" I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could anything any man could ever do. He's a prince "
Duane Allman
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" There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but everytime I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace "
Duane Allman
📸 Amalie Rothschild Fillmore East
June 71
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Are you kidding me, R&R HOF?
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should have been inducted yeeeears ago! Name me one Missy Elliot or Kate Bush "rock & roll" song and I'll name you twenty actual gems from one of the great songwriters of all time. Ridiculous.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOAN BAEZ Nearly four months older than her former paramour Bob Dylan and 19 months older than Jerry Garcia A Living Legend for so many reasons
Duane Allman would have been 77 today. Although his life was cut way too short at only 24 years old, his legacy lives on forever through his musical vision. Thank you, Skydog, and Happy Birthday!
The Road Goes On Forever...
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📷 Peter Tarnoff, Boston Common
his music belonged to everyone and his audience was the most beautiful, colourful
Because even though he hasn't been with us for almost 30 years, I always seem to see him every time I observe something beautiful
So, happy birthday Jerome Garcia, may your sly smile never fade
"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)
The band led by Jerry Garcia surprised everyone with a pair of albums in which psychedelic rock or blues no longer predominated, but country and folk
Today marks the 54st anniversary of the release of the landmark Grateful Dead album
WORKINGMAN’S DEAD
at 4:20pm on April 19, 1943 Dr. Albert Hofmann he ingested 250 micrograms of the LSD
That day is now known as "Bicycle Day", because he began to feel the effects of the drug as he rode home on bike
This was the first intentional LSD trip....the rest is history
Tour Manager for the Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones and others
A Legendary Rock n Roll Warrior
May his memory be a blessing
R.I.P. Sam Cutler
March 10, 1943 - July 11, 2023
The native of Muscle Shoals, Alabama began her career as session singer in her hometown but is best known for her time as a member of the
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from 1972 until 1979
Happy Birthday Donna Jean Godchaux 🌹
📷 Peter Simon 1977
Today in band history, the Allman Brothers Band would start night one of the three-evening closing of Fillmore East, New York, June 25 to 27, 1971. It was also the weekend that Duane purchased his tobacco 'burst from the late Kurt Linhof
"When Reuben played the painted mandolin
the breeze would stop to listen in
before going its way again"
Forever Grateful Robert Hunter
(June 23,1941 – September 23, 2019)
There are no other writers Bob Dylan turned to other than Robert
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Happy 84rd Birthday Phil Lesh!
May you stay Forever Young...
Today marks Grateful Dead bassist birthday
Philip Chapman Lesh was born on March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California
5/25/74 UCSB 📷Ed Perlstein
"I've been warped by the rain, driven by the snow
I'm drunk and dirty, don't you know
And I'm still, willin"
Gone but not forgotten
Lowell George (April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979)
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Little Feat originally released Waiting For Columbus on February 10, 1978. The platinum-certified double album cemented the band's reputation as one of the best live bands of the '70s
Remembering the one and only ROBERT HUNTER today (June 23, 1941-September 23, 2019)
...JERRY GARCIA's wordsmith...
your words made the world a better place to live
...Aint no time to hate...
📷 Jay Blakesberg
Barlow's passion for life, liberty, and human connection brought him in contact with a staggering range of people and made him an inspiration all around the world and to us
Today we remember
John Perry Barlow
(10/3/47 - 2/7/18)
David Crosby's first solo album "If I Could Only Remember My Name" was released on February 22, 1971. Many exponents of Californian rock of those years participate in the disc: Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead...
Jerry Won't Cross the Line
📷 Annie Leibovitz, Family Dog, San Francisco, 8/1/69
“Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future”
Happy birthday Jerry Garcia
Keyboardist Chuck Leavell was just 21 and had been in the Allman Brothers Band less than a year when the Watkins Glen Summer Jam featuring the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers and the Band was held on July 27 and 28, 1973 at the Grand Prix Racecourse in upstate New York
January 31, 1991 was a big day for me! It was my first official “assignment” from a magazine to do a portrait of Jerry Garcia, and on top of that, it was actually going to be a photoshoot with Garcia and Hunter together
The notorious PIG sang them sacred blues numbers for his life
March 8, 1973,Blue Ron passed away
Forever GRATEFUL Ron PIGPEN McKernan
...you are remembered and missed by a World of Dead Heads!
Happy birthday to Jack Casady, legendary bassist and founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, who turns 80!
📷 Peter Risley
Jack and Jerry jam at Olompali in the Summer of 1968
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Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, 6/18/83
Crazy show from start to finish
the second set is for the ages
27 minutes of Scarlet > Fire and the best Morning Dew of the 80s
The mother of all posters of the past made by Mouse/Kelley
It was on this day 57 years ago back in 1966, that the
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and the Oxford Circle played for two nights of dance/concerts at one of San Francisco's most famous cathedrals of 60's Rock …. the Avalon Ballroom
Dick Latvala called it one of the all time, out of this world kind of shows the most uncompromising show in GD history perhaps
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Dane County Coliseum, Madison WI 10/25/73
unforgettable night where the energy and drive to explore never lagged
Neal Cassady remains the beat of all beats.
He may not have written it, but he was definitely the muse.
So it seems fitting that Cassady himself has the final say:
"Sometimes I sit and think. Other times I sit and drink, but mostly I just sit"
In the early hours of February 4, the following morning, Neal Cassady mysteriously died after attending a wedding party in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Just four days shy of his 42nd birthday
The Grateful Dead's only appearance in the state of gold and silver features the second performance of Scarlet Begonias, a 22 min PITB and one of only a handful of versions of Dark Star played in 1974
Adams Field House, U of Montana, Missoula, MT, 5/14
wrote and performed memorable songs, helped invent psychedelia
playing the bluegass banjo with one less finger in his right hand introduced this musical genre to a very different audience
rock owes him a lot
Forever Grateful Jerry Garcia 🌹
It was 66 years ago on September 5, 1957, that Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was first published.
"On the Road" has been an influence on various poets, writers, actors and musicians, including Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia and Hunter S. Thompson.
"All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew "
remembering Janis Joplin on her birthday 🕊 the queen of the Hippies☮️
📷 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ROCK FESTIVAL
5/18/68 Santa Clara County Fairgrounds San Jose
Birthday number 118 for Albert Hofmann.... January 11, 1906, who was the Swiss chemist best known for being the first to synthesize, ingest and learn about the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide LSD
He joined the Grateful Dead in the studio for Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa, and toured with the group from late 1968 through early 1970, including the performances captured on Live/Dead
Happy 80th Birthday
TOM CONSTANTEN
📷 Bob Minkin
"All I know she sang a little while
and then flew on"
even though you left this Earth more than 50 years ago, you continue to be a source of inspiration for thousands and thousands of new generations
Janis Joplin 🕊
(January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970)
when they plugged in that night of May 2, 1970 there was no holding back: the Dead raged harder and more sublimely than ever before, delivering the perfect electric set
54 years later, Harpur College It remains quintessential
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The Grateful Dead featuring NRPS put on an incredible legendary show at Harpur College in Binghamton, NY, on this day, may 2, 1970.
Words really cannot describe how incredible this show is
Quintessence
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Think of the people who were influenced by his brew. They never played the same again. Us, Hendrix, the Airplane, just about everybody — music in general was never the same - Mickey Hart
Happy birthday to the late great BEAR, Owsley Stanley
📷 Rosie McGee
TDIGDH - August 26, 1981, "Dead Set", a live album by the
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was released
The album contains live material recorded between September and October 1980 at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York
🎨Dennis Larkins
9/3/77 in the midst of a late summer heat wave, the Grateful Dead drew over 125,000 people to Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey.
This performance is stellar and steaming hot
📷 Bruce Westover
"what a long strange trip it's been"
12/6/80 The Dead live in
Mill Valley Recreation Center listening to The Dead play, free, to an audience of no more than 70. The occasion was the annual Christmas party of the Marin-Sonoma chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. 📷 Ray Baltar
I had Phil Lesh’s attention and asked him, in a concerned way, as a fan, “Is anybody taking care of these tapes?” I wanted to play him what I call primal Dead–great old tapes–so I said, “Sit down Phil and listen to this.”
Remembering Bill Graham today
January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991
Here, the grand overseer at Laguna Seca with the Grateful Dead 5/10/87
Without Bill's genius and chutzpa, the music scene we've had may have been quite different. His legacy lives on
📷 Bob Minkin
"... on lead guitar and vocals, Mr. Jerry Garcia ... will you welcome, please, the Grateful Dead!"
Today we have one of the best shows the boys ever played: August 13, 1975, the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco
54 years ago today, the Allman Brothers Band officially formed in Jacksonville, Florida when Gregg returned from California to round out the six-member lineup of his brother Duane's new band
Photo: Stephen Paley, Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia, 1969
was an audio engineer and clandestine chemist. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade's counterculture
- Augustus Owsley Stanley III - (January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
May 10, 1970, Atlanta Sports Arena in Atlanta, GA members of the Allman Brothers Band joined Grateful Dead for an extensive jam
📷 Bill Fibben
Atlanta's growing hippie population was centered in the area near Piedmont Park, and an underground paper called The Great Speckled Bird had begun sponsoring weekend "be-ins." On May 11, 1969, a band from Macon that no one had heard of showed up to play
📷 Twiggs Lyndon
November 16, 1938 Dr. Albert Hofmann synthesized LSD-25 for the first time. The substance remains in Sandoz laboratories for five years. However Hoffman, convinced that the substance had not been thoroughly explored and that it was hiding something, decides to synthesize it again
September 2, 1966
The Grateful Dead played for the debutante ball of Lyn and Ann Mattei at their grandparents' Hillsborough mansion, La Dolphine, also know as the Newhall Estate.
📷Bill Young for SF Examiner
If it's still not clear to anyone, I'll post every OTD photo of Jerry on the pedal steel I can find
The Palestra, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 20/11/70
📷 Peter Corrigan
"We love you more than words can tell"
Remembering the "Man" Jerry Garcia, 28 years after his crossing over to the Promised Land
Musician, Cosmic Explorer, Painter
Aug. 1st 1942 - Aug. 9th 1995
HAPPY CRAZY BIRTHDAY TO “THE MAN FORGOTTEN BY TIME”!!
KEITH RICHARDS
Celebrating his 80th birthday...
What more is there to say about this tough rock 'n roll warrior?
We ALL wish him the best and many more to come
you can be as cool as you want but never like Jerry Garcia when he wears Papa John Creach's hat at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York on November 16, 1970
Today in history, the Allman Brothers Band began the historic three-night Fillmore East closing run in New York City, June 25 to 27 1971
Duane with his two Les Pauls - 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard Cherry Burst and 1950s Gibson Les Paul Standard Tobacco Burst
it's the day of Estimated Prophet->The Other One->Eyes Of The World->Drums->Wharf Rat->Franklin's Tower->Sugar Magnolia
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Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO, 7/8/78
It is considered to be one of the most influential and quintessential works of the early psychedelic rock era the and 1960s counterculture
February 1, 1967 JEFFERSON AIRPLANE releases "Surrealistic Pillow"
the “Musical and Spiritual Adviser”- Jerry Garcia
📷 Herb Greene
Making a record is like building a ship in a bottle. Playing live music is like being in a rowboat in the ocean – Jerry Garcia
Thank you Jerry…🕊️rest in peace
"So it goes, we make what we made since the world began
Nothing more, the love of the women, work of men"
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Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 6/17/72
On this day, (January 20, 1972)
Jerry Garcia's first solo album. Recorded almost entirely by Garcia with assistance from Bill Kreutzmann and Robert Hunter
🎨 Bob Seidmann
Engineer - Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor
Recorded at Wally Heider's Studio D, San Francisco, CA in July 1971
Busted, down on Bourbon Street
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The Warehouse, New Orleans, 1/31/70
halfway through the concert Phil's amplifier explodes so that Jerry and the boys have to invent an acoustic set
"the revolution’s over. everybody go home"
On Jerry's birthday back in 1973, the Dead delivered a fitting celebration at Roosevelt Stadium The playing is intense throughout the evening, culminating in a heady Dark Star> El Paso> Eyes> Morning Dew> Sugar Mags that is just mesmerizing
Remembering the man Hunter S Thompson said was the only person on the face of the earth who could use the word "Brucellosis" in a song
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will always have a place in my heart
(January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003)
Excitable Boy - Mr. Bad Example
Enjoy Every Sandwich
52 years ago today, July 6, 1971, "At Fillmore East" was released It is arguably the greatest live double album ever recorded, thanks to the genius of Tom Dowd. Photo taken by Jim Marshall in Macon, Georgia, April 5/6, 1971 Turn it up and play it loud!!! The Road Goes On Forever
Happy 77th Birthday to the Amazing and Wonderful Drummer of the Grateful Dead...BILL KREUTZMANN......
Billy...Keep on Keepin' on down that Golden Road of Unlimited Devotion...
Forever Grateful
you can be as cool as you want, but never like Jerry Garcia walking down Haight Street in San Francisco among the people holding his guitar by the hand on this day in 1968
📷 Steve Brown
Flight of the seabirds
Scattered like lost words
Wheel to the storm and fly
American Poet Essayist Cattle Rancher Cyber Libertarian Grateful Dead Lyricist
Today we remember John Perry Barlow (3/10/47 - 7/2/18) on his birthday
a true American 🇺🇲hero
📷Bob Minkin
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Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 12/29/77
show of the ages, 53 min PITB > Chinarider (last performance 10/20/74) > China Doll > NFA > PITB is legendary
154⭐️ there are no adequate words to describe this show
📷 Bob Minkin
"Judas!"
"I don't believe you...You're a liar!"
" Play it fucking loud"
May 17th, 1966 - Bob Dylan performed at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England
"The shows are never the same, ever. When we’re done with it, they can have it" – Jerry Garcia
10/27/84 Berkeley Community Theatre
Today marks a momentous event in the history of live concerts as on the Grateful Dead held their first show with a designated Tapers Section