This week in Grateful Dead history, the concert video ‘Ticket to New Year’s’ was released. The video featured the Dead’s show from December 31, 1987, and was released on VHS in 1996 and DVD in 1998. Featured here is a clip of a performance of “Bertha” from that same show. | Grateful Dead

Let there be songs to fill the air 🌬️🎶 "One of the most-loved Grateful Dead songs, ‘Ripple’ was one of the many standouts on ‘American Beauty.’ It was played 11 times between 1970 & 1971, and then dropped until it returned in 1980, played as the set-closing song every night during the Dead's acoustic sets. It made one final appearance on 9/3/88 in Landover, MD, before being retired for good." - David Lemieux Watch the full performance of the tune from the final night of the Dead’s Radio City M