It was apparent that Garcia felt like he was shouldering the load for the entire Deadhead community - so many people were depending on him and the band, not just the fans, but the bandmates themselves and the support network a major touring act requires. It wasn't until 1987 that the band had its one-and-only Top 10 single ("Touch of Grey"), but they toured successfully and constantly for years, with a fervent and passionate fan base. Drugs were plentiful music was powerful a youth culture was flexing its muscles and making itself heard throughout the country. Jerry Garcia and The Dead arose out of San Francisco's music scene in the mid-1960s. The quartet is led by the guitarist and features longtime Garcia associate John Kahn (bass), Melvin Seals (keyboards), David Kemper (drums), Gloria Jones (vocals), and Jackie LaBranch (vocals). Of his many side projects, this was the main one, until his death in 1995.
Young Jerry must have been traumatized when he saw his father swept away and drown in a California river. Jerry Garcia Band (1991) was documented in 1990 from a series of shows at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco. The Jerry Garcia Band was an American rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. His father was a jazz clarinetist and Dixieland band leader, according to Garcia's obituary in Rolling Stone. Music ran in the family, as it tends to do. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. His most widely known project was the Jerry Garcia Band, which formed in 1975 and produced one studio album, 1978s Cats Under the Stars. He'd suffered numerous health problems for many years, including substance abuse - he was reportedly addicted to heroin and cocaine, smoked tobacco, and was well overweight, leading to a battle with diabetes on top of everything else. A masterly guitarist and songwriter, and a highly underrated vocalist, Garcia was a true music lover, involving himself in numerous non-Dead projects over the years. He'd played a concert July 9 in Chicago that was described as "decidedly ragged," as Ultimate Classic Rock reports. In the summer of 1995, 53-year-old Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist and vocalist for The Grateful Dead, announced he was going to Hawaii.