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AUDIO: The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (1969)

Michael Lydon, Rock's Backpages audio, May 1969

Recorded during the Dead's 1969 peak, Garcia looks back to the early days of the Warlocks, the Acid Tests, goes through the albums to date (including the soon-to-be-released Live/Dead) and expounds on the music.

Read a transcript of this interview.

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