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2026-07-11 18:27 UTC
40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30+ dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.
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@bourgwick@heads.social 2026-07-11 18:33
jerry garcia's description of falling into a coma is amazing, though, & at least partly muppet-like: “the vegetable kingdom was speaking to me... in comic dialect in iambic pentameter. so there were these italian accents & german accents & it got to be this vast gabbling. potatoes & radishes & trees were all speaking to me. it finally just reached hysteria & that’s when I passed out and woke up in the hospital.” https://relix.com/articles/detail/jerry-speaks-pranksters-philosophers-portals/