Jerry Garcia Talks About Neal Cassady

well Kathy is one of the kind of people that you you you know it's he's so such he was such an overwhelming trip Kathy I don't know I it's hard to even know what to say back has you he was so singular I mean it's just well for one thing he was like the best that the ultimate site jag person you know what I mean physical comedy person yeah plus he was also the world's best stand-up comic too he had an incredible mind that he would do this thing he did it to everybody everybody just reported on this he did to everybody you might not see him for months you know and he would pick up exactly where he left off the last time he saw you you know like in the middle of a sentence he would pick up and you first of all you go what what the hell and then you realize oh yeah this is that story he was telling me last time you know and it was like so mind-boggling you couldn't believe that he was doing the Houston this thing that was this this was something that used it killed me and I see it saw him do it a lot of times he'd take a dollar bill you know from anybody you know and take it all bill and he would he'd he put his hand on it like this and he and they and they'd say the numbers you know this the serial number and you know I've thought saw him get it right like two or three times the serial numbers you know what I mean he just had this he had this thing you know and his driving yeah if you go for a drive with him it was like the ultimate fear experience you know that you knew you were you knew you were gonna die there was no question about it and it was something so unbelievable he loved big Detroit irons you know big cars and he liked driving in San Francisco he would go down those hills you know like it 50 miles in a 60 miles an hour and do corners you know blind corners going down those hills you know if you can imagine like going down Franklin you know like top speed you know what I mean you know disregarding anything stop signs signals all the time talking to you and maybe fumbling around with a little teeny roach you know trying to put it in a matchbook you know and also tuning the radio maybe and also talking to whoever else is in the car and never see me to ever put his eyes on the road ever you know and this is like if you'd be just dying you know you'd be you'd be dying and you're just you would eat it would effectively take you past that whole fear of death thing you know it's like a difficult experience because there's nothing else like it apart from like almost like surviving the airplane crash possibly or something I don't know what but and I mean it was just so incredible you know just his output you know I mean and he he felt he was he was the first person I've met who he himself was the art you know what I mean he was an artist and he was the art also and he was doing it consciously as well you know so he had he did things he worked with the world I remember one time after a a a party I laughed on the Watts acid test which was particularly strange and we drove the bus over to the Watts Towers for a minute or two and what god I looked at him you know and we're you know it's dawn we went over to wavy gravy's house which was down and like Oh off of Western you know way to hell off somewhere funny in Los Angeles and they got a little house and we had the bus there a bunch of us are sitting on the lawn and we're all kind of crunched from a beat up all night snow not acid you know it's like the dawn of Sunday morning now the dawn and and the bus is parked across the street from our point of view we're on the lawn and it's Sunday morning early early and here's Neil you know and he's ripped his shirt off he has no shirt on and now he's no shirt no shoes and he's this funky old chena it was the always have they're always like just about to fall off you know and he's first of all he George Walker's driving the bus so George George's driving the budget Neal is like the guy directed him into the parking place you know you know the left a little to the right he's doing all with signals and he directs him right into a stop sign in our cheering I'm signed in Occident it cheers it off boom because the stop sign falls down so then he gets up in the buzzes Parker gets um but he's got the stop sign you know and he's like kind of trying to put it make it stand up you know and so he's there with this stop sign and down the street come like to really straight little old ladies you know they're on their way to church Sunday morning you know and here's Neil he's like the cosmic village drunk you know what I mean he's like and he's got to stop something yes they're trying not to see him you know and he's doing this whole whole series of kind of like good morning ma'am you know kind of pantomime you know this extravagant thing all the time with he would kind of like stand up the stop sign to walk away from it start to fall and he'd grab it just as I'm about to hit you know I need all this stuff happening it was like amazingly great it was just beautiful perfect timing you know and it's just extraordinarily beautiful you know and his the way his body moved the way he looked and everything like that was just absolutely his face was so expressed if you would go through millions of expressions just millions of them and just this all body language and everything was so communicative if it was just amazing it was I I was dying I thought I was gonna die it was so hilarious so so and it it was absolutely perfect you know was like a little silent movie a silent ballet you know in the morning lasted about maybe a minute and a half you know two minutes pose perfect you know it's like a perfect moment it was just great and I mean Neil Neil was that guy he just could do that you know that's that's who he was you know he was that guy in the real world you know he was this this something he was he scared a lot of people a lot of people thought he was crazy you know a lot of you were afraid of him a lot most people I know didn't understand him at all you know but he was like a musician in a way I mean if you're me he liked musicians he always liked to hang out with musicians that's why he sort of picked up on us and be we hung out together a lot and he like he liked the company of musicians yeah he was off and on he stayed up in our attic when we were in 3:17 he had a little little camp up there you know with a mattress it is his old Cheetos his old jeans and stuff like that were up there and he would come in and hang out for a week or so every month or so you know every couple of months maybe you know he'd come in and yeah

Channel: Jon Bonner

Views: 126,702

Keywords: Neal Cassady, Neil Cassady, Neel Cassady, Neal Cassidy, Neil Cassidy, Neel Cassidy, Cassady, Cassidy, Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey, Merry Pranksters, Magic Trip, Furthur, Further, Jack Kerou

Id: C4poeNfbEkE

Length: 7min 9sec (429 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 22 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/jadedmuse2day]

Hilarious! Jerry crushin hard on Cassady. Love it when Jerry’s happy! ✌🏾

[u/longdongthongsong27]

Captain Neal behind the wheel, on a bus to never never land

[u/michaelserotonin]

NEAL AIN'T DEAD

2/14/68

[u/JeffersonAirplne]

The 2/14/68 performance dedicated to Cassady is probably the best pre-'69 show, in my opinion.

[u/eyedoc00]

I love watching videos of Jerry just talking and shooting the shit. He is the hippest person there ever was. R. I. P.

[u/corilovesthedead]

Would sell my first born to meet this man, if it really came too it