# Touch of Grey guitar solo > Jerry Garcia's guitar solo on Touch of Grey by Grateful Dead (1987) starts at about 2:20. From the album In the Dark. A rock classic from the 1980s. Canonical URL: Grateful Dead, 1987, from *In the Dark*. Solo by *Jerry Garcia*. The band's only Top 10 hit features a concise, cheerful Garcia solo that sums up his melodic instincts in a few bars. Touch of Grey by Grateful Dead is #18 in our ranking of the best Grateful Dead guitar solos. The solo is played by Jerry Garcia and the song was released in 1987. ## In our lists - [The Best Grateful Dead Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/grateful-dead-guitar-solos/) — #18 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Touch of Grey? Jerry Garcia played the solo on Grateful Dead's Touch of Grey (1987). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)