Jay Blakesberg
@jayblakesberg
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So very sad. Your words have guided us thru every part of our lives. The peaks and valleys and in times like this it is your words that we use to comfort each other. “Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock…
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September 2 is a big day for me in Grateful Dead history. On September 2, 1978 I photographed my first
@gratefuldead
concert. I was 16 years old. My father loaned me his Pentax Camera and gave me a few rolls of black…
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39 years ago today I was fortunate enough to spend my 18th birthday with the good Ole’
@gratefuldead
at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pa today I turn 57 and spent the day doing new…
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40 years ago today I saw the
@gratefuldead
at Giants Stadium - The Meadowlands! Life changing on so many levels for me. This was my second Grateful Dead concert. My father loaned me his…
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25 years ago today - April 17, 1995 would be the last time I would be face to face with Garcia. The Jerry Garcia Band was filming a video for The song “smoke gets in your eyes”. This song ran over the credits in the…
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40 years ago today!! 12.31.79 my first
@gratefuldead
New Year’s Eve! Oakland, Ca. Still at it 40 years later in SF with deadandcompany ! Can’t quit the mob! 📷🌹📷
@jayblakesberg
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Life changing experience! First Grateful Dead concert. Today 42 years ago. September 3, 1977 - Englishtown, NJ - legendary show. Pure 1977 GD! One of the greatest He’s Gone>Not Fade Away ever! Picture
#2
is the only…
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And then Fare Thee Well was part of our collective history! We came, we danced, we reconnected all the dots of all of our long strange trip! It was magical and I am so grateful for my role in this moment!! Thank you…
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Honored to have the cover photo on the new issue of
@relixmag
. Many of you know that my first photo ever published in print was in Relix Magazine when I was 16 years old. Relix has been my family for 40 years!!…
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This is what happens when you take copious amounts of LSD and you have a camera with you at a Grateful Dead concert in Anchorage Alaska while they play in a High School Auditorium and it is summer solstice in 1980…
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December 26, 1979. 40 years ago today. This was a huge day in my Grateful Dead history! I had jumped on a Greyhound Bus a few days earlier heading for California to see my first west coast Dead shows. We reached…
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40 years ago today - 12.01.79 - I spent my 18th birthday with the
@gratefuldead
in Pittsburgh, PA! Last year on my 57th birthday 12.01.18 I did a portrait of Phil Lesh and he sang me happy birthday! What a long…
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On March 30, 1980 I met this guy pictured at a Dead show at the Capitol Theatre in NJ. He gave me about 50 hits of blotter and I turned on everyone around me. His name was BT (past tense…
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August 31, 1989 - 30 years ago today!
@bobweir
and I went up to Mount Tam in Mill Valley to shoot a story for Bicycling Magazine. The magazine had been trying to set the story up for a few months and I ran in to…
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Ok LOCKN’ friends! Just got off the phone with Pete Shapiro! If you are a
#deadhead
you will want to be at this festival!! He has so many cool things brewing we all will need to buckle up!! First off it is Summer…
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Gov't Mule
Moe.
Warren Haynes
Al Schnier
Whipping Post - Tribute to Gregg Allman - 05.27.17
Summer Camp Music...
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Please take a few minutes out of your day today to sit back close your eyes and hold Neal Casal in your heart! We all have a big hole there and maybe his memory will help fill it just a little bit.💜 go to YouTube and…
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Congratulations to hippie Deadhead jam grass guitar master
@billystrings
for winning his first Grammy Award tonite!!
📷
@jayblakesberg
@ High Sierra Music Festival
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August 29 1987 - 33 years ago today we got electrified on the Eel. It’s funny to think that the GD were blowing up with Touch of Gray, playing stadiums and Jerry meanders up to the Hog Farm and plays to a bunch of…
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#happybirthday
jerrygarcia Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile. September 1993 - Mill Valley, Ca ⚡️📷
@jayblakesberg
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All of us Deadheads have Colorado on our minds now as we would all be heading to Boulder this week for the start of deadandcompany summer tour! Obviously the planet had other plans for us so all
@we
are left with are…
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Such a long long time to be gone
And a short time to be there… Happy Birthday Jerry Garcia.
all 📷’s by
@jayblakesberg
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Today in gratefuldead history! 40 years ago tonite we were at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ. March 30, 1980. I brought my camera but met a guy named BT early on In the night. He gave me 50 hits of blotter which…
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26 years ago today -December 10, 1992 Jerry was showing his art at the Roberta Weir Gallery (no relation oddly enough). This was opening night and shot in the back room while he was…
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40 years ago today - January 5, 1980 for $12.50 I went and saw the Allman Brothers Band at The Capitol Theatre in Passaic,NJ! The Road Goes on Forever!
#allmanbrothers
#allmanbrothersband
dickeybettsofficial…
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I have spent my life
Seeking all that's still unsung
Bent my ear to hear the tune
And closed my eyes to see
When there were no strings to play...You played to me
25 years ago today August 9, 1995 was a life changing…
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Happy Birthday Phil Lesh!!
#81
thank you for all the magical musical moments! We are Grateful! What a long strange trip it has been...📷
@jayblakesberg
#phillesh
@gratefuldead
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So sad to learn of the passing of legendary 1960’s poster artist Wes Wilson! His style was original, ground breaking, and set the course for a giant pop culture shift in modern art! Here are some portraits I did of…
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I promise to stop talking about my New Jerry Garcia book before The holiday week begins! But for now I will remind you all that this book exists and would be a great holiday gift for friends, family and colleagues!!…
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Wow! This is just one way that locknfestival is so fucking special!
@derekandsusan
@treyanastasio
They delivered!!! Derek Trucks and Trey Anastasio!!!!!
#jAM
💥📷
@jayblakesberg
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So so sad...an American Treasure! Rest In Peace John Prine! Your songs will live forever and always tell the story of our lives. This is all so much! Stay inside people!!! 📷
@jayblakesberg
#americantreasure
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Aiko Aiko!! 33 years ago today! February 16,1988 we were at Henry J. Kaiser in Oakland with the Grateful Dead celebrating Madrid Gras!! 📷
@jayblakesberg
@ Oakland, California
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30 years ago today we lost Grateful Dead Keyboardist Brent Mydland. The Keyboard spot with the band became the “hot seat” as the band had previously lost Pigpen and Keith Godchaux (after Keith left the band) and…
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Happy Birthday Bob Weir & John Mayer! Birthday Brothers and Musical Brothers! Forever connected!
@deadandcompany
@gratefuldead
@johnmayer
Both born October 16 … 📷🌹🎸⚡️📷
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January 31, 1991 - 29 years ago today might be my most important
@gratefuldead
jerrygarcia
#Roberthunter
photo shoot in my archive. I was asked by Blair Jackson if I wanted to shoot Hunter and Garcia for a story he…
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Happy Birthday Tom Waits!! Born December 7, 1949 he turns 70 today! I have had several opportunities to do portraits of Tom and these shoots were by far my most memorable mind blowing photo shoot experiences. Wits…
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December 10, 1992
30 years ago today. I photographed Jerry for Rolling Stone Magazine!
@jerrygarcia
📷
@jayblakesberg
photo editor -
@jodipeckman
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And another BIG Grateful Dead Anniversary...Labor Day Weekend is filled with them!
41 years ago today, I saw my first
@gratefuldead
concert. I did not bring a camera, I had not gotten…
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#OTD
in
@gratefuldead
history...or maybe my history. 39 years ago today, December 26,1979 I attended and photographed my first west coast Grateful Dead concert. Oakland Auditorium Arena. 5…
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Happy Birthday Phil Lesh!!
#80
Thank You for continually amazing all of us by sharing your interpretation of the Great American Song book with us! My opportunities to photograph this man over the last 42 years have…
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His words always glow with the gold of sunshine! Happy Birthday Robert Hunter! gratefuldead 🌹⚡️🌹⚡️💜📷
@jayblakesberg
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Happy Birthday Phil Lesh!!! Born March 15, 1940 making him an 82 year old rock star! Still making beautiful music!! 📷
@jayblakesberg
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39 years ago today. September 1,1979 I drove about 8 hours with 6 people in a car - 3 in the front and 3 in the back - to see the
#gratefuldead
in Rochester NY at Holleder Stadium. Two of…
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28 years ago tonite we lost the legendary concert promoter Bill Graham. Growing up in NJ Bill was this mythical god who could conjure up magic in ballrooms and concert halls. He was a wizard and the things he…
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Standing on the Moon With nothing else to do A lovely view of heaven But I’d rather be with you...📷
@jayblakesberg
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bobdylan photographed by me the first week of my senior year of High School at Madison Square Garden
@thegarden
. September 9, 1978. Still 16 years old with the whole rock and roll world…
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40 years ago today Brent Mydland played her first
@gratefuldead
concert. April 22,1979 . This image was taken a few weeks later in Washington DC on May 6,1979 at a No Nukes rally on the…
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You gave all you had, why you wanna give more...Happy Birthday Jerry Garcia. It is pretty safe to say that your music made a profound mark on my life and many, many others...it’s also safe to say that your music…
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40 years ago today! (Blows my mind to say that) September 1, 1979 in Rochester, NY. This was year 3 (of 4) where the
@gratefuldead
did a big Labor Day weekend concert on the east coast. For me and my friends this…
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September 2 is a magical day for my Grateful Dead Adventure...42 years ago today on 9.2.78 I photographed the Grateful Dead for the first time at Giant Stadium in NJ...that is the first 5 photos. I was 16 years old…
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In high school We lives for Neil Young’s music as much as the Grateful Dead. His music touched or fragile teenage psyches in a special way.
@neilyoung
turns 73 today and he is still one…
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Today at Peach Festival I will be presenting my 1 hour Grateful Dead slide show! Noon in the Lodge! Saturday July 21,2018. I also have a gallery of photographs on display in the Lodge.…
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27 years ago today! April 12, 1993 jerrygarcia
@bobweir
and
#vincewelnick
sang the national anthem at the opening day of the
@sfgiants
1993 season!! Glorious day, and What a Long Strange Trip! Thanks to everyone who…
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Rest in Power miss Gloria Jones -Longtime vocalist with the Jerry Garcia Band and the JGB (post Jerry) a beloved member of our community. First image is jerrygarcia Bday celebration at…
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May 9, 1987 - 33 years ago today - gratefuldead played at Laguna Seca in Monterey, CA. This two day run were daytime shows. After the show the first day they let the audience back in so they could make the video for…
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41 years ago today - May 6, 1979 - Washington DC. Brent had just joined the Grateful Dead a few weeks earlier and had only played 4 shows with the GD. After the Hampton show on May 4 and an unfortunate car accident…
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33 years ago today - July 19, 1987 we did Dylan and The Dead in Eugene, Oregon! Dylan has not allowed photographers to photograph him onstage in decades...but the Dead did not change their policy for these shows…
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28 years ago today! March 6, 1991 I went up to
@bobweir
house in Marin and did a portrait of him for a new children’s book he had just written.
#deadhead
@gratefuldead
📷
@JayBlakesberg
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Today in gratefuldead History the band played the BERKELEY Community Theatre. This was an intimate 3500 seat venue on the campus of Berkeley High School. This was just 10 weeks before Jerry would go in to his…
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Happy Birthday leary.timothy
#timothyleary
Dr. Timothy Leary would have been 98 years old today October 22. Born in 1920. He blew minds and changed the conservative American conversation…
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40 years ago today summer tour ended in Lewiston Maine. September 6, 1980 was perhaps the most glorious day our group of traveling Deadheads and misfits had ever experienced. Thinking about that day I can feel and…
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July 30, 1988 - Grateful Dead at Laguna Seca!! Man, We were
@so
lucky we didn’t even know it at the time!!! What we would give for another summer tour!!! gratefuldead jerrygarcia
@bobweir
#shortshorts
@ Laguna Seca…
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Smokin show last night at
@thegarden
! theallmanbrothers celebrated 50 years of Allmans music with 2 beautiful sets! March 10, 2020 🌹📷
@jayblakesberg
@thewarrenhaynes
@duanetrucks
@oteilburbridge
jaimoedrummer…
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Happy Birthday to the man whose words have moved us, inspired us, and blown our minds! Happy day to you
#Roberthunter
photographed at the
@gratefuldead
office on January 31,…
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Besides the Dynamic Duo of Bob Weir and John Mayer sharing a birthday yesterday October 16, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peopers is a member of that team also born October 16...📷
@jayblakesberg
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San Francisco - Castro Street. Dancing in the Streets for all the right reasons!! November 7, 2020 Historic!!!! @ San Francisco, California
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RIP Paul Barrere!
#littlefeat
What an important band beginning in High School. All of those albums were worn out but there was a tape...from WLIR radio on Long Island- Little Feat live from Ultrasonic Studios. I…
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Sugar Magnolia deadandcompany
July 14, 2018
@bobweir
@oteilburbridge
epic end to summer tour! 📷
@jayblakesberg
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Happy Birthday Mickey!! Man have I loved photographing you over the years!! Thanks for playing the beat that makes the magic! 🌹💥🌹⚡️🌹💥🌹📷
@jayblakesberg
@mickeyhart
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Happy Birthday Wavy Gravy! 84 cosmic years young today May 15, 2020. For so many years we always got an amazing show on May 15 here in the Bay Area for Wavy’s Birthday! This year it is all virtual!! I became of Wavy…
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The Bill Graham entrances I got to photograph at Grateful Dead New Years Eve shows.
1- 1979-80
2- 1980-81
3 & 4 - 1981-82
5 - 1983-84
6 - 1985-86
7 - 1986-87
8 - 1987-88
9 - 1988-89
10 - 1989-90 🌹⚡️💃🎸📷
@jayblakesberg
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Fare Thee Well!
5 years ago!
Greatest Family Reunion ever! gratefuldead
@relixmag
@treyanastasio
@bobweir
#phillesh
2015
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This Day in Grateful Dead History (ok yesterday) 11.24.78 41 years ago the
@gratefuldead
played at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ! They were playing arenas that tour but did this one small “special Deadheads only”…
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Goodbye 2018, hello 2019! For the first time in many years I skipped Rock and Roll and did a different type of adventure! Just wrapped up 10 days in Vietnam and Cambodia! Did lots of…
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I rarely post photos by other people on my social media but today I proudly post the front and back cover of the new coffee table book of Neal Casal’s Photography! Since late last year I have been working on a book…
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Today in My Grateful Dead History...29 years ago today March 6,1991 I went up to
@bobweir
Marin County home to do portraits of him and his sister who had just finished their first Children’s Book called Panther…
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30 Years ago today! July 17,1988
@greekberkeley
@gratefuldead
@bobweir
jerrygarcia Such a long time to be gone and a short time to be here!! 📷
@jayblakesberg
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Thirty Years ago today!
July 1, 1990
My first portrait session with Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman. Bob was just starting this new side project Weir/Wasserman! 📷🌹
@jayblakesberg
@ San Francisco, California
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35 years ago - Friday September 23, 1983, I walked out of State Prison in NJ. In the spring of 1981, I was arrested picking up 2000 hits of LSD that were sent to me overnight from San…
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jerrygarcia - JGB history!
First pic - Garcia band 40 years ago yesterday! 02.28.80 Kean College - Union NJ. Yesterday was my Mother’s 80th Birthday! On this day 40 years ago was
@my
mother’s 40th birthday. The…
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mickeyhart Happy Birthday - 76 years old today! Photo taken November 5, 1987 during the making of the “Throwing Stones” video in Oakland. I didn’t know Mickey yet but he saw this graffiti on the wall and…
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OCTOBER 28 - 4-7PM - PLEASE COME, PLEASE TELL YOUR CONNECTICUT FRIENDS.
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31 years ago today we celebrated Chinese New Year with the
@gratefuldead
jerrygarcia
@bobweir
phillesh
#deadheads
#chinesenewyear
02.17.88
✌️📷
@jayblakesberg
@ Oakland, California
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46 years ago today - December 7, 1974 I became a Bar Mitzvah - My sister Abbe and I on that fashionable day in Westfield, NJ
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deadandcompany summer tour has come to an end! Boulder was a blast...the swirl is real Mickey still couldn’t hit me with a drumstick while I’m standing on a ten foot ladder! ⚡️💥⚡️📷
@jayblakesberg
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deadandcompany in Boulder Day 1, July 5,2019 WAS as intense as everyone said it would be!! 💥🌈⚡️⚡️📷
@jayblakesberg
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10.31.19 - nite 1 deadandcompany MSG! Robert Hunter tribute! 💥⚡️📷
@jayblakesberg
@bobweir
@johnmayer
@oteilburbridge
@BKreutzmann
mickeyhart
#jeffchimenti
#deadheads
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October 13, 1980
39 years ago today! We were getting close to the end of the 15 night Warfield Theatre run in SF! We still had 2 New Orleans shows and 8 Radio City Music Hall shows ahead on this run that included an…
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Today my most favorite girl turns 25!!! So let’s all wish
@lil_rix
- my mini me a super duper Happy Birthday!! Love you so much every day!!
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Super excited to announce that I am joining the team at
@skullandrosesCA
as the lead photographer as well as doing my
@gratefuldead
slide show presentation and having a small photo gallery on site! This groovy…
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42 years ago today!! 11.24.78 Grateful Dead at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic NJ. Legendary show...📷🌹
@jayblakesberg
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Legendary Jerry Garcia Band show! 41 years ago today at The Barn - Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ - February 22,1980
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