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Bob Dylan's 80th: Revisiting His July 4, 1987 Show with the Dead

In 1987, Dylan embarked on a short tour with the Grateful Dead. The opening show, July 4, 1987, at Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., saw Dylan join the Dead for the entire second set of their show, as well as the encore. To celebrate his 80th year, we’re revisiting the performance. READ MORE…

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Goose's 'Big Modern!'

Big Modern! addresses the concerns of contemporary American life by flaunting the culprits and taunting the critics with a slick, heavily produced, AI-perfect album. The album has a handful of sterilized, radio-worthy songs: “Media,” “Good2Be,” or “Good Times / End Times” could seamlessly be sandwiched between tracks from The War on Drugs and LCD Soundsystem. READ MORE…

Land of the Free, Home of the Freaks

Celebrate independence the Prankster way. This Uncle Sam tee asks the question that started it all: Can YOU Pass the Acid Test? Straight from the 1965 membership cards handed out at those legendary San Francisco parties, it's a piece of history you can wear.

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Trey Anastasio Reflects on His Time in Dead Camp

Dead Camp is the Phish guitarist’s euphemism for the first half of 2015, his short but intense spell as a working member of the band that has been a constant spiritual presence and creative challenge in his life since he was a teenager: the Grateful Dead. On January 5, Anastasio was in Miami, having just finished Phish’s annual run of New Year’s-week concerts, when he received an email from Phil Lesh, the Dead’s bassist, asking him to join him and the other surviving members of that group—guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart—for a series of July 4th weekend reunion performances at Soldier Field in Chicago. The concerts, dubbed Fare Thee Well, would commemorate two profound events, the 50th anniversary of the Dead’s founding in 1965—in the embryonic ferment of psychedelic San Francisco—and the 20 years since their  final show—in that venue, on July 9, 1995—with Jerry Garcia. The band’s founding guitarist and all-but-official helmsman, Garcia died a month later, on Aug. 9, of a heart attack after a lifetime of battles with drug addiction, weight problems and diabetes. He was 53. READ MORE…

Red, White & Stealie 🎆

Rep the lot in style with this Official Phil Lesh & Friends x Capitol Theatre trucker hat with a bold red, white, and blue Stealie. Snapback comfort for long days and longer nights under the lights. Grab yours before they're gone, Heads.

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Dead & Company Weekend Seven at Sphere, 2024: Independence Day Pulls, Residency Debuts and Bust Outs

Dead & Company returned to Las Vegas’ Sphere venue to resume their ongoing Dead Forever residency. The initial show, July 4, 2024, brought forth a festive bust out and other USA-tinged pulls that alluded to the Independence Day holiday. Friday’s display featured residency-specific debuts, touching on jazz and blues classics before the band’s Saturday close-out, which brought more location-specific firsts. READ MORE…

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Don Sullivan Revisits Fare Thee Well

“I can’t think of anything else like it,” promoter Don Sullivan says, while looking back on Fare Thee Well from a distance of five years. He could apply that comment to many aspects of the highprofile event, which brought together the “Core Four” members of the Grateful Dead (Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann), Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, and keyboardists Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti for shows at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on June 27-28, 2015 and Soldier Field in Chicago, on July 3-5, 2015. But, in this particular context, Sullivan is referring to the wide array of friends and acquaintances who reached out to him because of the shows. “I was put back in touch with people I hadn’t seen since my high-school prom, people I hadn’t seen since I graduated from college. Fare Thee Well touched so many people, bringing back memories of all the good times and helping us think ahead to the good times yet to come.” READ MORE…

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Phil Lesh & Friends Welcome Members of Dawes for Jersey July 4th, 2022 Celebration

Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh brought his eclectic and talented group of contemporaries to celebrate the Fourth of July in 2022 with a concert at The Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park, N.J. The list of friends that joined him on the Shore included Dawes members Taylor Goldsmith, Griffin Goldsmith, Lee Pardini, and Trevor Menear, along with vocalist Nicki Bluhm, his son and guitarist Grahame Lesh, saxophonist Stuart Bogie, and vocalist and trumpeter Jennifer Hartswick. READ MORE…

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