Did Jerry Garcia Have Stage Fright? What Ethnicity Was Jerry Garcia?

Jerry Garcia mentioned in one of his interviews that he’s not a relaxed sort of person, he always has stage fright and is always nervous about a show.

Weir attributes this a trigger for Garcia’s problems with substance abuse. He said, “And you could make the case that that’s what killed him, because he used those drugs to dull the stage fright, to dull the pain of it, because it physically hurt”.

What Ethnicity Was Jerry Garcia?

Jerry Garcia’s ancestor on the father’s side were from Galicia in northwest Spain. His mother’s ancestors were Irish and Swedish.