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Listen to Jerry & Dawg like never before — just the 2 of them, raw and unadorned. Bare Bones is now available everywhere. 🦴
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2012
Bare Bones' release day is here! Jerry and Dawg’s collection of duo performances is now available in their stripped-down & spectacular glory. From vinyl to CDs, downloads & streaming, there are so many ways to enjoy this timeless music:. Bare Bones: Volume I - Master Takes (2xLP)
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Sending our love to the Walton family and all the people who have been so lucky knowing Bill’s love and support over the years. We will miss that big smile and bigger infectious spirit! Bill will be greeted with a joyous guitar riff and big smiles as he arrives on the other side.
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We are devastated to learn of Phil’s passage to the next life. We will miss his sharply dry humor, wry smiles and brilliant insights. Our hearts and our love go out to his beloved wife and family. He truly lived for them with all his being. His life’s work is a beacon for all
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"People need celebration in their life. It's part of what it means to be human. We need magic and bliss and power, myth, and celebration in our lives. And music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it." - Jerry Garcia . Today we celebrate you, Jerry. Happy Birthday.🌹
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“Sleep in the stars.”. Almost 60 years ago, Jerry Garcia recognized the genius that lay within the mind and spirit of @PhilLesh in a Palo Alto coffee shop. We celebrate his brilliance and mourn his death.
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They left their hearts in San Francisco. Fare thee well to a true gentleman. 🌹
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“This thing has got to be dosed!” 🎂 To celebrate Garcia’s 82nd birthday, we’re looking back on one of his most infamous stories involving a very special birthday cake.
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"Thank you, for a real good time!" Happy birthday, Jerry 🌹
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“Some rise.Some fall.Some climb.To get to terrapin…”. Terrapin Station was released on this day in 1977.⚡️
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Jerry’s innate musicality and improvisational genius have left an everlasting impact on musicians, inspiring generations to embrace their creative instincts. @JohnMayer praises Jerry's unparalleled musical prowess and extraordinary ability to effortlessly transition from one idea
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I'm Uncle Sam/that's who I am.Been hidin' out/in a rock and roll band 🇺🇸
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Robert Hunter is the man who always had the words to say for Jerry, so it is incredibly difficult to find the words to express the grief that our family and the entire Grateful Dead community are feeling at this moment. 1/3
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Oh boy it’s that time of year again…. Happy birthday Dad! I cannot help but feel your presence in my daily life as your face pops up in some very random places! I can’t help but chuckle and miss you a little.
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Celebrating 50 years of Jerry’s debut solo album, GARCIA, released 50 years ago today.
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Happy birthday to my dad, his beard, and the tiny animals that lived there ❤️. When we were very small you used to distract us with tiny bird sounds or an elephant squeak and claim they hid in your beard. We would look for them but somehow they always escaped.
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"On behalf of the Jerry Garcia family and as a daughter who loved her dad immensely. Happy Father’s Day of 2023! I’d like to extend a gracious thank you to all the father figures out there. It’s a day to slow down and take the time to cherish the people who we love but may take
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If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine.And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung.Would you hear my voice come through the music.Would you hold it near as it were your own?.It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken .Perhaps they're better left unsung.
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29 years ago today, the @GratefulDead took the stage for the final time. 🌹. 📷 Robbi Cohn | Soldier Field – Chicago, IL | July 9, 1995
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So many roads I tell you.New York to San Francisco.So many roads I know.All I want is one to take me home.From the high road to the low.So many roads I know.So many roads so many roads.7.9.95 🌹
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The International Bluegrass Music Association (@IntlBluegrass) has announced that @David_Grisman, longtime collaborator and close friend of Jerry, will be inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame this September. Join us in celebrating this well-deserved honor for a true innovator
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"Jerry knocked a chuck out of the wall and let the light shine through, and it’s up to us to keep that light shining through, or someday we are going to have to answer to him.” –Ken Kesey. We miss you, Jerry, but we’re still shining. 💫. 📸 Jay Blakesberg
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"When a gig in France was canceled, [Rock Scully] arranged for Jerry and Bobby to play an acoustic show at the Melk Weg club in Amsterdam, a four-hundred-seat room that had among its features the Market, which sold comic books, candy, and various kinds of hashish." – Dennis
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August 1st has come again. Here we are, still together, and still smiling after all these years. This continuing good vibe is the purest positive testament to a man that gave everything he was to music.
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Last weekend’s Tedeschi Trucks Band (@DerekAndSusan) show at The @GreekBerkeley featured a very special guest. Susan Tedeschi brought out Alligator for powerful renditions of ‘Mr. Charlie’, ‘Statesboro Blues’, and more for the lucky Berkeley crowd. Watch the full performance on
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Happy Birthday to one of the greats, @SantanaCarlos 🌹 Carlos and Jerry shared a meaningful relationship that extended well beyond their music. Witness their magic as they jam together on “Fire on the Mountain” back in 1987.
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Dear Jerry, .Happy 80th Birthday! Can you believe it! Who’d of thunk it? Jerry at 80, what a sight to behold. 80 is a beautiful milestone and in typical Garcia fashion you left the party too early. But it was such a good party that we kept it going.
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“There were days.And there were days.And there were days between.Summer flies and August dies…”. 📸: Rosie McGee, shot at the Chateau d'Herouville, France, June 1971.
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Celebrating the heart and soul of the @GratefulDead, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, who would have been 78 today. 🎥: KQED / Grateful Dead / A Brokedown House Production
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A soulful “Ship of Fools” from this day at Red Rocks in 1987. ⚡️. 🎥: Brokedown House Production / Kevin Tobin
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“Stuck Inside of Mobile with The Memphis Blues Again” from Dylan & The Dead’s July 4th, 1987 show in Foxboro, MA. #Dylan80 #BobDylan #GratefulDead @bobdylan @GratefulDead
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Just two and half minutes of a young, mustachioed Jerry absolutely ripping a ‘Morning Dew’ 55 years ago today. Happy Saturday!. 🎥 voodoonola | 5/11/1969 | Aztec Bowl – San Diego State University | San Diego, CA
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.@BigSteveParish, Jerry's devoted guitar tech, manager of JGB, and close friend, always carries one of his guitar picks in his pocket, knowing that whenever he meets Jerry again, it will be the first thing he asks for. We miss you, Jerry. 🌹#GratefulforGarcia. 🎥: Move Me
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All I want for Christmas is a rock & roll electric guitar
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“I wish I was a headlight, on a northbound train.I'd shine my light through cool Colorado rain.”. An “I Know You Rider” from this day in 1992 at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, CO. 🎥: Mr. Charlie
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Today in 1991, a "Franklin’s Tower" at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. 🎥: @GratefulDead / Christopher Hazard
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“Busted down on Bourbon Street.Set up like a bowling pin…🎳”. What a long, strange trip it’s been since that Bourbon Street bust!. Photo courtesy of the New Orleans Police Department – 1/31/70
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Originally released 32 years ago today, the Jerry Garcia Band's self-titled live record is arguably the group's definitive recording but is guaranteed to improve your Sunday.
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“Most euphoric set of my life. It felt like home. Thank you @playthesand @deadandcompany.Track ID: Garcia - Deal (LP Giobbi & Le Chev remix)” - @LPGiobbi. Jerry Garcia x LP Giobbi’s Garcia (Remixed) is available to stream this Friday, January 20th.
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Jerry and Phil at The Dead's Thanksgiving party in 1986. A reminder of how lucky we are to have shared in their journey. Forever grateful for their music, friendship, and the light they left behind. 🧡. 📸 11.23.86 - San Anselmo, CA
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In this interview from the Comes A Time Podcast, @BobWeir shares his perspective on death and reflections from the day he learned of Jerry's passing. #GratefulforGarcia. 🎥: Comes A Time Podcast
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Baseball's back, and we're sliding into @MLB Opening Day with these rare photos of Jerry playing ball with The Dead. ⚾️⚡️🏟️. What should be Garcia's walk-up song to the batter's box? Let's hear your picks!. 📷 Ron Rakow (Marin, California. 1972) via Retro Photo Archive
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🎥 Jerry Garcia Band | September 10, 1989 - Great Woods, Mansfield, MA | Christopher Hazard
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Jerry's unique presence and artistry will forever remain unparalleled. Hear @treyanastasio describe the indelible mark he left on the world. #GratefulforGarcia. 🎥: The Charlie Rose Show
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"People need celebration in their life. It's part of what it means to be human. We need magic and bliss and power, myth, and celebration in our lives. And music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it." - Jerry Garcia (August 1st, 1942 - August 9th, 1995). Photo: @HerbieGreene
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53 years ago today, the @gratefuldead released Workingman’s Dead. "If the Grateful Dead came to town, I’d beat my way in with a fucking tire iron, if necessary. I think Workingman’s Dead is the heaviest thing since Highway 61 and “Mr. Tambourine Man” - Hunter S. Thompson.
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“Goin home, goin home.by the waterside I will rest my bones.Listen to the river sing sweet songs.to rock my soul”. Robert Hunter.(June 23, 1941 - September 23, 2019).🌹🌹
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“Well, well, well, you can never tell…” Shakedown Street was released on November 15th, 1978, 45 years ago today! ⚡️
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From Elvis to the Jerry Garcia Band, Neil Diamond, and countless other projects, Ron Tutt’s steady drumming kept the mystery train rolling to where no man has gone before. Fare thee well and thank you sir. 📷: Richard Loren
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✅ Six hundred pounds of sin.
Dire wolves:. ✅ Bigger than the largest gray wolf.✅ Capable of breaking the bones of their prey.✅ The most-feared hunter of the Pleistocene era.❓ May have migrated as far as Asia .
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Let the good times roll for Brent Mydland’s birthday today! 🌹🎹✨. 🎥 Alpine Valley Music Theatre 7/17/89
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“Since we don’t know where we’re going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.” – Ken Kesey. Thinking of these two on what would’ve been Ken’s 88th birthday. 📷: Rosie McGee
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So many roads I tell you.New York to San Francisco.All I want is one .to take me home.From the high road to the low.So many roads I know.So many roads - So many roads. Photo: Steve Schneider
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Throwing it back to 1990 with this JGB cover of The Beatles to celebrate @MelvinSeals' birthday today!. “I simply loved loved loved playing this tune with Jerry! People say it’s rare that a cover tops the original, but is seems this was tailor-made for him to perform.” – Seals
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Hope your special day is more fun than a frog in a glass of milk! 🐸🥛 . Happy Birthday to The Kid himself, @BobWeir!
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“You need music. I don’t know why. It's probably one of those Joseph Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic and bliss, and power and myth, and celebration and religion in our lives and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.” - Jerry Garcia
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40 years ago today, the first official @GratefulDead tapers section was born at the Berkeley Community Theatre. Here’s a glimpse of GD live mixer Dan Healy with the crew during that historic run. 📸 @davidgans
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“For this is all a dream we dreamed.One afternoon, long ago…”. 🎥 Unreleased Garcia interview from a screening of "The @GratefulDead Movie," shown in theaters in 2011
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“Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe.Don't give it up, you got an empty cup.That only love can fill”. -Robert Hunter.(1941 - 2019).
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"He filled me in on all those years of things I didn’t do. I’d never played any standards; I’d never played in dance bands. I never had any approach to the world of regular, straight music. He knows all the standards, and he taught me how bebop works. He taught me music."
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51 years ago today, an estimated 600,000 people packed into the Watkins Glen Grand Prix race track for the legendary “Summer Jam at Watkins Glen” to see the @allmanbrothers Band, @TheBandOfficial, and the Good Ol' @GratefulDead. ⚡️. 🎥 KNBC-4 | Obsolete Video
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A great big mahalo out to Bill Kreutzmann on his birthday today, seen here scoping out the scene at a September 1974 Garcia/Saunders gig in Golden Gate Park. 📷: Alvan Meyerowitz
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The truth of love.an unsung song must tell.The course of love must follow blind.without a look behind
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All I want for Christmas is a rock & roll electric guitar
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In a beautiful moment from his @espn documentary, @BillWalton shares when he began calling himself “The Luckiest Guy in the World.” Find the 4-part docuseries on the ESPN+ streaming service.
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Have a Jerry Christmas! 🎅🏼. "Merry X-mas" Pen & Ink drawing by Jerry Garcia / Watercolored by Keelin Garcia
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“This photograph was taken September 1993 in @David_Grisman's living room in Mill Valley, CA. It was a shoot for the cover of Acoustic Guitar Magazine. When Garcia got to the house, he realized he forgot to bring his acoustic guitar (a must have for a guitar magazine shoot), so
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JGB contract rider from the band’s 11/12/76 show at UC Davis as featured on GarciaLive Vol. 17! #stiritup 🍎🥗☕️
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Grateful Dead Day at the ballpark is here. Trixie asked me to throw the opening pitch. I’ll be thinking of you all, and pop when I smile my way to to the mound today. Life is a trip! And we all take the ride. ❤️ . - Annabelle
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Stirring it up for @bobmarley on his birthday with the Dead’s first known performance of the song at the Mothership in Hampton, Virginia. 🎥 Brokedown House Production – 3/26/88
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45 years ago tonight, on August 4th, 1979, Garcia unleashed his 'Tiger' guitar for the first time at a Bay Area show in the Oakland Auditorium Arena. 🐅
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We’re loving this colorized version of John Conroy’s photograph of Jerry performing at the Chateau Liberté in Los Gatos, CA on October 12, 1974.
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Flashing back to a poignant “Ripple” performed at former Boar’s Head Coffee House owner Rodney Albin’s Memorial on this day in ’84. The Boar’s Head was formative ground for Garcia during his earliest days in the Bay area folk scene alongside life-long collaborators like Robert
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Miss you, Bill🌹.
In a beautiful moment from his @espn documentary, @BillWalton shares when he began calling himself “The Luckiest Guy in the World.” Find the 4-part docuseries on the ESPN+ streaming service.
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“For this is all a dream we dreamed.One afternoon long ago…”. Today marks the 28th anniversary of the @GratefulDead's final performance. 📷: Robbi Cohn /
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“Terrapin. Shame about the record, but the concert piece, the first night it was played, took me about as close as I ever expect to get to feeling certain we were doing what we were put here to do.” - Robert Hunter in a letter addressed to Jerry after his passing. Across nearly
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We love you and will miss you, Gloria Jones. Thanks for the memories. 🎶
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Listening for the secret, searching for the sound | Happy Birthday Phil Lesh!
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"Dropped a rose for Jerry Garcia at 710 Ashbury Street today. Beautiful SF day to remember his legacy." - Andrew Warren
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All I want for Christmas is a rock & roll electric guitar
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"Sometimes we ride on your horses, sometimes we walk alone.Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own. ". 📷: Rosie McGee
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