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Read More »It's Time to Talk About This Insane Grateful Dead Video
The Grateful Dead‘s craziest video — a 1987 clip for In the Dark track “Hell in a Bucket” — begins in a smoky bar. Bikers greet each other, embracing and clinging to their cold beers while flaunting their bicep tattoos. A woman shoves a dude playing an F-14 Tomcat pinball …
Read More »Flashback: John Mayer Plays With Bob Weir for First Time, Giving Rise to Dead & Co.
The Grateful Dead ceased to exist the minute Jerry Garcia died on August 9th, 1995, but they still had an enormous audience and the remaining members spent the next two decades trying to find ways to keep the music alive on the road. They called themselves everything from the Other …
Read More »Grateful Dead's Early Days Chronicled in New Graphic Novel
The Grateful Dead have teamed with Z2 Comics to create a biographical graphic novel that will hit shelves in early 2020 and come with an exclusive record featuring previously unreleased music. Grateful Dead Origins will focus on the band’s early days and, per a statement, their “transformation from a bar …
Read More »Hear Grateful Dead's Epic 'Truckin'' Jam From New Seventies Live Box
The Grateful Dead have announced their latest deep-dive box set release, Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings, which will feature six complete shows recorded during those years. Today the band is previewing the set by unveiling a 26-minute medley including the American Beauty closer “Truckin’” and Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade …
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