Grateful Dead at Duke 04/12/78
40 years since the April 1978 show at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the 4th of 5 the Dead played at Duke between 1971 and 1982. Fun started early as a ticket line formed 2 days prior to the on-sale date at Continue reading
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Garcia 75th Birthday Celebration at Red Rocks Webcast August 4
This Friday, August 4, Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre will host a special concert celebrating the 75th birthday (Aug. 1) of late Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia. A live webcast of the sold-out show will be available via nugs.tv. Among the Continue reading
Remembering Jerry Garcia
On the 20th Anniversary of his Passing “It is a good thing, I believe, that we lived in the same time as this man did, and it is not likely that we shall see charms or skills so transcendent, and Continue reading
Garcia Tribute Show with Grateful Dead Members May 14
In the wake of overwhelming demand for tickets for the Grateful Dead’s July farewell shows in Chicago, surviving members of the band and others have booked a Jerry Garcia tribute show on May 14 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Continue reading
Grateful Dead at Duke 12/08/73
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s epic concert at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium, near the end of the Fall 1973 period which many consider the band’s finest. It’s certainly the greatest musical event I’ve witnessed. Serendipitously, the Continue reading
Jerry Garcia on the Acid Tests – animated interview
PBS Digital Studios’ latest installment of Blank on Blank excerpts a Joe Smith interview of Jerry Garcia, tracing the Grateful Dead’s early days as The Warlocks and recalling the Dead’s participation in the Acid Tests. The May 23, 1988 interview, Continue reading
Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration with Warren Haynes (video)
In the midst of his other projects, Warren Haynes has been performing the music of Jerry Garcia with local symphony orchestras, including a stop in Raleigh on 06/20. This video from the 06/22 show in Boston includes “Scarlet Begonias” & Continue reading