Grateful Dead

The band goes into a Los Angeles studio in January to record an album that will be called Terrapin Station. The material is exceptional, especially Weir's 'Estimated Prophet' and the 'Terrapin' suite, but they are working with a producer for the first time since 1968, and he overdubs it with strings and a choir, which leaves the band ' and Dead Heads ' less than entirely satisfied when the album is released on July 27th. On June 1st, 'The Grateful Dead Movie' debuts in New York City. On June 20th Mickey Hart emerges from a car accident with multiple broken bones, and the band gets an unexpected summer off, with Garcia and Weir each producing solo albums, Cats Under the Stars and Heaven Help the Fool, respectively. On September 3rd the band returns to the road in front of more than 100,000 people at Englishtown Raceway, and the phenomenon seems ever more amazing.