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Brian A. Anderson

Brian A Anderson is a journalist, a Pulitzer Prize–winning editor, and the author of Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection.

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a psychedelic, neon colored illustration of a bear surrounded by swirling lights, evoking the trippy visual culture of early grateful dead acid tests.

Psychedelic Jam: 5 Essential Tracks

Tight songs, extended jams.

a psychedelic, neon colored illustration of a bear surrounded by swirling lights, evoking the trippy visual culture of early grateful dead acid tests.

Psychedelic Jam: Must Trip to Enter

The Grateful Dead’s 1965 Acid Test at Muir Beach melted the audience and performers into one psychedelic movement.