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Jerry Garcia Band

American musical group

For the album, see Jerry Garcia Band (album).

The Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia founded the band in 1975; it remained the most important of his various side projects until his death in 1995. The band regularly toured and recorded sporadically throughout its twenty-year existence, generally, but not always, during breaks in the Grateful Dead's schedule.^[1]^[2]

History

Although the name Jerry Garcia Band only properly applies from late January 1976, this Garcia side-band's actual history and repertoire really began with local club gigs in 1970 featuring Garcia, Merl Saunders, John Kahn and various others, including Tom Fogerty on rhythm guitar (1971-72), Martin Fierro on tenor sax and flute (1974-75), and briefly (October-December 1975) Nicky Hopkins on piano, as well as drummers Bill Kreutzmann, Bill Vitt, Gaylord Birch, and Paul Humphrey. Garcia and Kahn met in 1970 playing together at Monday jam sessions hosted by Howard Wales at

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It's probably one of those Joseph Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic and bliss, and power and myth, and celebration and religion in our lives and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

AUGUST 1 Jerome John Garcia is born in San Francisco, CA. to Jose Ramon “Joe” Garcia and Ruth Marie “Bobbie” Garcia, joining older brother Clifford "Tiff" Ramon.

SPRING A wood chopping accident with his older brother at the Garcia family cabin causes Jerry to lose much of the middle finger on his right hand at the age of five.

WINTER Jerry's father drowns while on a fishing trip.

Jerry and Tiff move in with their maternal grandparents for a five-year stint. Jerry attends Monroe Elementary School, and is greatly encouraged in his artistic abilities by his third grade teacher. Through her, he discovers that being a creative person is a viable possibility in life. It is during this time that Jerry picks up the five-string banjo.

"My father played woodwinds, clarinet mainly. He was a jazz musician.

I just barely remember the sound of

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Jerry Garcia

American guitarist and singer (1942–1995)

Jerry Garcia
Garcia performing in 1977, Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia
Born	Jerome John Garcia (1942-08-01)August 1, 1942 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	August 9, 1995(1995-08-09) (aged 53) Forest Knolls, California, U.S.
Occupations	Guitarist singer songwriter
Years active	1960–1995
Spouses	Sara Ruppenthal (m. 1963; div. 1967) Carolyn Adams (m. 1981; div. ) Deborah Koons (m. 1994)
Children	4
Musical career
Genres
Instruments	Guitar banjo pedal steel guitar vocals
Discography	Jerry Garcia discography
Labels
Formerly of
Website	jerrygarcia.com
Musical artist

Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995)^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] was an American musician who was the lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grate