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46 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played an all-timer in Hartford, CT. Man, what a Sugaree. And what a second-set jam.

My first time noticing the terrapin is hitchhiking European-style.

Here's AI-upscaled #AlbumArt for "To Terrapin: Hartford '77" [3000x3000].

AI-upscaled album cover art for "To Terrapin: Hartford '77", a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on May 28th, 1977 at the Hartford Civic Center, Hartford CT. It shows the moon rising over a rural view of a railroad track passing a small train station. We see a diamondback terrapin hitchhiking. The guitar case slung over his shoulder has a Grateful Dead "Steal Your Face" sticker. There's a road sign with an arrow that reads "To Terrapin." Below that is a highway route marker that reads, "Hartford '77".

02:16 PM - May 28, 2023

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30 years ago yesterday and today - the #GratefulDead at Cal Expo. Some credit the first night's Playing as their last great jam.

Here's hi-res #AlbumArt for "Road Trips Vol. 2 No. 4 - Cal Expo '93"

High-resolution album cover art for "Road Trips, Vol. 2, No. 4 - Cal Expo '93", a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performances on May 26 1993 and May 27, 1993 at Cal Expo, Sacramento, CA. It shows a skeletal hand holding tickets to the two concerts.

10:12 AM - May 27, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead finished the Europe '72 tour with their peak performance. Best show of the tour and my pick for best GD show of all time.

Here's hi-res #AlbumArt for "Europe '72, Vol. 22: Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/26/1972)" [3000x3000].

Album cover art for "Europe '72, Vol. 22: Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/26/1972)", a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on May 26, 1972. It shows a skeletal figure wearing Groucho glasses and offering the peace sign, backed by a rippling UK flag. The figure wears a suit and homburg hat - likely a tribute to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his V-for-Victory sign.

12:03 PM - May 26, 2023

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Looks like the #SteelyDan reissue program is back on track. Here's hi-res #AlbumArt for #CountdownToEcstasy [5000x5000].

High-resolution cover art for the Steely Dan album, "Countdown to Ecstasy". It shows three abstract pink figures against a blotched mint green back ground. Are they monkeys? Are they Whos from Dr. Seuss? The Dan smirks contemptuously at the question.

09:58 AM - May 26, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played a unique combination of UJB > Wharf Rat > Dark Star > Sugar Magnolia at London's Lyceum. Hot as this show was, they'd top it the next night.

Here's hi-res #AlbumArt for "Europe '72, Vol. 21: Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/25/1972)" [3000x3000]

Album art for "Europe '72, Vol. 20: Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/24/1972)", a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on May 24, 1972. It shows an airbrushed portrait of a red London telephone booth with a torn Grateful Dead sticker on the side. Exotic smoke wafts out as a white-gloved hand opens the door. We also see a cartoonish foot in red-and-white-checked socks and leather shoes stepping forward.

01:38 PM - May 25, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead continued their run at the Lyceum.

Those clock hands show 1:25 pm. The artist missed an opportunity.

Here's hi-res #AlbumArt for "Europe '72, Vol. 20: Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/24/1972)" [3000x3000]

09:28 AM - May 24, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead opened their four-night run at the Lyceum, just six and a half weeks after they played the Wembley Empire Pool. Here's hi-res #AlbumArt for "Europe '72, Vol. 19: Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/23/1972)"

Album art for "Europe '72, Vol. 19: Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/23/1972)", a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on May 23, 1972. It shows an airbrushed picture of a London double-decker bus with side-glancing eyes in the place of the headlights. The destination sign reads, "Lyceum".

08:13 AM - May 23, 2023

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Attn: #GratefulDead fans. Cleaned up #AlbumArt for "Dave's Picks, Vol. 46: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA - 9/9/72". This one looks okay at 3000x3000

High-resolution album cover art for, "Dave's Picks, Vol. 46: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA - 9/9/72," a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on September 9, 1972. It shows a woman in blue holding a rose. She has stars and moons spangled across her hair and clothing. Behind her, palm trees recede as if lining an avenue.

08:33 AM - May 19, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played a massive Dark Star in Munich, Germany - Not as long as some others this tour, but high on intensity.

Here's hi-res #AlbumArt for "Europe '72, Vol. 18: Kongressaal, Munich, West Germany (5/18/1972),"

High-resolution album cover art for "Europe '72, Vol. 18: Kongressaal, Munich, West Germany (5/18/1972)," a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on May 18, 1972. It shows a tie-dyed beer stein with arms and legs. Beer sloshes from the top as it walks forward, extending a friendly hand.

02:02 PM - May 18, 2023

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51 years ago, the #GratefulDead played a shorter-than-usual show for broadcast on Radio Luxembourg. Here's hi-res #AlbumArt for "Europe '72, Vol. 17: La Grande Salle Du Grand Theatre, Luxembourg (5/16/1972)"

Never heard this one - what do the rest of you think?

Album cover art for "Europe '72, Vol. 17: La Grande Salle Du Grand Theatre, Luxembourg (5/16/1972)", a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on May 16, 1972. The artwrok shows a retro 1950s radio labeled "Luxeumbourg" in chrome letters, sitting on a table with a red, white and blue checked tablecloth.

02:41 PM - May 16, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played a good 'un to the people of Lille, France. This free, outdoor show grew out of a clash with youth radicals - see follow-up spouts for more.

Here's high-resolution #AlbumArt for "Europe '72, Vol. 16: Lille Fairgrounds, Lille, France (5/13/1972)"

10:29 AM - May 13, 2023

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Attn. #GratefulDead fans - I cooked up high resolution #AlbumArt for Dave's Picks 2023 bonus disc. Like the Bird Song and China > Rider but the rest seems disposable. Wish we'd gotten the Dark Star from 9-10-1972 instead.

Album art for the Grateful Dead album "Dave's Picks 2023 bonus disc". It shows a pair of identical women looking in opposite directions, with a patterns of flowers, cats and birds over their hair and clothing. Behind them is a moon shining rays that divide the background into shades of blue on the left and shades of orange on the right.

04:47 PM - May 12, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played their most overrated Dark Star ever. Not the longest, hardly their best. (See? Deadheads can be discriminating.)

Here's hi-res #AlbumArt for "Europe '72, Vol. 15: Grote Zaal, De Doelen, Rotterdam, Holland (5/11/1972)".

Album cover art for "Europe '72, Vol. 15: Grote Zaal, De Doelen, Rotterdam, Holland (5/11/1972)", a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on May 11, 1972. It shows a low-angle view of colorful blooming tulips. A foot wearing a red-and-white checkered sock and a traditional Dutch wooden shoe descends.

08:29 AM - May 11, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played a damned good one in the Netherlands. Dunno how to rate these Europe '72 Truckin' > TOO's any more, but I paid $100 for an OOP copy and have zero regrets.

Here's #AlbumArt for art for Europe '72, Vol. 14: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Holland (5/10/1972).

08:29 AM - May 10, 2023

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Disappointed by lack of 5-09-77 fans demanding a Buffalo show.

Here's how Cornell U.'s student newspaper saw the show:
#GratefulDead #DeadAndCompany #Cornell

https://cornellsun.com/202...

cornellsun.com

Dead and Company Rocks Barton Hall One Final Time | The Cornell Daily Sun

As the first show of their farewell tour, Dead and Company performed on Monday, May 8 at Barton Hall 46 years after the legendary

10:18 AM - May 09, 2023

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Steve Silberman

@stevesilberman

How did American classrooms and malls become #NRA -sponsored slaughterhouses? Historian Heather Cox Richardson on the twisted history of an utterly imagined "Constitutional right." #guns https://heathercoxrichards...

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May 6, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson

For years now, after one massacre or another, I have written some version of the same article, explaining that the nation’s current gun free-for-all is not traditional but, rather, is a symptom of the takeover of our nation by a radical extremist minority. The idea that massacres are “the price of f..

08:39 PM - May 07, 2023 (Edited)

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played a good 'un at the Bickershaw Festival. This kid, Declan McManus, was in the audience, and he was impressed.

Here's #AlbumArt for Europe '72, Vol. 13: Bickershaw Festival, Wigan, England (5/7/1972). #ElvisCostello

Album art for "Europe '72, Vol. 13: Bickershaw Festival, Wigan, England (5/7/1972)", a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on May 7, 1972. It shows a crow, standing on one leg, perched on a guitar neck. The guitar's head is labeled "Bickershaw".

09:48 AM - May 07, 2023

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Hey! #MeetUpAtTheMovies is back on for 2023. They're showing the #GratefulDead at Soldier Field, 6-22-91 this June 22 and 23rd, 2023.

https://meetupatthemovies....

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Grateful Dead Meet Up at The Movies 2023 | Official Website | June 22 & 24, 2023

Sign up for more information for Grateful Dead Meet Up at The Movies 2023 on the official site. In cinemas June 22 & 24, 2023 brought to you by Trafalgar Releasing.

02:01 PM - May 04, 2023

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Paris in the spring, the #GratefulDead in 1972. Words don't do them justice. A show as good as May 4, 1972 could be just-okay for the tour.

Here's high-resolution #AlbumArt for Europe '72, Vol. 12: Olympia Theatre, Paris, France (5/4/1972), and for the 2012 #recordstoreday release of "Dark Star".

11:43 AM - May 04, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played a hot one at L'Olympia in Paris, France. Check out the way The Other One attacks three separate times.

Here's high-resolution #AlbumArt for "Europe '72, Vol. 11: Olympia Theatre, Paris, France (5/3/1972)".

High-resolution album cover art for "Europe '72, Vol. 11: Olympia Theatre, Paris, France (5/3/1972)", a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on May 3, 1972. It shows a white orb covered in rainbow-colored checkerboard pattern. The orb strums a baguette as though it were a guitar.

08:19 AM - May 03, 2023

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53-years ago today, the #GratefulDead played a head-liquefier at Harpur College. Here's AI-upscaled hi-res album cover art for Dave's Picks, Vol. 8: 5-02-70, Harpur College, Binghamton, NY (2400x2400)

AI-upscaled artwork for Dick's Picks, Volume 8, a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on May 2nd, 1970 at Harpur College, Binghamton, NY. It depicts a skeleton wearing an "Uncle Sam" striped top hat, riding a magic carpet that is also a ticket to the performance. Close examination of the carpet reveals it is perforated in squares, as if it was a sheet of LSD-soaked blotter paper.

04:10 PM - May 02, 2023 (Edited)

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played Hamburg's Musikhalle. Watch your fingers around that Dark Star - it'll nip 'em right off.

Here's high-res #AlbumArt for "Europe '72, Vol. 10: Musikhalle, Hamburg, West Germany (4/29/1972)" from the Europe '72 - The Complete Recordings"

Album cover art for "Europe '72, Vol. 10: Musikhalle, Hamburg, West Germany (4/29/1972)" a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on April 29, 1972. It show a German Shepherd wearing headphones and panting appreciatively, against a dripping rainbow-colored background.

10:02 AM - Apr 29, 2023

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Curtis Johnson

@CurtisJJohnson1

06:51 PM - Apr 28, 2023

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Billy K. drops a hint: "It's the most joyful thing to play Grateful Dead music with great feeling. With energy, with spontaneity. This band? I encourage people to play the way they want to play the music."

#GratefulDead #DeadAndCompany

https://twitter.com/mikelo...

11:23 AM - Apr 28, 2023

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40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played a fine one in the City of Brotherly Love. The GD played better in odd-numbered years in the 80s. Any night they played Help > Slip > Franklins was okay by me.

Here's hi-res art for Dave's Picks, Vol. 39 - 4-26-1983 at the Spectrum, Phila., PA

High resolution album cover artwork for Dave's Picks, Vol. 39, a live album documenting the Grateful Dead's performance on April 26, 1983 at the Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA. It depicts "Shakedown" in the concert's parking lot, with skeletal figures relaxing, meeting friends and offering tie-dyes, stickers and grilled cheese sandwiches for sale. This being Philadelphia, soft pretzels and cheesesteaks are also available.

02:20 PM - Apr 26, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played a big 'un at Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt. Here's hi-res #AlbumArt from the "Europe '72 - The Complete Recordings" box. for 4-29-72

07:51 AM - Apr 26, 2023

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51 years ago today, the #GratefulDead played Rheinhalle in Düsseldorf, West Germany. One of their most intense Dark Stars ever - like riding out a thunderstorm in the crow's nest of a clipper ship.

Here's hi-res #AlbumArt from the "Europe '72 - The Complete Recordings" box.

High-resolution album cover art for the Grateful Dead's "Europe '72, Vol. 8: Rheinhalle, Düsseldorf, West Germany (4/24/1972)" from the "Europe '72 - The Complete Recordings" box set. This was a live album documenting their performance on April 24, 1972. It shows a skeletal figure with a rainbow-colored mane of hair wearing monks' robes and holding a pretzel.

09:45 AM - Apr 24, 2023

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Carla Reid + Chilla

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