| 1942 |
8/01 |
Jerome John Garcia is born in San Francisco |
| 1948 |
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Jerry loses a fingertip in a wood-chopping accident at age 5  |
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Jerry's father drowns while on a camping trip |
| 1949 |
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Jerry takes piano lessons |
| 1957 |
8/?? |
Jerry starts playing guitar at age 15 |
| 1959 |
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Jerry joins the Army at age 17 |
| 1960 |
4/~ |
Hunter meets Jerry at Commedia Theater in Palo Alto |
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Jerry is thrown from a rolling car in an accident, breaking his collarbone |
| 1961 |
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Bob & Jerry formed |
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Garcia, Hunter & Albin formed |
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Jerry Garcia and Friends formed |
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7/~ |
Garcia, Leicester & Hunter formed |
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11/~ |
Jerry Garcia formed |
| 1962 |
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Asphalt Jungle Boys formed |
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Pigpen meets Jerry on the San Mateo Peninsula coffeehouse circuit |
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Bill hears Jerry, Pigpen, & Hunter play at the Tangent in Palo Alto |
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Bill meets Jerry at Dana Morgan's music store in Palo Alto |
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Jerry starts playing banjo, purchased from Bill |
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Phil hears Jerry play at a party at the Chateau |
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6/~ |
Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers formed |
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10/?? |
Bobby meets Jerry backstage at the Tangent in Palo Alto |
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11/~ |
Jerry Garcia & David Nelson formed |
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11/~ |
Hart Valley Drifters formed |
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12/~ |
Thunder Mountain Tub Thumpers formed |
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12/31 |
Bobby jams with Jerry at Dana Morgan's music store |
| 1963 |
2/~ |
The Wildwood Boys formed |
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5/~ |
Jerry & Sarah formed |
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Zodiacs formed |
| 1964 |
3/~ |
Black Mountain Boys formed |
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Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions formed |
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David Grisman meets Jerry on a bluegrass quest in West Grove, PA |
| 1965 |
4/?? |
Warlocks formed |
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5/05 |
Magoo's Pizza Parlor first paid Warlocks gig |
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11/06 |
Warlocks meet Bill Graham at a Family Dog benefit for the Mime Troupe |
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12/01 |
Acid Tests organizer Ken Kesey enlists Warlocks as house band |
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12/0? |
Grateful Dead founded in San Francisco |
| 1968 |
10/08 |
Mickey and the Hartbeats formed |
| 1969 |
6/~ |
New Riders of the Purple Sage formed |
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Bobby Ace and the Cards from the Bottom of the Deck formed |
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Merl Saunders meets Jerry |
| 1970 |
5/18 |
Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales formed |
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9/~ |
Jerry Garcia & Friends formed |
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Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra formed |
| 1971 |
2/~ |
Garcia/Saunders formed |
| 1972 |
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John Kahn meets Jerry at a Monday night session at the Matrix |
| 1973 |
3/02 |
Old & In The Way formed |
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8/~ |
Jerry gets a year's probation in NJ for LSD, marijuana, and cocaine |
| 1974 |
4/20 |
Great American String Band formed |
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7/~ |
Legion of Mary formed |
| 1975 |
8/05 |
Jerry Garcia Band formed |
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8/20 |
Keith and Donna Band formed |
| 1978 |
11/2? |
Jerry loses his voice and cancels a tour |
| 1979 |
1/30 |
Reconstruction formed |
| 1982 |
4/21 |
Garcia/Kahn formed |
| 1985 |
1/?? |
Jerry is busted for heroin and cocaine possession in Golden Gate Park |
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Jerry enters drug treatment program |
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Jerry is confronted by the rest of the band regarding his drug abuse |
| 1986 |
7/10 |
Jerry lapses into a near-fatal diabetic coma for 5 days |
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12/15 |
Grateful Dead return to performing 5 months after Jerry emerges from coma |
| 1987 |
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Cherry Garcia ice cream introduced by Ben & Jerry's |
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8/29 |
Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band formed |
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10/15 |
Lunt-Fontanne Theater sell-out shows by Garcia bands |
| 1988 |
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Jerry becomes a certified SCUBA diver, partially replacing drug use |
| 1990 |
12/17 |
Garcia/Grisman formed |
| 1992 |
7/?? |
J. Garcia ties marketed |
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8/?? |
Jerry collapses from exhaustion and cancels a tour |
| 1994 |
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Second Sight formed |
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1/19 |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts the Grateful Dead |
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9/~ |
Phil Lesh & Friends formed |
| 1995 |
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Jerry receives a death threat |
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8/09 |
Jerry dies in Forest Knolls, CA at age 53 |
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8/13 |
Jerry is celebrated by family and 25,000 friends in Golden Gate Park |
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11/07 |
Garcia asteroid named |
| 1998 |
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Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead stamps issued |
| 2000 |
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Madame Tussaud's New York wax museum displays a likeness of Jerry |
