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Jerry Garcia Live on KZSU-am and fm, Stanford University, 1963-64 (KZSU I and...
The KZSU (880-am) listings from the Stanford Daily for Tuesday, March 5, 1963. At 9:00pm is "The Flinthill Special," hosted by Ted Claire, "authentic American folk music, including tapes recorded last...
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September 7, 1981 Concord Pavilion, Concord, CA: Jerry Garcia Band/The...
A ticket stub for the Jerry Garcia Band show at Concord Pavilion on Labor Day 1981. Note the price. It's not because the seat was "Obstructed View"--thanks to radio station KMEL-fm, all seats were...
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December 17, 1966 Christmas Dance, Ladera School Multipurpose Room, Ladera,...
The old "Multi-Purpose Room" at the former Ladera Elementary School, at 360 La Cuesta Drive in Ladera, CA, above Menlo Park (photo February 2017). The Grateful Dead performed here at a Community...
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The Grateful Dead in Texas 1968-88 (Miles And Miles Of Texas)
The Sam Houston Coliseum, at 810 Bagby Street in Houston, built in 1937, with a capacity of 9,200. The Grateful Dead played here in 1969 and 1970.The Grateful Dead were a rare bird of the 1960s, in...
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August 3, 1969 Family Dog On The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA: Grateful...
A flyer for a weekend at Chet Helms Family Dog On The Great Highway, featuring the "Good Old Greatful Dead," Ballet Afro-Haiti and Albert Collins. The Dead did not play the first night, but on the...
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Jerry Garcia, Sneaky Pete Kleinow and The Avalon Ballroom (Pedal Steel Guitar)
A poster for the Grateful Dead and The Flying Burrito Brothers (and AUM) at the Avalon Ballroom on April 4-6, 1969. Jerry Garcia took an extraordinary interest in Burrito pedal steel guitarist Sneaky...
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First Free Grateful Dead Concert In Every City (Business Innovations)
The Panhandle abuts Golden Gate Park, but actually it is part of the Haight Ashbury neighborhood rather than the park itself.Music in Late Capitalism, and performance in general, was designed to be a...
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7/3/69 Reed’s Ranch
Guest Post by Dr. Beechwood1969 was a massive touring year for the Dead. They played about 140 shows and toured across the country multiple times. In the Bay Area, they played favorite venues such as...
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Riders Of The Purple Sage, Old, New and Resurrected (Who Was Bobby Ace?)
Dawn Of The New Riders of The Purple Sage, a 5-cd box released by the Owsley Stanley Foundation at the end of 2019The end of 2019 has greeted us with two remarkable releases by, of all unlikely bands,...
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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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