The Grateful Dead
Practice Session, Heliport (Sausalito)
1967
Photography by Gene Anthony

Ever the devoted practitioners of their respective instruments, the Grateful Dead are caught here during a session (before their “practices” consisted of simply playing live to thousands of Deadheads night upon night) at a studio space in Sausalito in 1967. Caught around the time their self-titled debut album was released, this image from Summer of Love documenter Gene Anthony shows the original incarnation of the Dead: A young, singing Jerry and pre-jean shorts Bobby Weir in the foreground, with Pigpen, Phil, and Bill holding it down in back. Makes you wonder what song they were playing…

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