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Grateful Dead Records: Posters
MS.332.Ser. 8
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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Grateful Dead Records: Posters
Creator:
Grateful Dead Productions
Identifier/Call Number: MS.332.Ser. 8
Physical Description:
32.12 Linear Feet
10 oversize boxes, 1 postcard box, 12 oversize folders, 30
framed items
Date (inclusive): 1966-2010
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.
Language of Material:
English
Collection is open for research.
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.
Grateful Dead Records: Posters. MS 332 Ser. 8. Special Collections and Archives, University
Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of Grateful Dead Productions, 2008.
This series can be viewed on the
Grateful Dead Archive Online (GDAO)
The first accural was received in 2008. Second accural was received in June 2012.
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 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.
The material is physically arranged by size, and presented in the finding aid in
chronolocal order.
The books have been removed and cataloged separately.
Media has been removed and cataloged separately.
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 9: Artwork
- Series 10: Realia
- Series 11: Decorated Envelopes
- Series 12: Back Stage Passes, Tickets & Laminates
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Posters
Rock music -- Posters
Grateful Dead (Musical group)