Jerry Garcia Artwork, Photos, and T-Shirts

Jerry Garcia is known as one of the greatest guitar players of all time. In fact, rolling stone published their ranking of 13 out of 100. This number is amazing enough, but to have accomplished this without the middle finger of his picking hand is even more incredible.
At the age of four, young Jerry was involved in an unfortunate incident with his brother. While on vacation, his older brother was chopping wood, and using little Jerry to steady the pieces. The four year old got his hand in the way and was very quickly missing some finger.
The small boy never let this phase him and often found humor in showing off his stub to others.

Many people do not realize that Jerry had studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute. His second career was in the visual arts, selling and publiclly auctioning off numerous illustrations, and water colors and lithographs. The abstract patterns and bright colors became characteristic in a line of men's neckties. These unique designs and styles are still being produced and sold today, over ten years after his death. You can find books with reproductions of his work and more background behind the images below on Amazon.com!

This book was given to me for Christmas last year as an addition to my Grateful Dead collection. The best thing about this book is that you don't need to start from the beginning and keep going until your done. You can pick a page a day and never be done with it. There is so much background information about the people, places, songs and history of the band, the music, and the culture.

Click on the link below to purchase this book from amazon.com!