In 1965, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions evolved into the Warlocks, with the addition of Phil Lesh on bass guitar and Bill Kreutzmann on percussion. However, the band discovered that another group (which would later become the Velvet Underground) was performing under their newly selected name, prompting another name change. Garcia came up with "Grateful Dead" by opening a Funk & Wagnalls dictionary to an entry for "Grateful dead". The definition for "Grateful Dead" was "a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial". The band's first reaction was disapproval. Garcia later explained the group's reaction: "I didn't like it really, I just found it to be really powerful. Bob Weir didn't like it, Bill Kreutzmann didn't like it and nobody really wanted to hear about it. Despite their dislike of the name, it quickly spread by word of mouth, and soon became their official title. Garcia served as lead guitarist, as well as one of the principal vocalists and songwriters of the Grateful Dead for their entire career.
Touch of Gray was created by artist Darren Robinson in 2014. This art piece , which is part of the Portraits Celebrity portfolio, is a Paintings artwork. The style of this artwork is best described as Photorealism, Realism. The genre portrayed in this piece of art is Music, People, Portrait. The artwork was created in Acrylic. The size of the original art is 24 (inches) H x 24 (inches) W.
Words which artist Darren Robinson feels best describe this work of art are: jerry garcia, garcia, jerry, grateful dead, dead, touch of grey, paintingsbydarren, darren robinson, 60's musicians, rock icons, rock legends, rose colored glasses, black & white, portraits, music, rock and roll, musicians, guitar players.
I have been drawing and painting for almost 50 years now starting with that first box of Crayola 64 crayons I received when I was five years old. Over the years I experimented with pencils, markers, pastels, oils, acrylics, inks, and mixed media. I was and still am a HUGE fan of such Fantasy Artists as Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, Larry Elmore, and Keith Parkinson, just to name a few. I often would sit and draw fantasy creatures and castles along with some surrealistic landscape visions.