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Featuring Garcia on guitar and vocals, the Dead started playing free concerts in San Francisco and soon graduated to high-profile gigs at the Fillmore West and Woodstock and a recording contract with Warner Brothers. Within a year, the ensemble, rounded out by Phil Lesh on bass and Bill Kreutzmann on drums, morphed into the Warlocks, an electric bar band whose name was soon dropped in favor of the Grateful Dead. By 1964 Garcia had joined Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, a bluegrass and folk outfit whose other members included guitarist Bob Weir and harmonica player Ron (Pigpen) McKernan. In 1960, after a brief stint in the Army, Garcia discovered folk music, picked up a banjo, and began playing bluegrass, while also studying at the San Francisco Art Institute. It wasn’t until he was 15, upon hearing Chuck Berry, that he took up the electric guitar. Garcia studied the piano as a child but was forced to quit the instrument when he lost most of his right middle finger in a wood-chopping accident. Named after the composer Jerome Kern, Jerome John Garcia was born in San Francisco in 1942 to a musical family. A highly personal take on all sounds Americana, Garcia’s acoustic guitar can be heard on Grateful Dead songs like “Uncle John’s Band” and “Ripple” as well as in Garcia’s music outside the Dead with musicians like the mandolin virtuoso David Grisman. While dissertations could be written on this work, Garcia’s acoustic side warrants equal consideration.
The lengthy, imaginative improvised excursions that Jerry Garcia called forth on his electric guitar inspired legions of devoted fans to hit the road with the Grateful Dead during the band’s heyday.
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