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The performance marked the first time he’d played the song since 2007 and the first time he’s changed his setlist on his current tour in the past 37 shows. Photo: Image: Roger Garfield / Alamy Hear Bob Dylan Cover The Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil” in Concert 13 June 2022 | JACOB UITTI |…
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It is too late to listen to Europe ’72 set on the day of (50 years ago) but we do have a year, after all. Photo: Album Cover – Grateful Dead – Europe ’72 18 May 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Music News Math has never been one of my stronger points. So it…
‘Box of Rain’ looks at the community that evolved around the Dead and their music. Photo: A Deadhead poses in front of Grateful Dead posters at a Haight-Ashbury apartment in January 1980 in San Francisco.Ed Perlstein/Redferns 10 May 2-22 | Nicholas G. Meriwether | SFGate More than 25 years after the Grateful Dead’s last concert,…
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The master of lyrics, Robert Hunter, poet and writer provided the Grateful Dead with many of their vivid and enduring lyrics 28 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Originally Published: 25 SEPTEMBER 2019 HAWKINS BAY 24 September 2019 |DAVID BROWN & JON BLISTEIN| Rolling Stone |Additional sources ROW JIMMY Garcia/Hunter[Verse 1]Julie catch a rabbit by his…
What on earth were they thinging? A 43-person ‘tour family,’ 22 shows across Europe. Who knows. But thank god they did. Photo: Europe ’72 LP, Warner Bros. Records. Front cover Artwork: Kelley/Mouse Studios. 27 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Original publication: 10 NOVEMBER 2020 HAWKINS BAY 10 November 2020 | Various…
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Billy String, his band and guests doing live versions of various Grateful Dead (or Dead-adjacent) covers Billy Strings has done over the years. Photo credit: Dean Budnick 08 January 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Here are two two-set compilations of Billy String, his band and guests doing live versions of various Grateful Dead…
The online archive will serve as a resource and digital library, and provide the Garcia community a place to contribute, connect and inspire. Photo by Herb Greene 08 December 2021 | Jambase The Jerry Garcia Foundation has shared its latest venture, the Jerry Garcia Archive. The unveiling of the archive will take place on Aug….
The three-night event, the Trips Festival, held on Jan. 21-23, 1966, was the first time that the hitherto hidden-away psychedelic scene came fully into the open. Photo: An Electronically Infused Moment of Rupture and Social Transformation in the 1960s 29 October 2021 | Gary Kamiya | San Francisco Chronicle | With Additional videos and photos…
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19 October 2021 | Muri Assunção | Yahoo News A T-shirt billed as “one of the earliest official Grateful Dead shirts” has sold for a record-breaking $17,640 at auction. The yellow tee was part of Sotheby’s “From the Vault: Property from the Grateful Dead and Friends,” an auction that featured items from Grateful Dead Productions…
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Photo: Jerry Garcia circa 1976 – Youtube Screenshot Mr Garcia talks about life, music, “Row Jimmy Row” and the then-current Dead album: I think Blues For Allah was the first record we’ve made in years where we really had fun. We laughed a lot and got good and crazy. Original info: 01 August 2013 |…
