Jerry Garcia Net Worth
Jerry Garcia Net Worth is
$40 Million
Jerry Garcia Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician who was best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era. Though he disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the le... | Full Name | Jerry Garcia |
| Net Worth | $40 Million |
| Date Of Birth | August 1, 1942, San Francisco, California, United States |
| Died | August 9, 1995, Forest Knolls, Marin County, California, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | San Francisco |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.778 m) |
| Profession | Musician, Guitarist, Artist, Songwriter, Film Score Composer, Singer-songwriter, Music artist |
| Education | San Francisco Art Institute, Analy High School |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse | Deborah Koons (m. 1994–1995) |
| Children | Theresa Adams Garcia, Keelin Noel Garcia, Heather Garcia, Annabelle Walker Garcia, |
| Parents | Jose Ramon Garcia, Ruth Marie Clifford |
| Siblings | Clifford Ramon Garcia |
| Nicknames | Jerry García , Jerome John Garcia , Captain Trips , The Fat Man , Spud , Grateful Dead , The Grateful Dead , The New Riders of the Purple Sage , Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia |
| Record Labels | Rhino, Arista, Warner Bros., Acoustic Disc, Grateful Dead |
| Music Groups | Grateful Dead (1965 – 1995) |
| Nominations | "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" (Rolling Stone's magazine), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1994) |
| Movies | "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) |
| Star Sign | Leo |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Favoured the Gibson SG and the Fender Stratocaster |
| 2 | Extremely Long Beard |
| 3 | Black T-Shirt |
| 4 | Wild Improvisational Playing style |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | A lot of times, when we write a song for a record, it really doesn't turn into what it's gonna become until we've been performing it a few years. So normally our records are usually failures on that level. |
| 2 | Well, when you're seventeen, you can handle the army, you don't mind. At least for as long as I was in, which was for about nine - ten months. Then I got kicked out. I had pathological anti-authoritarianism. |
| 3 | [on Grateful Dead's more complicated music] You can't just play the way The Grateful Dead plays without working at it. It's not something that is easy or just happened to us. There was a long, slow process that brought that into being. |
| 4 | [on his lack of interest in fame and success] You know, I could have spent my whole life playing the blues in a Mission Street dump and been just as happy. All my life, man, all my life. |
| 5 | ([on his favorite movie, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)] My general fascination with the bizarre can definitely be traced to this movie. |
| 6 | I would describe my own electric guitar playing as descended from barroom rock-and-roll, country guitar and jazz. Just because that's where all my stuff comes from. It's like that blues instrumental stuff that was happening in the late '50s, early '60s. Like 'Freddie King'. |
| 7 | First of all I don't think of myself as an adult. An adult is someone who's made up their mind. When I go through airports and the people who have their whole material thing together, who are clean, well-groomed, who have tailored clothes, who have their whole material thing together, these people are adults. They've made their decision to follow those routines. I would say I was part of a prolonged adolescence. |
| 8 | Drug use is kind of a dead-end street. It's one of those places you turn with your problems, and pretty soon all your problems just become that one problem. Then it's just you and the drugs. |
| 9 | Magic is what we do, music is how we do it. |
| 10 | [commenting on environmental issues] Somebody's got to do something, and it's a damned shame that it has to be us! |
| 11 | I'd rather have my immortality while I'm alive. I don't care if it lasts beyond me at all. I'd just as soon it didn't. |
| 12 | Deadheads are kinda like people who like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but people who like licorice, REALLY like licorice! |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Formed a folk-rock duo with Sara Ruppenthal, whom he then married, called "Jerry and Sara". They were divorced in 1967. [1963] |
| 2 | In 1986, he went into a severe diabetic coma and nearly died. When he awoke, he had to relearn how to play the guitar, but started touring with the Dead again the following year. |
| 3 | Had a fourth daughter named Keelin with partner Manasha Matherson in 1987. Despite still being married to Carolyn Adams at the time, though they were married (since 1981 mainly for financial reasons) they didn't live together. |
| 4 | Was once held hostage in a hotel room at gunpoint by a pimp who had Garcia mistaken for another man he was after. |
| 5 | Worked for a short time as a proofreader for Lenny Bruce in the early 1960s. |
| 6 | Most known for his long, flowing, and melodic guitar solo's and improvisation in live music. |
| 7 | Was one of the first rock musicians to master the pedal steel guitar and helped revive its sound and help it reach a bigger and more mainstream audience due to his playing with Crosby Stills Nash & Young and The New Riders of the Purple Sage in the country rock genre. |
| 8 | Was a master bluegrass Banjo picker who helped revive the Banjo sound and helped bring it to a younger and more mainstream audience with his playing in the band Old and in the Way and other sessions. |
| 9 | Once during a benefit concert in the late 1980s on stage with fellow guitar great Carlos Santana, Santana stopped playing mid-song to salute Garcia who was playing so brilliantly. |
| 10 | Suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome in the later years of his life, it hampered his mobility and guitar playing. |
| 11 | A keen and talented artist, he created over 500 pieces of artwork during his lifetime. Some can be found on his website and in various books, galleries, and art tours. |
| 12 | He won the award for best Banjo player in the amateur division at the 1963 Monterey Folk Festival. |
| 13 | Had 4 daughters: Heather, Annabelle, Thersea, and Keelin. |
| 14 | Ranked number 13 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. |
| 15 | Grateful Dead were voted the 55th Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone. |
| 16 | Co-writes his songs with Robert Hunter; Hunter writes the lyrics, Garcia the music. |
| 17 | The Roseanne (1988) episode "Halloween - The Final Chapter" was dedicated to his memory. |
| 18 | Once met Frank Sinatra at an airport and the two discussed music theory. |
| 19 | Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of Grateful Dead). [1994] |
| 20 | The famous Grateful Dead House - home to many a "hit" - is located at 710 Ashbury Street in San Francisco. |
| 21 | In the US, there is a Ben & Jerry's brand of ice cream called "Cherry Garcia". |
| 22 | Guitarist, vocalist, song writer for Grateful Dead. |
| 23 | Missing half of his right middle finger |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conan | 2015-2016 | TV Series writer - 2 episodes | |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | TV Series music - 2 episodes, 2016 writer - 1 episode, 2016 | ||
| Animal House of Blues 33 1/3 | 2015 | Documentary writer: "SCARLET BEGONIAS" | |
| The Mindy Project | 2014 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Wild | 2014/I | writer: "Ripple" | |
| Foxcatcher | 2014 | writer: "St. Stephen" | |
| The Simpsons | 2013 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| The Auction | 2013 | writer: "Ripple" | |
| Bank Roll | 2012 | writer: "Casey Jones" | |
| Animal House of Blues: How a Community Helped Create a Hollywood Blockbuster or Two | 2012 | Documentary writer: "SCARLET BEGONIAS" | |
| Parenthood | 2012 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding | 2011 | writer: "Scarlet Begonias", "Loose Lucy", "Stella Blue" | |
| Blue Crush 2 | 2011 | Video writer: "Black Muddy River", "Truckin'" | |
| Salvation Boulevard | 2011 | writer: "Brown Eyed Women", "Franklin's Tower" | |
| Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place | 2011 | Documentary writer: "Mindbender Confusion's Price", "Truckin'" | |
| The Music Never Stopped | 2011 | arranger: "Not Fade Away/Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" Traditional / writer: "Uncle John's Band", "Truckin'", "Touch of Grey", "Truckin' Live at Deer Creek Music Center, July 15, 1989", "Ripple", "Touch of Grey Live at Brendan Byrne Arena, October 14, 1989" | |
| Extraordinary Measures | 2010 | writer: "Truckin'" | |
| The Box | 2009/I | writer: "Scarlet Begonias" | |
| Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey | 2008 | TV Movie documentary writer: "Dark Star" | |
| Hold On | 2008/I | Short "Jackaroo" | |
| Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil | 2007 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Phil Lesh & Friends Live at the Warfield | 2006 | Video "Slipknot!" / writer: "Cosmic Charley", "Uncle John's Band", "Eyes of The World", "St. Stephen", "The Eleven", "New Speedway Boogie", "Franklin's Tower" | |
| Catch and Release | 2006/II | writer: "Uncle John's Band" 1970 | |
| Big Love | 2006 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Parashat Ha-Shavua | 2006 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| The Wendell Baker Story | 2005 | writer: "Scarlet Begonias" | |
| The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico | 2005 | writer: "Friend of the Devil" | |
| Festival Express | 2003 | Documentary "Blues Jam" / performer: "Country Jam", "Better Take Jesus' Hand", "I Can't Do It Baby", "Ain't No More Cane", "CC Rider" / writer: "Casey Jones", "Friend of the Devil", "New Speedway Boogie" - as J. Garcia | |
| The Dreamers | 2003 | writer: "Dark Star" 1968 | |
| Highway | 2002/I | writer: "Scarlet Begonias" | |
| Freaks and Geeks | 2000 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Mystery Science Theater 3000 | 1997-1999 | TV Series writer - 2 episodes | |
| Runaway Bride | 1999 | "Ripple" | |
| A Walk on the Moon | 1999 | writer: "Ripple" 1970, "Uncle John's Band" 1970 - as J. Garcia | |
| Around the Fire | 1998 | writer: "Brown Eyed Women" | |
| Celebrity | 1998 | music: "Truckin'" 1970 | |
| Great Expectations | 1998 | writer: "Uncle John's Band" | |
| The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon | 1996 | Documentary writer: "Cream Puff War" | |
| Flirting with Disaster | 1996 | writer: "Truckin'" | |
| The History of Rock 'n' Roll | 1995 | TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
| Baseball | 1994 | TV Mini-Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
| The Wonder Years | 1993 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Rude Awakening | 1989 | writer: "Uncle John's Band" | |
| Comic Book Confidential | 1988 | Documentary music: "Dark Star" / music: "TRUCKIN" - as Jerome Garcia | |
| Into the Homeland | 1987 | TV Movie writer: "Truckin'" | |
| One More Saturday Night | 1986 | producer: "Excusez Moi, Mon Cherie", "Upper Mississippi Showdown", "Fresh Fruit", "Love Nazi", "Don't Lie to Me" | |
| The Twilight Zone | 1985 | TV Series Opening theme music | |
| Mask | 1985 | writer: "Ripple" | |
| Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead | 1981 | Video writer: "Uncle John's Band", "Bird Song", "To Lay Me Down", "Ripple", "Ramble on Rose", "Franklin's Tower", "Shakedown Street", "He's Gone", "Truckin'" | |
| More American Graffiti | 1979 | writer: "Cream Puff War" | |
| WKRP in Cincinnati | 1979 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Saturday Night Live | 1978 | TV Series music - 1 episode | |
| White Trash | 1977 | writer: "To Lay Me Down", "Sugaree" - uncredited | |
| Little Girl Blue | 1974 | writer: "Deal" - uncredited | |
| Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues | 1972 | writer: "Attics of My Life" | |
| Zabriskie Point | 1970 | performer: "Love Scene" / writer: "Dark Star", "Love Scene" |
Composer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday | 2013 | Video | |
| Jerry Garcia: The Wheel | 2004 | TV Movie | |
| The End of the Road | 2001 | Documentary | |
| Grateful Dead: Backstage Pass | 1992 | Video short | |
| Dead Ringers: The Making of the Touch of Grey Video | 1987 | Video short | |
| The Twilight Zone | 1985 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Deep Blue World | 1973 | Short | |
| Zabriskie Point | 1970 |
Music Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grateful Dead: So Far | 1987 | Video documentary soundtrack mixer | |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | musician: banjo | |
| Deathsport | 1978 | musician: guitar | |
| Capone | 1975 | musician: guitar - uncredited | |
| Big Bad Mama | 1974 | musician: banjo - uncredited |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grateful Dead: So Far | 1987 | Video documentary | |
| The Grateful Dead | 1977 | Documentary |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cinemax Sessions | 1989 | TV Series | |
| Heartbeeps | 1981 | Phil (voice) |
Editor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Grateful Dead | 1977 | Documentary |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hells Angels Forever | 1983 | Documentary executive producer |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Music Never Stopped | 2011 | special thanks - the estate of |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fare Thee Well: Circles Around the Sun | 2015 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Get Yer Ya Ya's Out | 2009 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Drug Years | 2006 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Grateful Dead Truckin' Up to Buffalo | 2005 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Festival Express | 2003 | Documentary | Himself - Grateful Dead |
| View from the Vault IV | 2003 | Video | Himself |
| View from the Vault III | 2002 | Video | Himself |
| View from the Vault II | 2001 | Video | Himself |
| The Journey | 2001 | Documentary | Himself |
| Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Grateful Dawg | 2000 | Documentary | Himself |
| View from the Vault | 2000 | Video | Himself |
| The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation | 1999 | Documentary | Himself |
| Grateful Dead: Anthem to Beauty | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The History of Rock 'n' Roll | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself (The Grateful Dead) |
| Rock & Roll | 1995 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| ABC in Concert | 1993 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Late Show with David Letterman | 1993 | TV Series | Himself |
| Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Grateful Dead: Backstage Pass | 1992 | Video short | Himself |
| Branford Marsalis: The Music Tells You | 1992 | Documentary | Himself |
| Late Night with David Letterman | 1982-1989 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Guest |
| Grateful Dead: So Far | 1987 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Grateful Dead: Ticket to New Year's Eve Concert | 1987 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll | 1987 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Farm Aid '87 | 1987 | TV Special | Himself (as Grateful Dead) |
| Dead Ringers: The Making of the Touch of Grey Video | 1987 | Video short | Himself |
| Hells Angels Forever | 1983 | Documentary | Himself |
| Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead | 1981 | Video | Himself - Grateful Dead |
| Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland | 1978 | TV Movie | Himself - Grateful Dead |
| The Grateful Dead | 1977 | Documentary | Himself |
| Fillmore | 1972 | Documentary | Performers (as The New Riders of the Purple Sage) |
| Beat-Club | 1972 | TV Series | Himself |
| Baff - Fast eine Sendung | 1971 | TV Series | Himself |
| San Francisco Rock: A Night at the Family Dog | 1970 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Grateful Dead |
| Gimme Shelter | 1970 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Woodstock | 1970 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Playboy After Dark | 1969 | TV Series | Singer |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerry: The Movie | Documentary post-production | Himself | |
| The Untitled Grateful Dead Documentary Project | Documentary post-production | Himself | |
| Janis: Little Girl Blue | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Sixties | 2014 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Grateful Dead |
| Common Ground: The Music Festival Experience | 2014 | Short | Himself |
| Sunshine Daydream | 2013 | Himself | |
| Village Music: Last of the Great Record Stores | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| Woodstock: Now & Then | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Sex in '69: The Sexual Revolution in America | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| All Tomorrow's Parties | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| I See the Music: Baron Wolman - The Rolling Stone Years | 2008 | Short | Himself |
| Chelsea on the Rocks | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| 1968 with Tom Brokaw | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Drug Years | 2006 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | 2005 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| The Dream Studio | 2004 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Jerry Garcia: The Wheel | 2004 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Grass | 1999 | Documentary | Himself |
| Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Feed Your Head | 1997 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Timothy Leary's Last Trip | 1997 | Documentary | Himself |
Known for movies
Foxcatcher (2014)
as Soundtrack
Wild (2014)
as Soundtrack
The Dreamers (2003)
as Soundtrack
Festival Express (2003)
as Himself - Grateful Dead
