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Jerry Garcia was Born in San Francisco on August 1, 1942. Known as the Spanish-American kid with a missing finger, he didn't have a very good childhood. He saw his father drown when he was five and was unable to save him. Also around that time he lost the finger. His mother tried to teach him to play the piano, but Jerry hated keyboards. He was ecstatic... when she finally got him a guitar.
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Heading that dynasty, Garcia was as much a product as a shaper of his time. On August 1, 1942, in San Francisco, Jerome John Garcia was born to a family of music lovers. His father, Joe Garcia, was a ballroom jazz musician and bartender who came to California from Spain in the 1920s. His mother, Ruth Garcia, was a Swedish-Irish nurse whose family immigrated to San Francisco during the gold rush. In a 1991 interview with James Henke of Rolling Stone, Garcia talked about his father. "He played woodwinds, clarinet mainly.
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Having studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute, Garcia embarked on a second career in the visual arts. He offered for sale and auction to the public a number of illustrations, lithographs, and water colors. Some of those pieces became the basis of a line of men's neckties characterized by bright colors and abstract patterns. Even in 2005, ten years after Garcia's death, new styles and designs continue to be produced and sold.
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Jerome John Garcia was born August 1,1942 in a small hospital in San Francisco. He lived most of his life on Herrington Street, and went to the Herrington Street school. His dad drowned when Jerry was about seven years old.
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Between 1962 and 1964, Garcia sang and performed mainly bluegrass, old-time and folk music. One of the bands Garcia was known to perform with was the Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers, a bluegrass act. The group consisted of Jerry Garcia on guitar, banjo, vocals, and harmonica, Marshall Leicester on banjo, guitar, and vocals, and Dick Arnold on fiddle and vocals.[32] Soon thereafter, Garcia formed a jug band, inspired by the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, whose membership ... included Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.
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Founded in 1965, the band became one of the San Francisco staples that defined the times, performing at Woodstock and with legends such as Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, and Jimi Hendrix. In 1970, while still with Jefferson Airplane, Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady formed Hot Tuna, an acoustic fingerstyle band that still tours when the ranch is closed.
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