“After Jerry Garcia died, his wife [Deborah Koons] and Bob Weir had already dumped half of his ashes into the Ganges. I don’t know what in the world was behind that. The rest were to be scattered in the San Francisco Bay. All The Dead were going to go out on this boat that had been rented by Debbie, the ‘black’ widow. Mountain Girl [Garcia’s ex-wife] showed up with her daughter Sunshine and all the girls, and this Debbie went nuts. She said, ‘If she tries to get on this boat I’m calling the cops and having her arrested.’ Debbie was frothing at the mouth and so Mountain Girl backed off.

Finally they got on and Sunshine was just so sad to see her mom standing there on the docks as the boat pulled away, with all The Grateful Dead and the managers out on the fantail of the boat. It was a windy, rainy San Francisco morning, miserable, cold outside, and Debbie was sitting alone in the cabin just fuming. She finally came out with these ashes and flung them over the fantail. Sunshine said, the wind caught them and swirled them all over everybody, and they were all wet and stuck with Jerry’s ashes. All of their pockets, seams, shoes, ears and mouths were full of Garcia’s ashes.