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Several hundred fans turned out to name a tiny street in San Francisco after celebrated Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia.
The Dead, as has often been noted, were not political, at least not in the sense in which we are accustomed to considering politics. They did not endorse Pat Brown or appear at benefits for him.
Inside Jerry Garcia's Final Grateful Dead Show — 30 Years Ago Today originally appeared on Parade. On July 9, 1995, Jerry ...
The dedication, held in the Excelsior District where Garcia grew up, kicked off a weekend of celebrations including Jerry Day ...
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Long-forgotten photos from the Chronicle archive capture the scene at Jerry Garcia's Golden Gate Park memorial, where 20,000 ...
Grateful Dead front man Jerry Garcia is still revered across the country for his psychedelic optimism and soft-spoken voice that delivered promises of utopia and hypnotic guitar riffs — but the ...
Yahoo asked readers to share where they were when they heard the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist had died on Aug. 9, 1995, and how his music makes them feel today.
Legendary music photographer Jim Marshall started photographing the Grateful Dead in 1966. The resulting images are intimate ...
The Grateful Dead has recently been a hot topic in Hollywood. In November, Deadline reported that Jonah Hill will star in Scorsese’s untitled biopic on Garcia.
Garcia is best known as the prolific songwriter, lead guitarist and most visible face of The Grateful Dead. The band grew out of the West Coast counterculture of the 1960s to become a formidable ...
Lesh and Garcia’s friendship spanned three decades, beginning from when the band was known as the Warlocks until Lesh joined, replacing Dana Morgan Jr., and it was renamed to the Grateful Dead.