Grateful Dead Records: Posters, 1966-2010
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Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Grateful Dead Productions
- Abstract:
- This series includes posters from concerts and venues at which the Grateful Dead performed, and other posters of events and performances that were collected by the band and by Grateful Dead Productions' office staff.
- Extent:
- 32.12 Linear Feet 10 oversize boxes, 1 postcard box, 12 oversize folders, 30 framed items
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Grateful Dead Records: Posters. MS 332 Ser. 8. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This series includes posters from concerts and venues at which the Grateful Dead performed, and other posters of events and performances that were collected by the band and by Grateful Dead Productions' office staff.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Grateful Dead Productions, 2008.
- Arrangement:
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The material is physically arranged by size, and presented in the finding aid in chronolocal order.
- Accruals:
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The first accural was received in 2008. Second accural was received in June 2012.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Rock music -- Posters
Posters - Names:
- Grateful Dead (Musical group)
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright for the items in this collection is owned by the creators and their heirs. Reproduction or distribution of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether a use is fair use, and to obtain any necessary permissions. For more information see UCSC Special Collections and Archives policy on Reproduction and Use.
- Preferred citation:
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Grateful Dead Records: Posters. MS 332 Ser. 8. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Location of this collection:
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Special Collections and Archives, University Library1156 High StreetSanta Cruz, CA 95064, US
- Contact:
- (831) 459-2547