The strange saga of Grateful Dead and the Hells Angels

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It all started in 1966 on Ashbury Street.

The Grateful Dead, 1970 : Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Ron"Pigpen" McKernan, Mickey Hart and Jerry Garcia.Backstage at a Grateful Dead concert in the early 1980s, band lyricist John Perry Barlow cornered Jerry Garcia and asked, “Why do we have the Hells Angels around?”

The relationship began after the Dead moved to the Haight-Ashbury in 1966, when a couple of Angels lived across the street. Neighborhood lore still circulates stories about legendary parties and encounters, but by then, the Angels had already become tabloid fodder, with lurid accounts of drunken brawls and debauched parties making the club “the hundred-carat headline,” as Hunter S. Thompson put it in his 1967 book “Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga.

Those events were part of a larger tapestry that wove outlaw motorcycle clubs into the story of the Haight-Ashbury. Several Angels were popular figures in the Haight-Ashbury at the time. Allen “Gut” Terk was an Angel and poster artist who managed Blue Cheer, a band whose sound system was designed by the Dead’s legendary sound engineer Owsley Stanley.

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