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=Jerry Garcia=



Overview
Jerry Garcia was born in San Francisco, California, on August 1, 1942, to Jose Ramon "Joe" Garcia and Ruth Marie "Bobbie" Garcia. His parents named him after the composer Jerome Kern. Jerry was influenced by music at an early age, taking piano lessons for most of his childhood. His father was a retired professional musician and his mother enjoyed playing the piano. Garcia experienced several tragic events during his youth. Less than a year after undergoing an amputation of two-thirds of his right middle finger, his father died while on vacation with his family in northern California, in 1947. About 10 years later Jerry was introduced to marijuana. In the late 1950's Jerry started playing the guitar.

==Central Issue== Garcia joined a band at his school known as the Chords. After performing and winning a contest, the band's reward was recording a song—they chose "Raunchy" by Bill Doggett. Jerry later performed his first concert with Robert Hunter in the early while attending Analy High School Jerry joined a band known as Chords. After performing and winning a contest, the band's reward 1960's, each making five dollars a piece. The psychedelic LSD was beginning to gain prominence. Garcia first began experimenting with LSD in 1964; later, when asked how it changed his life, he remarked: "Well, it changed everything the effect was that it freed me because I suddenly realized that my little attempt at having a straight life and doing that was really a fiction and just wasn't going to work out. Luckily I wasn't far enough into it for it to be shattering or anything; it was like a realization that just made me feel immensely relieved". Jerry with some of his friends that he met while doing different gigs, formed the band, The Grateful Dead in 1965. His fame soon took off after this...

Performing with the Grateful Dead for its entire three-decade career (which spanned from 1965 to 1995), Garcia participated in a variety of side projects, including the Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, and Legion of Mary. Garcia co-founded the New Riders of the Purple Sage with John Dawson and David Nelson. He also released several solo albums, and contributed to a number of albums by other artists over the years as a session musician. He was well known by many for his distinctive guitar playing and was ranked 13th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" cover story. Garcia was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Grateful Dead in 1994.

Conclusion
On August 9, 1995, at 4:23 AM, Garcia's body was discovered in his room at the rehabilitation clinic. The cause of death was a heart attack. Garcia had long struggled with drug addiction, weight problems, and sleep apnea, all of which contributed to his physical decline. On the morning of August 10, Garcia was rested at a funeral home in San Rafael, California. On August 12, at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Belvedere, Garcia's funeral was held.

“There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone” - Jerry Garcia

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