Jerry Garcia--Pirate? 

Jerry Garcia--Pirate?

In the public library by my office I read quickly through a sad article in Rolling Stone on the children of famous rock stars. Once again, the magazine announces itself as not really a magazine about the music scene, but a magazine which is intended to make boomers feel they are staying in touch with the music scene. These "young" people aren't stars, and probably never will be. There's no reason to think they are producing music or anything else that is particularly interesting. But the boomers will remember their parents.

One highlight (not in the online excerpt): Trixie Garcia says her father Jerry Garcia and other members of the Grateful Dead were not really hippies or flower children, like their fans, at all. If anything they were pirates--out to get what they could.