European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile the grateful dead Are alive and Well a recent group portrait of the grateful from left in the Back Row Bill Phil ferry Garcia and Mickey in front Are Brent and Bob by Mary Campbell associated press the Rock band grateful a Force behind the Flower Power of another is alive and kicking after two born in san Francisco when Haigh Ashbury was the capital of the psychedelic the group survived after that scene died and will celebrate an anniversary next members say its because the grateful dead Learned to get High on music instead of you dont have to take psychedelic drugs to get says Mickey who joined the grateful dead As its second that the thing we didst know 20 years when were time stands you can Cut Loose from your physical transcend your aches and the More you the younger you can arriving for an interview with his kindergarten age is working on a Edge of which will Trace the history of drumming from 4500 the shaman used Drums to introduce a transformed Hart it was one of the earliest forms of theres a correlation Between what the grateful dead does and what the shaman the audience comes expecting a Bill Graham Calls it the audiences time out from whoever they the grateful dead Tours for three then the six members go Home to their when the group was they All lived together in a House in Haigh Ashbury and tried to work every we were All kids learning to play our Hart Jerry Garcia Learned guitar hed been playing Phil Lesh Learned Bass hed been playing Hart can recall a review that said they were mad scientists using Rusty scalpels on the minds of unsuspecting some people Call us a 60s he were were in the 80s and doing and were much better than we were in the the grateful dead dates its anniversary from the Day of less arrival in Palo Alto on june the following weekend he played for the first time in with the warlocks rhythm guitarist Bob drummer Bill Kreutzmann and Ron Pigpen Mckernan on Harmonica and the warlocks name held until they discovered that a Florida group already had claimed some say the name grateful dead came to Garcia in a psychedelic the grateful dead int the oldest american Rock the Beach boys three Wilson a Cousin and a High school Friend started in 1961 but performs now without Dennis who drowned two years and the often incapacitated Brian the Jefferson formed in flies now As the Jefferson Sta ship with none of its original the grateful dead used to in the Park All the time in the Haigh Ashbury Weir As the crowds became they began to trash the Park More and As big crowds the Park department decided they had enough of i think 1975 was the last we had pretty much free run of the City in the Early we were one step ahead of whatever Laws could keep us one time we blocked Haight Street and played on a couple of flatbed there was More Freedom around us in san Garcia weird behaviour want greeted with immediate hostility and anything weird and youre liable to get about the groups Garcia the grateful dead is not the place for the traditional one artist one Weir and i do the majority of the i write with Robert Weir writes with John it Doest get to be a grateful dead song until the grateful dead plays its not like i write it and teach it to the grateful its architecture becomes something the grateful builds recently the band collectively composed the theme for tvs new Twilight but the group Hast Cut an album in five the grateful dead never was a recording Hart it seems like our magic Doest happen in a were a live band that responds in the but there probably will be an album this anniversary As Well As the bands first after about concerts Over 20 they can Only recall missing there was a or at least a backstage in san Diego in 1980 and 34 people were among them Weir and on charges of inciting a Weir claimed the police had bust this Garcia was arrested in san Francisco for drug the original keyboards never used drugs but was a heavy he died in 1973 of liver pianist Keith Godchaux and his vocalist wife Diana joined the group then but were asked to leave seven years the keyboards player now is Brent the most exotic concert of the last 20 years was at the pyramids near in then there was the april fools Day concert in where the dead played each others one of our worst was Weir our sound Man decided he wanted to use our own a which was inadequate to the it was cameramen were crawling under us All the when i played the guitar i got a continuous Low level electric once i also touched the a big Blue arc came out and sent me Back about six almost knocking me we had the film when you see the Woodstock movie in the grateful dead int in and a Good Garcia Doest want to look 20 years in some ways it feels a lot like were just getting he it has never gotten its never i  have been Able to Chart accurately any of the last 20 years in not going to bother about the next an ensemble is very something you cant push and Hart it has to mature like Fine if you dont break the bottle you have something wonderful in 20 in the grateful dead youre looking at a hell of a bottle of 20 stripes Magazine May