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Topic: Jerry Garcia

Bob Weir accepts the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year award on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Bob Weir was the boomer who did it best

Andi Zeisler
Jerry Garcia (AP)

Learning to play guitar just got easier

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Grateful Dead get a Love Light

Alli Joseph
Long Strange Trip (Sundance Institute)

The Dead is not dead yet

John Semley
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Bill Walton

The Grateful Dead made me

Erik Nelson
Jerry Garcia (AP)

"It was the tour from hell"

Blair Jackson, David Gans
Jerry Garcia at Madison Square Garden, Sept. 15, 1987. (AP/Corey Struller)

Jerry Garcia's final shows

David Browne
Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, at Madison Square Garden, Sept. 15, 1987. (AP/Corey Struller)

My Grateful Dead romance

Jennifer Finney Boylan
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