Always old heads on young shoulders, the band he led had lived a life on a tightrope between musical scholarship and chemical-sociological change before they even recorded their debut album.
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It’s now 25 years since Garcia’s death (we’re a month or so after what would have been his 78th birthday), but his presence beams from the archive interviews and the music we give detailed attention to in this new publication. Ready and willing to talk about psychedelic adventures past, film projects future and Bob Dylan’s dog situation (present), the guitarist was a twinkling and avuncular host. On his visit to the band’s HQ in San Rafael in 1989, he found not only an engaged and businesslike organisation – playing benefits for AIDS and environmental awareness running their own ticketing operation – but also a generational icon who retained all of his lustre.īack from the clutches of drug addiction, fresh from the success of the band’s In The Dark album and its breakout single “Touch Of Grey”, working on new music and a new album – this, in customarily voluble form, was Jerry Garcia. As you’ll read in our new Ultimate Music Guide, when Melody Maker’s Steve Sutherland travelled to meet the Grateful Dead in California, it was nothing of the kind. They stopped touring after Garcia died of a heart attack at a drug rehabilitation centre.Meeting your heroes can be disappointing. In the late 1980s a new generation of fans made the Grateful Dead the most successful touring band in the world. They became one of the country’s most successful touring bands, known for Garcia’s marathon four-hour musical meanderings and for their entourage of “Deadheads,” a devoted legion of nomadic fans who followed the band in spirited makeshift communities. Though they regularly released albums, their focus was on live music. The Grateful Dead emerged from the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic-drug-and-music scene, later gaining fame for performing at the Monterey Pop Festival (1967) and Woodstock. 1940) on bass, Ron (“Pigpen”) McKernan (1945–73) on keyboards, Bob Weir (b. It was formed in San Francisco in the mid-1960s by Jerry Garcia (1942–95) on guitar, Phil Lesh (b.
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