The unlikely friendship between Bennett, who died Friday at 96, and Garcia preceded Garcia's 1995 death by several decades. 'We respected one another,' Bennett said in a 1998 interview.
Tributes have poured in from around the world to singing legend Toy Bennett, who died Friday at the age of 96.
Yet, while many facets of Bennett’s remarkable, eight-decade career are being recalled, there is at least one unlikely chapter in his life that drew little attention, then or now: His friendship with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.Garcia died in 1995, several decades after he and Bennett had forged a bond. While Bennett was most assuredly not a Deadhead, he and Garcia were kindred spirits of a sort.
“In fact, Jerry helped reunite Tony with one of his children after they took off to the Hog Farm and Tony couldn’t reach them. So he called Jerry to help get in touch with them, and he did. Let’s just say he was grateful to Jerry for finding his child back in the ‘60s. But there is no mention of Garcia or the Dead in Bennett’s recently published autobiography, “The Good Life.” When asked, the 72-year-old singer initially downplayed his relationship with the Dead’s fabled lead guitarist, who died at a Bay Area drug treatment center on Aug. 9, 1995.
Did Bennett, who candidly chronicles his own drug use in his autobiography, ever put a fatherly arm around Garcia and counsel him about the potentially fatal dangers of drugs?Asked if he regretted keeping silent, Bennett said: “If it was up to me, I would have gone out on the Dead’s stage and told the whole audience: ‘Stop doing what you’re doing, because it stinks. And, eventually, if you keep doing it, you die. If you don’t do it, you live.
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