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Bob Dylan has always been an exceptional songwriter, but he believes that the Grateful Dead guitarist took his compositions to the next level.
Any musician needs to think outside the box when they play, but Jerry Garcia was convinced that some styles were incapable of evolution.
What a long, strange trip it’s been” for the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir – or Bobby Weir, as he goes by these days.  As ...
Photo: Jay Blakesberg Jerry Garcia’s hometown influence continues to thrive. On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, San Francisco’s ...
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors approved a resolution to rename a city road "Jerry Garcia Street," in honor of the Grateful Dead leader.
Warren Haynes played Jerry Garcia’s iconic “Alligator” guitar on covers of “Black Peter” and Steely Dan’s “Pretzel Logic” in ...
San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall will be the home base for a three-night celebration in honor of the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary, beginning ...
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 ...
Filming the Grateful Dead’s MTV-era music video for "Hell in a Bucket" was one long, strange trip. Len Dell’Amico, the band’s "film and video guy," has written a new memoir, "Friend of the ...
Just off the lobby of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum is the “picking room” — a cozy, glass-enclosed corner where visitors are encouraged to grab any of the guitars, banjos and fiddles ...