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Jerry Garcia has a reputation for having been one of the best improvisers in rock music, but in his eyes, one guitarist had ...
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What a long strange trip theGrateful Dead has been on for six decades. In 2025, the Dead will celebrate their60th anniversary ...
Photo: Dino Perrucci On Saturday, May 10, Tom Hamilton performed at the newly opened Garcia’s venue in Chicago. Before the ...
What a long, strange trip it’s been” for the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir – or Bobby Weir, as he goes by these days.  As ...
Len Dell’Amico’s new memoir, Friend of the Devil: My Wild Ride With Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead, recounts his experiences working as the Grateful Dead music video director and spending time ...
Any musician needs to think outside the box when they play, but Jerry Garcia was convinced that some styles were incapable of evolution.
Bob Dylan has always been an exceptional songwriter, but he believes that the Grateful Dead guitarist took his compositions to the next level.
Warren Haynes played Jerry Garcia’s iconic “Alligator” guitar on covers of “Black Peter” and Steely Dan’s “Pretzel Logic” in San Francisco.
On Tuesday, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors approved a resolution to rename an Excelsior District road "Jerry Garcia Street," in honor of the Grateful Dead frontman who grew up on the block.
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