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Grateful Dead To Give Archive To UC Santa Cruz

Posted about 1 year ago
Dancing bears, meet the Banana Slugs. The surviving members of the Grateful Dead are turning over the rock band's archives to the University of California at Santa Cruz.The archive will hold the band's correspondence and other memorabilia, but not its recordings, longtime band spokesman Dennis McNally said Wednesday.Ex-Dead guitarist Bob Weir and drummer Mickey Hart will announce a partnership with the university Thursday. The announcement will take place at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, where many of the band's legendary shows were held.A spokesman for UC Santa Cruz would not comment on the details of the deal ahead of Thursday's planned announcement.

Comments (4)

  1. david hyman says wow. a grateful dead museum perhaps!
    Permalink posted 04/24/2008
  2. Charley Rogulewski says that just takes the university to e new stoner level. beats out UC - boulder whose 4/20 looked liked this:
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008
  3. steve simon says can't wait to go down for this
    Permalink posted 04/26/2008
  4. Mike the Knife says Think of all the roaches, stems and seeds that must be scattered in those storage boxes...
    Permalink posted 04/28/2008

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