was a backup singer
on Elvis Presley´s
#1 hit "Suspicious
Minds",
and on Percy Sledge´s
#1 hit "When A Man Loves
A Woman".
She was part of the
Muscle Shoals sound.
She is The Grateful Dead´s only female band member .
I have many
fond memories of Donna Jean,
her
voice a perfect complement to The Grateful Dead.
The first time
I met Jerry Garcia was in San Francisco,
day after
Christmas,
after a show
at a jazz club in North Beach,
and I walk
with him to his car.
we share a common
interest in live theater.
We were both
in plays, with different scenes.
Jerry Garcia
was a musical guest at a Tom Constanten play
"Tarot", in
New York City, the first time I saw him.
A group of
college students at Bensalem,
Fordham´s
experimental college, saw this play together.
We were
so inspired we decided we would do a play.
I started
writing down what everyone was saying
and putting
their words into the character they chose.
I added some
silly songs.and created
"In Search Of The Candlemaker"
the play. It was
performed off-Broadway for three nights.
We called
ourselves the Lorillard Troupe of players
& participated in a CBS-TV documentary
"Tomorrow´s
People" a few days later.
That same
night I went to the Capitol Theatre
to see the
Grateful Dead for the second time,
and it was the
first night of The ESP experiments.
One of the
ladies in the play, Sherry,
another
Bensalem student,
participated
in this experiment that night,
remotely at a
dream laboratory in Brooklyn.
I was walking
with Jerry Garcia around midnight
in North
Beach. He was carrying his guitar,
and I was
talking about the play and shared
with him some
of the magic that happened that night,
at the Capitol
Theatre in PortChester, New York.
When I said I
felt a Great Light illuminate the room,
Jesus was
there, Jerry says with a big smile
"That´s
entirely possible."
We reach his
car and he asks
"Are you
coming to the New Year´s Eve show?
It´s going to
be a scene!"
It is at
Winterland.
I see and hear Donna Jean perform.
It´s her
first show playing in the band
with The
Grateful Dead.
Donna Jean
what a scene!
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