Built to Last - A Look Back at the Legacy of the Grateful Dead

Join Dennis McNally, Nicholas Meriwether, and Peter Richardson, three leading experts whose work has shaped our understanding of the band’s enduring cultural legacy to discuss the Grateful Dead’s formative years, their influence on the 1960s counterculture, and the innovative spirit that made their concerts social laboratories for musical and psychological exploration.

This talk is essential for anyone interested in the legacy of the Grateful Dead and their ongoing impact on music and culture 60 years after the band was formed.

Speakers -

Dennis McNally, the Grateful Dead’s longtime publicist and official historian
Nicholas Meriwether, Executive Director of the Grateful Dead Studies Association
Peter Richardson, Author of No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead

This program is one of the three special programs at Manny's to explore the past, present and future of the Grateful Dead's music and culture, in the lead up to Dead and Company's three concerts in Golden Gate Park on July 31-August 2nd.

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