Grateful Dead Records: Artwork 1966-2004

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Grateful Dead Records: Artwork 1966-2004

This series contains artwork created by Grateful Dead band members, and art pieces created by professional and amateur artists that were gifted to the band. Work is both two-dimensional and three-dimensional in structure and of mixed materials.

ca. 86 linear feet

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6649102

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Grateful Dead Productions

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Biography The Grateful Dead were an American rock band that formed in 1965 in Northern California. They came to fame as part of author Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, a series of multimedia happenings centered around then-legal LSD. Famed for their concerts, the band performed more than 2,300 shows over thirty years, disbanding after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia in August 1995. Although their only Top 10 hit, "Touch of Grey," charted in 1...