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Title: Grateful Dead Records: Realia
Dates: 1966-2003
Collection number: MS 332 Ser.10
Collector:
Grateful Dead Productions
Collection Size:
ca. 120 linear feet
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This series includes three-dimensional objects used by the band in road tours, in performances, and in recording sessions,
and also large objects and decorative pieces gifted to the band by fans. Included are such objects as instruments, equipment,
stage props, touring cases, signs, furniture and stained glass.
Physical Location: Stored in Special Collections and Archives: Advance notice is required for access to the material.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
This series is closed for processing. Please contact the Grateful Dead Archivist at: grateful@ucsc.edu for further information.
Property rights to the physical objects reside with the University of California. In many cases the producers, or creators
and their heirs may retain copyright. To inquire about the copyright of material in this series, please contact the Grateful
Dead Archivist at: grateful@ucsc.edu
Grateful Dead Records: Realia. MS 332 Ser.10. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California,
Santa Cruz.
Gift of Grateful Dead Productions, 2008.
The first accural was received in 2008. Second accural was received in June 2012. Additional accurals are expected.
As of 7/25/2012, this series is being processed.
The Grateful Dead were an American rock band that formed in 1965 in
Northern California. They came to fame as part of author Ken Kesey's
Acid Tests, a series of multimedia happenings centered around
then-legal LSD. Famed for their concerts, the band performed more than
2,300 shows over thirty years, disbanding after the death of lead
guitarist Jerry Garcia in August 1995. Although their only Top 10 hit,
"Touch of Grey," charted in 1987, their popularity was based on
concerts, and in their last decade they consistently placed in the top
five tours every year. Known for the range of their repertoire and the
caliber of their compositions, the Dead's songbook has been covered by
a wide range of other musicians, from Bob Dylan to Jane's Addiction.
They released thirteen studio albums and nine contemporary live albums
during their career, and more than 100 live releases since then. They
were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Scope and Content of Collection
This series includes three-dimensional objects used by the band in road tours, in performances, and in recording sessions,
and also large objects and decorative pieces gifted to the band by fans. Included are such objects as instruments, equipment,
stage props, touring cases, signs, furniture and stained glass.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Grateful Dead (Musical group)
Grateful Dead Productions
Deadheads (Music Fans)
Concert Tours
Additional Grateful Dead Records Finding Aids
- Ser.1: History
- Series 2: Business
- Series 3: Show Files
- Series 4: Press
- Series 5: Correspondence
- Series 6: Photographs
- Series 7: Media
- Series 8: Posters
- Series 9: Artwork
- Series 11: Decorated Envelopes
- Series 12: Back Stage Passes, Tickets & Laminates
- MS 52 David Dodd Grateful Dead Collection
- MS 224 Stu Nixon Collection
- MS 333 Dick Latvala Papers - in process
- MS 334 Herb Greene Photographs - in process
- MS 335 Teresa Garcia Memorial Collection - in process
- MS 336 Dennis McNally Papers - in process
- MS 339 Acid Test Poster Modern Variant Reprints - in process
- MS 340 David Singer Posters - in process
- MS 342 Nicholas G. Meriwether Poster Collection - in process
- MS 343 Elizabeth Cohen Collection - in process
- MS 344 Susana Millman Slide Collection - in process
- MS 345 John R. Dwork Papers - in process
- MS 346 Grateful Dead Bean Bears Collection - in process
- MS 350 Deadheads Contributions - in process
- MS 420 Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus Papers - in process
The books have been removed and cataloged separately.
Media has been removed and cataloged separately.