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April 17-19, 1970, Family Dog On The Great Highway: New Riders Of The Purple...
A flyer for the acoustic Grateful Dead show at the Family Dog On The Great Highway, on the weekend of Apri 17-19, 1970.A blog that focuses on recontextualizing the history of obscure Grateful Dead and...
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Roosevelt Stadium, Danforth Ave and NJ Rte 1 [NJ440], Jersey City, NJ 1972-76...
The Grateful Dead first came to fame or infamy in the city of San Francisco. The band's second big stronghold was the Borough and island of Manhattan. The Dead played many shows in Manhattan from the...
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April 25, 1981 Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA Jerry Garcia, Bob...
The Berkeley Community Theater as it looked in 2009. just across Allston Way from Provo ParkAt first glance, the benefit concert at the Berkeley Community Theater featuring an acoustic performance by...
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September 2, 1966, Ayn and Lyn Mattel Debutante Ball, La Dolphine Mansion,...
Joan White's San Francisco Examiner Society column from Monday, September 5, 1966, celebrating a debutante ball on the previous Friday featuring the Grateful Dead at a mansion in the wealthy South Bay...
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April 17, 1971, Dillon Gym, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
The ad for the Dillon Gym show, in The Princetonian student newspaper of February 22, 1971. This appears to have been the only publicity for the show, which seems to have sold out instantly.On...
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March 18, 1973 Felt Forum, New York, NY: New Riders Of The Purple Sage &...
The Village Voice ad from February 15, 1973 for the March 18 NRPS show at the Felt Forum(this is a modified version of an earlier post) On March 18, 1973, the New Riders Of The Purple Sage played The...
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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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August 28-29, 1970, Thee Club, Los Angeles, CA: Acoustic Grateful Dead/New...
An ad for the Grateful Dead's acoustic appearance at the debut weekend of Thee Club, on 8409 Santa Monica Blvd. I found this ad on the fascinating Posterscene site, which has many rarely seen concert...
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The Grateful Dead, The Electric Factory and The Spectrum, 1968-77...
The Grateful Dead played The Spectrum in Philadelphia 53 timesPhiladelphia was America's first great city, but by the end of the 18th century, it had started to be eclipsed by New York, which was just...
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Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux, Vocals (February 15, 1973)
In American Studios, Memphis, TN, ca. February 1969, recording From Elvis In Memphis: Mary Holliday, Jeanie Greene, Elvis Presley, Donna Jean Thatcher, Ginger HollidayThe former Donna Jean Thatcher,...
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The Grateful Dead in North Carolina and Virginia 1968-1995 (Building A Bridge...
A poster for the Grateful Dead performance at Duke University's basketball arena, Cameron Indoor Stadium, on December 8 1973, one of the first Dead shows in the New SouthHere in the 21st Century, the...
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March 11, 1967: Whisky A Go Go, San Francisco: Grateful Dead (Photo Lost And...
Jerry Garcia, rockin' a Gibson, in a long-unseen photo from the long lost San Francisco Whisky-A-Go-Go on March 11, 1967, photographed by Rita Chesterton (photo courtesy of and (c) Rita Chesterton), In...
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March 11, 1968 Civic Auditorium, Sacramento, CA: Cream/Grateful Dead (Monday...
A poster for the March 11, 1968 show at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium with Cream and The Grateful Dead.Cream, with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, was one of the most important bands in the...
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Bootleg Grateful Dead LPs, East and West (Hollywood Palladium August 6, 1971)
The Grateful Dead At The Hollywood Palladium lp, recorded on August 6, 1971. Like many Dead bootlegs available on the West Coast, it was a single album with a gatefold cover.The Grateful Dead are...
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Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA 1192 Market Street, San Francisco, CA:...
An ad for the six Grateful Dead appearances at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco from July 12-18, 1976Given the number of venues where the Grateful Dead or Jerry Garcia played many dozens of times,...
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May 30 1975, Speedway Meadows, Golden Gate Park: Jefferson Starship/Diga...
The Stanford Daily Entertainment Listings for May 30, 1975. The Jefferson Starship free concert in Golden Gate Park was listed, a sign that the concert was not only approved but not expected to...
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Pigpen Solo Projects 1969, 1971, 1973 (Why?)
The vast scholarship on the music of the Grateful Dead is deeply entwined with the emotional investment of its scholars. Their feelings about the Dead's music play an essential role in the way the...
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June 26, 1981 Fox-Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA: Jerry Garcia Band with...
Jerry Garcia has a remarkably well-documented musical history, both as part of and separate from the Grateful Dead. Yet there is so much available information to process about Garcia that some...
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The Fox Warfield and The Warfield Theater, 982 Market Street, San Francisco,...
The 1981 Grateful Dead double-lp Reckoning, recorded at the Warfield Theater and Radio City Music Hall in September and October 1980For fans and scholars of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, the...
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