Tiff's brother, Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia, arrived August 1, 1941. So I got a lot of mileage out of having a missing finger when I was a kid."Ĭlifford Ramon Garcia was born to Jose Ramon "Joe" Garcia and Ruth Marie "Bobbie" Garcia in San Francisco's Excelsior district in 1937. 'Oh, my God, my finger's gone.' But after that, it was okay, because as a kid, if you have a few little things that make you different, it's a good score. "And that was the worst part, when the bandage came off. And I thought for sure my finger was under there.
And they gradually got smaller and smaller, until I was down to like one little bandage. For me, the traumatic part of it was after the doctor amputated it, I had this big cast and bandages on it. And I remember it didn't hurt or anything. "We were up in the mountains at the time, and my father had to drive to Santa Cruz, maybe about thirty miles, and my mother had my hand all wrapped up in a towel. On September 10, 2017, Tiff Garcia joined his brother in death.Īs Jerry described the story to Rolling Stone, the Garcia family was camping in the Santa Cruz mountains when the life-altering mishap occurred. Despite the disfiguring accident, Jerry went on to master another sort of axe as lead guitarist for seminal jam band, The Grateful Dead. The procedure went swimmingly, until Tiff miscalculated and chopped off the middle finger of his younger brother's right hand. Jerry held the wood while the boy everyone called 'Tiff' wielded an axe.
When he was just shy of five years old, future guitarist Jerry Garcia was chopping wood with his older brother, Clifford.
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