Official Grateful Dead Dancing Bear T-Shirt The Grateful Dancing Bear references Owsley “Bear” Stanley, the sound man for the Grateful Dead.ĭeadheads can wear their very own Grateful Dead t-shirt with pride, and let everyone know they are true Deadheads for the Grateful Dead band.Īlso, remember, to check out the Jerry Garcia tee shirt page!. The Grateful Dead Dancing Bear T-Shirt features a tie dye dancing bear on the front of a royal blue tee shirt. Any Grateful Dead fan would be proud to wear this Grateful Dead tee shirt. On the sleeve of the t-shirt includes a heart with the lightning bolt, and other added graphics. The Good Ol’ Grateful Dead Raglan T-shirt features a skull with red, white, and blue lightning bolts coming out the head, and the saying, “Good Ol’ Grateful Dead” on the front of the tee shirt. The Grateful Dead 1980 Tour T-Shirt features the Grateful Dead iconic skull and lighting bolt logo along with on tour 1980. You can keep the Grateful Dead alive when you wear one of the Grateful Dead T-shirts. Ron “Pigpen” McKernan passed away on Mawith complications with his liver. Jerry Garcia passed away on August 9, 1995. A video game called, “Grateful Dead Game” was released in 2012, and the video game was created by Curious Sense. The marching bears were drawn by Bob Thomas, and the artist said the bears aren’t dancing, but they are just stepping high. The Grateful Dead Dancing Bears were first seen on the back cover of the “History of the Grateful Dead” album. The lightning bolt skull was put on the bands equipment. Owsley Stanley designed the logo, and Bob Thomas was the artist.

The lightning bolt skull is found on many of the Grateful Dead’s album covers. The Grateful Dead icon is a red, white and blue skull that has a lightning bolt going through the skull. Grateful Dead is known for their psychedelic music in the early years. Most members of the band became dependent on the dangerous drug. In the late seventies the band began to use cocaine. The “Wake of the Flood” was their next album, then “From the Mars Hotel” soon followed. Grateful Dead’s first album was released in 1967, and was called, “The Grateful Dead”. Jerry Garcia picked up the dictionary and seen the word Grateful and Dead appeared opposite of one another, and the definition was, “the soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial.” The band got their name from the old Britannica Dictionary. Many of the die-hard fans or Deadheads followed the band from concert to concert. Grateful Dead fans are also known as “Deadheads”. The founding members of Grateful Dead include Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, and Phil Lesh. The band would fuse all different types of music together to create their own sound.

The Grateful Dead had a unique sound and style. Grateful Dead was a rock band that was formed in Palo Alto, California. We have Grateful Dead tee shirts from legendary shows like Fillmore East in 1970, London ’72, Boston ’77, Ithaca ’77 and Telluride ’87. Old School Tees specializes in vintage style Grateful Dead shirts from many of their most epic tours and concert dates. Our Grateful Dead t-shirts contain some of the most iconic images in all of rock 'n' roll. The Dead came out of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury counterculture of the 1960's, and Deadheads followed them all over the globe to party to their laid-back jamming style. Grateful Dead T-Shirts for Men and Women What a long, strange trip it’s been …

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