The Grateful Dead
Lenny Kaye, David Dalton, Rock 100, 1977
THE GRATEFUL DEAD ARE A LIVING HIPPIE monument, lysergic storm troopers who have carried "the Message" across continents and psychic thresholds, oblivious of all laws and boundaries, terrestrial or otherwise.
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