#GratefulDead Tivoli Koncertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72 archive.org/details/gd19... A top-notch show from start to finish Supreme Dark Star with an extraordinary Feelin' Groovy jam Good Lovin' > Caution is a beast Pigpen's rap so wild that it takes you over like a freight train

#GratefulDead Davis Gymnasium, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 4/14/71 gratefuldeadoftheday.com/04-14-1971/ This is acid-laced rock and roll coming at you and it feels so good

"i been warped by the rain, driven by the snow i'm drunk and dirty don't you know" The quintessential sophistifunk (Lowell’s term) of Little Feat at its peak Happy birthday to the late, great LOWELL GEORGE (April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979)

On April 13 or 14, 1969, Jerry Garcia bought a ZB10 pedal steel guitar at Don Edwards' Guitar City in Lakewood CO (9895 W Colfax, Lakewood). [CO shoutout to @queencityjamz.bsky.social ] lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2017/06/jerr...

#GratefulDead Ballroom, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 4/13/69 archive.org/details/gd19... the notorious Mind Wondrin writes: Dew - zen chiller Dark Star - splashing psychedelic puddles The 11 - intense and jammed-out Death Don't Have No Mercy - one of the era's best versions

Good morning everybody. Today is the 48th anniversary of my first Grateful Dead show. WALSTIB Till the Morning Comes, Like a Highway Sign open.substack.com/pub/cosmicjo...

"It's been one of those rare weekends that makes everyone feel good... if Dead End Kids were alive today, they would be called the #GratefulDead" Bill Graham Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 4/12/70 archive.org/details/gd70... 📷 Ken Greenberg

April 12, 1969, the #GratefulDead performed in Utah for the first time, at the Student Union Ballroom, University of Utah in Salt Lake City, an event organized by Students for a Democratic Society archive.org/details/gd69... 📷 Richard Taylor

#GratefulDead City Hall, Newcastle, England, 4/11/72 archive.org/details/gd19... A dynamite 2nd set with one of the best Truckin' ever the TOO that follows is spacey and full of top-notch explorations, including a stunning Feelin' Groovy jam breathtaking landing in Comes a Time 📷 Rick Walton

But where are the VIP seats ??? April 9, 1967 #GratefulDead performing free concert at the Golden Gate Park Panhandle, San Francisco CA youtu.be/ayp2Q00aBcY?... 📷 Ron Rakow

April 9, 1970 that time Miles Davis youtu.be/cUx4nqLMgKI?... opened for the #GratefulDead at Bill Graham's Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA archive.org/details/gd19... first "It's A Man's World" 🎨 David Singer

#GratefulDead Empire Pool, Wembley, England, 4/8/72 archive.org/details/gd19... extraordinary Dark Star, with its beautiful MLBJ is among the best ever performed of any era, the transition to the stunning Sugar Magnolia is sublime smoking hot version of Caution

#GratefulDead Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, 4/8/71 archive.org/details/gd19... Dark Star featuring Ned Lagin the post-verse jam is wonderful, it gets pretty spacey NFA> GDTRFB >NFA is pure dynamite 📷 Jeff Albertson

April 6, 1971 Manhattan Center, NYC #GratefulDead archive.org/details/gd19... Rare Oh Boy and I'm a Hog For You PITB on Skull Fuck Good Lovin' Pigpen drives the crowd wild and tells people to take off their clothes like only he knows how

Sweet mental revenge at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, CA, 4/6/69 #GratefulDead, Flying Burrito Brothers and Aum This may be the first full rock concert with more than one band broadcast on FM radio archive.org/details/aval...

When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez And it’s Eastertime too... youtu.be/CcRNSHqiH7A?...

After stenciling the road cases himself with "The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East" Jim Marshall the roadies stack the cases put the band⁣ in front of them and the rest is⁣ History! April 5-6, 1971 Macon Georgia across the street from Capricorn Studios

April 5, 1971 Manhattan Center, NYC archive.org/details/gd19... First Sing Me Back Home Big Railroad Blues, Not Fade Away and Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad are on Skull and Roses Starting off with a blazing Cold Rain this show grabs you by the brain cells and never lets go Pig is in great shape

Today in Grateful Dead History: April 5, 1969 – Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA dailydoseofdead.wordpress.com/2018/04/05/t... Mountains of the Moon is tenderly sung and sweetly played, ending with a beautiful acoustic guitar solo from Jerry Garcia

@msmeredith.bsky.social Hope you approve of this. I'm more of a lifelong Beatles and Zinnias guy, but hey, love is love! trueman-triola.stories.email/p/deadhead-d...

Berry Oakley, amazing bass player for the Original ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND would have turned 78 today... Sharing a birthday with Muddy Waters is interesting in that the only song Berry was known to sing on with the Allmans was "Hoochie Coochie Man"

Cocaine's for horses, not men, or at least so goes the song by the Byrds. But don't tell it to the Grateful Dead deadsources.blogspot.com/2019/08/febr... April 4, 1971: Manhattan Center, New York City For Grateful Dead freaks 5,000 DANCE TO DEAD BEAT IN N.Y. MARATHON Last Easy Wind

On April 4, 1969 the #GratefulDead opened up a three night run at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California, this run of shows would be the last ones the Dead would perform at the Avalon archive.org/details/gd19... Jerry...slide on TOO 🎨 Jaxon

April 3, 1970 Un. of Cincinnati, Field House #GratefulDead with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, Wavy Gravy and Hog Farm and The Lemon Pipers archive.org/details/gd19... Candyman makes his debut in the acoustic set halfway through the concert 📷 Stu Levy

Keep truckin' like the doodah man

“A Rock‘N’Roll Band That Spanned a Generation!” #GratefulDead Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY, March 31, 1973 archive.org/details/gd19... Truckin' Back to Buffalo : Crazy Other One Explodes Into I Know You Rider www.gratefulseconds.com/2017/10/truc... 🎨Richard Manning

the Allman Brothers Band played Winters End in Bithlo, Florida, March 27 to 29, 1970 The festival was originally slated to be held in Miami but the location changed at the last minute. Johnny Winter jammed with the band. 📷 Bob Fiallo

#GratefulDead Modesto Junior College, Modesto CA, 3/28/69 archive.org/details/gd19... no wonder they opened with School Girl and turned up the Lovelight Bear's recording is fantastic, the setlist too The show has that presence and flow of like the Fillmore West shows 2/27 - 3/2/69

30 songs, the first 2 are Cumberland Blues and HCS closes a fantasy sequence of over an hour of WRSP in Dark Star in EOTW in an unusual PITB position 3/28/73 Springfield Civic Center, Springfield, MA archive.org/details/gd19... I am instantly GRATEFUL and DEAD, as I tune in…

57 years ago today, the Allman Brothers Band officially formed in Jacksonville, Florida when Gregg returned from California to round out the six-member lineup of his brother Duane's new band Photo: Stephen Paley, Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia, 1969

Just like Wolfman Jack #GratefulDead Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD, 3/26/73 www.deadlistening.com/2008/03/1973... No Dark Star or TOO 32 songs and 4 hours of music, with the quality matching quantity 📷 Mark Huffman was 16 when he took the photo

60 years ago #GratefulDead March 25, 1966 Trouper's Club, Los Angeles CA archive.org/details/gd19... 🎨Owsley Stanley 📷 Rosie McGee

Hey, Bo Diddley!... Hey, hey, hey, Mona! March 25 1972 Academy of Music NYC Hell's Angels presents Jerry Garcia and Friends & Bo Diddley archive.org/details/gd19... This was Donna's first show (after a brief appearrance during PITB on 12/31/71) and included How Sweet It Is and Are You Lonely For Me

Another lap for the Sound Test (3/23/74 @ Cow Palace). A momentous date in the evolution, development, and proving grounds of the Wall, immortalized on Dick’s Picks Vol. 24. Here’s to 300 more.

#GratefulDead Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, 3/24/73 archive.org/details/gd19... Dark Star is only 4 min. long but from Truckin' the whole band effortlessly slides into a 20 min. jazzy jam complete with Spanish jam that erases all physical barriers 📷 EE Stern

Fifty-one years ago at old Kezar Stadium. The SNACK Benefit of 75, and the first reveal of what would be Blues For Allah. Joined onstage by Merl Saunders and Ned Lagin and playing the more obscure stuff from the album that would come out later that year. archive.org/details/gd19... 💀🪬🌹🎼💛🩵✨💛🩵🎼🌹🪬💀

A special show #GratefulDead Cow Palace, Daly City, CA, 3/23/74 archive.org/details/gd19... The debut of the Wall of Sound, Cassidy and Scarlet Begonias And the latest incendiary PITB >UJB Morning Dew >UJB >PITB

March 22, 1965: release of Bringing It All Back Home, first of three records that changed the perception of Bob Dylan as a folk and protest artist, and shook popular music to its core

#GratefulDead Academy of Music, NYC, 3/22/72 archive.org/details/gd19... A wonderful 3.5-hour marathon. 42 minutes by: Sugar Mag > Caution > UJB At the end of Caution, there's a jam led by Jerry that's worth the price of admission alone 📷 Rosina Rubin

"Sit down in that corner" "Are you asking me or telling me?" deadsources.blogspot.com/2021/04/marc...

Rain is gonna come… oh it surely looks like rain … The Grateful Dead debuted "Looks Like Rain" on this day in 1972 at the Academy of Music, NYC. The Pigpen ballad “The Stranger (Two Souls In Communion)” also made its first appearance at this show archive.org/details/gd19... 📷 Rosina Rubin

"Take it easy out there, you unruly pigs" #GratefulDead Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 3/21/70 www.deadlistening.com/2009/12/1970... Death Don't Have No Mercy last version until 1989 last performance of He Was A Friend of Mine

Never miss a Sunday show #GratefulDead Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 3/20/77 archive.org/details/gd19... the last standalone and wonderful Scarlet Begonias and this is just the beginning of the magical spring campaign of '77 📷 Ed Perlstein

March 20, 1970 the debut of the #GratefulDead at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY with new manager Sam Cutler introducing them on stage first FRIEND OF THE DEVIL and Pigpen drove everyone crazy with his LOVELIGHT archive.org/details/gd19... 🎨 Chuck Sperry

"It was a magic carpet ride that was there for me to step on. I would have been a fool not to" Wishing a happy birthday to Tom Constanten, born on this day in 1944 in Long Branch, NJ 📷 Baron Wolman | July 1969

Roll away the dew #GratefulDead Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 3/19/77 archive.org/details/gd19... The first set surpasses the second but there's an insane Franklin's Tower - Jerry unleashed

Nudie Suits #GratefulDead Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, 3/19/73 fantastic AUD by Gerry Moskal that perfectly captures the atmosphere of the show archive.org/details/gd19... by Lenny Kaye, from Rolling Stone deadsources.blogspot.com/2012/09/marc... 📷 Jonathan David Sabin

3/18/77 first of three spectacular #GratefulDead shows at Winterland in San Francisco Scarlet Begonias meet Fire on the Mountain for the first time for the one and only time Terrapin includes a long instrumental coda nicknamed "Alhambra" archive.org/details/gd19...

#GratefulDead Fox Theatre, St Louis, MO, 3/18/71 www.deadlistening.com/2008/10/1971... the only "Caution" played in 1971 a swaggering blues journey, and Pigpen proves once again that he's not exactly cut out for today's politically correct world. Under his narration, the band turns into a fireball