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San Francisco police seize the unlikely drug of choice of Grateful Dead fans

W hen you walk out the exits of a major concert at Golden Gate Park onto 30th Avenue, usually you hear a chorus of vendors ...

How did Grateful Dead get their name?

This is how Jerry Garcia gave The Grateful Dead got their name after the group he founded previously went under the name of the Warlocks before changing names.

Review: Grateful Dead celebration strikes Phish-y note during S.F. finale

Trey Anastasio of Phish joins John Mayer and Dead & Company on final night of Grateful Dead celebration at Golden Gate Park ...

San Francisco's Grateful Dead weekend kicks off with a monumental night at Golden Gate Park

San Francisco welcomed Grateful Dead offshoot Dead & Co. back Friday night for a hell of a birthday party. The first night of ...

Grateful Dead celebration fills hotels, lifts spirits across San Francisco

The Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary celebration is doing more than drawing tens of thousands of fans to Golden Gate Park — ...

Did Dead & Co. just deliver greatest moment of Grateful Dead weekend?

Grateful Dead offshoot Dead & Company and Sturgill Simpson combine for memorable moment at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

Grateful Dead concerts boost S.F.'s Haight-Ashbury merchants: ‘Biggest weekend for us of the year'

"All the Deadheads, they all want to come to the Haight," said Robert Emmons, president of the Haight Ashbury Merchants ...

Behind-the-scenes photos of the Grateful Dead in their early years

Legendary music photographer Jim Marshall started photographing the Grateful Dead in 1966. The resulting images are intimate ...