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38 years ago today, The Grateful Dead delivered a very memorable performance in Morrison, Colorado, their first ever at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater, and to put a cherry atop that stop of the tour, they promptly performed another top-notch show at the venue the very next night…and then they returned seven weeks later to play two more shows! But since we’re focusing specifically on today, allow us to remind you that the set list on July 7, 1978 was as follows: 1. Jack Straw 2. Candyman 3. Me And My Uncle 4. Big River 5. Friend Of The Devil 6. Cassidy 7. Tennessee Jed 8. Passenger 9. Peggy-O

I saw a werewolf drinkin' a pina colada at Trader Vic's And his hair was perfect... And his Grateful Dead Red Rocks t-shirt was too. All you have to do to be as cool is enter to win our Grateful Dead Red Rocks Giveaway complete with a copy RED ROCKS 7/8/78 (featuring a super groovy "Werewolves of London"), a RED ROCKS t-shirts, RED ROCKS wristbands, and...you guessed it... a RED ROCKS water bottle. Try your luck here. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Purchase will not increase chances of winning. Open only to legal residents of the 50 U.S./D.C. (excluding Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam), 18 a

It’s easy to sell a Dead Head on a documentary about The Grateful Dead, but Amir Bar-Lev’s Long Strange Trip has already been acclaimed by critics far and wide, and it’s anticipated to earn considerably more praise upon its premiere on Amazon Prime Video on June 2. Thankfully, you don’t have to wait that long to enjoy the music from the film, and you can do so whether you have Amazon Prime or not. Rhino is proud to present the LONG STRANGE TRIP MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK in a variety of formats, starting with a 2-CD set and an expanded 3-CD set that’s available exclusively from Amazon. Both of

Order Now - MAY 1977: GET SHOWN THE LIGHT Order Now - CORNELL 5/8/77 on 5LP Order Now - CORNELL 5/8/77 on 3CD There are concerts, and then there are live performances so epic that they are still spoken of in hushed tones several decades after the fact. In the latter category: the Grateful Dead’s performance at Cornell University’s Barton Hall on May 8, 1977. Yes, we know, this is exactly the sort of praise that you’d expect Rhino Records to lavish on the Dead, but it’s not just us: a recording of the concert in question was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2011.

The Grateful Dead played more than 2,000 concerts, but none continues to spark interest and provoke discussion quite like the band’s performance at Cornell University’s Barton Hall on May 8, 1977. It is one of the most collected, traded, and debated concerts by any band ever, has topped numerous fan polls through the years, and was a favorite of the group’s longtime archivist Dick Latvala, who stated: “Enough can’t be said about this superb show.” Even Uncle Sam got into the act in 2011 when the recording was “deemed so important to the history and culture of the United States” that a copy was

40 years ago today, The Grateful Dead released their debut album on Arista Records and, not coincidentally, their first album helmed by an outside producer in nearly a decade. The mid-1970s was a transitional time for the Dead: they’d changed managers, they’d been signed by Clive Davis to his then-new label, Arista Records, and – at Davis’s behest – they’d agreed to work producer Keith Olsen, riding high on his success as the knob-twiddler for Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled comeback album. Olsen was not one to kid around when it came to working with the band members: once he got all of the member

Happy 75th, Jerry! Join us as we celebrate The Days Between with a 9-song playlist featuring some of Jerry's most magical live moments and one from the studio too. Check out the track-by-track commentary by Grateful Dead scribe Jesse Jarnow. 1. Touch of Grey (Garcia/Hunter) July 12, 1989 RFK Stadium, Washington, DC previously unreleased By the time "Touch of Grey" became the Grateful Dead's only top 10 hit, in 1987, thanks in part to Gary Gutierrez's video, it had already been a smash among Deadheads for a half-decade. Debuted by the Dead in '82, the infectious melody and resilient chorus pair