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Mystery Shows 1965-70 (Really Lost Live Dead)
The former Menlo Park Veterans Hospital, at 795 Willow Road. This old building is all that remained in 2018 from when Ken Kesey worked there as a night orderly. One of the purposes of this blog has...
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The Grateful Dead in Upstate and Central New York 1969-79 ('Til Your Night...
The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad predicts the Grateful Dead's touring schedule half a century afterwards. Coincidence? No. The Grateful Dead were a San Francisco band who managed to stake...
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Formation of The Bob Weir Band-Fall 1977 (Enter Brent)
Brent Mydland in 1984The World Historical Nature of the Grateful Dead has led to a slow explosion of scholarship in the previous few decades. One powerful strain of Dead research looks into the...
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February 6, 1979 The Pavilion, Tulsa, OK: Grateful Dead (Last Lost Live Tape)
The board tape for January 22, 1978, in OregonThe Grateful Dead were the first band to not only allow audience taping, but the first to openly encourage it. Inadvertent or not, the Dead's strategy to...
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The Grateful Dead At The Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 1967-68...
The color poster for the first Pinnacle concerts at the Shrine Exposition Hall, on November 10-11, 1967. Buffalo Springfield, the Grateful Dead and Blue Cheer played both nights.The Shrine Exposition...
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January 2-5, 1969 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA: Grateful Dead/Blood Sweat...
The Randy Tuten poster for the Bill Graham Presents show at Fillmore West on January 2-3-4, 1969, with the Grateful Dead, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Spirit (a Sunday January 5 show was added)The...
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The Grateful Dead in Oregon 1966-76 (Country Home)
Sunshine Daydream, the cd from the Grateful Dead's legendary performance on August 27, 1972 at the Renaissance Fairgrounds in Veneta, ORThe Grateful Dead began in San Francisco, and staked out their...
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August 19-September 4, 1967 (Forces Tear Loose From The Axis)
Grateful Dead history is so full of events that most historians deal with it serially. Each stream of the band's history tends to be reviewed in isolation, in order to keep the myriad details from...
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December 31, 1969 Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA: Grateful Dead/Livingston...
The Grateful Dead rose to prominence from the 1970s with financial anchors in certain strongholds that allowed them to tour in the points in between. The strongholds ensured their survival while the...
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August 28-30, 1969, Family Dog at The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA:...
 The historical record of the Grateful Dead is a profound contrast with other legendary, high profile 60s bands. When The Doors, Jimi Hendrix Experience or Led Zeppelin hit a town, we can find posters,...
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August 2-3, 1968, The Hippodrome, San Diego, CA; Grateful Dead (Next Phase)
The Grateful Dead in San Diego In July of 1968, the Grateful Dead released their second album for Warner Brothers, Anthem Of The Sun. The album was released 13 months after their debut album, which for...
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June 4-7, 1970 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA: Grateful Dead/New Riders Of...
In this century, fans reflect upon Grateful Dead shows as a function of the surviving recordings. Thinly attended shows in out-of-the-way places have become legendary thanks to an amazing recording,...
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September 6, 1969 Family Dog on The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA:...
This cryptical listing in the underground paper San Francisco Good Times, from Thursday, September 5, 1969, was the only published hint that the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane would play the...
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Halloween Weekend 1969: Loma Prieta Room, San Jose State and Family Dog on...
 The Grateful Dead: Halloween Weekend, October 31-November 2, 1969 Over the years, it seemed like a Law Of Nature (or a Federal statute) that the Grateful Dead had to play on Halloween. Skeleton...
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May 27, 1973 Ontario Motor Speedway, Ontario, CA: Allman Brothers...
May 27, 1973 Ontario Motor Speedway, Ontario, CA: Allman Brothers Band/Grateful Dead/Waylon Jennings/Jerry Jeff Walker (Sunday) Bill Graham Presents--canceledThe biggest rock concert in American...
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February 3, 1970 Family Dog on The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA:...
The KQED-tv Special A Night At The Family Dog, recorded in February 1970, was released in 2007Â February 4, 1970 Family Dog on The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA:Â Jefferson Airplane/Grateful...
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March 7, 1982 The Saddle Rack, San Jose, CA: Jerry Garcia Band KFAT Fat Fry...
 Patrons at the Saddle Rack in San Jose, ca 2001March 7, 1982 The Saddle Rack, San Jose, CA: Jerry Garcia Band KFAT Fat Fry (FM XIX)Melvin Seals played organ in the Jerry Garcia Band from 1981 until...
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April 14-15, 17, 1967 The Banana Grove, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CA:...
 The signature of The Kaleidoscope was its circular posters, eminently collectable today. The venue was supposed to debut on the weekend of April 14-15, 1967, with Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead...
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December 4-7, 1969 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA: Grateful Dead/The...
A Bill Graham Presents flyer with the poster for the December 4-7, 1969 concert at Fillmore West, headlined by the Grateful Dead. On the back was a list of upcoming concerts, including Jefferson...
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October 5, 1968 Civic Auditorium, Sacramento, CA: Turtles/Grateful...
The Sacramento Bee of October 3, 1968, announced that The Turtles had replaced Traffic as the headliner of the concert that included the Grateful Dead and others at the Civic Auditorium on October...
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June 15, 1973 Nippert Stadium, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH:...
The Grateful Dead's scheduled show at Cincinnati's Nippert Stadium, planned for June 15, 1973, was canceled the day before. Nice to see Pigpen with the boys, even if he wasn't going to play with them....
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Jerry Garcia Live on KZSU-fm, Stanford University, 1973-89 (KZSU II and FM XV)
The two May '73 Garcia/Saunders shows at Homer's Warehouse were broadcast on KZSU-fmJerry Garcia had a long and storied history as a performing artist, in numerous aggregations, the most famous of...
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Special Guests of The Grateful Dead at The Human Be-In: January 14, 1967 Polo...
 Marvin Boxley playing harmonica behind Jerry Garcia, at the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park's Polo Grounds, on Saturday, January 14, 1967. Boxley can be heard on "Viola Lee Blues."At this seemingly...
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September 5, 1982 Glen Helen Regional Park, Devore, CA: The US Festival
 September 5, 1982 Glen Helen Regional Park, Devore, CA: The US Festival Fleetwood Mac/Jackson Browne/Jimmy Buffet and The Coral Reefer Band/Jerry Jeff Walker/Grateful Dead (Sunday) The US FestivalIn...
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Grateful Dead in New England 1970-72 (New England I)
 The Boston Garden, home to the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins, was also the premier popular music venue in the city. In the early 1970s, the Grateful Dead were still a long way from the Garden.In...
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