‘some guys from the West Coast’
The Ark, Boston,MA 4/21/69
The #GratefulDead in their purest form, without brakes, a relentless and fearless fury roaring towards unknown worlds
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a Foxy Lady jam as a prelude to Dark Star
📷 Peter Simon
psychedelic cowboy who rode the bus with Ken Kesey and took virtually every step of the long strange trip with the Grateful Dead
Larry Ram Rod Shurtliff the Dead’s former President of Grateful Dead Productions Inc. crew chief and longtime roadie what would have 81 birthday today
📷 Jim Marshall
the world is full of assholes....unfortunately like all good things, they are too good to last that long
TIFTOO is so fucking tremendous
The Caution is sadly cut short by the police
📷 John Crouch, James Laverty, Craig Petty
#GratefulDead April 17, 1972 Tivoli Koncertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark
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First "He's Gone" plus clown masks, 30 fantastic and space minutes of Dark Star followed by a rock Sugar Mags and Caution, and a European TV
The show is a real treat
📷 Jan Persson
Rock in Princeton
Pigpen is the undisputed champion of the show
#GratefulDead
Dillon Gym, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 4/17/71
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Legendary Good Lovin' featuring the Pig's Brooklyn Bridge rap
Listen to Pig and the boys rage if you can handle it
The #GratefulDead gave a rock concert on the Washington University Quadrangle, but some county residents were not grateful, the sound, they said, was enough to wake the dead
April 17, 1969: Quadrangle, Washington University, St. Louis
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the coolest, most hip nerd ever
Go crazy!
On this day in 1978 at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, VA. Phil Lesh, walking around the beautiful campus wearing a Duke University shirt
📷 Bob Minkin
the only Morning Dew of 78
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4/15/70 "Three Bands for Three Dollars"
At Winterland Wednesday Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and #GratefulDead
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before it explodes TOO there is a like latin jam with mysterious guests
Man's World, Dancing and Lovelight 🔥 fire R&B
we are grateful to the Dead, for their talent, colorful personalities and great spectacle
#GratefulDead
live on stage at the Music Box, Omaha, Nebraska, 4/15/69
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In Dark Star there is a distinct Main Ten/Playing jam
📷 Gijsbert Hankeroot
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Tivoli Koncertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72
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A top-notch show from start to finish
Supreme Dark Star with an extraordinary Feelin' Groovy jam
Good Lovin' > Caution is a beast Pigpen's rap so wild that it takes you over like a freight train
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Davis Gymnasium, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 4/14/71
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This is acid-laced rock and roll coming at you and it feels so good
The Grateful Dead made their mark in Colorado
Thanks! All interesting stuff I didn't know about.
This is your subject, @corry342.bsky.social
"i been warped by the rain, driven by the snow
i'm drunk and dirty don't you know"
The quintessential sophistifunk (Lowell’s term) of Little Feat at its peak
Happy birthday to the late, great LOWELL GEORGE
(April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979)
9895 W Colfax, Lakewood, CA, the site of Don Edwards' Guitar City. Jerry Garcia bought a ZBD10 pedal steel guitar there on April 13 or 14, 1969
On April 13 or 14, 1969, Jerry Garcia bought a ZB10 pedal steel guitar at Don Edwards' Guitar City in Lakewood CO (9895 W Colfax, Lakewood).
[CO shoutout to @queencityjamz.bsky.social ]
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Ballroom, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 4/13/69
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the notorious Mind Wondrin writes:
Dew - zen chiller
Dark Star - splashing psychedelic puddles
The 11 - intense and jammed-out
Death Don't Have No Mercy - one of the era's best versions
Good morning everybody. Today is the 48th anniversary of my first Grateful Dead show. WALSTIB
Till the Morning Comes, Like a Highway Sign
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Aloha Alexa
"It's been one of those rare weekends that makes everyone feel good... if Dead End Kids were alive today, they would be called the #GratefulDead"
Bill Graham
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 4/12/70
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📷 Ken Greenberg
April 12, 1969, the #GratefulDead performed in Utah for the first time, at the Student Union Ballroom, University of Utah in Salt Lake City,
an event organized by Students for a Democratic Society
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📷 Richard Taylor
oh but it's really fantastic, congratulations
#GratefulDead
City Hall, Newcastle, England, 4/11/72
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A dynamite 2nd set with one of the best Truckin' ever the TOO that follows is spacey and full of top-notch explorations, including a stunning Feelin' Groovy jam
breathtaking landing in Comes a Time
📷 Rick Walton
My pleasure
Too kind
I also really liked Sugaree
But where are the VIP seats ???
April 9, 1967
#GratefulDead performing free concert at the
Golden Gate Park Panhandle, San Francisco CA
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📷 Ron Rakow
April 9, 1970 that time Miles Davis youtu.be/cUx4nqLMgKI?... opened for the #GratefulDead at Bill Graham's Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA
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first "It's A Man's World"
🎨 David Singer