The Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead: The Fillmore concert posters

Members of the folk rock group The Grateful Dead talk with reporters in their home in San Francisco, Calif., on Oct. 5, 1967. The Grateful Dead protested being busted by the police for marijuana possession.

Members of The Grateful Dead are pictured in this 1969 photo. From left in the back row: Tom Constanten, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzman, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Phil Lesh. Jerry Garcia, left, and Mickey Hart, right, are in the front row.

Guitarist Jerry Garcia, second from left, is joined by his first wife Mountain Girl, left, Delaney Bramlett, center, and Bruce Baxter III, right, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on July 2, 1970, during the legendary "Festival Express," also known as the Transcontinental Pop Festival.

The Grateful Dead, 1982. From left: Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Brent Mydland, Bill Kreutzman and Bob Weir

Members of The Grateful Dead pose in a 1985 photo in Marin County, Calif. From left, back row: Bill Kreutzman, Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and Mickey Hart. In front: Brent Mydland, left, and Bob Weir.

Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia plays the "Tiger" guitar in a concert at the Oakland Coliseum, July 24, 1987, in Oakland, Calif.

Jerry Garcia and David Grisman perform at the Warfield Theater, Dec. 7, 1991, in San Francisco.

The Grateful Dead's singer Jerry Garcia performs in this June 30, 1995, photo in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Grateful Dead band members Mickey Hart, left, and Bob Weir goof around while posing for a picture, April 23, 1996, in San Rafael, Calif. The two are preparing to go on the Furthur Festival tour across the country.

Michael Miley bangs his drum for fans in the parking lot before the Further Festival at the Reno, Nev., Hilton, July 24, 1996. Autumn Nordin, left, in yellow, of St. Joseph, Mo., is part of a group known as "Deadheads" that travels around the country following members of the former Grateful Dead band.

Drummer Mickey Hart sits in a garden outside his home with his 8-month-old doberman named Tyler, near Sebastopol, Calif., April 15, 2002. Hart, the former half of The Grateful Dead's two-drummer roster, known as the Rhythm Devils, has been busy since the band's breakup in 1995. Since then, Hart has recorded popular albums like "Mickey Hart's Mystery Box," and written books about music and producing.

Bob Weir, right, and Phil Lesh, left, perform with The Other Ones at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wis., Aug. 4, 2002, at the Terrapin Station Grateful Dead Reunion.

2003: Surviving members of The Grateful Dead returned to their old house in the Haight Ashbury section of San Francisco, Calif., for an intimate concert, back where it all began. The Dead are once again playing to legions of faithful fans across the country.