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Grateful Dead: Live Dead

Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 7 February 1970

Live Dead explains why the Dead are one of the best performing bands in America, why their music touches on ground that most other groups ...

Grateful Dead: Dawn of the Deadheads

Report and Interview by David Gans, Headliner, August 1983

THE PSYCHEDELIC era is ancient history, and LSD is so far out of fashion that it probably doesn't even need to be illegal any more. ...

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The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (1969)

Interview by 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.

File format: mp3; file size: 57.6mb, interview length: 1h 02' 57" sound quality: ****

The Grateful Dead (and the New Riders) (1970)

Interview by Ted Alvy, Rock's Backpages audio, 27 December 1970

Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir from the Dead, plus New Riders David Nelson and Marmaduke, talk about Workingman's Dead and the birth of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, while DJ Ted Alvy spins tunes and tries to keep order. Originally broadcast on KPPC-FM Pasadena in December 1970.

File format: mp3 File size: 57.8mb Interview length: 1h 00' 43" Sound quality: ****

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San Francisco Bay Rock

Guide by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, October 1966

THE SAN FRANCISCO rock scene is a complex one. It is a plentiful jumble of hard rock, folk-rock, blues-rock, bubble-gum, and adult bands that have ...

Otis Redding, Grateful Dead: Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 21 December 1966

Otis Redding — Rhythm and Blues Tidal Wave ...

San Francisco: The Flourishing Underground

Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 2 March 1967

SAN FRANCISCO — Forget the cable cars; skip Chinatown and the Golden Gate; don't bother about the topless mother of eight. ...

The Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead (Warner Bros.)

Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 13 April 1967

A GOOD ALBUM, like those long lasting cold remedies, is filled with tiny time capsules which burst open at their own speed. Cuts that astound ...

California Dreamin'

Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 27 May 1967

AMERICA'S WEST COAST — ESPECIALLY SAN FRANCISCO — IS WHERE IT'S ALL AT NOW. WHAT LESSON CAN WE LEARN FROM IT? NICK JONES EXPLAINS ...

The Golden Road: A Report on San Francisco

Overview by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, June 1967

SITTING IN THE window. Sixth Avenue, Greenwich Village, flirting with the girls going by, the Grateful Dead very loud on 4X speakers somewhere in the ...

Miles' Trip: New York

Report by Miles, International Times, 30 June 1967

"Two persons were shot dead and several others injured in a gun battle between shoplifters and store detectives in a Bronx supermarket today." ...

Birth of the San Francisco Scene

Overview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967

by Martin Balin, leader of the Jefferson Airplane ...

Chet Helms: Hurok of Haight Street

Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1967

HIS DESK looks impressive. A clean blotter is piled high with correspondence. A vertical file bulges with memos. A calendar and a trash can are ...

Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 September 1967

S.F. Rock Groups in Bowl Show ...

New Wave USA

Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 25 November 1967

NICK JONES SORTS OUT THE NEW U.S. SOUNDS ...

But is Britain ready for the Grateful Dead?

Profile by Judith Sims, Disc and Music Echo, 9 December 1967

By JUDY SIMS, Disc's new Hollywood reporter ...

Live Sound Of The Grateful Dead

Profile by Tony Leigh, KRLA Beat, 27 January 1968

ONE OF THE most influential groups to emerge from the musically prolific city of San Francisco is the Grateful Dead. Universally recognized as the leading ...

The First European International Pop Festival: Pigpen To Meet Pope?

Report by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 10 February 1968

THE FIRST EUROPEAN International Pop Festival, a resounding name for a still rather mysterious event, is being planned for Rome's huge Palazzo dello Sport February ...

Live Sound Of The Grateful Dead

Profile and Interview by Tony Leigh, KRLA Beat, 27 February 1968

ONE OF THE most influential groups to emerge from the musically prolific city of San Francisco is the Grateful Dead. Universally recognized as the leading ...

Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead: Melodyland, Anaheim CA

Live Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Long Beach Press-Telegram, 14 March 1968

San Francisco Bands Shortchange Anaheim Audience ...

16 Hours of Rock in Dismal Surroundings

Report by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 20 May 1968

SIXTEEN HOURS of the same thing gets to be an enervating experience even if one is a super-rock fan and many of the nation's outstanding ...

Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead: Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 8 June 1968

Ballroom Is No Place for A Concert ...

Grateful Dead, Jeff Beck Group, the Seventh Sons: Fillmore East, New York NY

Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 16 June 1968

JEFF BECK GROUP CHEERED IN DEBUT British Pop Singers Delight Fillmore East Audience ...

The Grateful Dead, Taj Mahal: Shrine Shrine Exposition Hall; Moby Grape, Genesis, the McCoys: the Kaleidoscope, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1968

AT THEIR best, wthe Grateful Dead are a wondrous group and they were at their best for a weekend dance concert sponsored by Pinnacle at ...

The Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun (Warner Bros.)

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968

EVERYONE'S BEEN talking for so long about the GRATEFUL DEAD and at last, having heard Anthem Of The Sun (Warner Bros.) we know why — ...

Has Frisco Gone Commercial?

Report by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 24 November 1968

  SAN FRANCISCO — In the heady first days of the "San Francisco Sound," someone dubbed the city the "Liverpool of the USA." The title, though ...

The Grateful Dead: Anthem Of The Sun (Warner Bros WS1749)

Review by Miles, International Times, 29 November 1968

Jerry Garcia (ld. gtr.); Bob Weir (rhm. gtr.); Ron McKernan (org.); Micky Hart, Bill Kreutzmann (drms. perc.); Tom Constanten (prep, pno.) ...

The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (1969) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Michael Lydon, Rock's Backpages transcripts, May 1969

This is a transcript of Michael's interview with the Grateful Dead mainman. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

The Grateful Dead: Burnout Sets In

Special Feature by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1969

But I reckon l got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilise ...

Hey, Mr. Bassman

Overview by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 19 September 1969

THE ELECTRIC revolution that helped to spawn rock and roll also helped to popularize a whole new set of instruments to take along on its ...

The Bonzo Dog Band, the Grateful Dead: Boston Tea Party, Boston

Live Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 14 November 1969

Have You Seen My Bonzo Dog Doo Dah? ...

The Grateful Dead: The Year of The Dead

Report by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 14 November 1969

THE GRATEFUL Dead are on the way up. But whether it be from a growing musical acumen on the part of their audience, a starring ...

Still Hope for the Stones

Report by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 3 December 1969

THE ROLLING Stones are still hoping to perform in a gigantic free show in the San Francisco area on Saturday afternoon. ...

The Grateful Dead: Live/Dead (Warner Bros. 1830)

Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 24 December 1969

The Dead Show New Life on Latest Album ...

Grateful Dead: Live Dead (Warner Bros.)

Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 14 March 1970

I WASN'T expecting too much from this, having been bored silly by the Dead on their previous three albums. But all the fuss is clarified ...

The Grateful Dead: Live/Dead (Warner Bros. WS1830)

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, 15 March 1970

THIS ALBUM is the first indication that the Dead are finally ready to make the move long expected of them, a breakthrough in the grey ...

Grateful Dead, Miles Davis: Fillmore West, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 10 April 1970

Miles' Marvelous Montage ...

Grateful Dead, Allman Bros. Band, Hampton Grease Band: Sports Arena, Atlanta

Live Review by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 16 May 1970

IF YOU WERE one of the few people who wasn't at the Sports Arena Sunday afternoon for the Grateful Dead concert, you've probably heard by ...

The Grateful Dead: Hollywood Festival, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire

Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 29 May 1970

Disgracing The Grateful Dead ...

Grateful Dead, Traffic, Black Sabbath, Jose Feliciano et al: Hollywood Music Festival, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire

Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970

PEACEFUL FESTIVAL OF GOOD MUSIC ...

The Grateful Dead: Dead on Arrival

Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 30 May 1970

The Grateful Dead fly into Britain ...

English Audiences Puzzle The Grateful Dead

Report and Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 6 June 1970

DE GRATEFUL DEAD, Man. Everybody lowered their heads and peered from a dark veneer of mystery at the very mention of the name. An eyeball ...

Albums from Beaver and Krause, and the Grateful Dead

Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 1970

IN A WILD SANCTUARY — Beaver and Krause — Warner Bros. ...

The Grateful Dead, the New Riders of the Purple Sage: Fillmore West, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 19 August 1970

Jerry Garcia Keeps Family Together ...

New Albums from the Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton and the Everly Brothers

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 12 September 1970

Myth and music ...

An Evening with the Grateful Dead

Report and Interview by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 17 September 1970

WE CHANGE and our changings change, a friend said once. It sounded true, but it seems too that through it all we stay the same. ...

Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service: Winterland, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 6 October 1970

Rock Triumvirate Thrills 6000 Fans ...

Thunderclap Newman: Hollywood Dream (Track/Atlantic Sd8264); The Grateful Dead: Vintage Dead (Sunflower/MGM 5001)

Review by Vernon Gibbs, Columbia Daily Spectator, 15 October 1970

A LIST OF exceptional recent releases would have to include Neil Young's After the Gold Rush, The Voices of East Harlem's Right On — Be ...

Grateful Dead: American Beauty (Warner Bros)

Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 30 January 1971

THE BEST adjective I can think of to describe the Grateful Dead is "disarming." They're beautiful because, unlike so many bands, they never overwhelm you. ...

Grateful Dead: American Beauty (Warner-Reprise); Van Morrison: His Band and the Street Choir (Warner-Reprise)

Review by Hugh Nolan, International Times, 25 February 1971

THESE TWO albums have more in common than being on the same label (and it's no detriment to either that it should be the label ...

Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage: Fillmore East, New York, NY

Live Review by Vernon Gibbs, Columbia Daily Spectator, 29 April 1971

One Stoned Evening With the Dead ...

Grateful Dead: Fillmore East, New York NY

Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 29 April 1971

Grateful Dead Draws Far-Out Fans ...

Jam: Grateful Dead & Beach Boys: Fillmore East, New York NY

Live Review by Toby Mamis, Action World, June 1971

Perhaps The two greatest bands in rock history jammed at The Fillmore Apr. 27, 1971. The result was incredible ...

The Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead (Warner Bros.)

Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, November 1971

I APPROACHED THIS album with mixed feelings; one side of me saying "Well, you love the Dead don't you?" and the other half repeating "They ...

The Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead (Warners)

Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 11 November 1971

To avoid any possible disappointments for those who once had visions of saving the world through the music on Anthem of the Sun and any ...

The Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead (Warner Brothers)

Review by Lester Bangs, Creem, December 1971

HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE... ...

Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead (Warner Bros. K66009. 2-album set, £3.75).

Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 4 December 1971

IT'S A SAD but true fact. There are not many people in this country who have had the enviable pleasure of actually seeing THE Great ...

Jerry Garcia: A Rare Interview

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 5 February 1972

Roy Carr in New York: the problems of making the Dead NOT happen ...

The Dead

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 8 April 1972

GARCIA stabs at the record business — 'We want to get out' ...

The Grateful Dead: Dead Come Alive

Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 15 April 1972

IT'S TAKEN a long time for the Dead to get themselves back over here. They probably made it more by good luck than good judgment. ...

The Grateful Dead: Empire Pool, Wembley, London

Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 15 April 1972

SINGIN' AND BOPPIN' WITH THE DEAD ...

The Grateful Dead: Empire Pool, Wembley

Live Review by Mick Farren, International Times, 20 April 1972

"The trouble with a lot of kids who come to our concerts is that they can't see beyond the drugs. They get so ripped that ...

Join The Dead Men in One Huge Organism

Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 29 April 1972

Grateful Dead's lead guitarist JERRY GARCIA talks to Lon Goddard ...

Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia Interview

Interview by uncredited writer, Mutha Grumble, May 1972

ON TUESDAY 11 April, an American rock n' roll band, the Grateful Dead, played to a packed house at Newcastle City Hall. Two hours before ...

Bickershaw

Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 May 1972

Maybe if you're young enough, from a dreary home environment with nothing but a soul destroying future, then maybe you could enjoy a festival like ...

Bill Graham: Mister Fillmore

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, 27 May 1972

Loraine Alterman in New York previews Fillmore, the film about America's legendary rock centre... and talks to its star, super-impresario Bill Graham ...

Grateful Dead: Dead Grateful

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 27 May 1972

PERHAPS MORE than anything else the recent appearances of the Grateful Dead in this country at Wembley and Bickershaw and more currently the Lyceum, have ...

Grateful Dead et al: Bickershaw Festival, Lancashire

Report by Nick Kent, Friends/Frendz, June 1972

BICKERSHAW, A SLEEPY little Northern town, had certainly never seen anything like it before. Coronation St had been invaded by the day glow kids and ...

Grateful Dead: Vintage Dead; Historic Dead

Review by Simon Frith, Cream, June 1972

I THINK I liked it better when rock didn’t have a history. These days record companies seem to be the victims of some Tutankhamen-like curse, ...

The Legend Of The Dead

Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, June 1972

ALTHOUGH THE GRATEFUL DEAD are a rock band, they've almost been turned into an institution, a way of life over, the years since they came ...

Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage: Lyceum, London

Live Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 3 June 1972

I SAW the first night of the Dead's four concerts at the London Lyceum last Thursday. where they were ever so good for ever so ...

Grateful Dead: Community Theater, Berkeley CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 22 August 1972

Grateful Crowd on Its Feet 'Dead' Freaks Unite ...

Various artists: Fillmore: The Last Days (Fillmore Z3X 31390)

Review by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 9 November 1972

HIS SPIRIT is omnipresent in this elaborate package. He has written extensive program notes to the handsome booklet. He is there suddenly at the beginning ...

Grateful Dead: Europe 72 (Warner Brothers K 66019, £4.99) **

Review by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 23 December 1972

Dead boring ...

Grateful Dead: Europe '72 (Warner Bros.)

Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, February 1973

I'VE BEEN TO THREE Grateful Dead concerts in my life, and at each one I fell asleep. Oh, everybody else was pretending to be shimmying ...

The Grateful Dead: Europe '72

Review by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, February 1973

THE DEAD have never ceased to feed off their origins as a performing band in order to avoid the danger of becoming marooned in a ...

Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan: 'As Long As He's Been Doin' It Right'

Obituary by Jonathon Green, International Times, 22 March 1973

PIGPEN IS DEAD. Ron McKernan, 27 years old, organist and all-purpose alky crazy for the Grateful Dead. ...

Grateful Dead: 'Pigpen' McKernan Dead at 27

Obituary by uncredited writer, Rolling Stone, 12 April 1973

CORTE MADERA, Calif. — Ron McKernan — better known as Pigpen — was found dead in his apartment here March 8th. The organist and singer, ...

The Grateful Dead on Long Island

Live Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 26 April 1973

IT HAD TO HAPPEN: even the Dead have gone glitter. Resplendently suave in Nudie-type sequined suits, the group appeared on the stage of this comfortably-sized ...

Allman Brothers Band, the Band, the Grateful Dead: Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, Watkins Glen, NY

Live Review by John Swenson, The Village Voice, 9 August 1973

It was about music too ...

Pipeline

Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, September 1973

"GREAT ALBUMS are hard to find these days," I once wrote in my definitive book on the subject, Great Albums Are Hard To Find These ...

The History of the Grateful Dead

Retrospective by Andy Childs, ZigZag, October 1973

"Weird, black satanic weird, white archangel weird. As weird as any thing you can imagine, like some horror comic monster who, besides being green and ...

West Coast Rock: Get Your Wooden Noses 'Ere

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 3 November 1973

Grateful Dead: In the Wake of the Flood (Grateful Dead records, Import) New Riders Of The Purple Sage: The Adventures of Panama Red (CBS, Import)America: ...

Grateful Dead: Wake Of The Flood (Grateful Dead Records GD-01)

Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 20 December 1973

OWING TO THE rather blatant corporate eccentricities of American record companies the Grateful Dead have formed their own label, following a stormy six years with ...

Lookin' Back: The Grateful Dead

Retrospective by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 27 April 1974

Whatever happened to the Cosmic Dream? Part 45 (13th Hexagram) ...

Grateful Dead, Maria Muldaur, Commander Cody: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 1974

THE GRATEFUL Dead and its good vibes competed with some decidedly bad ones from a too active, too physical security force at the Hollywood Bowl ...

The Exhumation of The Dead

Essay by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 3 August 1974

They've been slagged, slated, abused, and misused – most often in these very pages. But Hell hath no Fury like a Dead fan scorned, and ...

A Conversation with Phil Lesh

Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, September 1974

Some of you out there probably think that ZigZag has just about OD'd on the Grateful Dead recently, which is a fair criticism considering that ...

Grateful Dead - How the hell do ya play them five-hour sets without slinkin' off for a leak?

Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 21 September 1974

Yes, it's an interesting one isn't it? I mean, five hours...that's a long time, and well...camels are different of course, so really it must be ...

Grateful Dead: Alexandra Palace, London

Live Review by Robin Katz, Sounds, 21 September 1974

DEAD? No, just snoozing ...

Robert Hunter

Book Excerpt by Bruce Pollock, 'In Their Own Words' (Collier Books), 1975

ROBERT HUNTER is the resident lyricist for the Grateful Dead, rock eminences of the San Francisco scene. An underground poet with a solo album, Tales ...

Jerry Garcia Up From The Dead

Interview by Arthur Levy, Creem, August 1975

DAVID GAHR is already a half-block ahead of me up the street, bounding past the Navarro's sharpy redcap, shlepping all his cameras, and lights, and ...

Grateful Dead: Blues For Allah (United Artists / Grateful Dead Records)

Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, September 1975

The first Dead album to be distributed by United Artists contains everything we’ve come to expect from the latter-day group and its offshoots: tuneless songs, ...

Grateful Dead - Blues for Allah

Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 27 September 1975

DEPENDING ON WHERE you part your hair, the Grateful Dead are either the finest rock'n'roll band in the world bar none... or else they are ...

Grateful Dead, Jefferson Starship: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Live Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, November 1975

Reunion in the Park: The Dead & The Starship Back To Basics ...

Grateful Dead: Blues For Allah

Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, January 1976

AS ONE WHO has been frequently criticised for my unlimited devotion to the Grateful Dead and my continued belief that they are still one of ...

Grateful Dead: Steal Your Face

Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 10 July 1976

ON STAGE the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia is not quite the superslick guitarist you might imagine him to be from their recordings. ...

The Grateful Dead: Steal Your Face

Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 24 July 1976

SURPRISE, SURPRISE. THE new Dead album is coming in for the most monumental panning. Seems that for the past four years (at least) they've been ...

Grateful Dead: Dead Slay Wembley

Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 14 August 1976

JUST LIKE Woodstock. Even before the New Riders of the Purple Sage kicked off Bill Graham's imported California Jam, bad acid circulated the main stand ...

The Grateful Dead

Book Excerpt by 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 ...

Grateful Dead: Wake Of The Flood/From the Mars Hotel

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 19 March 1977

THE GRATEFUL DEAD have always been a band whose work formed into waves and troughs. Wake Of The Flood is unfortunately one of the low ...

Grateful Dead: My Night With The Dead

Report and Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 28 May 1977

IT'S LIKE GOING back home."Acid!""Acid, black beauties!""Acid!""You got any pot to sell?""No, man, all I got is acid and black beauties."What else could it be ...

Grateful Dead: Terrapin Station (Arista)

Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 30 July 1977

Dead Still Riding The Rods of the Celestial Train ...

The Grateful Dead: Terrapin Station

Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 30 July 1977

TEN YEARS and twelve-odd albums on from when they first hit the streets of San Francisco, the good ol' Grateful Dead present us with their ...

The Grateful Dead: Remembrance of Hippies Past

Essay by Jack Basher, Creem, December 1977

"HUH? THE Grateful Dead? Me? A think piece? I haven't thought about them since 1968. Whaddaya mean you'll give me all weekend to think about ...

Moon Jasmine: The Night Jerry Garcia Forgot To Tell Me Something And I Forgot To Ask

Interview by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, 1978

1. San Francisco Jerry Garcia wanted me to write a story about him. That was the deal. I was managing this folksinger who needed ...

Alone again gratefully: Bob Weir proves he's more than Dead

Interview by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 20 April 1978

"THIS DOESN'T represent me correctly," Bob Weir complains to a photographer as he gestures at the half-empty dishes before him. "I hardly ever drink tea, ...

Grateful Dead: Dead on the Nile

Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 23 September 1978

Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Keith & Donna Godchaux, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Hamza El-Din, Bill Graham, Ken Kesey & The Merry Pranksters, the Sphinx, the ...

The Grateful Dead's First Annual Pyramid Prank

Report and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 30 September 1978

"There were no sets. Sometimes we'd get up and play for ten minutes and all freak out and split. We'd just do it however it ...

The Grateful Dead: Shakedown Street

Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 2 December 1978

Sorry to interrupt your reverie, Jerome. But then, this far along, not much could. ...

The Grateful Dead: Live at The Rainbow, London

Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 1979

SO LET'S suspend time and disbelief for a moment and stare through the haze at the West Coast's longest running institution called The Grateful Dead. ...

The Grateful Dead: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 1979

"THERE'S NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert." This oft-quoted statement from past hand-out material was going through my head as I stumbled over the attendant ...

Grateful Dead: Oakland Auditorium Arena, Oakland CA

Live Review by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 21 February 1980

The New Year's Dead ...

Grateful Dead is very much alive

Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 16 March 1980

HAIGHT-ASHBURY. The diggers. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Owsley's acid. Family Dog, Acid Tests. The summer of love, San Francisco, wear flowers in your ...

"Sometimes The Cards Ain't Worth A Dime... If You Don't Lay 'Em Down": The Robert Hunter Interview

Interview by Ken Hunt, Dark Star, April 1980

IN NOVEMBER, 1979, someone dear to the hearts of Dark Star's staff and readers crossed the briny deep to play a couple of largely under-publicised ...

"Sometimes The Cards Ain't Worth A Dime... If You Don't Lay 'Em Down": The Robert Hunter Interview #2

Interview by Ken Hunt, Dark Star, August 1980

Dark Star: David Grisman and Vassar Clements were beefing on once about the fact that they never got any money from Old And In The ...

"Sometimes The Cards Ain't Worth A Dime... If You Don't Lay 'Em Down": The Robert Hunter Interview #3

Interview by Ken Hunt, Dark Star, December 1980

HOW DID you come to get involved with Roadhog? As far as I can tell, they were an existing band. ...

Grateful Dead: What A Long Predictable Trip It's Become

Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 28 March 1981

This Week The Grateful Dead trucked back into Britain. In America they're more successful than ever – and even Jerry Garcia can't work out why. ...

The Grateful Dead: Rainbow, London

Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 4 April 1981

Dead fans "awake" shocker ...

Grateful Dead: Reckoning (Arista)

Review by Michael Goldberg, Musician, August 1981

GOOD NEWS... you don't have to be a diehard Deadhead to enjoy the latest live LP issued from the Dead's headquarters in mellow Marin County ...

Grateful Dead: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 10 October 1981

IT MUST be a resurrection year if the San Franciscan pensioners come over twice to play. No danger of saturation for the faithful, though. Saturday ...

Phil Lesh's Unbroken Changes

Interview by David Gans, Musician, November 1982

The Grateful Dead's Mad Professor of the Bass ...

The Grateful Dead: Meadowlands, New Jersey

Live Review by Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, 21 April 1987

‘S FUNNY. Today the Grateful Dead can’t capture the attention of the so-called alternative audience, just as they couldn’t the so-called straight audience in the ...

Grateful Dead: Deadheads!

Report and Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, February 1988

OUTSIDE THE LONG BEACH Arena, south of Los Angeles on the California coast, there is a massive field. Reserved for recreational activities throughout the rest ...

Thinking About the Sixties

Essay by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 8 March 1988

Something's happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear. Is the '60s revival a thaw in the Big Chill, or just more evidence of fashion ...

Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead: Dylan and The Dead

Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 11 February 1989

THIS COULD be a marriage made in heaven or hell, depending on which side of the critical fence you might be sitting. The majority of ...

Reporting Live from Deadland

Essay by David Gans, KPFA Folio, July 1990

I'M DANCING with my notebook in my hand at the Shoreline Amphitheater on Friday, June 15, 1990. I've been avoiding this Folio article for two ...

The San Francisco Sound

Retrospective and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1990

"My eyes were opened. There's a new world and a new society and a new spirit." ...

Grateful Dead: Without a Net (Arista Records)

Review by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 October 1990

Grateful Dead Work Is No Sweat ...

The Grateful Dead: Dead But Unburied Dreams of the Sixties

Profile by Mark Cooper, Independent on Sunday, 14 October 1990

After 18 years of making magic music, the Grateful Dead – who return to Britain this week – still remain true to their legendary spontaneity. ...

Grateful Dead: Bring Out Your Dead

Report and Interview by Max Bell, Vox, November 1990

Hey, man. Whatever happened to the summer of love? It’s taking dedication a bit far when in a year, three fans die at Grateful Dead ...

The Grateful Dead: Without A Net

Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, November 1990

THE GRATEFUL DEAD are the kind of rocking teenage combo who are at their very best when they're playing wild and free in front of ...

Grateful Dead

Report and Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, January 1991

OUTSIDE THE Grugahalle, a monstrous concert erection in Essen, Germany, a bearded fellow bearing more than a passing resemblance to the young Charles Manson is ...

Jerry Garcia and Elvis Costello: Strange Bedfellows

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, March 1991

AS EVERYONE knows, Grateful Dead fans come in all sorts and sizes — including one Elvis Costello. And so, when Musician got the idea of ...

Grateful Dead: One From The Vaults

Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, June 1991

FOR DEVOTED Dead Heads, this release is a dream come true as (not to be outdone by Dylan) the Grateful Dead open up their tape ...

An Interview with Jerry Garcia

Interview by Richard Gehr, Newsday, 9 September 1991

IT WAS THE first thing that happened to the Grateful Dead when they arrived in New York City on June 1, 1967, and Jerry Garcia ...

Poster Artist Rick Griffin Dies

Obituary by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 3 October 1991

RICK GRIFFIN, one of the creators of the psychedelic poster art that originated in San Francisco during the mid-Sixties, died on August 17th of severe ...

Bill Graham: Tribute Concert, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Live Review by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 12 December 1991

ON SUNDAY, November 3rd, more than 300,000 people showed up at the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park for the biggest rock concert ever held ...

Grateful Dead: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, NY

Live Review by Richard Gehr, Newsday, 12 March 1992

ICY WINDS RIPPED ACROSS Long Island Wednesday night as the Grateful Dead launched the first of three sold-out Uniondale evenings with the meteorologically inspired 'Cold ...

Jerry Garcia Ill; Dead Cancel Tour

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 1 October 1992

THE GRATEFUL Dead have canceled a four-city fall tour of the East Coast and have put other plans on hold until Jerry Garcia recovers from ...

Garcia: Trucking Again

Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 21 January 1993

The Grateful Dead bounce back with new releases and a tour in '93 ...

Grateful Dead: March of the Deadheads

Report by Frank Broughton, i-D, August 1994

The Grateful Dead are the focus for the surviving remnants of America's counterculture: the Deadheads, a colourful bunch of travelling hippies who have created a ...

Grateful Dead: Land of the Dead

Report by Ben Fong-Torres, Rolling Stone, 1995

WHEN IN THE MID-SIXTIES San Francisco came to represent nothing left to lose, there was a handful of identifiable pioneers who changed the face, the ...

Sandy Troy: Captain Trips — The Life And Fast Times Of Jerry Garcia (Virgin £9.99)

Book Review by Cliff Jones, MOJO, March 1995

IMAGINE BEING able to skip through time and witness historv first-hand. On my own list of happening temporal destinations would be McGoo's Pizza Parlour in ...

Private Funeral For Garcia

Report by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 August 1995

MEMBERS OF THE Grateful Dead and the widow of Jerry Garcia spent yesterday making plans for a funeral, while tributes continued to roll in and ...

Jerry Garcia: The Fat Man Sings

Obituary by Richard Gehr, Spin, October 1995

Richard Gehr pays tribute to the mind-bending music and halcyon spirit of the late Jerry Garcia. ...

Jerry Garcia: The Last Post

Obituary by Joel Selvin, MOJO, October 1995

SERENITY KNOLLS lies at the bottom of a dead end road in northern Marin County, California. The main building stands above a parking area surrounded ...

The Last Great American Adventurer: Jerome John Garcia 1942-1995

Obituary by Tom Hibbert, Q, October 1995

On August 9, Jerry Garcia, leader of the Grateful Dead, the most successful live group of all time, died in a Californian rehab center. To ...

John Oswald/The Grateful Dead: GrayFolded (Swell/Artifact S/A1969-1996)

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 12 October 1995

SOME DEADHEADS are already calling this the best Grateful Dead record ever; it's certainly the most monumental tombstone imaginable for Jerry Garcia, an utterly convincing ...

The Grateful Dead: Hundred Year Hall and the '72 European Tour

Interview by David Gans, The Grateful Dead Hour, 16 October 1995

The Album Network Special: Hundred Year HallPhil Lesh and Bob Weir interviewed 9/7/95 by Marty Martinez and David Gans ...

John Oswald: Rites of the Living Dead

Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, December 1995

Following the death of Jerry Garcia, John Oswald's Grayfolded, a digital reworking of the Grateful Dead's 'Dark Star', has assumed new, ghostly qualities. ...

The Grateful Dead: Europe ’72, Hundred Year Hall, Grayfolded 1969-1996 (with John Oswald)

Review and Interview by Jon Savage, MOJO, December 1995

Far out, too much: people still sneer at The Grateful Dead, using these phrases as a kind of sardonic shorthand to dismiss high-‘60s ideals. But ...

Dead End: The Grateful Dead Call It Quits

Report and Interview by David Gans, Rolling Stone, 25 January 1996

Surviving members focus on solo projects ...

Q&A: Mickey Hart & Robert Hunter

Interview by Richard Gehr, Rolling Stone, 5 September 1996

IT'S BEEN A hectic, emotional year for former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and the band's longtime lyricist Robert Hunter. After coming to grips with ...

The Grateful Dead: Days of the Living Dead

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, October 1996

TWO HOURS north of San Francisco, you can drive a country road that snakes past a redwood grove, into a driveway that curls around a ...

The Burden of Being Jerry

Retrospective and Interview by David Gans, San Francisco Focus, November 1996

Two writers – both insiders in the Grateful Dead community – discuss the trouble behind the late Jerry Garcia. ...

Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia

Interview by David Gans, The Grateful Dead Hour, 29 January 1997

Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia was victorious in her lawsuit against the estate of her late ex-husband, Jerry Garcia. Following the guitarist's death in August 1995, ...

Phil Lesh: A Chat at Maritime Hall, San Francisco

Interview by David Gans, levity.com, 11 October 1997

David Gans: Hello, man. Phil Lesh: Good evening, troops. [crowd cheers] ...

Haight-Ashbury

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Independent on Sunday, December 1997

The times they have a-changed, but not without a certain irony. Or a certain continuity, come to that. ...

The Grateful Dead: An Interview With Donna Jean (Godchaux) MacKay

Interview by David Gans, The Grateful Dead Hour, 28 March 1998

David Gans: Well, here I am in Philadelphia with Donna Jean MacKay. Hello! ...

Ken Kesey: The prank outsider

Interview by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 12 August 1998

In the Sixties the Beatles stitched him up. But chemically challenged cult novelist Ken Kesey still loves London in the summer. MAX BELL meets the ...

The Other Ones: The Furthur Festival, Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Irvine CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 3 September 1998

THREE YEARS after the death of Jerry Garcia, Deadheads had their best reason yet to congregate and undulate as one. The Other Ones, a band ...

Carol Brightman: author of Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure

Interview by David Gans, Grateful Dead Hour, January 1999

Carol Brightman was an anti-war activist in the '60s and later the biographer of the writer Mary McCarthy. She sometimes wondered why so many of ...

Undercurrents #7: Fables of the Deconstruction

Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1999

In the latest in our series uncovering the hidden wiring of 20th century music, Edwin Pouncey shows how rock 'n' roll's face was changed forever ...

Kesey Rides Again

Report by Gavin Martin, The Independent, 9 August 1999

THE MAGIC BUS pulls up at the Peace Monument late on Friday afternoon, bringing a blaze of colour and a blast of noise to the ...

The Grateful Dead: So Many Roads (1965–1995)/Phish: Hampton Comes Alive

Review by Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly, 26 April 2000

ONE MORE NEGATIVE remark about hippies or the Grateful Dead and you punk-rock bullies will have petunias shoved down your throats. ...

Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Volume 16: Fillmore Auditorium 11/8/69 (Grateful Dead GD4036 3XCD)

Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000

ALTHOUGH GRATEFUL Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala died last year, his guiding hand still pushes along the project that carries his name. That Grateful Dead ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Grateful Dead

Review by Mark Pringle, Rock's Backpages, 21 April 2001

This week sees the 30th anniversary of the Dead's final run at the New York's Fillmore East. RBP's resident Deadhead Mark Pringle reviews the 4 ...

Bob Dylan: Life Among The Dead

Comment by Richard Williams, MOJO, June 2001

I SUPPOSE you would have to say that 1987 was not a great year for Bob Dylan, or for Bob Dylan's fans. He played harmonica ...

Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Vol. 21 and Vol. 22 & View from the Vault II

Review by Ken Hunt, The Wire, August 2001

THE TWO latest Dick's Picks documents present live Grateful Dead shows from February 1968 (Vol. 22) and November 85 (Vol. 21), while the second in the ...

The Golden Road

Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 10 November 2001

Reconsidering the Grateful Dead ...

Grateful Dead: The Golden Road (1965-1973)

Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, January 2002

Mammoth 12-CD overview of Haight-Ashbury's finest, featuring improved sound, thorough annotation, extra tracks and hidden bonuses. All together: "Shall we go, you and I, while ...

The Grateful Dead: The Golden Road (1965-1973) (Rhino/Warner Bros) *****

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, January 2002

THE GRATEFUL DEAD are probably the most puzzling enigma in rock history. ...

Dennis McNally: A Long Strange Trip – The inside history of the Grateful Dead (Broadway Books)

Book Review by Will Hermes, The New York Times, 25 August 2002

Do Not Speak Ill of the Dead ...

A Long, Staid Trip: How Deadheads ruined the Grateful Dead

Book Review by Marc Weingarten, Slate, 30 August 2002

"THERE IS nothing like a Grateful Dead Concert," the old bumper stickers read. After attending my first 10 Dead shows, I soon realized this wasn't ...

The Grateful Dead

Book Excerpt by Gene Santoro, 'Highway 61 Revisited...', 2004

"Frenesi took her hand away from Flash's and they all got back to business, the past, a skip tracer with an obsessional gleam in its ...

The Grateful Dead: Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead (Rhino triple CD)

Review by Mark Pringle, Rock's Backpages, 30 May 2004

DO I DETECT the dead hand of Phil Lesh lurking here? Is there some kind of agenda, to portray the Dead as much more than ...

Choo Choo Ch’Boogie: Festival Express 1970

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2004

IT WAS THE Lollapalooza of its day – a week-long, three-date circus of a rock and roll tour featuring The Band, Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin, ...

Jerry Garcia: Spirit of The Dead

Retrospective by Ken Hunt, Jazzwise, August 2005

Ken Hunt looks back at the life, music and jazz influences of Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead who died 10 years ago this month ...

Vince Welnick, 1951-2006

Obituary by Joel Selvin, SF Gate, 30 June 2006

WHEN VINCE WELNICK signed on to play keyboards for the Grateful Dead, some people said it probably saved his life. He had five good years ...

The Grateful Dead: Three from the Vault

Review by Jeff Tamarkin, AllMusic.com, 26 June 2007

THE GRATEFUL DEAD were literally at a crossroads when they took the stage at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, on February 19, 1971.  ...

For The Unrepentant Patriarch Of LSD, Long, Strange Trip Winds Back To Bay Area

Profile and Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 July 2007

THE SMALL, barefoot man in black T-shirt and blue jeans barely rates a second glance from the other Starbucks patrons in downtown San Rafael, although ...

The Grateful Dead

Retrospective by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, Summer 2007

WE ARE GETTING ahead of ourselves slightly, but we are in New York at the tail end of 1967, late December in the Village, in ...

School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008

BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...

Merl Saunders, 1934-2008

Obituary by Ken Hunt, The Guardian, 27 October 2008

Keyboard wizard who often worked with Jerry Garcia, with or without the Grateful Dead ...

Dead Without Garcia: Is It Worth the Effort, or a Waste of Time?

Comment by Michael Simmons, L.A. Weekly, 6 May 2009

"THE FIRST Prankster ruleis that nothing lasts forever," said Merry Prankster chieftain Ken Kesey in 1966, the same year the Grateful Dead, the in-house band ...

Woodstock's 40th anniversary

Retrospective and Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, August 2009

Woodstock was a beginning, and it was an end. ...

Frisco, Where Art Thou: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the '60s Psychedelic Capital

Retrospective by Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, September 2010

LAST SATURDAY, paging through an article on Robert Plant in the September issue of MOJO, I learned that, upon their initial meeting in a Dublin ...

Unsung Heroes: Robert Hunter

Retrospective and Interview by Mick Houghton, Uncut, October 2010

The man who put the words into Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia's mouths... ...

Suddenly That Summer

Retrospective and Interview by Sheila Weller, Vanity Fair, July 2012

It was billed as "the Summer of Love", a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco ...

Deadicated: Tom Constanten

Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Relix, 2 September 2014

OF THE DOZEN musicians who passed through the ranks of the Grateful Dead during their three-decade run, only one full-time keyboardist survives. Yet Tom Constanten, ...

Slaves to the rhythm: What the non-frontmen have to say

Book Review by James Medd, New Statesman, 18 June 2015

That's Entertainment: My Life in the Jam Rick Buckler Omnibus Press, 384pp, £14.95 Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams and Drugs with the Grateful Dead Bill ...

Fare Thee Well — The Grateful Dead: Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara CA, 27 and 28 June, 2015

Live Review by Cary J Martin, Rock's Backpages, 2 July 2015

THE LONG Strange Trip is coming to an end. In January the four surviving members of the Grateful Dead announced that they would reunite in ...

Grateful Dead: Soldier Field, Chicago

Live Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2015

Grateful Dead's Goodbye, Night Two: Chemistry Lost, Cash-Grabs Abound. For the second of three Fare Thee Well shows, the band goes into latter year doldrums ...

Various Artists: Day Of The Dead (4AD)

Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, June 2016

2009'S DARK WAS The Night benefit album for the HIV/AIDS charity Red Hot Organization was something of an anomaly among such compilations; whereas most collections ...

The 30 best live concert albums of all time

Guide by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2020

LAST WEEK, A STORY appeared in the New York Times that predicted that live music would not return to the world's stages until the autumn ...

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see also Robert Hunter

see also Bob Weir

see also Diga Rhythm Band

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