Sketch o’the Week: Jerry Garcia!
I was definitely not driving a train high on cocaine when I did this week’s sketch, but it might have turned out better if I had been. We return to our “classic rock” series theme this week with a sketch of the late “Grateful Dead” frontman. I’m not sure how grateful he is about it, but he’s most definitely dead.
I have to admit I have never really listened to “Grateful Dead”, although I have enough friends who love them to know it is “Grateful Dead” not “THE Grateful Dead”. I try to avoid the all-too-often pessimist’s sneering dismissal of pop culture phenomenons that they have not given a fair chance to, so there is no judgement passed here on “Deadheads” that followed the band around for decades. No doubt they scored the best weed on their endeavors. I’ve only really been exposed to the band’s few mainstream hits like “Touch of Grey”, “Trucking”‘ and “Casey Jones”. That said I’ve been commissioned to draw Jerry a few times, so I thought I really should add him to the Pantheon of classic rock legends in my series of same.
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