Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile Graham Nash says that he never got to know Jerry Garcia all that well, their first meeting is a part of rock history: It happened in the fall of 1969, when Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were recording their classic “Déjà Vu” album, which included what is probably Nash’s best-known song, “Teach Your Children.” At that first meeting, Garcia added an iconic, bluegrass-flavored pedal steel guitar solo — incredibly, he had only been playing the instrument for a few weeks — which it’s virtually impossible to imagine the song without.
Here, as part of Variety’s remembrance of Garcia on the 25th anniversary of his death, Nash shares his first and last meetings with Garcia, as told to Jem Aswad.
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