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Review: Here’s why 50,000 Grateful Dead fans were smiling on Friday
More than 50,000 Deadheads turned out to see Night 1 of the Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebration at Golden Gate Park.
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Trey Anastasio Honors Jerry Garcia, Joins Dead & Company For “Scarlet” > “Fire” At GD60 Finale [Videos/Audio]
Trey Anastasio joined Dead & Company for a thrilling “Scarlet” > “Fire” as the band closed GD60 with a triumphant finale in Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco's Grateful Dead weekend kicks off with a monumental night at Golden Gate Park
The walk up to the park was an event unto itself. RVs decked out in Dead murals lined the Panhandle, and a few blocks later ...
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Grateful Dead 60th Anniversary Weekend: Dead & Company Jam With Openers, Jerry Garcia Gets Street Named After Him
The Grateful Dead, one of the great institutions in American music, threw itself a 60th-anniversary party this weekend. Dead & Company, the band led surviving Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, ...
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Billy Strings joins Dead & Co for ‘Wharf Rat’ on Jerry Garcia’s birthday in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Billy Strings joined Dead & Company on stage, delivering a musical nod to Jerry Garcia on the rock legend ...
Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia gets a street named after him in San Francisco
The dedication, held in the Excelsior District where Garcia grew up, kicked off a weekend of celebrations including Jerry Day ...
Behind-the-scenes photos of the Grateful Dead in their early years
Legendary music photographer Jim Marshall started photographing the Grateful Dead in 1966. The resulting images are intimate ...
San Francisco street named for Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia during celebration of legendary band
A few hundred people gathered Friday to name a tiny San Francisco street after legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia ...
San Francisco police seize the unlikely drug of choice of Grateful Dead fans
When you walk out the exits of a major concert at Golden Gate Park onto 30th Avenue, usually you hear a chorus of vendors ...
Never-before-published photos show S.F.'s epic memorial for Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia
Long-forgotten photos from the Chronicle archive capture the scene at Jerry Garcia's Golden Gate Park memorial, where 20,000 ...
The Tao of Jerry Garcia: 31 Trippy Quotes From the Grateful Dead Co-Founder
Are we all just hunks of protoplasm? Can drugs expand your mind? What did the Sixties mean, anyway? Here lie the answers to ...