Going on to found one of popular music's most beloved cult bands, Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir's first meet has become a key chapter of rock lore.

Jerry Garcia, celebrated musician ... Garcia's first musical love was banjo, one of the few instruments invented in the Americas. He played in bluegrass band Hart Valley Drifters at age 20 ...

The first instrument Jerry Garcia ever played in front of an audience was the banjo. Garcia started playing the instrument in 1950 and after playing for years he became a master picker.

Jerry Garcia lives near the Tamalpais Mountains ... he still plays around, banjo and some. Let’s see…a lot of the people that are around now, that are still doing stuff now.

In those bands, Garcia picked a five-string banjo and Nelson strummed a vintage ... He likes to think of the soft-spoken Nelson as “Jerry’s perfect sidekick.” In that role, Nelson would ...

This 16-track collection features original duo takes on songs that have become subsequent staples of the Grisman/Garcia repertoire ... s Shady Grove LP as a banjo duet despite its original ...

Len Dell’Amico’s new memoir, Friend of the Devil: My Wild Ride With Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead, recounts his experiences working as the Grateful Dead music video director and spending time ...

Of the four of them, Garcia was the one furthest along ... who was quite a good musician, and taught Jerry a lot, and introduced him to the banjo, for starters. Hunter died five years ago.

On Tuesday, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved a resolution to rename an Excelsior District road “Jerry Garcia Street,” in honor of the Grateful Dead frontman who grew up on the ...

“This isn’t a shrine, it’s a real living musical endeavor and it’s going to have a life of its own,” says Jerry Garcia’s daughter Trixie. By Ethan Millman Music Editor When Jerry ...

They make an unlikely pair — one portly, in a rumpled windbreaker, black T-shirt and jeans, the other painfully fit, impeccably turned out in an elegant silk jacket — but Jerry Garcia and ...