Dead of the Day: 01-05-1979 The Spectrum Philadelphia, Pennsylvania gratefuldeadoftheday.com/01-05-1979/

Like a torero or a soldier in a Hemingway story, the band had fought the good fight and came away having known they touched perfection, and those who witnessed it were enlightened, awed, and, no doubt, changed forever #GratefulDead Fillmore East, NYC, 1/3/70 gratefuldeadoftheday.com/01-03-1970/

No, don’t worry about the Dead. They’re playing better than ever deadsources.blogspot.com/2015/07/janu... January 2-5, 1969, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 📷 Stephen L Golden via Alex Golden 🎨 Randy Tuten

#GratefulDead Fillmore East, NYC, 1/2/70 THE MUSIC PLAYING IN MY HEAD deadsources.blogspot.com/2015/08/janu... STANDING AT THE EDGE OF ETERNITY with Feelin' Groovy and Tighteen Up jam one of the greatest Dark Star know to the man and, I even hear hints of Sugar Mag 📷 Amalie R.Rothschild

#GratefulDead UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 12/30/78 archive.org/details/gd19... show of the ages the first set is fun with we play for Clive kicking off, the second is a stellar marathon with the gem of St. Stephen and Ollin Arageed

Top-level insanity #GratefulDead Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 12/30/77 archive.org/details/gd19... the infamous Mind Wondrin gives this show 5 stars 1st Set: A 2nd Set: A St. Stephen is a skull blower 📷 Bob Minkin

"Ooooooooooohhhhh, have another hit! Of fresh air Oooooooooohhhhhh, have another hit!" 50 years ago Quicksilver Messenger Service Recorded Live: 12/28/1975 - Winterland (San Francisco, CA) youtu.be/Dn1BdhuyN5U?...

“The just exactly perfect brothers band” Jerry and gang pull bunny out of hat the 53-minute medley in the 2nd set of PITB/Chinarider/China Doll/Playing Jam/Drums/NFA/PlTB is legendary 154⭐️ #GratefulDead Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 12/29/77 archive.org/details/gd19... 📷 Bob Minkin

#GratefulDead at the Gulfstream Park Racetrack, Hallandale, FL Miami Pop Festival, 12/29/68 archive.org/details/gd19... The band is a tight raging monster on this evening, and the only thing to complain about is the fact that the entire recording is only an hour long

This concert is a blast a super high-energy show opened by one of the most an all-time overwhelming Sugaree #GratefulDead Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 12/28/79 gratefuldeadoftheday.com/12-28-1979/ 📷 Jay Blakesberg

California, I'll be knocking on the Golden Hall #GratefulDead San Diego, 12/28/78 archive.org/details/gd78... hot show, a wonderful Sugaree opens but the whole first set is a delight. the 2nd starts with a cool Shakedown, Estimated is an anthem and Eyes is super fast and glorious

in an era where the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's and the Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request Bob Dylan released John Wesley Harding on December 27, 1967 Dylan’s stripped-down sound becomes a harbinger for the Americana movement

A Band On Fire #GratefulDead Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 12/27/77 archive.org/details/gd19... in BEW Jerry flies put on your helmet for Scarlet >Fire Truckin' is a powder keg Hes Gone and Wharf Rat calm things down a bit 📷 Ben Upham

This one is HUGE !! #GratefulDead Oakland Auditorium ,Oakland, CA, 12/26/79 archive.org/details/gd19... the 1st amazing set is surpassed by the 2nd with a spatial opening UJB, one of the longest and screaming Prophet, Space is pure psychedelia and Shakedown > UJB perfect final

"Hey it's not my fault if you watch TV, man" - Jerry Garcia December 26, 1969 SMU McFarlin Auditorium, Dallas TX gratefuldeadoftheday.com/12-26-1969/ "You just had it done to you by the #GratefulDead, ladies and gentleman"

To all the grateful people on this social network who have kept me company throughout the year... Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays God bless you

Nineteen forty, Xmas eve,with the full moon over town Stagger Lee shot Billy DeLyon and he blew that poor boy down Do you know what he shot him for, what do you make of that youtu.be/zFqmEf6ocEc?...

Stoked I got to write about the Dead’s appearance at the Muir Beach Acid Test for the new issue of @altajournal.bsky.social. Killer spread of stories. @passionweiss.bsky.social on West Coast rap, Paula Mejía on sunshine pop, & more. Read them, then read me: www.altaonline.com/culture/musi...

He was a saint, even though he told me I was a saint A person who made this place better Remembering Steve Silberman on what would have been his 58th birthday

I drive a mailtrain, mama, can't buy a thrill I been up all night, mama, sleeping on a window sill Well, if I die on top of the hill And if I don't make it, you know my baby will

It's #Caturday & Lucia says Fuck You 🤷‍♀️

"I'm not sure people remember how violent, cruel, and disastrous Nazi-fascism was. Don't underestimate the slightest sign of rebirth. We must react and free ourselves from these human ills, as I am doing." (Frank Zappa, the musical genius, was born on December 21, 1940)

Woah! the next Dave's Picks Volume 58 will be December 18, 1973 at Curtis Hixon Hall @davidlemieux.bsky.social www.gratefulweb.com/articles/gra...

A classic and fantastic Bob Wagner tape remastered by Rob Bertrando, the December 19 Mississippi State Fairgrounds Grateful Dead’s show goes far beyond showcasing the stellar heights reached in '78 archive.org/details/gd19...

On December 19th at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa, FL the Grateful Dead's last show of 1973 took place and it is legendary archive.org/details/gd19... Among the moments of absolute magnificence of this show are: HCS and everything that follows Truckin' is a real brain fryer

in the 32nd minute, the last great They Love Each Other youtu.be/SQdCamQq9cs?...

Test me, test me, test me, test me, test me Why don't you arrest me Throw me in the jail house Lord, until the sun go down

Keith Richards and Bobby Keys were born on the same day, year and month 82 years ago What more is there to say about this tough rock 'n roll warrior? We all wish him the best and many more to come

Eternally Sacred Sound! Nothing comes close and nobody ever will! The Grateful Dead’s show in Tampa a the Curtis Hixon Hall on December 18, 1973 was a night to remember archive.org/details/gd19... "We live to play live music" Jerry Garcia

“Tennessee, Tennessee, there ain't no place I'd rather be” #GratefulDead Nashiville, TN, 12/16/78 archive.org/details/gd19... A dazzlingly captured Jerry show, unleashed from the first note Superb recording Garcia’s last show of his Travis Bean guitar 📷 Glenn Reid

The New Riders of the Purple Sage perform "Glendale Train" at Winterland in San Francisco on December 15, 1973 with special guests Jerry Garcia on guitar and Sandy Rothman on banjo youtu.be/k_avn_xAYUY?...

"I will survive" The Comeback Show: Jerry Garcia triumphantly returns following life-threatening coma December 15, 1986 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, Jerry returned to the stage with the Grateful Dead youtu.be/GPKVFbYCkc4?... 📷 Kenny Mollica

Grateful Dead—Municipal Arena, Long Beach, CA, December 15, 1972 open.substack.com/pub/zencowpo...

#GratefulDead Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12/15/71 archive.org/details/gd19... Dark Star to open the 2nd set. it's one of those DS that transports you to another place where time passes without you even realizing it and then Pig takes over as Master of Ceremonies

#GratefulDead Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12/14/71 These two shows at Hill were the apogee of the December ’71 tour gratefuldeadoftheday.com/12-14-1971/ 🎨 Gary Grimshaw

#GratefulDead Santa Rosa Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa, CA, 12/12/70 archive.org/details/gd70... The cut to TOO is simply too brutal, but the rest of the show is hot. GDTRFB is long and jammy, and Garcia's brief Darkness Jam is a nice interlude

If tonight isn't a 5⭐️, then nothing should be a 5⭐️ #GratefulDead Thelma, Los Angeles, 12/12/69 archive.org/details/gd69... Eternal Alligator > Caution is the work of a band that just gave it their all, so hold on tight and don't stop on the tracks. This is music worthy of a doctoral thesis

#GratefulDead Thelma, Los Angeles, CA, 12/11/69 archive.org/details/gd69... first set ends with the classic DS>SS>11 followed by Cumberland Blues Dark Star is splendid, patiently building to a peak with a long Feelin' Groovy Jam 2nd set Dancin' and TIFTOO are particularly noteworthy

Smile, smile, smile... December 10, 1992 photoshoot Jay Blakesberg at the Roberta Weir Gallery for Rolling Stone Magazine the third photo is a shot by Susana Millman, it portrays Jerry Garcia making fun of Jay while he is at work

12/10/69 the first of 3 #GratefulDead shows at Thelma, a small club on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip, featuring Stephen Stills on 5 songs including his Black Queen archive.org/details/gd69...

Run me out crazy in the cool Colorado rain. The guitar licks against the bass and keyboards are insane here. It's a killer China >Rider version that rides as if the rails will split any second #GratefulDead Activity Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 12/9/81 archive.org/details/gd19...

Smoldering, white-hot electric insanity Jerry full throttle five Pigpen-sung songs, including what Lemieux describes as arguably the best version of ‘Smokestack Lightning’ #GratefulDead Felt Forum, MSG, NYC, 12/7/71 archive.org/details/gd71... 📷 Jeffrey Mayer

12/7/68 #GratefulDead debuted "Rosemary" at Bellarmine College in Louisville, KY A beautifully enigmatic track, it weaves a mysterious tale of a solitary woman in a garden archive.org/details/gd19... It's the only live recorded in a wonderfully psychedelic set with Dark Star opener

12/6/80 The Dead live in Mill Valley Recreation Center listening to The Dead play, free, to an audience of no more than 70. The occasion was the annual Christmas party of the Marin-Sonoma chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. 📷 Ray Baltar thoughtsonthedead.wordpress.com/tag/steve-mc...

you can be as cool as you want but never like Jerry Garcia opening the show with "Here Comes Sunshine" after 19 years and 1219 shows of it not being played #GratefulDead Compton Terrace, Tempe, AZ, 12/6/92 youtu.be/X8zlGN46oaM?...

New York got the ways and means #GratefulDead Felt Forum, MSG, NYC, 12/6/71 archive.org/details/gd19... Just like New York City 📷 Ed Perlstein

well, well...driftin' and dreamin' on a ship of fools #GratefulDead Uptown Theater, Chicago, IL, 12/6/79 archive.org/details/gd19... run and see

"If rock n' roll was ever gonna have a Godfather this one would be it, Jerry Garcia on lead guitar Ladies and gentlemen the #GratefulDead" - Bill Graham Felt Forum, MSG, NYC, 12/5/71 archive.org/details/gd71... Comes a Time - an empty cup only Jerry can fill

Can you pass the acid test? the very first time the Warlocks performed under the name the #GratefulDead was at an Acid Test at a house on 5th Street in San Jose, on December 4, 1965. The house was a short walk from the San Jose Civic Audit., where the #RollingStones were playing