My Five Favorite Garcia Looks

5) Serious Heroin Jerry
This photo is astoundingly from when Jerry Garcia was 44 years old (1986). Imagine your parents, friends, siblings being 44 and looking like this. This speaks for itself on why not to use heroin. Also, you should most likely avoid sitting in the same chair for endless hours pounding cigarettes and Haagen Daaz.

4) Idealistic Jerry
This is the face of Captain Trips, a nickname given to Jerry in the Sixties. This is the face of the acid dropping, world saving, band leading Garcia of the 60's. His acne scars are very apparent in this time period. Too bad there was no Accutane for ol' Jer.

3)Travis Bean Jerry
This is the Garcia look of clean tone which goes with this sweet sounding Travis Bean guitar. This photo is from 1976. Garcia has a nice black beard untainted by harsh heroin abuse, and a belly untainted by room service, Dominoes, and cig burns.

2) Cool Grandpa Jerry

Grandpa/Uncle Jerry look. Back from the hospital after his heroin coma, and clean and healthy Jerry is again ready to rock. He loves waving at the massive stadium crowds that now follow him wherever he goes after their "hit" touch of grey. (no pun intended on the hair)

1) Cool Guy Jerry

1978 had Jerry start experimenting with Heroin. This gave him a nice grey tint in his hair, as well as an even more aloof attitude where he often gazed off in the distance with cool things in the background like the Pyramids. I love this look with the 100% sunglasses wearing rate (including indoors), and the long hair. Only two years later he would look fat and gross, but the beginning of his heroin use lead to a cool look. One more pic:


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