The 20th anniversary of JerryGarcia's death is marked by HISTORY and CNN.
Unlike most of his peers, Jerry was able to thrive creatively and commercially into the 1990s because he was still going strong three decades after his band's formation.He died of a heart attack in a drug-treatment facility in California on August 9, 1995.JerryGarcia, a legendary guitarist and cultural icon, passed away at the age of 53.
The band's famous future residence at 710 Ashbury Street is five miles south of where he was born and raised.At the age of 15, after he convinced his mother to replace the accordion she had bought him as a birthday gift, he picked up a Danelectro electric guitar.After a brief stint in art school and the Army, and after surviving a deadly automobile accident, Jerry began to pursue a musical career, playing with various groups that were part of San Francisco's bluegrass and folk scene.By 1965, he had joined up with bassist Phil Lesh, rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and drummer Bill Kreutzman in a group originally called the Warlocks.
The Dead was a defining part of San Francisco's burgeoning hippie counterculture scene.As the decade they helped to define slipped further into the past, the Grateful Dead became even more popular and successful than they were in the 60s and 70s.The Dead played an average of 100 to 150 live shows per year, frequently to sold-out audiences that included a significant proportion of tie-dye-wearing college students.
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