Grateful Dead

By Blair Jackson

Nearly two years and 90 blogs ago, we embarked on a remarkable mutual journey through the world of the Dead. At times, writing Blair’s Golden Road Blog and contributing regular features to Dead.net has felt like a wonderful continuation of putting out The Golden Road, the spirited Dead ’zine my wife, Regan, and I put out between 1984 and 1993.

By Blair Jackson

By Blair Jackson

By Blair Jackson

It might not be obvious, but the great Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar, who passed away at the age of 92 on Dec. 11, had a profound effect on the Grateful Dead, both directly and through his influence on other musicians whom the Dead respected and learned from.

By Blair Jackson

By Blair Jackson

By Blair Jackson

By Blair Jackson

By Blair Jackson

The Grateful Dead and Halloween. It was a match made in heaven—or is that hell?