Jerry Garcia's 7,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style California home for sale for $4 million

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Jerry Garcia's California home for sale for $4 million

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100920/ap_en_mu/us_jerry_garcia_s_house

NICASIO, Calif. – Would-be home buyers now have a chance to taste the high life, Grateful Dead-style: Jerry Garcia's house is for sale.

The 11-acre estate in rural Marin County, north of San Francisco, was the bandleader's last home before he died of a heart attack in 1995 at age 53.

The sellers are asking just shy of $4 million for the 7,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style home and surrounding grounds.

The real estate listing describes amenities such as a 1,500-square-foot artist's studio, a solar-heated pool and an organic garden. The estate has 300-degree views that span the Berkeley skyline to the Pacific Ocean.

In recent years, a man who bought the house and renovated it shortly after Garcia's death sold many of the fixtures — including the guitarist's toilet — to raise money for charity.

Online:

Jerry Garcia's house: http://www.55elmirador.com/index.html

[xchrom]

1. god i love marin -- i used to work not far from there.

you can get lost going around the corner.

any way -- thanks jerry!

[Warren DeMontague]

10. I lived in San Rafael for a while, while it was still funky. Now it's totally yuppified.

I miss it- what a beautiful, cool place. My digs weren't anything like THAT, though!

[flamingdem]

2. Probably reeks of pot!

But that is one of its charms.

[phasma ex machina]

24. +1 Also my first thought except a stale pot odor disagrees with me. nt

[mike_c]

3. damn, the studio alone is bigger than my whole house....

Wow. Not exactly where I pictured Jerry living. Not that he didn't earn the right to live wherever he wanted-- I just never thought he was the sort to go for mansions.

[CountAllVotes]

4. Jerry had several homes

he advised his daughter when she got married to "make sure you always have your own pad". :rofl:

WE MISS YOU JERRY!

:kick:

[Ikonoklast]

5. Nice digs.

Wish I had the coin...

[supernova]

6. Lovely, Lovely estate

I could live there.

I just need to find a sugar daddy!

[LiberalAndProud]

7. Viewing the photos makes me feel all Eliza Doolittle-y

Wouldn't it be loverly?

[RadiationTherapy]

8. Jesus Christ. Fuck capitalism.

I knew it was a money machine, but had some naive thoughts about the members of the Dead.

Now I am not naive. Now I can simply say it was a money machine.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Oh, for fuck's sake.

Yes, people shouldn't ever make money off their creativity , talent, or art.

:eyes:

I bought tickets to a lot of Dead shows, in the day. I can honestly say that, aggregate, I got way more than my money's worth.

You know, Salvador Dali was rich, too.

[CountAllVotes]

12. yep, remember those $3.00 shows

that lasted well into the next morning? Those were indeed the good old days!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. Well, that and the "tapers section"...

...it was only in the later years, when the band realized they were letting people freely record and trade their live shows but some people decided to make a buck off of it that they decided to block the availability of soundboard-quality tape trading.

Yeah, they all drove off with truckloads of money. But they also earned it.

:toast:

[RadiationTherapy]

16. No need to radicalize my emotional expression. I acknowledged that I already knew

it was a money machine (the Dead merchandising/tour business) and am non-judgmental about that. However, I am judgmental of this enormous mansion. It casts a shadow over an erroneously developed perception I had of the man, Garcia. My fault for conceiving an image of a person I had no first hand interactions with.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. I knew hippies who thought he had to spend all his time eating macrobiotic grains and tofu

They were gravely shocked to learn he subsided on twinkies and burgers.

[RadiationTherapy]

27. I don't think your example has any bearing on my misperception.

Also, I do not think you knew any hippies who thought he "had to" eat macrobiotically.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Okay.

[jillan]

21. He earned that money from his talent - not from some hedge fund.

And I supported him, I have all his albums, attended his concerts.

[G_j]

23. a money machine, but a fair deal, they worked very hard

to give people their money's worth. They did that, and more.

[Lucian]

11. WANT.

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. I was under the impression that he lived in a furnished apartment.

[ruggerson]

22. rofl

n/t

[HooptieWagon]

15. What?

He didn't live in a van down by the river?

<sarcasm>

[marmar]

17. I've never thought of Marin County as "rural"

nt

[Warren DeMontague]

19. Ever been to Woodacre?

Fuck, yes, certainly there is a lot of rural area in the county, particularly the western part.

[XemaSab]

25. You ever been to Nicasio?

Lotta cows out there.

[jillan]

20. Eh - the kitchen needs serious updating.

:rofl:

Not only is that home gorgeous - the location is even better.

Ahhhh - why wasn't I born with talent? I'd love a home like that.

[Hekate]

26. I've been looking for a house all year using online real estate sites. I think I have found it!

LOL-- Castles in the air. That is a lotta gorgeous.

Bless Jerry Garcia -- he left this Earth too soon, after working hard and sharing his talents generously. I hope he enjoyed the fruits of his labors while he was here.

Hekate

[piratefish08]

28. how many free shows and rallies did they play in their prime?

they earned every penny, even though they were grossly mismanaged, and changed a generation.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYA16z2-xFg

[carlyhippy]

29. well, if I win the powerball tonight, I will look into it

Hopefully the ghost of Jerry walks the halls and plays music.