Jerry Garcia Biography
Guitarist / Rock Musician
Name at birth: Jerome John Garcia
Jerry Garcia was the guitarist and acknowledged leader of the rock band The Grateful Dead, whose legendary live shows carried the hippie movement from the '60s to the '90s, with a few breaks in between for rehabilitative drug treatments. An accomplished musician, Garcia also had a simultaneous solo career, straying from rock to dabble in folk and bluegrass music. He died in a drug treatment center in Marin County, California.
Garcia appears with fellow guitarist Django Reinhardt in our loop on Celebs Missing Fingers... He also co-stars with Ken Kesey in the loop Counterculture Heavyweights.
Blog posts mentioning Jerry Garcia:
Four Good Links
Jerry Garcia Interview 1972
Reprinted Rolling Stone interview
News Accounts First
Reprinted news stories about Garcia's death
The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
Notes and comments on song meanings, plus band member discographies; dated but fascinating
Jerry Garcia
Official site for more on his music and art, with interviews, photos and merchandise
Vital Stats
Birth
Birthplace
Death
9 August 1995
(heart failure, age 53)
Best Known As
Leader of The Grateful Dead
