Grateful Dead Records: Realia 1966-2003

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Grateful Dead Records: Realia 1966-2003

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This series includes three-dimensional objects used by the band in road tours, in performances, and in recording sessions, and also large objects and decorative pieces gifted to the band by fans. Included are such objects as instruments, equipment, stage props, touring cases, signs, furniture and stained glass.

ca. 120 linear feet

eng,

University of California, Santa Cruz. . University Library Special Collections and Archives

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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...