4/30/2023 0 Comments Grateful dead logoIn 1969, the Dead were doing the festival rounds – great for raising their fan numbers, maybe, but a nightmare for Bear and the other members of crew who had to sort out their gear from the other bands. Along with being the first known private individual to manufacture mass amounts of LSD, Bear was the Dead’s very first soundman. It all started with a man called Augustus Owsley Stanley III, or ‘Bear’ for short. Weirdly enough, it was created less from intent and more by necessity. As intrinsically linked to the band as psychedelia, it’s been a part of the Dead’s history for more years than most of us have been alive. If you’ve heard of the Grateful Dead, you’ll know their ‘Steal Your Face’ lightning skull logo. And why would they need to when they had such a fabulous array of images to choose from? But for most people, there’s one design in particular that screams ‘Grateful Dead’ – the “Steal Your Face” lightning skull. With so much visual iconography to draw from, it’s little wonder they struggled to put their name behind just one emblem. ![]() As the Dallas News notes, they were one of the first bands to use psychedelic light shows and among the first of their peers to realize the pulling power of a well-designed gig poster. As anyone who knows their music history will tell you, the Grateful Dead has a long, proud association with the visual arts. ![]() When it comes to band emblems, though, few are quite so legendary (or quite so many) as the Grateful Dead’s. The Roling Stones’ “Hot Lips”, Social Distortion’s dancing “Skelly”, Led Zeppelin’s “Zoso”… all iconic bands, all made that little bit more iconic thanks to their excellent choice in logos. It’s not fair to say a band lives and dies by the quality of its logo, but a good one doesn’t exactly hurt.
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