Milling About Flashback with Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia:
The Lost Interview

Talk about breaking new ground! Jerry Garcia—who would have turned 68 on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010—had sky-high hopes for his famously peripatetic band, the Grateful Dead. In a 1990 interview with Robin Milling, which has never before aired anywhere, the legendary rocker discussed his health, drug problem, family and aspirations for The Dead. “I’ve never had a heart attack. Let me clear that up right now. But I have been ill and was on drugs, yeah,” said the Casey Jones singer, who died of a heart attack on Aug. 9, 1995 at Serenity Knolls, a substance- abuse treatment center in Forest Knolls, Calif. “But those things are kind of normal nowadays, a lot of people… (To read the full story, click here.)