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Beth Sunflower ’s images of rhythm guitarist Bob Weir in jail is proof of an October 2, 1967, drug bust at 710 Ashbury, where ...
A few hundred people gathered Friday to name a tiny San Francisco street after legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia ...
Inside Jerry Garcia's Final Grateful Dead Show — 30 Years Ago Today originally appeared on Parade. On July 9, 1995, Jerry ...
The dedication, held in the Excelsior District where Garcia grew up, kicked off a weekend of celebrations including Jerry Day ...
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More than 50,000 Deadheads turned out to see Night 1 of the Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebration at Golden Gate Park.
The Dead, as has often been noted, were not political, at least not in the sense in which we are accustomed to considering politics. They did not endorse Pat Brown or appear at benefits for him.
Grateful Dead front man Jerry Garcia is still revered across the country for his psychedelic optimism and soft-spoken voice that delivered promises of utopia and hypnotic guitar riffs — but the ...
Legendary music photographer Jim Marshall started photographing the Grateful Dead in 1966. The resulting images are intimate ...
The Grateful Dead has recently been a hot topic in Hollywood. In November, Deadline reported that Jonah Hill will star in Scorsese’s untitled biopic on Garcia.
Lesh and Garcia’s friendship spanned three decades, beginning from when the band was known as the Warlocks until Lesh joined, replacing Dana Morgan Jr., and it was renamed to the Grateful Dead.
Late August in 1991, a merry band of Deadheads hiked up 2,000 feet to the top of a mountain in Lake Tahoe and hid in the bushes, all to see legendary guitarist and Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia.