NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 01: Jerry Garcia's guitar "Tiger" is on display for "Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 1, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
ALBANY – NOVEMBER 4: American singer, songwriter and lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, playing his custom Doug Irwin guitar known as "Tiger" while leading the Jerry Garcia Band at the Palace Theatre in Albany, NY, on November 4, 1981. (Photo by Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images)
New York, N.Y.: Jerry Garcia, left, and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead perform at the Academy of Music in Manhattan on March 21, 1972. (Photo by Jim Peppler/Newsday RM via Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – Grateful Dead members (L to r) Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir rehearse, with John Fogerty May 25, 1989 as San Francisco musicians would play a series of concert to benefit AIDS, (Photo by Scott Sommerdorf/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – Billy Strings performs onstage during the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year Honoring The Grateful Dead on January 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
SAN FRANCISC, UNITED STATES – JANUARY 31: Jerry Garcia performing at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on January 31, 1991. (Photo by Clayton Call/Redferns)
