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San Francisco – 19 July 2025
1. Street performer plays Grateful Dead-type jam on Haight Street
2. SOUNDBITE (English) David Aberdeen, Employee, Amoeba Records & Long-Time "Deadhead":
"So Dead and Company, which has the remaining members of the Grateful Dead in it, are playing a 60th anniversary show three days in Golden Gate Park, August 1st, 2nd and 3rd. 60,000 people coming from all over to celebrate the legacy of the band and their music."
3. Various Grateful Dead and Dead & Co. Music and posters on sale inside Amoeba Music
4. SOUNDBITE (English) David Aberdeen, Employee, Amoeba Records & Long-Time "Deadhead":
"Bands go out on tour. They play the same show every night. It’s well rehearsed. You know what to expect. Grateful Dead, anything can happen, or a Dead & Company, or any of the offshoot bands. It’s part of it. They live in the moment. It’s the magic of the moment"
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5. Various Grateful Dead playing at Madison Square Garden
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San Francisco – 19 July 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dennis McNally, Former Grateful Dead Publicist & Author:
"There’s more deadheads in 2025 than there were in 1995. There are 800 Dead cover bands in America."
7. Dead cover band plays on Haight
8. Deadheads listen to music
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dennis McNally, Former Grateful Dead Publicist & Author:
"The combination of psychedelics and dancing and listening to very loud music has an effect on people and the end result is a whole lot of joy."
10. Woman talks outside window at famous intersection of Haight & Ashbury Streets
11. Band plays music on Haight Street
12. Haight & Ashbury street signs
13. Various Grateful Dead patches on sale on Haight Street
14. "Celebrating 60 years of Grateful Dead" sign
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Emmons, President, Haight-Ashbury Merchants Association:
"Deadheads, this is their holy ground. They love coming here and we love having them. They’re just an amazing group of people that are just kind and thoughtful and just excited to be here. So yeah, we’re thrilled about Dead & Company playing. All of the merchants here are very excited."
16. Various Grateful Dead merchandise on sale inside clothing store
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Sunshine Powers, Owner, Love on Haight:
"San Francisco has a Jerry Garcia Day that happens at Jerry Garcia Amphitheater. The Grateful Dead are an integral part of who we are as a city."
18. Jerry Garcia photo on a worship candle
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Sunshine Powers, Owner, Love on Haight:
"The idea that we’re all included. We can all get along. We can find a way to dance to music that we all groove to. I don’t think that’s a one generation thing. I think that something that’s going to go on for generations to come. And I think the reality of the 60th anniversary is that the music’s never going to stop."
20. Zoom into 60th anniversary of Grateful Dead logo sewn on backpack
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ARCHIVE : San Francisco 9 August 1995
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21. People in park
22. Man dancing
23. Wistful man in hat
24. Woman crying
25. Closeup candle is lit, placed at shrine
26. Wide shot street signs
27. Musicians play and sing
28. Shrine at store window
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