Jerry Garcia News

THIS DAY IN 1968: Guitarist Eric Clapton announced the breakup of Cream. The band played a farewell concert later in the year.

Inspired by Jerry Garcia, the late guitarist and front man for the iconic hippie jam band the Grateful Dead, a Folly Beach city councilman has succeeded in having the first week of August dedicated to the ideals of the 1960s.

Tenor saxophonist Murray, founding member of legendary World Saxophone Quartet, has collaborated with musicians including Max Roach, Macy Gray, Cassandra Wilson, and Jerry Garcia.

Jerry Garcia begins with a devastated cry, singing with a whispering hurt. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" has never sounded more confidential, never more personal.

The Grateful Dead is long gone, but Bob Weir & RatDog live on. Weir and Rob Wasserman, the Dead's rhythm guitarist and bassist , started RatDog as a side project.

Dark Star Orchestra was formed in 1997 in Chicago by John Kadlecik and keyboardist Scott Larned .

Charles Gibson, of El Sobrante, far left, Rich Ciabattari, of Pinole, Gary Hanson, of Novato, and Jerry Garcia, far right, of Novato, hold a life ring from the sportfishing boat the "Erik" outside a restaurant in Pinole, Calif., on Friday, June 27, 2014.

The latest installment of the GarciaLive series of Jerry Garcia live archival releases features the Jerry Garcia Band's March 22, 1978 performance at Veteran's Hall in Sebastopol, CA.

Stuart Milk, Co-Founder and Board President of the Harvey Milk Foundation, revealed the figure, which is ready to meet guests in the attraction's Spirit of San Francisco area, alongside figures of Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia.

"Casey Jones," a Grateful Dead song written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, was played over 300 times between 1969 and 1993, but disappeared from setlists between 1984 and 1992.

Jerry Garcia celebrated his 31st birthday on August 1, 1973 by performing with the Grateful Dead at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ as part of a stacked double-bill featuring The Band.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple , a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano.

THIS DAY IN 1980: "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" became Billy Joel's first number-one hit.

The ghosts of Jackie Gleason and Jerry Garcia roam these halls. Opened in 1950 as the Miami Beach Auditorium, this 3,500-person theater was South Beach's chosen stage for Broadway-style musicals, world-class boxing exhibitions, and cameos by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bob Hope, and other cocktail-set celebrities.

The venerable Vermont jamband Phish played the New Orleans Jazz Fest for the first time since 1996 this year, rocking for three straight hours on the Acura stage.

The music and lifestyle of the Grateful Dead, considered by many to be the preeminent jam band of the 1960s, and 1970s, 1980s and mid-1990s, is celebrated in the Lower Keys next weekend with what's called the Grateful Summer Music and Arts Festival.

GRATEFUL DEAD: Jerry Garcia, leader of the legendary group The Grateful Dead, works with his guitar on May 8, 1979.

I was probably a little naive to think I could get a falafel on the street before Tuesday's performance by former Grateful Dead singer/guitarist Bob Weir and his band RatDog at DeVos Performance Hall.

1992: The publishers of John Lee Hooker's song "Boogie Chillen" filed a lawsuit against ZZ Top, claiming that "La Grange" had ripped off Hooker's song.