Arts & Entertainment Longtime Grateful Dead Bass Player Phil Lesh Has Died at 84 Grief will ripple through the Bay Area music community today, as the family of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh announced that he passed away peacefully early Friday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Those Dead and Company Shows Pumped $31 Million Into the SF Economy SF supervisors approved Mayor Breed’s $15 billion budget, while Breed is courting the University of California to build a downtown SF campus, and this weekend’s Dead and Company shows brought a reported $30.9 million into the local economy.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Dead & Company Draws Thousands to SF For Final Shows, Dazzles With Drone Display The final concerts by Grateful Dead spinoff band Dead & Company took place over the weekend at Oracle Park, and they came with some spectacular drone light shows hovering over the stadium, in a fitting farewell.
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Garcia’s Marijuana Pipe, Lost for 30 Years, Has Been Found and Procured by Antiquities Collector I’ve heard of losing your bowl, but this is ridiculous — Jerry Garcia’s favorite marijuana bowl was last seen in 1991, but it has been found and acquired by a relics collector.
Arts & Entertainment Bob Weir To Ring In His 75th Birthday With a Three-Night Set at the Warfield Bobby turns 75 in October, and he’ll treat his hometown to three performances at the Warfield along with his latest band Wolf Bros, with tickets going on sale Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Rare, Full Johnny Cash San Francisco Concert From 1968 Digitally Restored and Free Online An SF Johnny Cash concert from 1968, recorded just one week before the release of his landmark Folsom Prison album, has been digitally restored and released online by the son of famed Grateful Dead roadie “Bear” Stanley.
Arts & Entertainment Martin Scorsese Grateful Dead Biopic Nabs Jonah Hill to Play Jerry Garcia Scorsese’s upcoming flick will be a yet-unnamed Grateful Dead biopic for Apple, and Jonah Hill will portray the late Jerry Garcia.
Arts & Entertainment Trailer: 'Long Strange Trip,' The Four-Hour Grateful Dead Documentary Produced By Martin Scorsese Not many musical acts in human history attracted the cult following and counter-cultural status of The Grateful Dead, a band that, as the AV Club puts it, "at its height, was simultaneously a
SF News Cole Valley Home Of Rolling Stone's First Photographer Is For Sale Although they might no longer recognize it if they were still with us, famous rock icons like Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia were at one time very familiar with a house now for
Arts & Entertainment Grateful Dead Bassist Phil Lesh Says He Has Cancer Grateful Dead bassist and founding member Phil Lesh says he has cancer. On Friday afternoon, through the website for his San Rafael restaurant and music venue Terrapin Crossroads, Lesh revealed that he was
Arts & Entertainment Deadheads Never Say Die: Insatiable Fans Petition Band To Play Super Bowl Halftime Show In what's become a highly co-dependent relationship with the remaining members of the beloved band, Grateful Dead fans have now drafted a change.org petition, flagged by CBS SF, to encourage the remaining
Arts & Entertainment 'Kid Charlemagne': A Close Reading Of Steely Dan's Ode To Haight Street's LSD King "Oh Owsley, can you hear me now" Jimi Hendrix says on a BBC sessions recording of "Day Tripper just before he starts his solo. It's an appropriate reference, and one of very many
Arts & Entertainment Perfectly Timed Rainbow Over Grateful Dead Show Had Fans Debating Whether It Was Real Everybody at the Grateful Dead show at Levi's Stadium on Saturday night was treated to a lovely sunset, and then they pretty much lost their minds when a rainbow appeared right over the
Arts & Entertainment Grateful Dead Ticket Prices Plummet To $20 A Head For Santa Clara Performance "Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills," is a lyric from the timeless Grateful Dead tune "Friend Of The Devil" that also approximates the current cost of seeing the band
Arts & Entertainment Long Lost 1988 Jerry Garcia Interview Surfaces In San Francisco TV Studio Archive Apparently KPIX in San Francisco has been sitting on a 26-minute VHS tape interview with the late, great Jerry Garcia which never aired. As they tell us, "The Grateful Dead singer sat down
Arts & Entertainment Grateful Dead Confirm Bay Area Farewell Tour Dates At Levi's Stadium The surviving members of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, have confirmed the month-old rumor today that they will be adding two additional Bay Area dates to
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Arts & Entertainment Briefcase Full Of Never-Before-Heard Jerry Garcia Songs May Be Hiding In SFPD Storage When Jerry Garcia was booked on drug possession charges in Golden Gate Park in 1985, it wasn't just 23 packets of "brown and white substances," according to an article in the SF Examiner
SF News [Updated] Grateful Dead Reportedly Consider Bay Area Performances Ahead Of Chicago Finale As the "core four" members of the Grateful Dead — Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann — prepare for a series of sold out "Fare Thee Well" shows in Chicago this July
Arts & Entertainment Richard Loren, Manager Of The Doors And The Grateful Dead, Talks Egypt, Bailing Out Jim Morrison, And His New Memoir Richard Loren has just arrived back in the Bay Area where he resided from 1970 to 1986. In fact, it was none other than Jerry Garcia, whom Loren would come to manage, that
Arts & Entertainment A Touch Of Class For Jerry Garcia's 71st Birthday At Davies (By Angela Zimmerman) Grateful Dead fan or not, it's impossible to deny the impact of Jerry Garcia, especially living here in the Bay Area. Had he survived the health and addiction issues that
Arts & Entertainment THE HORROR: Nonprofit Wants To Rename Jerry Garcia Amphitheater In what might be a perfect storm of San Francisco headbutting: Deadheads and neighborhood groups are ready to square off against a non-profit organization and the Rec and Parks Department over the naming
SF News Berkeley Teacher Busted For DUI, LSD After Leaving Grateful Dead Bar What was that about all California drivers being on drugs? 51-year-old Berkeley High School teacher Douglas Haight (seriously?) lost his job and teaching credentials after a December DUI arrest turned up a bottle
Arts & Entertainment Listen To An Entire Year Of The Grateful Dead Tuning Up Before Shows While the thought of listening to an entire year of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments on stage doesn't sound like much, it is (much to our surprise) a fascinating thing to behold.
Arts & Entertainment Mickey Hart To Turn Golden Gate Bridge Into Giant 'Wind Harp' In honor of the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, being celebrated this May, artist and former Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart will turn the iconic bridge into a giant musical instrument
