Deborah Koons Garcia "The Garcia Tapes"

Part II of interview with Deborah Koons Garcia at Goucher College. Read full article:
www.examiner.co...
or watch part I where she discusses her documentary, "The Future of Food"
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[@babel1967]

Two people, completely clueless about The Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia, having a conversation.

[@ToldAlthea]

Wow. Don't even know what to say. What I REALLY wonder ? What the "f" was Jerry doing with this completely unaccountable ( "They lied to me")/opportunistic human being ? Just doesn't ring.....know what I mean ?

[@briandcare1]

She is a ball and chain. Men make mistakes.

[@ClueSign]

Yeah -- interesting how she starts choking/ coughing/ gagging whenever the finances with the Grateful Dead are mentioned. Bitter and defensive and just weird.

[@tristan8141]

Jeez from the comments on here you'd think people are calling this woman the antichrist.

[@NACIJUK]

"The Garcia Band was a GREAT BAND!" "I am a film maker. Started making films in the 70s" "Spent a lot of my time.. and my resources"... "I want to make a little money..." "people say to me that his work with Grisman is their favorite" She was raised in an upper middle class family, and inherited a lot of money (in the millions$) BEFORE she married JG. What films has she made? I dont expect they are commercially successful but what are they about? Now she has one out on Dirt. So she is interested in dirt, and the earth. Wow. One can see from this interview, the reports of how she treated MG and JG daughters and how she handled the JGB tapes - She is an evil woman. If she is executor and says she is responsible for this important issue, it is not the tape technicians fault that she gets poor quality copies. She blames everyone but herself. She has no integrity and this is the life she has created for herself. Its a shame what she did / is doing. I wonder what JG saw in her......

[@xwearxdickiesx]

Ummm everyone heard the part where she said "make money so i can make more films".... im not really a mean guy but what the fuck lady.... Id pay for a ton of JGB shows but not if that money would go to you

[@oreokookie1000]

I don't think Jerry really gives a shit about the guitars, the 5 million, the haggling.....he's probably jammin' out with Elvis and Bill Monroe about now

[@jamescnix]

She mentions Jerry being on a 4 year health kick when she saw him at whole foods thats because jerry was with Manasha Mathiesen(sp) during those 4 years.... once he got back with this retail heiress, he got back on heroin, she has done nothing but terrorize legally the many other garcia relatives.

[@SalesforceShaneConsultant]

I don’t think she said that she said they were together for four years

[@rennyminou]

"I've been trying for ten years." Because they don't like you, Deborah.

[@kurtdavidson9808]

I get a bad vibe from her. she called Jerry’s family those people I really think Jerry was so preoccupied with his addiction, and being sad that she took full advantage of him until she was in a position that she needed to be in to take full advantage of him. I could be totally wrong. I usually am, but I get a really bad vibe from this lady.

[@ArodOwnsU1313]

and shes got one helluva smokers cough for such a health nut....

[@donriccardo]

She was Jerry's last PRANK!!

[@MegaMilla09]

This woman does not even connect with the spirit of Garcia....or the Greatful Dead....Negative Energy....

[@leesvideopage]

Yeah when deadheads heard that she wouldn't let Mountain Girl on the boat to scatter Jerry's ashes, she lost a lot of respect, then her decision to dump more of Jerry's ashes into the Ganges(!) when JG had no interest in that...

[@AlligatorWhine]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggggg

[@NACIJUK]

yeah. she thinks it would be nice for people to have access to the music, and she can get a 'little bit of money to pay the bills'. she inherited millions of $ already. her films are crap. she teaches at a no name college. and has never run a website or anything of significance. she says she was "Executor" of a will, like that is some amazing accomplishment. WTF was Jerry thinking? Nobody will ever know. He musta been stoned out of his mind.

[@coffeehigh420]

I can't believe her!!! Everyone watching this knows she only got back together with him for the money, i mean come on !

[@rennyminou]

"Junkie Icon" - how very sad and embarassing. Shows a lack of respect and compassion. Us Dead Heads apologize from the bottom of our hearts, Jerry Bear.

[@cntrtop]

She's the only person I know who makes Yoko Ono seem sincere.

[@allanfifield8256]

Rim Shot!

[@ToldAlthea]

I feel no genuine positive 'feelings" coming from her. Me me Me and woe is me. Her personal justifications in every sentence.

[@ronsteen2249]

The Garcia tapes are getting moldy?! Oh my gosh! Save the tapes!!!

[@frenchie2alfalfa]

Does she give a shit about him at all?

[@melaniebrown8807]

Jerry had to have been even more F-ed up then we really will ever know,Wouldn't you have to BE,,sHE HAS very gulity gesters,lol and she is rocking,and not looking into the camera,,Opps And coughing..I think she had something to do with his Passing,

[@twelvmnkys]

I've been around a while and I know about her malevolence. (I grew up in the Dead scene; they were our local band). Thus, I understand the anger in so many of these comments. But I also know that Jerry was not the vindictive type. If, after death, he exists somehow, and can see the whole picture of how she used him, I still think many of these comments would grieve him. Hate and revenge were never part of being a Deadhead. She will reap what she's sowed; no escape. But let us sow compassion.

[@ToldAlthea]

ahhhh.. BIOYAss mr. Buddha. This is CLEARLY a “”not good” person.

[@japhyrider]

UGH! Her voice makes me cringe. It breaks my heart seeing her in charge of Jerry's estate. She sucks! I feel for MG, Trixie, Annabelle, Manasha and Keelin. He was married to Koons for one freaking year. What she did to MG on the dock in Sausalito was absolutely deplorable!

[@subslament]

You have no idea what your talking about. Its not about female/male. And like you said.. "I thought you deadheads were about Peace and Love." I believe most are.. And the reason so many dislike this woman... Is because she is the OPPOSITE of peace and love... She screwed over his family.. The mother of his daughter.. She barred his ex wife from the spreading of the ashes AND the funeral.. all Caroline wanted to do was see her ex husband off.. But this lady is so hateful, she did not have it

[@woodyt56]

Wow no wonder Jerry's daughter's despise her.

[@Laight4work]

"they are jealous of me because I am beautiful" . . . . Deborah Koons Garcia on why Jerry's daughters and first wife hated her.

[@ToldAlthea]

Her hands are huge. You know what they say about huge hands !!??

[@Zepster77]

+ Just call her Koons... she doesn't desevre to be called Garcia

[@operalament]

yeah im sorry i just dont feel she is in the least genuine, and it is so natural that gerry , so honest and trusting could get so takin in by a character like her, she simply does not come off very true .

[@HD-rs6fi]

...............WOW! "the tapes are moldy and rotting" ? ............ i thought it was always about the music........very disappointing to hear what woman's opinion...

[@jeanhartely]

I donot like this person even though i dont know her. i really dont want to know her i would like to see the people that knew him best and longest get something good from all this

[@subslament]

I just watched that Jerry BBC documentary.. I cant believe this woman. Caroline was just trying to hang them up for a second and come out on the bay and spead his ashes.. They dident say ANYTHING about Deborah banning Caroline and his other ex wife from the funeral too.. I cant belive that man. She is also making all these products with Jerry on them... She said something like this "I picture Jerry as this huge Rockstar and this is where i got the idea" some singing plastic thing...

[@mddeadfan]

you should see the house she and jerry lived in, and she kept after jerry died, and there was another house jerry lived in, while married. kinda strange, married and living in different homes. but the house she has, or had was the size of maryland or at least n.j. she all about the money!

[@lisica8458]

According to Vince Dibiase, Jerry's personal assistant, Jerry and Deborah maintained separate residences during their marriage.

[@subslament]

Anyway... That is the exact opposite of what Jerry would have wanted IN MY OPINION.. im not trying to talk like I knew the guy at all.. Or that I even know much about his life and personality.. But from his friends and family talking about him... They tell it like he was oncomfortable with all the merch with his face and image all over it.. I dont think he wanted that. I just cant believe this woman man.. Jerry was such a loving guy.. and she just seems SO HATEFULL.. Makes me so sad.

[@apparentlyhere]

as Ken sed: treat others with kindness and if anyone does you dirt forgive that person right away. let it be, brothers and sisters.

[@artmonk8596]

The Dead killed Garcia he wanted out of The Dead/Garcia Band but there were too many hands in the cookie jar so he couldnt quit.Too many mouths to feed - plus all the other artists tugging on him. Plus all the ex wives/girlfriends.What Garcia really wanted to do was leave it all behind buy a house in the Ireland country side and play music in pubs & around the fire to 20 or less people.John Kahn was the fall guy but he had quit dope by the mid80s but the Dead & Deborah kept up that false fact.

[@cozmicgravy]

I love how you say running into Jerry must have been Koons Karma. Hmmm...perhaps an eternity in the 9th level of hell is more in synch.

[@coolrabbitVT]

What the hell is wrong with her?

[@romonlegmail9173]

seems money hungry to make her films a?

[@tyleryesta1]

it's almost like Jerry is choking her in the beginning when she starts coughing. She knows nothing of Jerry and his music only the business opportunities left behind.

[@dashaze]

couldn't beleive my ears hearing her say that.. is she serious?? jerry would b ashamed

[@ClueSign]

The first time they were together, she was well-documented Crazy: stolen master tapes of recordings, let the air out of Jerry tires, etc. There are legions of 'family' stories. When he got back together with her it was ponderous. My interpretation of what he saw in her was a deep-rooted wish, after leading the band after so many years, for a strong if not dominating woman, to relinquish his control to. That's my Psych 101 explanation.

[@ChubblesTzakos]

Whatever. Jerry can marry who he wants to.

[@Zepster77]

me too.... horrible

[@Torpor111]

7:15 "Have there been reconciliations within the [Grateful Dead] family?" "We'll, I don't really know 'THOSE PEOPLE'."

[@dangavel1283]

Apparently she used to throw stuff a LOT , she smashed up Jerry's entire house according to McNally and they had to drag her away at Club front . Not a nice lady.....

[@Zepster77]

I don't see how you can judge someone you don't know or have never met. All that can be seen from this vid is that the woman constantly uses her hands to gesture with while talking.

[@19E37-e3i]

The public perplexity of Jerry's marriage to this person points to just how private he was about his inner-self. He wasn't one to spill his guts, preferring to speak through his music I suppose. I suspect part of his psyche was just as opaque to strangers as those who knew him best. In an effort to parse a complex world using limited brainpower, people tend to oversimplify other people. And so the rife speculation here yields no conclusive insights. Whatever Jerry was thinking died with him.

[@TheSharipaula]

yuck

[@mrfish4lyfe]

gross

[@whipplelicks]

she was not a fan too bad she does'nt understand how much we want to hear that music and we taped most of the shows from the audience already

[@Richvids48]

yuck

[@briandcare1]

Watch her cough into her hand. Then ask her about her thought on the food industry.

[@johnbonner841]

briandcare1 😂

[@Jimbo4327]

she is very ingenuine...I have more respect for Yoko Ono....

[@donriccardo]

The fans were recording the music before they were allowed. The band, instead of having fans who were pissed off then okay-ed the taping. Facts... where does she get them? Jerry knew she was a business minded person and they shared love and had a clean slate and it is what it is/was. Let it go. Go FURTHUR!

[@SalesforceShaneConsultant]

They played many Saturday nights Deborah.

[@icecoldhubbas]

Her opinion means nothing

[@gfunkehauser502]

i mean, as executor for the time that she was, to keep putting off the garcia tape issue (she claims she waited for one guy...who failed to do anything...and another...etc) she showed very little concern for jerry's legacy, his fans, and musical history by not getting on it an making the tapes a priority. it's disappointing and i wonder if she gets it.

[@lisica8458]

I think the only reason why she wants the music from the tapes put out to the fans is so she can profit off it.

[@Zanniroxwell]

Hey believe it or not, Guys do this to Women too.. I hope Jerry had fun with her while they were together, because I doubt either of them very much control over what was fate.. Obviously, she can't cover her negligence, thus her nervous demeanor.. I wonder what it was in her that he did see worthy of Commitment? Must have been something & whatever it was, that was Jerry's choice.

[@bradleyale]

We only see in others what is within ourselves

[@staggerlee4954]

Going where those chilly winds don't blow!!!

[@carljw316smp]

love is blind

[@fomomoto3]

poor Jerry even the leeches couldn't save him.

[@operalament]

i cant keep from continuing to comment, it would have been so natural for gerry to be susceptible this kind of personality, He was obviously in a weakened state emotionally, she was obviously much more controlling personality, It breaks my heart to listen to her.

[@babel1967]

Deservedly shunned by everyone who truly loved her husband. What a sad, lonely place to be.

[@rennyminou]

I see she's wearing black, again...

[@doogiejunk]

@sneakonproductionz said, "you got her to talk about jerry." For posterity's sake, thank you spewker.

[@billphipps453]

just dont like her...

[@deadheadable]

BITC...........................

[@terrryc]

"AT one time, they picked the United States up by it's East Coast, and all the nuts rolled into California..." Jack Paar

[@suhammer]

now I know what she is really like.... knew the marriage wasn't right..... in fact it down right blew me away when they got "married" I cried and now I know why.....

[@emmerfarro]

The interviewer and interviewee can barely scratch the surface of what Jerry's music did and still does for so many. The shallow questions from the interviewer and the equally shallow, emotionally detached and self-absorbed answers from Koons just make me cringe........

[@impronta]

To me, Jerry saw in her the face of his big depression itself. Dark and cold.

[@muckstar23]

word

[@rotolo]

is she lying?

[@ElliottShannonhouse]

Crypto-Deadhead fascists. Passing judgment on people based on rumors, "vibes", and "body language". That's just what the witch hunters in Salem did.

[@gregcooper8703]

Everybody should try to see her like you would your spouse. She is not a Yoko and Yoko is not a Yoko neither . But I do think she should of let Mountain Girl and child go out on the boat to spread ashes but people do strange things when it comes to death. Love you Jerry R.I.P.

[@allanfifield8256]

Evil Widder Koons (EWK)

[@estimatedeyes]

I find it interesting that EVERYONE has an opinion about Deborah Koons GARCIA and Mountain Girl, and what Jerry would have wanted done with his ashes and so on and so forth, and surely they don't know shit about the situation. Deborah Koons GARCIA was deeply loved by Jerry, and it feels like everyone is hating on her just like a child does when their father brings a new wife into his life after years of misery with drugs and hangers-on such as Mountain Girl.

[@lisica8458]

In a nutshell, Deborah tried to break Garcia's will that stipulated that the payments Garcia was paying to Mountain Girl in their divorce agreement (a signed contract) be continued until the total amount was paid off. A judge essentially found for Mountain Girl, not Deborah. Jerry and Mountain Girl had made an agreement for a certain amount of money be paid to Mountain Girl, but Deborah tried to put a stop to it and failed.

[@goshgolly8305]

Many years ago maybe 2005 or earlier someone told me she sort of let him exist with the heroin and maybe kinda wanted him to die. That sort of thing. Someone that knew either her or the family or something that it I can't remember the details. Lot of money when a rock star dies

[@davidleewrath6919]

I've seen someone claim that her wanting Jerry to get clean is what ultimately killed him, which is a very odd thing to say. If he was that far gone, heroin could've killed him anyway.

[@lightlyone]

Yes, she wants the dough. She wants the dough she's transparent. She thinks it's owed to her.

[@tiredcaballero]

throughout knowing the dead I have always combed carefully to understand why fans hate her,, and I think it grew out of bad rumors that surrounded legal battles after jerry's death and the scattering of the ashes,etc, etc... she never did anything for the fans to dislike her for, other than so-called "bad vibes".. if she gets a little bread for jerry's work you shouldnt be hatin because she makes great films that are a tremendous public service.. watch THE FUTURE OF FOOD to appreciate

[@ToldAlthea]

BIOYAss.

[@tiredcaballero]

I'm just a fan.. I don't know the details or who to throw my weight around. I shouldn't comment when I really don't know. It was just my gist. And she made that public service film. Maybe she's more pro biz then whatever idk

[@ToldAlthea]

"He did a lot of different kinds of music..." 6:45 ????????

[@heatherrippons326]

Love is real not fade away!!!....good day to you also blastallday!

[@Mahasattva27]

twittitude. I like that. Got to remember that one.

[@sangielissa]

Remember Garcia died in a Methadone rehab. He was getting high and went to a meth clinic to slow it down. He had no hard drugs in him when he died but you don't go to an in-patient meth rehab because you're straight.

[@lisica8458]

He died because of a heart attack. It's well-documented.

[@heatherrippons326]

the sun going down in the background looks soooooo cool.

[@BMWproductionCo]

@AntimatterSemen Haha right on brother

[@Jeromebakerglass]

wow - incredible insight -

[@BMWproductionCo]

@amarantha213 Agreed.

[@pantsmatants]

@spewker I think you mean "posterity."

[@cheryltaragin]

I think you're right. I was nervous, just hoping to get her to talk about the Garcia Tapes.

[@easytoslip]

damn. wonder how all the males would react to a world where MEN were hated so easily. You boys have no idea how male the world is and how easy you've got it. Don't judge so harshly. I thought Deadheads were peace + love folks? Maybe if she got all introverted from too much heroin she'd be more liked? God forbid a strong, outspoken woman share space with a junkie icon

[@twelvmnkys]

Yes! Hatred and shaming isn't a countercultural value. Never was. Hate is for Tea Party culture warriors; not for Deadheads!

[@george.s.8491]

😂

[@tonylucero9244]

Walk a mile in her shoes before you judge. Jerry ended with her he is allowed to love who he wanted. Feels to me you just want another YOKO to throw under the bus. Hate is so easy for the mind to latch onto why not try a little harder why not try love?

[@easytoslip]

If she were young + hot, I've no doubt these harsh male opinions would change in a heartbeat

[@fredpauser6228]

What's with all the negative comments against Deborah Koons Garcia? You do NOT know what you are talking about. Deborah has made some PHENOMENAL films --- such as The Future of Food, and Symphony of the Soil. These films are extremely well made and go against some very powerful concerns. Deborah is a person of great COURAGE and HONESTY! Grow up, people.

[@ToldAlthea]

Hey Fred ? Blow it out your ass. Do your research.

[@fredpauser6228]

@@ToldAlthea Do you have anything intelligent to say?

[@ToldAlthea]

@@fredpauser6228 On this subject - no. Obviously you know her, or are familiar with her work. So I'll back off. I've been a friend to 1 of Jerry's children for 20+ years, the stories of the transgressions are disturbing, So..... on this subject, i find it hard to be even CLOSE to neutral. Good day.

[@blastalldaybitch]

i knew i find some love on here! good day