It Wasn’t the Drugs That Pushed Keith Godchaux Out
Keith Godchaux had two jobs at once — and the same hands fading in the Grateful Dead were doing the best work of his life in the Jerry Garcia Band. The drugs were real. They can’t explain that.
Keith’s story almost always gets told as a drug story. But the drugs can’t explain the Garcia Band, where he was thriving at the exact moment he was supposedly too far gone to play. Something else was going on — and it was in the music itself.
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