In 1973, Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia fulfilled a longtime dream when he formed the bluegrass supergroup known as Old ...
“Jerry Garcia is obviously a musical icon with the ... bluegrass throughout the rest of his life and was an excellent banjo player,” said Carly Smith, curator at Bluegrass Hall of Fame ...
The band formed in the San Francisco Bay area in the mid 1960s. Weir was 16 when he first heard Jerry Garcia playing banjo outside a music shop in Palo Alto. "It was New Year's Eve, basically he ...