/95 Believe It or Not - 7/17/88 jam->bass solo - 2/24/73 Ramble On Rose - Europe '72 Sugar Magnolia - 97/73 jam - 9/21/72 Morning Dew - Europe '72 The Wheel - Garcia St. Stephen - Live Dead Box of Rain - American Beauty I Bid You Good Night - unknown 1968 Greensleeves . 0