JERRY DAZE RETURNS!!!

JERRY DAZE 2010
A SPACED ODDYSSEY!
February 27th, 2010 2pm-Mid
At THE SPACE STATION
Merritt Island

After a 5 year hiatus (due to ill health and scheduling conflicts) the 7th installment of the very popular local tribute to the late Jerry Garcia makes it's long awaited return.

Born of an idea by co-creators ("Java" John, and "Grateful" Dave) to pay tribute to the Grateful Dead frontman, JERRY DAZE began in the fall of 1999 at Java John & Jen's KOOL BEANZ Coffeehouse. The very successful event ran three years before Kool Beanz closed. The event was so popular, that fans clamored for more! So, the event continued on in different venues for the next 3 years with the same excitement and success.

Live Music by:
Dave & The DeadBeats,
New Gravity,
Old Friends in the Way,
Ungrateful Buskers,
and MORE!!
(bands subject to change).

And, Featuring the ever-popular Terrapin StationWagon Liquid-Light Show.

Since most everyone has been effected by a family member with cancer :
RAFFLE/AUCTION to SUSAN G KOMEN For The Cure

$10.00 at the Door
Also....Food, Beverages and hotel rooms available, and a "Shakedown Street".

AT THE SPACE STATION ( At The Clarion Hotel)
260 E. Merritt Island Causeway, Merritt Island, FL 32952

For MORE INFO Contact "Java" John:
javahnagila@hotmail.com

ALL ARTWORK AND PHOTOS by JAVA JOHN
(except JD '99 & '00 posters - Jerry painted by DAVE GROOMS)

TRUCKIN' USA

Beach Boys & Grateful Dead at the Fillmore East in April 1974.

TRUCKIN' USA is song was written by myself and good friend musician Dave Grooms.

I was inspired to write the lyrics were based on two events: the Annual JERRY DAZE Concert that Dave and I produce here locally, and the strange but wonderful meeting of these two bands...not once, but twice. First on the East Coast (at the Fillmore, not the Winterland as I wrote in the song...artistic license you know!), then a few years later on the West Coast. To date the is the only song I've ever had a part in writing.

The two bands also shared the stage at Bill Graham's Day on the Green concert, at the Oakland Coliseum, June 8, 1974. The bill that day was: The Grateful Dead, the Beach Boys, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and Commander Cody.

"Grateful" Dave & I also co-illustrated that year's Jerry Daze poster (above), he doing the water color background & portrait of Jerry, myself adding the hand lettering & frills.

Look for JERRY DAZE to return this spring!












TRUCKIN' USA
music by Dave Grooms, lyrics by "Java" John

I got a six-pack of bettys and I'm lookin' for a swell
I'm jackin' up mu Woody 'cause it's flat as hell
And I'm Truckin', Truckin' USA

Cocoa Beach, Laguna, and far and near
I'm eatin' the beach, and I'm smackin' the pier
And I'm Truckin', Truckin', Truckin' USA

It was a wonder at Winterland, oh what a thrill,
The Beach Boys and Dead were on a double bill.
Micro bus cruisin' and I'm surfin' the dial,
KSAN radio to QAM, ah, truckin', truckin' all the while

Truckin', Truckin' USA
Oh...ooooo

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought I heard the word,
look at me know I'm the Surfin' Bird.
And I'm Truckin', Truckin' USA

Oh no now I'm old & in the way,
but every bleach blonde has got a touch of grey
And I'm Truckin', Truckin', Truckin' USA

Now I'm looking for my little Surfer Girl-
East Coast, West Coast and every shore.
But all I hear is "don'cha know, Berta don't come around here anymore -
She's Truckin', Truckin' USA

Vibrations are good, strange in a haze,
were gonna follow that Dark Star to another Jerry Daze.
Tell Dennis & Carl, we're Truckin' USA

We're Truckin' USA
Truckin' USA

Truckin'
Truckin' USA

Truckin' USA.mp3

Grateful Dead

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