Jerry Garcia on the Grateful Dead Concert Experience

We are trying something new here at Sacred Matters. Every Friday we will highlight a moment in popular culture where spiritual, religious, ecstatic experience is revealed in music. This week we share a brief word from the late Jerry Garcia who, in a 1969 interview with Rolling Stone, discussed the experience inherent in the Grateful Dead’s concerts. 

 

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