Grateful Dead

In March, the band writes Dead Heads that their vacation is 'too exhausting' to continue, and they announce plans to resume touring. By May, the soap opera that is the G.D. Record Company hits fever pitch. Phil Lesh and Bear are mixing a live album from the October 1974 Winterland shows ' the tapes are substandard, although the head of G.D.R.C. denies it ' and Mickey Hart and Hell's Angels buddies have taken over a studio so he can finish mixing his percussion album Diga. The record company head cashes a very large check and departs for points elsewhere, and the record company soon folds. Oh, well. On June 3rd, the Dead resumes life on the road in Portland, Oregon. In the fall, which is highlighted by two shows with The Who in the Bay Area in mid-October, they sign up with Arista Records, and things fairly quickly return to normal ' as far as that ever goes for the Dead.