The lifelong musical mission Jerry Garcia wanted to complete before he died: “I will do it”Lenny Kaye once spoke about the Grateful Dead’s album Live / Dead, and called it one of the best LPs ever recorded. Nobody knew what they were in for when they went to go and see a Grateful Dead concert, and that’s what made people keep going. There’s an infectious nature to the spontaneity contained within the sound that the Grateful Dead created live; it’s a magic that is hard to put your finger on. “The Grateful Dead has some kind of intuitive thing. Jerry Garcia died on August 9th, 1995, and it’s pretty difficult to tell whether or not he achieved his dream of playing every genre.