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New Grateful Dead collection spotlights legendary show that ran nearly 5 hours

Didn’t score those much-sought-after ducats to see the final Dead & Company shows at Oracle Park in San Francisco?

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Bill Walton doc bursts with joy and color — like the aging hippie himself

‘30 for 30’ bio traces his life as high school and UCLA phenom, activist, NBA pro and controversial commentator.

Chicago Sun-Times

Utah snowboarder calmly narrates video as he's hurled down mountain by avalanche

With a soundtrack provided by The Grateful Dead

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A Grateful Dead drag tribute band are playing a show in protest at Tennessee’s recent drag ban

Grateful Dead drag tribute band Bertha claim to be the freak result of a mix-up between DNA from Jerry Garcia's severed finger and Woodstock's infamous brown acid

Louder

Drum legend Zakir Hussain a borders-leaping marvel: 'He has blazed a trail' says Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart

George Harrison of The Beatles was a fan and collaborator of Indian tabla drum marvel Zakir Hussain. So are guitar legend John McLaughlin, Grateful Dead mainstay Mickey Hart and banjo innovator Béla Fleck.

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Bill Walton reacts to a spot-on SNL impression of him with his own chaotically poetic Twitter thread

He calls himself a "spiritual nomad" and provides live commentary for a game that will happen in the future.

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Appreciation: Burt Bacharach, dead at 94, was a music legend who spoke out: 'I account for what I will say'

As one of the greatest and most innovative songwriters in pop-music history, Burt Bacharach inspired several generations of fans and fellow musicians alike. Beyond the great art he created, two of my fondest memories of Bacharach — who died Wednesday of natural causes at the age of 94 — reflect…

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Bill Walton shares everything you must know about his ‘intergalactic’ alternate NBA telecast

"Like a Grateful Dead concert or a remarkable book or a poem or a song, you never know how NBA basketball is going to play out."

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Ghana's vintage enthusiasts give new life to Western clothing waste

As the sun set on a courtyard of shipping containers in Ghana's capital Accra, young men and women in Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead and tie-dye tees bartered over army surplus jackets and Adidas sneakers while a live deejay spun Afrobeat classics.

Reuters

UC Berkeley will teach psychedelic guides how to facilitate ‘shrooms,’ hallucinogenic drugs

BERKELEY, Calif. — Helping someone taking magic mushrooms have a “good trip” can mean keeping them hydrated or playing Grateful Dead records to safely enjoy the ride.

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Ghana's vintage enthusiasts give new life to Western clothing waste

Reuters

Crocs obsessed mum has spent 22 years building her collection of 450 pairs

Rochelle Burke, 38, invested in her first pair in the early 2000s - and now she says she "can't stop buying them".

Daily Record

Meet the woman obsessed with Crocs who has spent over 20 years building her collection of 450 pairs

Originally, Rochelle Burke started buying the shoes due to a foot condition but she soon fell in love with them and has pairs from all over the world

Wales Online

What looks like pot, acts like pot, but is legal nearly everywhere? meet hemp-derived Delta-9 THC

ST. LOUIS — It was not shocking that people listening to musicians covering Grateful Dead and Phish songs in October at a dive bar here would be interested in trying a new drink containing delta-9 THC, the primary psychoactive ingredient in weed.

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On this day: Boston sees the Grateful Dead in concert; Shaw, Hunter debut

On this day, several Boston Celtics accompanied resident Deadhead and Celtics center Bill Walton to see the Grateful Dead in concert in 1985.

Los Angeles Times

Jerry Garcia's marijuana pipe takes a long, strange trip and ends up in Northern California antique shop

LOS ANGELES — Before his death, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia tried to get clean after years of freebasing cocaine and other drugs, so he gifted a marijuana pipe to a fellow musician who socked it away in his San Francisco home.

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Bob Dylan's 'The Philosophy of Modern Song' book is a love letter to music — and, um, polygamy

Bob Dylan doesn't think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing new book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song." But he does think polygamist marriages are greatly underrated, about which more in…

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How The Grateful Dead Is Fighting Dementia

In trials, the game not only taught 60 to 79-year-olds how to drum but also improved their ability to remember faces

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The Guardian - UK

‘The cultural memory of the UK’: unearthing the hidden treasures of the BBC archive

For years the corporation has been digitising its vast reserve of content, turning up lost footage of everyone from General Eisenhower to Victoria Wood. Meet the team bringing a century of footage back to life

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Dead and Company to call it quits after one final summer tour

Dead and Company, the immensely popular jam-band offshoot of the Bay Area’s legendary Grateful Dead, is calling it quits.

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Aaron Judge and his historic HR chase is ridiculously cool for a bunch of reasons

How cool is Aaron Judge?

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The real story of why you see tie-dyed Lithuanian basketball shirts at Grateful Dead shows

Chicago Sun-Times

Sacred Rose: Chicago’s newest music festival is a ‘choose your own’ affair

Not since the one-year Dave Matthews Band Caravan in 2011 has there been a jam band event of this scale in the area, with dedicated stages for fans of Americana, psych rock and other experimental styles.

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Reviews: Little Feat ‘Waiting for Columbus’ live box set a deep dive; Jeff Beck & Johnny Depp’s ‘18’ a major misfire

Little Feat, 'Waiting for Columbus' Super Deluxe Edition

Manchester Evening News

How a Greater Manchester village was 'invaded' by thousands of freaks, Hell's Angels and 'spaced out' hippies

"A northern festival with northern attitude. Unique- Coronation Street invaded by the freaks”

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