Nobody's fault but mine #GratefulDead backstage at Cal Expo in Sacramento on August 5, 1989 📷 Susana Millman (Yes Jerry you are responsible for all of this)
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Set out running but I take my time A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I just might get some sleep Tonight
8/5/71 first of two #GratefulDead dance nights at the Hollywood Palladium features a surprisingly great TIFTOO in the first set; it is a rock show that maintains the psychedelic, acid-tinged improvisational style of the good old Grateful Dead archive.org/details/gd19...
Never trust a Pranksters Mickey Hart, Ken Kesey, Gut Terk, Rock Scully, and Danny Rifkin 📷 Jim Marshall-Newport Pop Festival, Orange County Fairground, Costa Mesa, CA 8/4/68
on August 3, 1994 at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. Jerry Garcia sat in with Traffic on “Dear Mr. Fantasy” youtu.be/AYYjgYea51w?...
#GratefulDead Family Dog On The Great Highway, San Francisco, CA, 8/3/69 archive.org/details/gd19... with two mystery guests: an electric violinist and a tenor sax Dark Star > Alligator > The Other One > Caution The guest musicians are very active, very cool
youtu.be/7TnyOKI5BSM?... Have A Grateful Day Folks!💚 Celebrating Jerry Garcia #BOTD August 1, 1942
Grateful Dead, free concert on Haight Street, SF, March 3 1968, live
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Jerry Won't Cross the Line "Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!“ 📷 Annie Leibovitz, Family Dog, San Francisco, 8/1/69 Happy birthday Jerry Garcia🌹
Dark Star crashes... #GratefulDead Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ, 8/1/73 archive.org/details/gd73... It's timeless, and betrays nothing of the era in which it was played Dark Star>El Paso>Eyes>Dew The transition into El Paso is spacey Happy Birthday Jerry 🌹
The show comes out with guns blazing and really gives you a full dose of prime #GratefulDead music Dillon Stadium, Hartford, CT, 7/31/74 archive.org/details/gd19... Truckin' goes speeds - with a half-hour exploration that includes MLB and Spanish Jam 📷 James R Anderson
Ecstasy! #GratefulDead Yale Bowl, New Haven, CT, 7/31/71 archive.org/details/gd19... Dark Star wanders through a spectral, psychedelic landscape, briefly hints at the theme of "Feeling Groovy," and continues by exploring galaxies far, far away, before finally giving way to Bird Song
7/30/83 a rare "China Cat" > "I Know You Rider" opens the first of two #GratefulDead shows at the Ventura County Fairgrounds in Ventura, CA. A rousing "Sugaree" opens the second set—also quite an unusual choice archive.org/details/gd19... taped by Rango Keshavan
July 29, 1982 The Dead rocked at Red Rocks!!!! archive.org/details/gd82... These shows certainly seemed to be a case of Mother Nature conspiring with "The Boys" to give us a truly spiritual experience and demonstrate that indeed "there is nothing like a Dead show"! 📷 Bob Minkin
DON'T TOUCH THE FUCKIN LEVELS #GratefulDead Red Rocks, 7/28/82 archive.org/details/gd82... from the Shakedown opener to the L>S>D sequence closing the 1set, taking in Althea, the celestial Let It Grow and the tease of St. Stephen there are truly so many highlights in this performance 📷 Bob Minkin
WATKINS GLEN SUMMER JAM JULY 28, 1973 Grateful Dead archive.org/details/gd19... The Band Allman Brothers Band and 600,000 fans attended an amazing 12 hour rock festival in upstate New York there was love, peace, nudity and drugs
"Terrapin Station" is the 9th studio album by the Grateful Dead, released July 27, 1977. It was the 1st Grateful Dead album on Arista Records and the 1st studio album after the band returned to live touring, following a nearly two-year hiatus. youtu.be/3I7CLy70WtI?...
Grateful Dead - "Terrapin Station" Terrapin Station (1977)
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Opening with a solid "Jack Straw" > "Sugaree" pairing, the #GratefulDead kicked off a three-day run at Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado, on July 27, 1982. After closing the first set with a fast-paced version of "China Rider," archive.org/details/gd82...
the #GratefulDead legendary soundcheck at Watkins Glen archive.org/details/gd73... there is a indefinite jam where the band enters a trance-like state from the very first notes and remains there for a full 21 minutes, allowing the music to shift direction and color time and again 📷 Suki Couglin
Like a bomb dropping among the folkies Some walked out, other tore the hair cried 60 years ago, July 24-25, 1965 Bob Dylan performs at the Newport Folk Festival On the 25th, he “goes electric” backed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and shocks the music world
7/21/74 Hollywood Bowl as Noah Weiner describes the entire show is a wonderful aural experience, culminating with a massive PITB sandwich packed with typical 1974 jamming that demonstrates the full range of talents the #GratefulDead mastered by this juncture www.deadlistening.com/2009/01/1974...
Celebrating Keith's Godchaux's Birthday today! Keith and Donna - It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Recorded Live: 10/4/1975 - Winterland - San Francisco, CA youtu.be/L709WvTf3X8?...
Keith and Donna - It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Winterland (Official)
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#GratefulDead Selland Arena, Fresno, CA, 7/19/74 archive.org/details/gd74... after an exciting full WRSP a Latin-sounding jam emerges which leads to an Eyes in which Lesh unfolds with an illuminating bass solo which stimulates Garcia's interest, who in turn unleashes his own creativity
The experimental album combined studio recordings with material from 17 different live shows, resulting in five tracks 58 years ago today, the Grateful Dead released Anthem of the Sun on Warner Bros. Records
Jerry's Fingers #GratefulDead Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA, 7/18/82 archive.org/details/gd82... the first Crazy Fingers since 1976
7/18/72 #GratefulDead played a three-set face-melting masterpiece a Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City Bird Song is magic PITB is out of this world Set 2 has Dark Star. A dark, very, very starry Dark Star. It comes out of Truckin' and goes into Comes a Time archive.org/details/gd19...
A week-end at the beach #GratefulDead Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA, 7/17/82 archive.org/details/gd82... The first set closes with a wild Truckin' - extremely rare 2nd set a PITB > China > Rider sequence characterized by truly unique complexity and an exploratory spirit
"I’d been standing in the warm sun, feeling the ocean breeze that rustled the trees, and watching the sea of dancers kicking up the dirt together in blissful unison" - Rosie McGee 7/14/85 #GratefulDead at Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA archive.org/details/gd19...
7/13/85 Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA while the rest of the world had its eyes on Live Aid the #GratefulDead got the Deadheads dancing on the beach, kicking off their show with a rousing One More Saturday Night into Fire on the Mountain archive.org/details/gd19...
