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May 11, 2021 · Jerry Garcia said losing his finger was "a good score". Jerry Garcia told Guitar Player while the piano wasn't an option with only nine fingers, the lack of a middle finger is "not a handicap for the guitar," or even for the pedal steel. He said, "It never bothers me, never ever." Garcia told Rolling Stone in 1991 when the accident happened the ...
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Dec 10, 2020 · The story goes that the five year old Jerry Garcia was chopping wood with his older brother, Clifford “Tiff” Garcia while camping in the Redwoods with his family. Tiff explains in an interview with Robert Greenfield published in the biography Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia that the two were taking turns holding the wood while ...
Aug 11, 2020 · Instead, the real story is a little more plausible. In 1947, in the Santa Cruz mountains, a tiny Jerry Garcia, just four years old at the time, was chopping wood with his brother when a mistimed chop ended with Garcia missing two-thirds of his right middle finger. It was the kind of accident that could scar a child and certainly one that would ...
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Apr 28, 2022 · In one of the most tragic and heart wrenching moments of Jerry Garcia's life, he lost his close friend Paul Speegle when he was just 19 years old. In late February 1961, Garcia, Speegle, and a couple of friends were driving around East Palo Alto trying to score some marijuana (per "A Long Strange Trip").
Dec 21, 2023 · In 1985, Garcia’s life took an unexpected turn when he suffered a severe injury to his right middle finger. The incident occurred during a family vacation in California’s Trinity Alps. Garcia, an avid fisherman, was trying to untangle a fishing line when he accidentally severed a portion of his finger with a large knife.
Apr 1, 2020 · The missing digit on Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia’s right hand is little more than a footnote on his legacy. Though it was allegedly lost in a childhood wood-splitting accident ...
Jerry Garcia was one of them, but the list also includes the master of gypsy jazz guitar, Django Reinhardt. Django lost two fingers on his left hand in a fire, but went on to teach himself how to play with his remaining fingers. Another was Mac Rebennack -- better known as Dr. John-- who was a guitarist before he was a pianist. His finger ...
