“Grateful Dead”

Grateful Dead Records just announced the release of a high-quality vinyl boxed set of the first five Grateful Dead (studio) albums. In honor of that announcement, here’s an excerpt of a March 2010 interview with Betty Cantor-Jackson, talking about an album that isn’t in this set because it was reissued on high-quality vinyl a while … Read more

Tales of the Grateful Dead and New York Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society From the free concerts in Tompkins Square and Central Park to Filmore East and Madison Square Garden, the Grateful Dead considered New York a second home for much of the band’s 30-year touring career, and enjoyed a special … Read more

This is from the Folk Alliance Region-West mailing list, where we have been talking about the Grateful Dead for the last few days. Reproduced here with the permission of its author, Duff Ferguson: i was a late arrival to this phenomenon, attending my first show in the late 80s at Giant’s Stadium in New Jersey, … Read more

This was posted on the eurotraders list today. It’s an excerpt from the interview book Garcia: A Signpost to New Space by Charles Reich and Jann Wenner: Reich: Well then if we wanted to talk about “Dark Star”, could you say anything about where it comes from? Garcia: You gotta remember that you and I … Read more