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Steal Your Face is a live double album by the Grateful Dead, released in June 1976. It is the band's fifth live album and thirteenth overall. The album was recorded October 17–20, 1974, at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, during a "farewell run" that preceded a then-indefinite hiatus. It was the fourth and final album released by the band ...
Early blotter art often employed Grateful Dead symbols such as bears and the Steal Your Face lightning bolt-skull logo. [1] One piece of blotter art featuring cartoon blue unicorns commemorates the Blue Unicorn, a hippie and Beat coffeehouse in San Francisco. [14]
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (second from left) as part of the Grateful Dead in 1970.. Along with Garcia and second guitarist Bob Weir, McKernan was a participant in the predecessor groups leading to the formation of the Grateful Dead, beginning with the Zodiacs and Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. [12]
The Grateful Dead song "He's Gone" is based on Lenny Hart's embezzlement of band money and subsequent disappearance. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As a result of the fiasco, Mickey Hart, feeling ashamed of his father's actions, left the band in February 1971, not returning to the group on a full-time basis until 1975.
Wake of the Flood is the sixth studio album (and tenth album overall) by the rock band the Grateful Dead. Released on October 15, 1973, it was the first album on the band's own Grateful Dead Records label. Their first studio album in nearly three years, it was also the first without founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who had recently died.
View from the Vault, Volume Three (or View from the Vault III) is the third release in the "View from the Vault" series by the Grateful Dead. It was released simultaneously as a three disc album on CD and as a concert performance video on DVD. It contains the June 16, 1990 show at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.
In September and October 1980, the Grateful Dead played a series of concerts that had one set of acoustic music followed by two sets of electric music. The tour included 15 shows at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, two shows at the Saenger Performing Arts Center in New Orleans, and eight shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Go to Nassau is a two-CD live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead.It was recorded on May 15 and 16, 1980, at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.The album, released in 2002, presents half of the songs played on the final two nights of a three-day run at the venue.