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Let’s examine Jerry Garcia’s 2nd guitar solo over the instrumental break on the “Europe ’72” version of China Cat Sunflower.Once again, we are going to examine Garcia’s playing over the 9 measure chorus section from the Grateful Dead classic, “China Cat Sunflower”. This solo section occurs between the verses (or main guitar solo as happens

Let’s examine Jerry Garcia’s guitar solo over the 1st instrumental break on the “Europe ’72” version of China Cat Sunflower.​In this post I’m going to take a look at the 9 bar instrumental break that occurs between the verses of “China Cat Sunflower”. This section was a great vehicle for Garcia to improvise over, and

Jerry Garcia’s guitar solo on Touch of Grey is a masterclass in soloing out of chord shapes.”In the Dark” was released 30 years ago, in the summer of 1987. Commercially, it did very well, spawning a whole new generation of Deadheads. The Grateful Dead finally broke into pop culture, and one reason for that was

In this third and final post in the series, we’re going to examine Jerry Garcia’s playing on the 2nd guitar solo from the studio version of “Franklin’s Tower”. As I stated before, these solos from the “Blues for Allah” recording are great study pieces for looking into the Jerry Garcia guitar style. Each solo is