This is the story of Tom Lieber, the aspiring guitar builder who wouldn’t take no for ananswer and ended up making prized instruments for the Grateful Dead ...

It was drummer Mickey Hart’s 40th birthday. Bassist Phil Lesh donned a sombrero so high and burdensome it strained belief that he could still sing “I Know You Rider” with such feeling (although ...

However, that was not on his mind while he was performing. That is thanks to Grateful Dead’s frontman, Jerry Garcia. Prior to stepping on stage, Garcia and Santana were doing what everybody else ...

Melvin Seals logged more time with Jerry Garcia than anyone outside of the original Grateful Dead members. The keyboardist played in Garcia’s solo band for nearly two decades and is now a “k ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration said was deported to El Salvador because of an "administrative error," is now being detained at a lower security facility in Santa Ana ...

Before that, the band — Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir ... Purdy put his reporter’s hat back on and dug up that the 38 S. Fifth St. house — which would have sat in the plaza just south of the ...

Ralph “Jerry” Fisher, attorney and retired presiding judge of the Santa Barbara Workers’ Compensation ... monologues delivered at the drop of a hat. They will also treasure memories of ...

The Shot Jerry Garcia’s Long, Strange Trip Posted: March 18, 2025 | Last updated: March 18, 2025 The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia may have looked like Santa Claus—and was just as well-loved ...

Erin Therese Graffy de Garcia, Santa Barbara’s “Society Lady ... fundraiser and fun-raiser, and had the best hat for any occasion. Far from her warm, sunny town of Santa Barbara, Erin was born on a 15 ...

Santa Cruz-based quartet plays HopMonk Tavern ... Influenced by the songs of Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead, the music they make is uniquely theirs. The culture and community of the Grateful ...

It is no secret that Jerry Garcia drew from a variety of American songbooks over the years, both with the Grateful Dead and his own bands. Around the holidays, those songbooks also occasionally ...