“The Interview with Garcia” was always one of those things we put off into some indefinite future because Jerry was always around and, of course, we’d do it sooner or later. What finally brought it on was a meeting with Charles Reich, the post-40ish law professor from Yale who wrote “The Greening of America,” over a year ago in San Francisco; it turned out that he turned on to the whole trip in 1967 during one of his annual true musical knowledge.

Morning Dew, Beat It On Down The Line, Ramble On Rose, Jack Straw, Wave That Flag, Looks Like Rain, Box Of Rain, They Love Each Other, The Race is On, Row...

Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years Of The Grateful Dead Soldier Field Chicago, Illinois 7/5/2015 Source: Schoeps CCM4V'S(din)>Lunatec V2>Benchmark AD2K> Sound Devices 722 (24/48) FOB/DFC/KFC/ZFC/AARP Approximately 70' From Stage, 6 1/2' High DSP: Sound Devices 722>Sound Forge 10.0>CD Wave>flac(16) ID3 Tagged In Foobar 2000 Recorded By: Z-Man Seeded By: Z-Man

"...music's true value is not so much about the individual players, distinguished and virtuosic as they might be; it's about the beauty, pleasure and love it communicates, and the community it engenders."

Very early Brent-era stuff. The lift he brought to the guys, especially to Jerry, is audible, particularly compared to the late-Keith era stuff. Set list: Jack Straw, Sugaree, Me & My Uncle-> Big River, Candyman, Minglewood Blues, Tennessee Jed, Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Deal China Cat Sunflower-> I...

Pretty sure this was during Not Fade Away, the Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well concert, 7/4/15. Photograph: © Jay Blakesberg.

Jerry Garcia looked around the Grateful Dead’s rehearsal studio in San Rafael, California, and smiled. “It’s good to not die,” said Garcia, who ...

"I would like to do it more. Between you and me ... I would like to have a couple more shows on the east coast... I want to do it for the fans again. We had such amazing support from fans on the east coast. ...That's just my wish."

As the Dead constantly reminded the shouters and dancers at Brooklyn Bowl, life in this scene and family was designed to endure

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Tonight is the last official performance of the band formerly known as The Grateful Dead. The entity known as NYCTaper would almost certainly not exi...

19-song, three-plus hour performance is now available in high-quality audio.

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Long stereotyped as hippies stuck in the Summer of Love, the Dead stood at the vanguard of the digital revolution for 50 years.

Tribute by musicians from around the globe, featuring David Hidalgo (Los Lobos), Jimmy Buffett, David Crosby. Debuted in post-show video on 7/4/15.

For the second of three Fare Thee Well shows, the band goes into latter year doldrums

A new poll finds that the band remains one of the most beloved groups in the country, from wealthy Republicans to millennials.

Help us preserve more than 1,300 of the greatest reels of live music history, before it's too late! The Grateful Dead makes up a big part of this collection, but he also recorded shows by Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Santana, Dr. John, Taj Mahal, the Allman Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, the Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and dozens more. Many of these shows haven’t been heard in public since the night they were performed – in fact, some of the tapes have never been played since the night they were re