Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Jerry Miller, greatly admired lead guitarist of the 1960s group Moby Grape and one of the architects of that era’s San Francisco sound, died Sunday at 81 in his hometown of Tacoma, Wash.
News of the death was shared by friends and family on social media. No cause was given. A text from Miller’s wife, Jo, was shared to the Moby Group fan page on Facebook Sunday: “Everybody flood the ether with Jerry Miller’s music.
Play it all day long for me and him. And thank you all so much.” Miller’s guitar skills were such that Rolling Stone included him at No.
68 on a ranking of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Moby Grape’s tenure as a quintessential part of the west coast counterculture rock scene was a relatively short but influential one.
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