Grateful Dead "Grateful Dead History of the Grateful Dead Vol. 1" (50th Anniversary Edition) 2022-10-14 based on Koji Suzuki’s 1991

based on Koji Suzuki’s 1991 eponymous novel

who went as far as to say

the art is given a little extra zest via a die-cut jacket and a classy inner sleeve

feelings hit like tear gas

***“The cosmos is within us

Grateful Dead "Grateful Dead History of the Grateful Dead Vol. 1" (50th Anniversary Edition) 2022-10-14 based on Koji Suzuki’s 1991The Grateful Dead's first true archival album, Bear's Choice, was lovingly produced as a tribute to Pigpen shortly after he passed by none other that the Dead's original soundman and benefactor, Owsley Stanley, aka Bear. Drawing from live shows recorded three years earlier by Bear at the Fillmore East in New York City, Bear's Choice captures the Dead at an essential moment of their history, as they were about to record Workingman's Dead (and shortly