Naturally, this moment of possibility and profit has been embraced by publishers, who are unleashing a slew of new books about the Dead.
To celebrate, the surviving members of the Dead are reuniting next month for a final run of concerts at the very same Soldier Field, which they insist will be the last time they'll perform together. 2015 marks 50 years since the band formed in Northern California, and 20 years since those last shows in Chicago. Part of the pleasure of loving them is encountering your fellow travellers in all sorts of places – especially this year, when everyone seems to be enjoying the trip. If you're a fan, you have your own Grateful Dead. They've been my favourite band ever since.īut that's just me. I wore a black armband and lied about having attended the band's final two performances, at Soldier Field in Chicago, so that the counsellors who had ducked down from Minnesota for the last stand would think I was cool.
We sat around in a circle, did a little drumming, cried a bit. Most of the counsellors at the camp were Deadheads, too. By then I was back at summer camp, and Dave the Bike Tech broke the news. It was also the last time – a month or so after that concert, Jerry Garcia, the band's legendary lead guitarist, died in rehab. A year later, I saw the Dead for the first time, a sloppy show in St. Mine started with a Maxell XLII cassette tape lent to me by Dave the Bike Tech at summer camp in 1994. The glory and the dilemma of the greatest band in American history is that everyone has their own Grateful Dead. –Anonymous message to the band offered in response to a 1987 poll conducted by the Grateful Dead fan magazine The Golden Road It has taken DNA millions of years to evolve to the point where it could unleash the awesome magnificence of Grateful Dead space music onto the quivering masses of protoplasm To me, the best music of the Grateful Dead ranks as one of the greatest achievements of human life on this planet.
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