06/26/94 at the Sam Boyd Silver Bowl in
Las Vegas during "Eyes of the World" tour.
Photo courtesy of Trent Burkholder.

The Rock and Roll Book of the Dead
solves these mysteries and many more....

Garcia clinically died eleven years before his actual death. In a diabetic, drug-induced coma, he flatlined in the hospital. After he miraculously awoke, he had to relearn everything: how to walk, how to talk, how to play guitar.

• In spite of the warnings of his doctors and the protests of his wife, only months later he returned to the road again with the Grateful Dead. Why?

• At the time of his death in 1995, Garcia had been a heroin addict for twenty years. Though he dried out repeatedly after near-death experiences, he always fell off the wagon again. Why?  

• How did the Cherokee shaman, Rolling Thunder, instantly cure Garcia of a deadly case of pneumonia? And what startling favor did he ask for in return?

Excerpt from Chapter 7

Jerry Garcia

.... The head of California’s thirty-ninth largest corporation is in full diabetic shock. His blood sugar is the second highest the doctors at Marin General have ever seen. His kidneys have been shut down for ten days. He’s running a 105- degree fever from a systemic infection. He’s in a coma.

But, running on reflex, his legendary hands, as if with a life of their own, try to tear out his breathing and IV tubes. 
Outside the ICU, the corridor s packed with family, friends, managers, reporters. And the Hell’s Angels. The motorcycle gang, providing security, have taken over the entire floor of the hospital.

Only the patient’s wife is permitted inside. She’s hysterical. He can hardly breathe, the doctors have ordered an emergency tracheotomy, but she won’t allow it. She insists that they have already killed him once with a shot of Valium to which he’s allergic. “His heart stopped,” she would later say. ”He died. The hospital didn’t want anyone to know this but he died. They had to resuscitate him.”

Even if her husband survives, she’s been told that he might be brain-damaged and unable to walk again. It’s not like she or any of the others hadn’t seen this coming.

Her husband, the leader of the Grateful Dead, has been courting his dark muse for almost two decades now.