Grateful Dead

by Jesse Jarnow

Michael Lydon’s 1969 Rolling Stone feature captured the Dead’s less-successful 1969 visit to UC Santa Barbara.

Michael Parrish attended the Santa Barbara ‘73 show, and recently posted his memories and a handful of never-seen photographs. 

Rosie McGee’s photos of Santa Barbara ‘73 appear in both her memoir and sumptuous coffee table book of photographs, 1966-1991. Tom Davis’s memoir Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is extraordinarily entertaining.

A 2004 newspaper article referring to the wayward cocaine prescription described in this episode by promoters Jim Curnutt and Sepp Donahower. An interview with Sepp featuring a photo of him before the Santa Barbara ‘73 show with Sam Cutler, Jon McIntire, Sonny Heard, and Stanley Mouse. 

Bob Student’s silent footage of Santa Barbara ‘73.