Celebrating 60 Years of Grateful Dead with Concerts in San Francisco

• Grateful Dead celebrates its 60th anniversary with traditional concerts in San Francisco.
• The ticket price for all three days amounts to $635.
• Planned events include the renaming of a street in honor of Jerry Garcia.

In San Francisco, they are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the band Grateful Dead with traditional concerts and celebratory events. The band Dead & Company, which includes original members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, will perform at the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park, expected to attract nearly 60,000 attendees each day. The last band performance in this venue was in 1991, when they held a benefit concert after the death of frontman Bill Graham.

The ticket price for all three days is $635, which has shocked many fans who remember when ticket prices were lower. However, fan David Aberdein expressed satisfaction, stating that this is "the spiritual home of Grateful Dead."

The band was founded in 1965, and it became a symbol of San Francisco and its counterculture. Band members lived in a ramshackle Victorian house in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and became an important part of the Summer of Love in 1967. After the situation worsened due to problems with drugs and police, the band moved around Marin.

Fans of the band, known as Deadheads, describe how they became captivated by the music and why the community that forms at concerts is so important. Many of them feel they have found their place among like-minded individuals.

This year, the anniversary will feature planned events, including concerts and parties throughout the city. San Francisco's mayor, who is not a fan of the band but loves the song "Sugar Magnolia," will kick off the iconic ceremony in the city's revitalization after the pandemic. On Friday, the day they would have celebrated the 83rd anniversary of Jerry Garcia, there will be a street renaming in honor of the singer.

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