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The Haight Street Art Center show, which encompasses both floors of the center, is curated by Ben Marks, with advisers Dennis McNally, a Grateful Dead historian, and Susana Millman, a photographer known for her images of the band. \u201cForever Grateful\u201d displays more than 400 items, from photos to records and visual art. The show also highlights the poster creators who helped shape the band\u2019s visual identity, including San Francisco\u2019s \u201cBig Five\u201d rock-poster artists Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The largest gallery space features a 1-to-4 scale replica of the band\u2019s famous \u201cWall of Sound\u201d audio installation. The\u00a0immersive recreation of the speaker system used in concerts plays the band\u2019s live recordings, offering visitors a chance to experience something close to a concert\u2019s sound. The installation was designed and built by Anthony Coscia of instrument and cabinet builder Coscia Guitar and includes 500 speakers.<\/p>\n
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Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse\u2019s \u201cBertha,\u201d 1967, is on view in \u201cForever Grateful\u201d at the Haight Street Art Center.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe thing that really set the Grateful Dead apart from everyone else was its sound,\u201d said Marks. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t merely a technical achievement\u00a0\u2014 the lack of distortion in the band\u2019s live sound allowed you to fully experience the music.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the band only had only one Top 40 single in its 30-year career, with the 1987 song \u201cTouch of Grey,\u201d it was among the highest-grossing American touring acts for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Part of the intent of \u201cForever Grateful\u201d is to also recognize the Deadhead community, from the first fan club founded by Palo Alto classmates of Weir to the generations of tie-dye wearing devotees since.<\/p>\n
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\u201cForever Grateful,\u201d Haight Street Art Center Board Chair Roger McNamee said in a statement, was \u201ccreated by Dead Heads for Dead Heads.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c(It) serves as both a museum exhibition and a gathering space for visitors to enjoy music, art, photography, and artifacts of the band that defies description and its equally indescribable community,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The second exhibition, \u201cForever Grateful, Golden Gate Park,\u201d is slated to open Sept. 5, at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alton Kelley\u2019s design for the Grateful Dead\u2019s 1978 tour of Egypt.\u00a0 Haight Street Art Center The\u00a0Haight Street Art…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,8952,365761,459,64,63,485,460,134,6113],"class_list":["post-768975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-arts-and-exhibits","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-california","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}