Grateful Dead Sources

1979 Phil Lesh...a slight, likable man whose intellectual curiosity was not satisfied by a formal education in music and composition, nor by...

Adults Relent CHURCH HOSTS GRATEFUL DEAD When the Tower Club, the young peoples' organization at Fountain Street Church, suggested a con...

DEAD LIKE LIVE THUNDER San Francisco has become the Liverpool of America in recent months, a giant pool of talent for the new music world of...

. . . Before Rock had been in the Haight, he'd had to go to many other places. He had to go to Earlham College, spend two years with the...

THE MATRIX AS ANARCHIC JOY Is it possible to enter the Matrix, San Francisco's persistent musical stronghold, without immediately knowin...

11/1/69 NO DOUBT: THE DOG  This is a pitifully inadequate space, both aesthetically and dimensionally, in which to attempt this communicatio...

THE GRATEFUL DEAD, LIFE AND JOY It is very odd that consciousness presents so many obstacles for so many human beings. Why are there so many...

FLAWS FOUND IN DEAD'S NEWEST ALBUM Despite their overwhelming array of talent, their magnificent percussion, their searing guitar riffs,...

RECORD STUDIOS MAY DESTROY MUSIC SCENE If anything destroys the San Francisco music scene, it will probably be the recording studios. While ...

FIVE ROCK GROUPS PLAY HERE SUNDAY Five of the greatest rock groups in the Bay Area will play at the Greek Theater this Sunday afternoon from...