You’re going to do a bow at the end of the night and you’re going to thank everybody then. And, of course, there was the gorgeous yet bittersweet mid-second set “So Many Roads”, with Garcia’s moving vocals ensuring that there was not a dry eye in the stadium by the time the tune was finished despite some musical struggles. I think the next day I went to the corner of Haight Ashbury. Unfortunately, that was the result, that there were a lot of performances that were not up to the par of who Jerry Garcia was,” Blakesberg said.However, there were also many uplifting moments Blakesberg and Kravitz shared with Garcia before he died. You can watch a full video of “So Many Roads” from the final Grateful Dead show at Soldier Field on 7/9/95 below, via YouTube user taste4phree:You can also listen to the full audio, including the incredibly meaningful “Box Of Rain,” below via Set One: Touch of Grey, Little Red Rooster, Lazy River, Masterpiece*, Childhood’s End, Cumberland Blues, Promised LandSet Two: Shakedown Street, Samson & Delilah, So Many Roads, Samba in the Rain, Corrina -> Drums -> Space -> Unbroken Chain, Sugar Magnolia Weir, however, would be the only one to appear, as Garcia arrived three days later; the photos were not used. I want to see the proof.

I don’t think that any musician really ever wants to be accused of that. Read Next: ‘Bill and Ted’ Music Supervisor Jonathan Leahy on Creating the Song That Saves the Universe Jerry Garcia, leader of The Grateful Dead, died 15 years ago today — on August 9, 1995 — while trying to detox at a Marin County rehab clinic. There’s a few shots like that in those rare moments that you were able to catch Garcia like that.”Later in his journey of shooting portraits of the band, Blakesberg also recalled watching Garcia slowly start to regress as 1995 drew closer, both through his own lens and on the stage.

That same summer, John Mayer, along with Weir, Kreutzmann and Hart, formed Dead & Company — with Mayer paying tribute to Garcia as the new band’s lead vocalist. Specifically, he discussed photographing an ad campaign for Alvarez Yairi, the manufacturing company behind Bob Weir and Garcia’s acoustic guitars. As Blakesberg’s career as a photographer followed the same trajectory as the band, he evolved from a teenage fan to an extensive documentarian of the Dead. You have Jodi Peckman call me.’ I was fine until I mentioned Rolling Stone. Blakesberg and Kravitz shared their memories of being in out and of the Dead’s photo pit with In 1977, a dozen years after the group’s founding, a then 15-year-old Blakesberg attended his first Dead show as a fan. I’m like, ‘Here I am, Mr. McNally,’ and he let me in the shoot. One month later, the guitarist passed away after suffering a heart attack. Jodi Peckman didn’t call, but next time I went to the Dead, I brought a whole folder of photographs with all my bylines with them,” said Kravitz. In spite of Jerry passing earlier on the day bob took the stage saying “if he proved anything to us, it’s that music will make sad times better” ... My mom is a big dead head and a huge fan of Jerry Garcia Band. I want you to come out and thank them for 50 years of music as an “I’m not worthy” and pump your fist and connect with the audience, before you play that last show.’ They came out and I said, ‘Then you’re going to turn around and thank the 10,000 people behind the drums and I’ll be up on the drum riser.’ They all said, ‘Wow, that’s great, we’ll do it.’ That’s the cover of the Fare Thee Well book,” said Blakesberg.The Grateful Dead’s legacy didn’t end there, either. “When you got three Grateful Dead songs, you could be in that pit for 40 minutes, if you’ve got the right songs,” says Jeff Kravitz. GarciaLive Volume 14: January 27th, 1986 The Ritz featuring Jerry Garcia & John Kahn out now! “I was shooting and developing film and FedExing it out to Rolling Stone and dealing with other magazines saying, ‘What do you got? Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter recalls being “alarmed” by Jerry Garcia’s kind words in the days leading up to the mainman’s death. Shutterstock. While not among their best shows by a long stretch, 7/9/95 still packs an emotional punch to this day in light of its significance as Jerry’s last performance. For When Kravitz first got to shoot the Dead in 1994, he found himself in the pit next to a more veteran photographer of the band, Jay Blakesberg, who was already renowned among Deadheads for his iconic portraits of the group after shooting them since 1978.


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