The Life and Mind of Jerry Garcia in Conjunction with Howard Gardners Model of Creativity :: Howard Gardner Jerry Garcia Paperes

The Life and Mind of Jerry Garcia in Conjunction with Howard Gardners Model of creative thinkingWe always though of the Grateful Dead as being the locomotive that was driving the spaceship that we were traveling on.-Ken Babbs, a designer Merry cut-upDaddy is sleeping. Dont touch the guitars. -Heather GarciaIn his Creating Minds, Howard Gardner states the purpose of his book as an examination of the ...often peculiar intellectual capacities, personality configurations, social arrangements, and creative agendas, struggles, and accomplishments (6). In this musical theme I will examine the life and creativity of John Jerome Garcia from the manakin and theories provided by Gardner, from the perspective of aptness in the musical intelligence.One of the close significant events of Jerry Garcias minorhood occurred when he was four and brother Clifford, Tiff, was eight. Wed been given a chore to do...hed hold the wood and Id chop it...he was messing around and I was scarcely constant ly chopping. Jerry lost about half of his right ring finger. This was the jump of many losses Jerry experienced that would affect his life and musical style.The first YearsBorn in San Francisco, Jerry Garcia was the son of a registered nurse and an immigrant volumed bandleader. When Garcias band broke up, he went into the block off business. It was right after the Depression. It was a job he had to take to survive. Back then, you had to take any dogshit thing. Continuing the pattern of loss, Garcia drowned when Jerry was five. It is notable that he grew up with a unity parent, an environment that characterizes many of todays childrens formative experiences. When his father died, his decided to continue the bar business. As a result of this, what was left of the Garcia family moved around the San Francisco theater rather frequently during the childrens formative years. All the family members the children knew lived within a five-block radius. This enabled them to submit an ev en bigger run of the city, as they would often ride the inculcate around town to visit relatives. ProdigiousnessOne of the issues in Gardners model is the child prodigy. We see this reflected best in Picasso, less so in Einstein. Jerry was quite the opposite. His musical career was characterized by very, very hard work. As former wife Sara recalled, Hed be in a bad mood if he couldnt practice for several hours a day (32). Hed get into an absolute flinch if he couldnt get something absolutely right (47).