Merry Pranksters reunite at Grateful Dead exhibit in San Francisco
Saturday evening in Golden Gate Park proved to be an extraordinary gathering from an iconic time that involved a legendary bus, and an equally legendary group of free spirits.
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Saturday evening in Golden Gate Park proved to be an extraordinary gathering from an iconic time that involved a legendary bus, and an equally legendary group of free spirits.
A special exhibition honoring the legacy of the Grateful Dead opens in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, which will include one of the most recognized symbols of the counterculture era of the early 60s.
The collection of memorabilia from the Grateful Dead will feature the famous psychedelic school bus named "Furthur." Elizabeth Cook reports.
The original member of the Grateful Dead had tirelessly carried on the band's music for three decades, and on Saturday, the City of San Francisco said goodbye in a public memorial called The Homecoming.
Bob Weir wrote or co-wrote and sang lead vocals on Grateful Dead classics including "Sugar Magnolia," "One More Saturday Night" and "Mexicali Blues."
A plaque marked the location at San Jose City Hall where the Grateful Dead played their first concert 60 years ago. Len Ramirez talked to the two men who managed to figure out exactly where it happened.
The Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary celebration is doing more than drawing tens of thousands of fans to Golden Gate Park — it's breathing new life into San Francisco's hotel industry.
Tens of thousands of Deadheads packed San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Saturday for the second day of a three-day concert series honoring the Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary.
Sixty years after the Grateful Dead first formed in San Francisco, the spirit of the legendary jam band is alive and well in the city where it all began.
It's a weekend full of tributes to the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead in San Francisco, and people from all over the country are gathering in Golden Gate Park for three days of concerts. Da Lin reports.
A week-long tribute to the iconic San Francisco rock band The Grateful Dead is about to take over the city's Golden Gate Park, which is kicking off a month of concerts expected to bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city. Lauren Toms reports.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Monday that that city is planning to welcome Dead and Company for a series of concerts at Golden Gate Park this summer to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead.
The Grateful Dead kicked off Grammy weekend being honored as MusiCares Persons of the Year.
Surviving members of the Grateful Dead, Bobby Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, revisit the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.
There was an outpouring of sadness and gratitude in the Bay Area and across the globe Friday as musicians and music fans paid tribute to founding bassist of the Grateful Dead Phil Lesh, who died at age 84.
Wilson Walker reports on people making pilgrimage to the Grateful Dead house in the Haight to pay tribute to late bassist Phil Lesh.
A passionate fan of the Grateful Dead who started taking photos of the band as a hobby but ended up as part of their inner circle on Friday remembered bassist Phil Lesh and the impact the musician had on his life.
Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, died surrounded by his family, a post on his Instagram said.
A day after Taylor Swift made music history at the Grammy Awards, a band formed long before she was born made their own history.
Recently, at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center, black tie met tie dye when the National Symphony Orchestra shared the spotlight with the Grateful Dead co-founder and his band, Wolf Bros, bringing new life to the Dead's music.
Amanda Starrantino interviews Stern Grove Festival Executive Director Bob Fiedler about the fest's closing Big Picnic fundraising concert with Grateful Dead legend Phil Lesh (8-12-2022)
Tragedy struck a Dead & Company concert Friday night when an audience member fell off a balcony and died, according to reports.
Brian Rohan, who was known as San Francisco's "dope lawyer" for 1960s counterculture clients like the Grateful Dead and Ken Kesey, has died. He was 84.
Jerry Garcia's death certainly might have felt like the end of the story for Deadheads in 1995, but it has not worked out that way.
Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead's finest songs, has died at age 78.
