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September 21, 1968 Pacific Recording, San Mateo, CA ("Jam with Vic and David")
Eric Burdon And The Animals on stage at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival on August 11, 1967. (L-R), John Weider (guitar), Vic Briggs (guitar ) and Burdon.Grateful Dead history is a sprawling beast,...
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January 20, 1967 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA: Timothy...
There have been circulating lists of Grateful Dead shows since at least the early 1980s. I got my own copy of the Janet Soto list in 1981, Paul Grushkin published Dennis McNally's list in 1983 in his...
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May 27, 1989 Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA: John Fogerty with Jerry...
Time, as Steve Miller has observed, keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future. As we slip forward, we inevitably see things differently. Nonetheless, on occasion it is a healthy exercise to...
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October 21, 1972: Alumni Lawn, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN The...
The crowd at the Grateful Dead concert at Alumni Lawn, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, October 21, 1972 (from the VU Hustler newspaper)When Deadbase first became available, it was the fruit of...
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August 13, 1975: Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell Street, San...
The Great American Music Hall, at 859 O'Farrell Street in San FranciscoThe Grateful Dead's performance on Wednesday, August 13, 1975 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco is well-known to...
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July 2, 1971: Fillmore West, San Francisco Grateful Dead KSAN-fm Broadcast...
The entertainments listings from the Hayward Daily Review of July 1, 1971. showing the bookings for the closing of Fillmore West along with the other coming attractionsThe Grateful Dead have been...
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February 6, 1972 Pacific High Recorders, San Francisco: Jerry Garcia and Merl...
San Francisco's KSAN-fm, 94.9 on the dial, was San Francisco's leading FM rock station and a pioneer of live rock broadcasting.Even in retrospect, some events just seem to be part of a long chain and...
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December 22, 1969, Napa Valley Sports Camp, Napa, CA Grateful...
The Scendrome listing from the Berkeley Barb of December 19, 1969, mentioning a benefit concert in Napa on Monday, December 22, headlined by the Grateful Dead[The 2013 release of Dave's Picks Volume 6,...
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Whatever It Is
A partially successful attempt at a three-day multi-media event 48 years ago was also the last of the Acid Tests (albeit a subsequent “Graduation” was held). The campus of San Francisco State College...
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January 13, 1980 Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA: Grateful Dead/Beach...
A t-shirt from the January 13, 1980 Cambodian Refugee Benefit concert at Oakland Coliseum Arena that was headlined by the Grateful DeadIn general, this blog focuses on Grateful Dead concerts that have...
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April 22, 1971 Bangor Municipal Auditorium, Bangor, ME: Grateful Dead/NRPS...
The Grateful Dead's concert at the Bangor Municipal Auditorium on April 22, 1971, was promoted by Music Productions of Boston in Association with Phonic ProductionsBy the 1980s, the Grateful Dead had...
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August 4-5, 1979 Oakland Auditorium Arena, Oakland, CA: The Grateful Dead...
The Oakland Auditorium Arena floor was filled with dancers on the opening night, April 30, 1915 When the Grateful Dead played the last concert at Winterland Arena in San Francisco on December 31, 1978,...
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Grateful Dead Live FM Broadcasts 1971 (FM IV)
A promotional poster for the Grateful Dead/NRPS show at the Easttown Theatre in Detroit, MI, on October 23 & 24, 1971. The cover to the new Grateful Dead album would have been provided as a "blank"...
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March 24, 1970, Pirate's World, Dania, FL (Truckin')
The traditional Grateful Dead concert lists all cite a Grateful Dead performance at Pirate's World, in Dania, FL, just North of Miami, on March 24, 1970. A 90-minute board tape with that date,...
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July 2, 1967, El Camino Park, Palo Alto, CA: Mary Poppins Umbrella Festival...
Fans at the Mary Poppins Umbrella Festival and Be-In at El Camino Park in Palo Alto, on Sunday, July 2, 1967. The photo by Bill Howell is from the Stanford Daily of July 4 '67.It is a classic trope of...
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Jerry Garcia, The Top Of The Tangent, 117 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA...
Very likely the first ad for Jerry Garcia by name in any publication. Newly married Jerry and Sara Garcia open for Mike Cooney at The Top Of The Tangent on Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4, 1963. From...
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October 9-10, 1976 Oakland Coliseum Stadium: The Who/The Grateful Dead
The promotional poster for two shows at the Oakland Coliseum Stadium on October 9-10, 1976. The art was used for some newspaper ads, but no actual posters were circulated except as commemorations. The...
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"Reflections" Reflections (Round Records RX-107)
Jerry Garcias's solo album Reflections, released in February 1976 on Round RecordsJerry Garcia's third solo album Reflections was released on Round Records in February 1976. The album was well received...
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Grateful Dead Live FM Broadcasts 1970 (FM Broadcasts III)
The David Singer flyer for the Dead/Airplane shows on October 4 and 5, 1970. The Sunday, October 4 show was broadcast on KSAN-fm and KQED-fm to provide a true Quadrophonic mixThe Grateful Dead have...
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May 7-9, 1968, The Electric Circus, 23 St. Mark's Place, New York, NY: The...
The Grateful Dead first came to underground prominence in San Francisco, but their next conquest was Manhattan. Although the Grateful Dead did not sell a lot of records until 1970, and did not become a...
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