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Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh recently announced plans to open a new mixed-use performance space called Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, Calif. Not to be outdone by his bandmate, guitarist Bob Weir has now revealed his involvement in a similar venture just down the road from Lesh’s spot. The two musicians still perform together in [...]

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A massive new exhibit chronicling the Grateful Dead’s 30-year odyssey is coming to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Trip opens at the Cleveland museum on April 12th, two days before the Rock Hall’s annual induction ceremony. The Mickey Hart Band will perform at the exhibit’s opening [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> The late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia will be the subject of a forthcoming feature-length documentary. Filmmaker Malcolm Leo, who has previously made movies on Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys, will build the doc around a three-hour interview he conducted with Garcia in 1987. Leo and co-producer John Hartmann, who [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Click to listen to the Grateful Dead’s ‘The Music Never Stopped’ A new limited-edition archival release series that’s modeled very much in the image of the storied Dick’s Picks series, which was discontinued in 2005 – six years after its namesake, Dick Latvala, passed away – is being launched by Grateful Dead’s [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart has always been fascinated by music from the distant past, but for his newest project he decided to go all the way back to the beginning of time.  “For the last two or three years I’ve been sampling light waves from the cosmos, starting 13.7 [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Last summer, Gregg Allman was confined to his Savannah home, recovering from a transplant that became immediately necessary after his doctor found cancer on his liver. “It’s a painful thing,” he told Rolling Stone last night at the Beacon Theatre, where the Allman Brothers Band played a rare, off-tour, three-hour show. [...]

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In 1967, the world got acquainted with bands like Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, The Doors and albums like Are You Experienced? and Sgt. Pepper’s. It was a pivotal year for hippie counterculture, with the Monterey Pop Festival officially starting the Summer of Love where 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco. These so-called “flower [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Click to listen to The Grateful Dead’s “Tennessee Jed” Many Deadheads point to the Grateful Dead’s 1972 tour as the group’s finest. Bootlegs of the shows have circulated for years, but this fall Rhino is selling a massive 72-disc box set that contains every single show from the 22-city trek. It [...]

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