Grateful Dead

The Band and the Bandstand (Part 2)

Doug Bradley | Posted 05.10.2012

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My obsession with Dylan and the Band was rewarded when they launched a concert tour in the winter of 1974, Dylan's first tour in eight years! Ticket prices were steep -- we paid $9.50 apiece.

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Origins of 4/20 as a Day of Celebration & Protests

Marc Emery | Posted 04.21.2012

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Over the years pot vendors selling joints, bags of pot, pot cookies, pot brownies, and various cannabis consumables became a prominent aspect of the festivities. Never in the history of the 4/20 celebration have police interfered with selling or consumption of cannabis.

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Dipping the Pacifier in Wine, and Other 1970s-Inspired Parenting Tricks

Davis Schneiderman | Posted 04.08.2012

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My mother claims I sucked down several wine-dipped pacifiers at my circumcision, and she continued the practice for a year in an attempt to abate my near-constant wailing. That's right, you read correctly, I was a baby wino.

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Post-Grateful Dead Player Scores Medical Hit

Reuters | Posted 02.22.2012

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(By Deborah L. Cohen - Reuters) - For Jeff Chimenti, a rock keyboardist who plays with offshoots of the Grateful Dead, it has been anything but a "lon...

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Who Would Be a Climate Skeptic?

Christina Robert | Posted 04.17.2012

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Back in the days when going to college meant listening to the Grateful Dead, I once had to drive a car with a bumper sticker on the back that read, ...

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Business Is Booming For The Grateful Dead

www.rollingstone.com | Posted 01.20.2012

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Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart admits his band has always been wary of plastering its name or likeness onto products. "People would bring us sugges...

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Open Letter to Mark Wahlberg, From One Dad to Another

Davis Schneiderman | Posted 03.20.2012

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Why apologize, Mark, for who we are and what the world has made of us? We are both proud parents, and we'll do what we must do to protect our children and our country.

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Up Close With Carolyn Wonderland and the Making of Peace Meal

Stephanie Keller | Posted 03.13.2012

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It's been a big year for Carolyn Wonderland, the Texas-born songstress known for her incredibly soulful Blues/Rock music and frequent comparisons to Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

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Jerry Garcia Documentary Planned

www.rollingstone.com | Posted 01.07.2012

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The late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia will be the subject of a forthcoming feature-length documentary. Filmmaker Malcolm Leo, who has previous...

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The Rhinestone Rembrandt

Radley Balko | Posted 02.15.2012

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There may be no one alive who has crossed paths with more bold names than Manuel Cuevas. The Nashville designer, known for his exquisite embroidery and use of rhinestones and sequins, has dressed five American presidents.

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7 Business Lessons from The Grateful Dead

Barry Barnes | Posted 01.03.2012

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Without intending to, the band ended up pioneering ideas and practices that have subsequently been embraced by corporate America.

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Dying Large

Wendy Dennis | Posted 12.02.2011

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We of the Woodstock generation have long been interested in pushing the limits of self-expression, and our desire to noisily overturn convention is unlikely to stop just because we're facing the big chill.

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PHOTOS: Dead Heads Paint The Park Tie-Dye For Jerry Garcia

Robin Wilkey | Posted 10.08.2011

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On Sunday, Dead heads took over McLaren Park for the 9th annual Jerry Day to honor the late Jerry Garcia, founder and frontman of the Grateful Dead. ...

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Gathering of the Vibes Music Festival Moves the Grateful Dead Tribe Forward

David Meerman Scott | Posted 10.04.2011

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In 1996, Ken Hays formed Gathering of the Vibes, a place for Grateful Dead fans to come together, rock out to live music by bands in the Dead's jam band tradition, and keep the spirit of Jerry Garcia alive.

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HuffPost Review: Magic Trip

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.04.2011

You don't have to be a Deadhead or a Ken Kesey-phile to find the fun and the wistfulness in Magic Trip, Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood's reconstruction of the famous cross-country bus trip by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.

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Amy Winehouse: Newest Member of Club 27

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 09.26.2011

Club 27 is a most exclusive and heavenly private club of great musicians who died at the age of 27. As of July 24th, Amy Winehouse is the latest me...

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Grateful Dead Member's Music Venue Headed For Marin

Fairfax Patch | Kelly Dunleavy Email the Author | Posted 09.19.2011

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A music venue, backed by Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, won't be coming to Good Earth after the natural food store moves into the old Albertson's bui...

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HuffPost Review: Salvation Boulevard

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.14.2011

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There's no point devoting much time to thinking about what went wrong with Salvation Boulevard. The answer is simple: everything. Satire, particularl...

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Director finds Music's healing power

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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It took the Dead to bring Jim Kohlberg's film to life. The Grateful Dead, that is - and Bob Dylan. When they agreed to allow their songs to be used a...

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There's a Fire on the Mountain

Mickey Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

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The rhythm of the conversation for how we should educate our children, which tends to focus on science, technology, engineering, and math, is missing a beat: STEM needs an A, for the Arts.

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HuffPost Review: The Music Never Stopped

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Grateful Dead song title and the involvement of writer Oliver Sacks aside, the first 45 minutes or so of The Music Never Stopped seem to offer a w...

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Film Review: The Music Never Stopped

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Music Never Stopped is a moving and an inspiring cinematic experience. And it just might turn you into a Grateful Dead fan -- as it did me.

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Highlights This Week: Portraits, Politics, Pirouettes

Posted 05.25.2011

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This week on HuffPost Arts, we pulled back the curtain on the effects used to make Black Swan, we heard from designer Bjarke Ingels about his BIG proj...

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Live From Sundance 2011: Day 2

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Film festival programmers rarely create festivals full of films built around a single theme. Yet quite unintentionally, I spent Friday seeing five films that dealt with the idea of abandonment, reunion and reconciliation.

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UC Santa Cruz's Grateful Dead Archive Makes List Of Wasteful Govt. Spending

Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is not grateful for the University of California-Santa Cruz's digital archive of Deadhead memorabilia. The archive, which con...

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