Somebody asked me if this story was true and I said that I heard it from a very reliable source — a stoned out Deadhead.
When Jerry Garcia was a young man, before he started the Grateful Dead, he worked for awhile in a music store selling guitars. There’s a famous story where this aspiring young guitarist comes into the store one day, picks up one of the electric guitars, reels off a couple of hotshot guitar riffs that he had copied from somebody else, and then abruptly stopped playing. . . Garcia looked at him and said: “Whatsa’ matter? You run out of talent?” Ha ha.
Ace Backwords is a former cartoonist, writer and semi-normal human being. He's been sleeping in the bushes in the Berkeley hills for the last ten years with his four feral cats, Moo Cat, Fatty, Mini Scaredy and Micro Scaredy. Future plans include growing old and dying. Preferably in that order.
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