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He was the leading figur of Hippie-Culture: Jerry Garcia, mastermind of Grateful Dead, born 1st of August 1942, died 9th of August 1995. Here we present a small extract out of our ”Dead“-collection.

Original concert poster: Grateful Dead played at Rüsselsheim near Frankfurt on Tuesday, 13th October 1981.

Grateful Dead was founded in San Francisco in 1965 and became famous especially by their live concerts. Original members – some of them formerly played with The Warlocks – alongside Garcia were Bob Weir (g, voc), Phil Lesh (bass, voc), Ron ”Pipgen“ McKernan (keys, per, voc) and Bill Kreutzman (dr). Other members were: Tom Constanten (keys, 1968-70), Mickey Hart (Schlagzeug, 1967 – 1971, ab 1975), Keith Godchaux (keys, 1971 – 1979), Donna Godchaux (voc, 1972 – 1979), Brendt Mydland (keys, voc, 1979 – 1990), Bruce Hornsby (keys, voc, 1990 – 1992), Vince Welnick (keys, voc, ab 1990).

Left: Concert poster of 1980: Grateful Dead played for one week in New York
Right: Poster-repro. Grateful Dead played at the Fillmore West alongside
Jefferson Airplane in August 1968.

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für viele Künstler, die in den 70er Jahren richtig Karriere machten, waren die Festivals auf Burg Waldeck das Sprungbrett. Reinhard Mey zählt zu ihnen, ebenfalls Hannes Wader, Franz-Josef Degenhardt und Katja Ebstein.