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22 unusual facts about Jerry Garcia


4442 Garcia

Minor Planet 4442 is named 4442 Garcia to honor Jerry Garcia, frontman of the Grateful Dead.

Box of Rain

Before the death of Jerry Garcia, "Box of Rain" was the last song ever performed live at a Grateful Dead concert during the final encore at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995.

David LaFlamme

During the 1960s he performed with a wide variety of notable San Francisco acts, such as Jerry Garcia and Janis Joplin.

Frank Wakefield

Wakefield is known for his collaborations with a number of important and well-known bands, including Red Allen, Don Reno, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and the Greenbriar Boys.

He toured with Jerry Garcia, and New Riders of the Purple Sage and opened for the Grateful Dead.

Fuzz-wah

Jerry Garcia, guitarist of the Grateful Dead, used a Morley Fuzz Wah during that band's 1973-74 tours.

Garcia Live Volume Two

The lineup of the Jerry Garcia Band for this concert — and for most of the band's shows from 1985 to 1995 — was Jerry Garcia on guitar and vocals, Melvin Seals on keyboards, John Kahn on bass, David Kemper on drums, and Jaclyn LaBranch and Gloria Jones on background vocals.

Gaylord Birch

In 1979, he joined Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia in Reconstruction the new outfit Merl & Jerry are putting together with the help of Ed Neumeister (trombone), Ron Stallings (Tenor Sax & Vocals) and John Kahn (Bass).

Grenadine

The 1971 song "Brown-Eyed Woman" written by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia and performed by the Grateful Dead contains the lyrics: Brown-eyed women and red grenadine/the bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

Home, Home on the Road

Home, Home on the Road was produced by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, who had co-founded the New Riders and had been their original pedal steel guitar player.

Joe Perkins

This may have been in part an inspiration to Jerry Garcia to write the song "Eep Hour" and may also have been at least a partial inspiration for The Grateful Dead song "Cumberland Blues".

Lompico, California

Jerry Garcia's family had a country house in Lompico, which he visited while he was young.

Me and My Uncle

The song continued to be performed regularly until Jerry Garcia's death and the end of the band in 1995.

Pure Jerry: Bay Area 1978

From November 1977 to November 1978, the lineup of the Jerry Garcia Band was the one featured on this recording — Jerry Garcia on guitar and vocals, Keith Godchaux on piano and vocals, Donna Jean Godchaux and Maria Muldaur on vocals, John Kahn on bass, and Buzz Buchanan on drums.

Richmond–San Rafael Bridge

According to Dennis McNally, Jerry Garcia conceived the idea for the Grateful Dead song Terrapin Station while driving across the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge.

Rick Shubb

During the folk boom of the 60s he played in coffeehouses and taverns in Berkeley and San Francisco, playing with such musicians as Doc Watson, David Grisman, Jerry Garcia, and others.

Since I Lost My Baby

Also in 2005, Rhino released the only official recording of the band Legion of Mary, fronted by Jerry Garcia, containing an instrumental version from a May 22, 1975 concert.

The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage

Jerry Garciapedal steel guitar on "I Don't Know You", "Glendale Train", "Louisiana Lady", "Last Lonely Eagle", and "Henry"

The Eleven

Bob Weir and Phil Lesh would often sing from the two uppermost stanzas, while Jerry Garcia sang fragments from the bottom stanza.

The Relix Bay Rock Shop, No. 1

The two songs from Before Time Began were recorded in the studio in 1969 by the original lineup of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, which included Dawson, David Nelson, and three members of the Grateful DeadJerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, and Phil Lesh.

Uncle John's Band

Written by guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter, "Uncle John's Band" presents the Dead in an acoustic and musically concise mode, with close harmony singing.

What I Am

The song is highlighted by a guitar solo that emulates the approach of Jerry Garcia including the use of an envelope filter.


Common Chord

Blending different genres such as classical music, bluegrass, rock and jazz, this album includes (Jim Kerwin, Enrique Coria, Jerry Garcia, Mark O'Connor), but also classical violin virtuoso, Daniel Kobialka, Grisman's son Monroe on guitar, and many others.

David Grisman discography

As a very fruitful author, Grisman issued albums with his own groups David Grisman Quintet and Old and in the Way, performed in various duo collaborations with Jerry Garcia, Andy Statman, Martin Taylor, John Sebastian, Tony Rice, played in psychedelic band Earth Opera with Peter Rowan, produced a number of solo records and cooperated with many other artists in different genres.

Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70

The recording used to create the Family Dog album was not known to the Grateful Dead or their fans until Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, ex-wife of Jerry Garcia, found some of Jerry's old tapes, and gave them to the band's organization.

Katie Cruel

Jerry Garcia also performed the song, as have a number of other performers, including Peggy Seeger, Sandy Paton, the New Christy Minstrels (Miss Katy Cruel, 1965), Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Gingerthistle, Linda Thompson, Moira Smiley, Molly Tuttle (The Tuttles and AJ Lee), Joe Dassin and Bert Jansch (with Beth Orton and Devendra Banhart).

Rainforest Band

The Rainforest Band began in 1990 with the Grammy-nominated album Blues From the Rainforest, a collaboration between jazz keyboardist Merl Saunders, percussionist Muruga Booker, and Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, with Shakti Booker (vocals), Eddie Moore (percussion), Melvin Seals (sound effects) and Bill Thompson (drum & sampled sound midi-technician).

Sam Cutler

Following the events at Altamont, Cutler stayed in the U.S. to deal with the aftermath, was befriended by Jerry Garcia, and subsequently hired by the Grateful Dead as their tour manager.

Sweetwater Saloon

Sweetwater was a bar located in Mill Valley, California with a 30 year history of live musical performances by the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, Jerry Garcia, The String Cheese Incident, John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana.

Victor Moscoso

Moscoso's comix and poster work has continued up to the present and includes album covers for musicians such as Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Herbie Hancock, Jed Davis and David Grisman.