GEORGE LUCAS PREVIEWS LETTERMAN DIGITAL ARTS CENTER
Drummer Mickey Hart entertains at the preview opening of the new George Lucas campus, the Letterman Digital Arts Center, in San Francisco on June 25, 2005. The newly constructed 23 acre complex is in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. (UPI Photo/Terry Schmitt)
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The surviving members of the iconic rock group the Grateful Dead have announced plans to embark on their first U.S. concert tour in five years.
CHICAGO, July 3 (UPI) -- Mickey Hart said he and two other surviving members of the Grateful Dead may reunite for a concert to support U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Grateful Dead critics said the U.S. band was out there; soon it really will be since Sirius Satellite Radio said it would launch a channel devoted to the group.
NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Laid-back singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett says he was both amused and frightened by his recent "drug bust" in France.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 (UPI) -- Grateful Dead crew member, Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff, described by Bob Weir as "our rock," has died in Petaluma, Calif., at age 61.
NEW YORK, April 21 (UPI) -- Frank Zappa received a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award and Bob Dylan took home video of the year at the sixth annual Jammy Awards in New York.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- A large part of Deadhead culture has always been the exchange of Grateful Dead "bootleg" recordings, a practice the band encouraged and endorsed -- until now.
PETALUMA, Calif., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Spencer Dryden, the drummer for the Jefferson Airplane rock group died at his California residence of stomach cancer. He was 66.
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo., July 22 (UPI) -- The surviving members of the Grateful Dead, now touring simply as The Dead, have politics on the brain for their Wave That Flag summer tour.
LOS ANGELES, May 22 (UPI) -- Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart is gaining respectability with the establishment, to the point where he is a big shot at the Library of Congress.
