Children of Rock
By: Patrick Vu | Category: Music Commentary | 04/01/05 | 12:02 AM
Growing up in the shadow of legends
By MARK BINELLI
Being raised by a rock star would seem to be every teenager's dream, unless you happen to be that teenager. Then, things can get weird.
Trixie Garcia had her first psychedelic experience when she was one and a half. A bag of mushrooms had been left sitting out. Trixie's parents -- the late Grateful Dead singer Jerry Garcia and the prototypical hippie chick Mountain Girl -- were not particularly alarmed. "My mom was like, 'Oh, it made you more communicative!' " says Trixie, now thirty and a painter living in the Bay Area. "Most of the kids in the scene had some early dosing incident. My sister got into some acid-spiked orange juice."
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