I met Owsley at a show and bought a belt buckle from him, and we chatted a little. I asked him about a story I'd heard, about a kid who stole a rental car at a Dead show in Oakland, and it happened to be Owsley's car, and it had a bag of his cast artwork and jewelry in it. Eventually Owsley tracked the kid down to suburban Chicago, and one day the kid comes home to his parents' house and there's Owsley sitting at the kitchen table with his parents. He said the story was true. Years later I sent him my stuff on alchemy, knowing he'd be interested, and he said alchemy was an atheistic philosophy. I nearly fell out of my chair. I said "Garcia was no atheist," and he said "Garcia was no alchemist." But if you can get women to stop shaving their armpits, you are the greatest alchemist of them all. "Kid Charlemagne" is probably a reference to Owsley's aristocratic ancestors, he was pretty high up on those lists, apparently. I don't have such a high estimation of him. Garcia was a genius surrounded by quite ordinary folks, with the exception of Hunter, but they are generally nice people. The only fault I find in Garcia is that he married a Yid, and true to her race, she dragged the whole family into court over money after he died. It was a disgrace. I remember watching Steve Parish on the witness stand, pissed off about having to participate in the money grab. There's a video of Deborah dumping the old bastard into the Ganges River in India, not that Jerry ever particularly expressed interest in Hinduism. Since he was John the Baptist, the appropriate river would have been the Jordan, but whatever. Also I should remark that this song, and others by Steely Dan, evidence an unhealthy malice toward the gentiles.
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