The Deadcast crosses the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Dead’s only show in Huntington, West Virginia, including close looks at the innovative fashion and LSD scenes then emerging in Dead parking lots, and the conclusion of a rare 1978 interview with Jerry Garcia.
by Jesse Jarnow
James R. Anderson took a number of photos in and outside of the Huntington, West Virginia show discussed in this episode.
The Deadhead Style Archive and its accompanying Instagram account seek contributions, documenting a history of fan style. Rin Tanaka’s My Freedamn! 4 is extremely rare these days, but has some cool samples online.
Erik Davis is the author of the new book Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, and other books, and publishes The Burning Shore newsletter.
The story of the Rhythm Devils continued to evolve with the Grateful Dead through the end of the band in 1995, and through Mickey Hart and Billy Kreutzmann’s many collaborations since. We explored one of the project’s destinations in our Infrared Roses episode.