The city of San Francisco paid tribute to one of its most beloved musical icons this past weekend, honoring late '60s rockstar and lead singer of the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, with a street naming.
This past weekend, the Grateful Dead's surviving members, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, who formed their own band called Dead & Company in 2015, played a series of three shows at Golden Gate Park to celebrate the Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary. Opening acts included Billy Strings, Sturgill Simpson and the Trey Anastasio Band.
Last Friday would have been Garcia's 83rd birthday, which was the first day of the music festival. Garcia grew up in the city’s Excelsior District and helped launch the band from San Francisco’s vibrant Haight-Ashbury scene.
"My father was everything San Francisco. From the tough street kid in the Excelsior, to the art school student in North Beach, to the freedom-loving Haight Street 'Captain Trips,'" his family wrote on an Instagram post shared on Friday. "He was a lover of tech, science, and progressive ideas. This city was his home."
Harrington Street, a one-block road in the Excelsior neighborhood, is now known as Jerry Garcia Street. A few hundred people, including Garcia’s daughter Trixie, attended the dedication. According to Stereogum, Garcia spent a lot of his childhood growing up in a house on that street.
This upcoming Saturday marks 30 years since Garcia’s passing. He passed away due to a heart attack in a rehabilitation center 20 miles north of San Francisco.
Garcia's love for San Francisco was very well-known by his fanbase. In one of his last filmed interviews before his passing in April 1995, he spoke about what it was like living in San Francisco in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also talked about the community he made, and how he was able to live in downtown San Francisco for free with no rent or expenses, and just play music all day.
"I never had to worry about money. I never had a job," Garcia said. "People looked after me and I didn't ask them to."
Formed in 1965 in San Francisco, the Grateful Dead blended the genres of rock, folk, blues and psychedelia. Known for their improvisational live performances and devoted fan base called the “Deadheads,” the group became central to San Francisco’s counterculture movement.
At Golden Gate Park this past weekend, about 60,000 fans attended each of the three Dead & Company shows. Though he passed away three decades ago, Garcia and his legacy will always be a part of San Francisco's story.
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