34 years ago today - May 30, 1992, Jerry Garcia at the UNLV Silver Bowl, Las Vegas NV, wearing...WTH are those?! Pants? PJs? 📷 Stephen Dorian Miner

Today In 1980: The Grateful Dead Live At The Des Moines Civic Center (~);} archive.org/details/gd19... @marigold420.bsky.social

Last evening the mourning doves were in a particular funny mood..one is inspecting a hummingbird feeder looking into camera, and one has decided to sit on the seeds on a different feeder and just survey the backyard. #BirdoftheDay. #backyardbirding #solitude #negativespace

Aloha Friday, sweet things 🌹 music.youtube.com/watch?v=GiSi...

It’s like a practical joke played on us by our maker youtu.be/MHU5FywUBEk

5/25/74 the #GratefulDead in all the glory of the Wall of Sound at UCSB, Goleta, CA archive.org/details/gd19... Scarlet Begonias is so short it makes your head spin China >Rider is off the rails Truckin'>Let It Grow >Wharf Rat hits space territory

Acid madness of epic proportions in full swing #GratefulDead Lyceum, London, 🇬🇧 5/25/72 archive.org/details/gd19... 17 min. of Good Lovin' the latest from Pig UJB >Wharf Rat >Dark Star is a musical journey where the entire band builds a series of climaxes of extraordinary power

Swinging in London baby #GratefulDead Lyceum, London, 🇬🇧 5/23/72 archive.org/details/gd19... 19 songs in the first set Pigpen shines, it's one of his latest shows Dark Star is lively from the start before slipping into a wild space and then masterfully transitioning into Morning Dew

The #GratefulDead show at the Sportatorium on May 22 '77 is a show for the ages, rising to the top of an already superlative month archive.org/details/gd19... Treat your ears on this show from "The Rock Mecca of South Florida"

The #GratefulDead deliver another brilliant performance this time from Lakeland, Florida during spring tour on this day, may 21, 1977 Jerry provides a gut-wrenching display of emotion and virtuosity on Comes a Time archive.org/details/gd19... The appetizer before the madness 📷 Roger Grange

Sun, Sea Breezes, and the Grateful Dead. UC Santa Barbara May 20, 1973 cryptdev.blogspot.com/2023/05/sun-... Michael Parrish was there review by Noah Weiner www.deadlistening.com/2010/02/1973... Video by Bob Student youtu.be/e5HsVYP4yv0?... 📷 Rosie McGee What a day to be alive

"Whoa what I want to know is how does the song go" Fox Theatre, Hot Atlanta, GA 5/19/77 archive.org/details/gd19... Jerry gives us one of the best Sugaree ever 2nd set presents the collection of songs that really show how far the #GratefulDead were with their improvisational mind in 1977

#GratefulDead fabolous Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, 5/18/77 archive.org/details/gd77... delicious Jerry ballads the Estimated outro into Eyes it's a high point of the show some absolutely smoking Jerry passages on TOO Stella Blue 16 minutes of sublime magic

Judas!" "I don't believe you...You're a liar!" "Play it fucking loud" youtu.be/znrlLDG0ynU?... 60 years ago - May 17, 1966 - #BobDylan at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England 📷 3 Mark Makin

SWEET HOME ALABAMA May 17, 1977 the #GratefulDead stormed the University of Alabama, Memorial Coliseum, Tuscaloosa, bringing some very fine music the show is amazing and there are a lot of high points finest Jack-A-Roe archive.org/details/gd19... 📷 Bill Allen

from 710 ashbury street, Mr. Jerry Garcia JG : they’ll never take me alive! Bill Graham presents #GratefulDead featuring NRPS at the Fillmore East, New York City, 5/15/70 archive.org/details/gd70... someone: where’s your beard, Jerry? Garcia: shut up, i don’t ask you about your beard

May 14, 1974 Adams Field House (U of Montana), Missoula, MT On this day back in 1974, the #GratefulDead played their only Montana show ever. But what a show it was, highlighted by a WRS> Dark Star> China Doll Listen to the massive night of music archive.org/details/gd19... 📷 Richard Pechner

yowza, @passionweiss.bsky.social uncovers joan didion's unexpurgated spring '67 hang with the grateful dead, rehearsing at the heliport in sausalito (excerpted in "slouching towards bethlehem"), now in the new york public library. www.powmag.net/p/a-little-d... ht @dadastrain.bsky.social

#GratefulDead May 12, 1974 Mackay Stadium, U of Nevada, Reno, NV archive.org/details/gd19... The gusts of the Washoe Zephyr threatened the fully assembled Wall of Sound on its first road appearance The Truckin' through Row Jimmy sequence is especially good

#GratefulDead Grote Zaal, De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 5/11/72 archive.org/details/gd72... A monumental show Dark Star is a 45-minute magnum opus that culminates in a blazing hot Sugar Mag >Caution > Who Do You Love > Truckin' > UJB 📷 Gie Kneaps

Sports Arena, Atlanta, Georgia, May 10, 1970, Jerry Garcia in front of the Brothers' gear The Dead's gear never made it to the show, so they used the ABB's gear. then the Allman Brothers Band played with the Grateful Dead 📷 Bill Fibben

"the Concertgebouw was a jewel of a theater where the cocaine was far too good" - Dennis McNally #GratefulDead May 10, 1972 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands archive.org/details/gd72... the centerpiece of the show is another jazzy and extraordinarily jammed out TOO

Today in Allman Brothers Band history concert at Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee, May 9, 1971 Thom "Ace" Doucette on harp 📷 Jim Marshall

Paradise waits On the crest of a wave her angels in flame #GratefulDead War Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY, 5/9/77 archive.org/details/gd19... Help on the way Well I know only this, I've got you today

It's fashionable to parade snotty attitudes when this show is brought up But none can argue that the #GratefulDead Barton Hall Dew, Dancin', NFA, and Scarlet-Fire are tremendous monster versions - stupendous peaks of spring 77 archive.org/details/gd77... 📷 John Reis, Larry Riechman

Bill Kreutzmann played more birthday shows than any other member of the Grateful Dead. Celebrate Billy's b-day with a look back at all 11 of them. All 11 Bill Kreutzmann Birthday Shows From 1966–1989 [Listen]:

happy birthday BILL KREUTZMANN 🌹 youtu.be/KV6rZRSYQt4?... 📷 Rosie McGee May 7, 1969 Golden Gate Park Polo Field, San Francisco CA #GratefulDead Free concert with Jefferson Airplane

#GratefulDead Boston Garden, Boston, MA, 5/7/77 archive.org/details/gd77... Fireworks Half-Step > Big River TMNS gets top honors here The Wheel, emerging from a brief drum interlude, is a space wave and with an inventive passage connects this masterpiece to a sublime Wharf Rat

May 7, 1970 the #GratefulDead with NRPS brought the Lovelight to M.I.T. Dupont Gym in Cambridge, MA www.deadlistening.com/2008/06/1970... 📷 Peter Simon

Good morning my sweet Deadheads. Yesterday in GD history. 🌹⚡️❤️💀 music.youtube.com/watch?v=zdFw...

Despite the cold and/or the tragic events of those days, on May 6, 1970, the #GratefulDead performed a free show at M.I.T. Kresge Plaza, Cambridge, MA. archive.org/details/gd70... the opening Dancing in the Street is a crescendo of intensity, glorious with the Tighten Up jam 📷 Dave Spitzer

May 5, 1968: Central Park, New York City 6,000 IN PARK ROCK TO WEST COAST SOUND The rock was provided for free by three of the currently best-known groups on the rock 'n' roll scene the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Jefferson Airplane, and the #GratefulDead 📷 Rosie McGee

Dancing Dead Funk Last of 5 #GratefulDead nights at the Palladium in NYC, 5/4/77 archive.org/details/gd77... Jerry's full range of guitar playing is on full display this 2nd set is unique and like none other Comes a Time - An empty cup only Jerry can fill 📷 Allan Tannenbaum

Ah, the smell of Paris in the spring la Crème de la crème #GratefulDead Olympia, Paris, France, 5/4/72 archive.org/details/gd19... And then there is the French Dark Star. This fine Dark Star it is brilliant and jazzy he moody/exploratory split by a drum break

May 3, 1968 the #GratefulDead got smuggled past student barricades into the quad at Columbia University in NYC to play a stealth concert for the students who were protesting youtu.be/WFtQr_W3opM?... 📷 Rosie McGee

May 3, 1970 #GratefulDead at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT This was a free show the day after the famous Harpur College show and the day before the Kent State shootings 📷 Charles Spurgeon

#GratefulDead Olympia, Paris🗼 France, 5/3/72 archive.org/details/gd72... More GOLD than the Sierra's 30 songs performed live and played them all ridiculously well MAGNIFIQUE Truckin'> TOO > Drum > TOO > McGee > TOO rivals the outstanding performance in Frankfurt the previous week

"Everybody just relax, man, we have you all night long!" Highlighting a more intimate side of their sound, the Grateful Dead with the NRPS played a legendary concert at Harpur College in Binghamton, New York on this day in 1970 archive.org/details/gd19...

May 1, 1970, Alfred College, NY, first show of the 1970 Spring tour and the first of An Evening With the Grateful Dead archive.org/details/gd19... One of the reasons the acoustic concert is so beautiful is that some parts also feature the vocals of the members of NRPS

More,more, more ... 55 years ago today the Grateful Dead's final, moving concert at Bill Graham's legendary Fillmore East in NYC archive.org/details/gd19... Hot Hard to Handle the jam after Alligator >Drum is awesome, you can clearly hear some hints of St. Stephen too

#GratefulDead Fillmore East, NYC, 4/28/71 Jerry sends a magnificent Dew, Pig struts through Hard to Handle, and everyone comes in on a mind-altering Dark Star> Stephen> NFA> GDTRFB> NFA including TC who sits in for the latter portion of the show archive.org/details/gd19... 📷 Amalie R.Rothschild

If @chinarider.bsky.social singles out a great version of The Other One i’m surely going to give it a listen. youtube.com/watch?v=dgRe...

RIDING THE STORM OUT: 56 years ago today, thousands of people came to witness Wisconsin's Woodstock Sound Storm, Wisconsin's first outdoor rock festival, was held April 24-26, 1970, on the hillside farm of Irene York, outside the village of Poynette The #GratefulDead were there 📷 Mark Herzberg

the jam out of The Other One on the second disc is a thing that… I just didn’t even believe when I heard it. I still have trouble believing that we actually played that - Phil Lesh #GratefulDead Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, West Germany, 4/26/72 archive.org/details/gd19... 🎨 Gunther Kieser

"What's Become Of The Baby" On April 26, 1969 at the Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL the #GratefulDead were out for blood and took their revenge on the Velvet Underground by playing for 2 hours and 45 minutes dailydoseofdead.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/y...

on April 25, 2000 The Pizza Tapes was released Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice - the trio had such a phenomenal sense of musical understanding that, on their worst days, they played with the kind of tender beauty that most musicians only dream of

55 years ago today - 4-25-71 "Ladies and Gentlemen... the #GratefulDead" On this day in 1971, the Dead opened their last run at the hallowed Fillmore East. Along the way, they dropped the only Friend of the Devil of the year archive.org/details/gd19...

On this day in 1978 ISU Horton Field House, Normal IL, the Grateful Dead delivered Stayin' Alive tease >Me and My Uncle youtu.be/GSabS0U_ZZ0?...

"Can't you all see how beautiful this is?" #GratefulDead / NRPS: April 24, 1971, Wallace Wade Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/04/cant... 📷 Rick Carter

Jerry Garcia is from a galaxy far far away and merely visiting this planet to do battle against brain siphoning aliens with nothing more than his trusty six string #GratefulDead Springfield Civic Center, Springfield, MA,4/23/77 archive.org/details/gd77... 📷 James R Anderson