US EditionA long strange trip from early Christianity to the Grateful Dead's Haight-Ashbury days
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A long strange trip from early Christianity to the Grateful Dead's Haight-Ashbury days
(RNS) — The moment I saw the title of Thomas Coogan’s new book, “Deadheads and Christians: You Will Know Them by Their Love,” I knew exactly what he was up to. Maybe it’s because I spent my career covering religion for daily newspapers in San Francisco. The city had long been the mind-bending mecca for the spiritual counterculture of the baby boom generation, with rock music, particularly the Grateful Dead’s trippy, open-ended jams, furnishing t…
A Grateful Gathering at Yerba Buena Lane Welcomes Dead & Company Fans to San Francisco
Downtown’s Yerba Buena Lane will blossom into a tie‑dyed playground of music, art, and community spirit when “A Grateful Gathering at Yerba Buena Lane” rolls out the welcome mat for Dead & Company concertgoers on Thursday, July 31.
The 1967 Grateful Dead debut album was a mix of folk, rock, blues and psychedelia. But it did not capture the live band’s experience. So they set out to bring their famous concert sound to the studio on "Anthem of the Sun", which saw the light on July 18, 1968. Dead traveled south of Los Angeles in November 1967 to start working on this second album. At that time, the effects of "Sgt Pepper" by The Beatles had legitimized rock 'n' roll as a form…
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