Happy Birthday Jerry Garcia: Why The Grateful Dead Still Matters

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The Grateful Dead at 710 Ashbury in San Francisco.
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Switching on the Grateful Dead channel this morning on satellite radio (yes, I have it preprogrammed) and wondering if there would be anything special happening for what would have been Jerry Garcia's 70th birthday (yes, I know that too), it was pretty much business as usual--just one of the hundred or versions of "Cold Rain and Snow" floating in the Grateful Dead universe.

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