The Grateful Dead’s lead singer, Jerry Garcia, during a rehearsal at a recording studio in San Rafael, California, 1977.

Ron “Pigpen” McKernan at the Artists Liberation Front’s Free Fair in the Panhandle, a public park in San Francisco, 1966.

*Top,* the Grateful Dead near the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, 1966; *above,* Garcia, his second wife, Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia, and their dog Lady at the band’s house, at 710 Ashbury Street, in San Francisco, 1967.

Mickey Hart at the entrance of the Fillmore Auditorium, 1968.

Bill Graham outside the Fillmore Auditorium, 1966.

Al Kooper, Mountain Girl, Garcia, and Jack Casady backstage at the Matrix, a nightclub in San Francisco, 1969.

*Top,* the Grateful Dead’s last free concert, on Haight Street in San Francisco, 1968; *above,* Bill Kreutzmann at the Sky River Rock Festival, in Sultan, Washington, 1968.

Pigpen and Mountain Girl’s daughter Sunshine Kesey, at 710 Ashbury Street, 1967.

Garcia’s shirt hanging in the dressing room of the Fillmore Auditorium, 1966.

Back from the Dead

Jim Marshall’s Grateful Dead photos, capturing the calm and chaos of the 1960s rock ’n’ roll scene, are collected in a new coffee-table book

In 1965, Jim Marshall (1936–2010), complete with camera, moved from New York City back to the place where he grew up, San Francisco; he settled on Haight Street. On the West Coast, the counterculture was questioning everything. Men were letting their hair grow past their shoulders, women were tying theirs in bandannas, and amid the weed and the cobblestones, the prim full skirts of the 1950s were laughably old hat.

Rock music propelled it all, and Marshall was in the middle of it. Just a few blocks away, Longshoremen’s Hall hosted concerts, and the Fillmore Auditorium, at the corner of Geary Boulevard and Fillmore Street, became the place where Bill Graham, a young German-born impresario, began promoting shows. Two blocks north, the Panhandle stood at the neighborhood’s heart. Most importantly, at 710 Ashbury Street, the Grateful Dead lived in a communal house for 18 months—from September 1966 to March 1968.