Triggered pretty much concurrently in the UK & US, before spreading rapidly to most other parts of the westein world, the 1960s counterculture
- an antiestablishment cultural phenomenon that existed between the early 1960s & the beginning of the 1970s
- took as its main impulse music, drugs & politics. & if one man epitomised its spirit like no other, that man was Jerry Garcia. Garcia had been mixing with scenesters & insiders since the early part of the decade
- indeed he met Grateful Dead cohort Phil Lesh at a party held at Ken Keseys house in 62
- & he began using LSD in 1964. By this time too Jerry was playing guitar & banjo in a jug b&, which by 1965 had morphed into The Warlocks, also featuring Phil Lesh on bass guitar & Bill Kreutzmann on drums, as well as Pigpen, whod played with Garcia since his jug band days. The Warlocks became the Grateful Dead soon thereafter, & while the rest may be history, its also one hell of a story which this 2 x DVD set.. .