Jerry Garcia

The root of my playing is that every note counts, every note has a personality, every note has a little spirit. - Jerry Garcia

New York Times critic Jon Pareles on Jerry Garcia's guitar playing:
"He played the way a dolphin swims with its school. His guitar lines would glide out, shimmer and gambol in the sunlight, then blend into the group as if nothing had happened."

Robert Hunter on Jerry's Voice:
I never understood people who didn't like Jerry's voice ... it's absolutely unaffected --- this is a deep human voice that comes directly from the heart, there's no artifice in it. That's not what people wanted for pop music. I thought he had one of the most, if not the most, magnificent voices in pop music.

• My own comments on Jerry's passing
• New York Times Editorial on Jerry 8/11/95
• Robert Hunter's Elegy
• Bob Dylan on Jerry
• Jerry Playing above the Golden Gate (picture)
• Jerry surrounded by Roses (picture)

Articles

• Best articles on Jerry (my selection)
• Best of Dead Flames Submissions on Jerry (my selection)
• Other good articles on Jerry (my selection)

My Next Most Favorite Tribute Web Pages and Pictures

I am relatively ignorant about the Grateful Dead, but Jerry Garcia's death today produced one of those extraordinary reactions that demands attention. It was limited neither by generation nor gender, race nor class. Famous people die all the time, but today millions of people feel as though they've lost a friend, a touchstone to something important in their own lives.
- Ted Koppell (Nightline)

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