Jerry Garcia/David Grisman
b. Jerome John Garcia, 1 August 1942, San Francisco, California, USA, d. 9 August 1995, Forest Knolls, California, USA. The mercurial guitarist of the Grateful Dead was able to simultaneously play with two or three other conglomerations without it affecting his career as leader of one of rock music's legendary bands. For four decades Garcia was a leading light on the west coast musical scene - he was credited on the Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow as "musical and spiritual adviser" and known locally as "Captain Trips". In addition to his session work with the Jefferson Airplane, he worked with David Crosby, Paul Kantner, Jefferson Starship, New Riders Of The Purple Sage and Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young as well as various spin-offs involving David Nelson, John Kahn, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Merl Saunders and Howard Wales (ex-A.B. Skhy). Garcia was equally at home on banjo and pedal-steel guitar, and had the ability to play two entirely different styles of music without a hint of musical overlap (rock 'n' roll/blues and country/bluegrass). His flowing manner was all the more remarkable given that the third finger of his right hand was missing, owing to an accident as a child. Jerry and his older brother Tiff were both chopping wood with axes, Jerry kept putting his finger on the block and removing it just in time before Tiff chopped the wood. He was a split second too late and Tiff accidentally chopped the finger.
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Albums
- (1996) Shady Grove
Top Tracks
- Shady Grove
- Whiskey in the Jar
- Dreadful Wind and Rain
- Casey Jones
- Jackaroo
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- Grateful Dead
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- Neil Young
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- Led Zeppelin
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