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The Grateful Dead were not just a band. They were a traveling city. A self-sustaining organism of musicians, engineers, roadies, managers, artists, and devotees who dismantled and reassembled their world in a new location, night after night, for thirty years. The music was the reason, but the infrastructure was the miracle: the laminated credentials that unlocked backstage doors, the production cases that crossed continents, the itinerary booklets that kept fifty people moving across six countries in formation, the green room signs that came down at the end of the night and went up again somewhere else the next day. This sale is a portrait of that world — not the music, exactly, but the machinery behind it, and the human beings who made it run.&nbsp;From Dan Healy's personal Europe '72 tour itinerary to Robbie Taylor's road-worn production trunks, from Bill "Kidd" Candelario's Egypt backstage pass to Ram Rod's trove of unused credentials spanning a decade of touring, the lots gathered here trace the Grateful Dead's story through the objects that kept it moving. There are all-access laminates from the band's final summer, a ticket from the very last show, July 9, 1995, Soldier Field, Chicago, and signed posters that document the long aftermath of the Dead's run, in which the surviving members continued to carry the music forward under different names and configurations. Each item carries a direct, documented provenance. For those who believe that the crew built something just as enduring as the music, this is where to look.&nbsp;

Among the most historically significant items in this entire auction: an original, unripped concert ticket and unused backstage pass from July 9, 1995 at Soldier Field in Chicago — the final concert the Grateful Dead ever performed with Jerry Garcia. The ticket reads: “Grateful Dead with Special Guest, Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, July 9, 1995, 6:00 PM, $33.50 — Upper Stand, Gate 15, Section 113, Row 20, Seat 17.” Exactly one month later, on August 9, 1995, Jerry Garcia died at the age of 53, and the Grateful Dead ceased to exist as a band. An unused ticket from that night — never torn, never used — is one of the rarest physical artifacts of the Dead's final chapter. The accompanying backstage pass features a cowboy with guns blazing on the front, a design that, with hindsight, carries its own quiet symbolism.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Original Unused Concert Ticket & Unused Backstage Pass — Final Grateful Dead Show, July 9, 1995, Soldier Field, Chicago

Three original green room door signs bearing the names Jerry, Bob, and Phil, removed directly from the backstage doors of the BJCC Coliseum in Birmingham, Alabama by Tom Stack on April 5, 1995 — one of the final years of the Grateful Dead's touring life. Stack, founder of Club Dead and former Vice President of Licensing and Merchandise at Grateful Dead, took the signs on his way out through the backstage exit after the show. Each sign measures 11 x 6 inches and is sold as a set of three. Also included is proposed artwork for a Birmingham show t-shirt designed for the April 4–5, 1995 BJCC run, printed on 11 x 17-inch paper. Ephemera of this specificity — tied to a precise date, venue, and removal — is extraordinarily rare. As the listing notes, you can now pretend that Jerry, Bob and Phil all have a room at your house.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $75 (domestic US) / $225 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Grateful Dead Green Room Door Signs — Jerry, Bob & Phil — April 5, 1995, BJCC Coliseum, Birmingham, Alabama

A remarkable cache of 57 unused Grateful Dead backstage passes from 1995 — the band's final touring year. Unused passes are significantly rarer than used ones; they were typically held back by production staff for administrative and contingency purposes and were never distributed. That so many from a single season survived together as a group speaks to their origin within the Dead's inner production circle. The passes span the 1995 touring calendar, a year of considerable tumult for the band — including gate-crashing incidents, canceled shows, and ultimately Jerry Garcia's death on August 9, 1995, which brought the Grateful Dead's 30-year run to a close. For collectors of Dead credentials, unused passes from the final year carry particular historical and emotional weight.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

57 Grateful Dead Unused Backstage Passes, 1995

A substantial group of 69 unused Grateful Dead backstage passes from 1994, preserved together from within the band's production organization. The 1994 touring season was one of the Dead's most active late-period years, encompassing shows from coast to coast at venues ranging from the Boston Garden to Giants Stadium to the Shoreline Amphitheatre. Unused passes — never issued, never clipped, never carried through a backstage door — are far less common on the market than their used counterparts, and a group of this size from a single season is an exceptional find. A vivid document of the Dead's final full year of uninterrupted touring.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

69 Grateful Dead Unused Backstage Passes, 1994

A group of 57 unused Grateful Dead backstage passes from the 1993 touring season, held back from distribution and preserved intact within the band's production organization. 1993 was a pivotal year for the Dead: it marked the continued evolution of the band's late-period sound and the ongoing challenge of managing an audience that had grown far beyond the intimate counterculture community of their early years. These pristine, unissued credentials offer collectors a direct material connection to the machinery behind one of the most logistically complex touring operations in popular music.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

57 Grateful Dead Unused Backstage Passes, 1993

Seventy-five unused Grateful Dead backstage passes spanning more than a decade of touring — from 1983 through 1995 — from the personal collection of Lawrence “Ram Rod” Shurtliff, the band's beloved head roadie and one of the most revered figures in the Dead's extended family. Ram Rod joined the Grateful Dead organization in the late 1960s and remained a central presence for the rest of the band's career, his loyalty and steadiness earning him an almost mythological status among Deadheads and crew alike. Items from his personal archive carry a provenance of the highest order — these passes were not sold, traded, or distributed. They remained with Ram Rod, a quiet record of the years he spent putting the Dead's world together night after night.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

75 Unused Grateful Dead Backstage Passes, 1983–1995 — Property of Ram Rod

A rare and deeply personal set of artifacts from the Grateful Dead's legendary September 1978 concerts at the Giza Plateau in Egypt, from the collection of Bill “Kidd” Candelario — one of the Dead's most trusted and long-serving road crew members, and later President of Grateful Dead Merchandising. The lot includes two items: first, Candelario's personal all-areas Egypt backstage laminate, with his passport photograph laminated on the reverse alongside his legal name “William Candelario” and passport number — the kind of credentialing required for a production of that international scale. Second, Candelario's original golden Grateful Dead Egypt concert program from the Giza shows, held in front of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids. The Egypt concerts are among the most mythologized events in the Grateful Dead's history; backstage laminates from band and crew members connected to those shows have appeared at public auction only a handful of times.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $75 (domestic US) / $225 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Bill 'Kidd' Candelario's Grateful Dead Egypt Backstage Pass &  Original Gold Egypt Concert Program, 1978

A comprehensive archive of 86 vintage Grateful Dead magazines and reference catalogs — a foundational cross-section of the print culture that grew up around the band during its touring years and after. The collection comprises:<ul><li>(34) copies of the Golden Road Magazine (complete set from Winter 1984 - 1993 Annual) included several duplicates</li><li>(30) copies of Duprees Diamond Magazine</li><li>(5) copies of Bonhams Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead (the Ram Rod Shurtliff Collection)</li><li>(6) copies of Grateful Dead comix</li><li>(11) copies of Unbroken Chain MagazineA foundational reference collection for any serious Deadhead library.</li></ul>Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $125 (domestic US) / $300 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Grateful Dead Periodical Archive — 86 Vintage Magazines Including a Complete Run of The Golden Road, Dupree's Diamond News, Unbroken Chain & Grateful Dead Comix

A near-complete run of the Pure Jerry archival CD series, comprising six different Jerry Garcia live releases that document performances across fifteen years of his work outside the Grateful Dead. The set includes:• Jerry Garcia &amp; Merl Saunders Band — Keystone, Berkeley — September 1, 1974• Jerry Garcia Band — Theatre 1839, San Francisco — July 29 &amp; 30, 1977• Jerry Garcia Band — Warner Theatre, Washington, DC — March 18, 1978• Jerry Garcia Band — Lunt-Fontaine, New York City — October 15–30, 1987• Jerry Garcia Band — Lunt-Fontaine, New York City — October 31, 1987• Jerry Garcia Band — Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD — September 1 &amp; 2, 1989Rare to encounter the series gathered together as a single set.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Pure Jerry Archival Live Series — Six-Volume CD Collection of Jerry Garcia Band & Side Project Performances, 1974–1989

The Grateful Dead Movie is a 1977 concert film co-directed by Jerry Garcia and Leon Gast, documenting the band's five-night farewell stand at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom from October 16–20, 1974 — the shows that marked the end of the Wall of Sound era and the beginning of an extended hiatus. This DVD edition has been signed by six key figures connected to the film and the band: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Donna Jean Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, longtime road manager and crew chief Steve Parish, and animator Gary Gutierrez, who created the film's celebrated psychedelic animated opening sequence featuring the Grateful Dead's iconic Uncle Sam skeleton. From the Collection of Tom Stack — founder of Club Dead and former Vice President of Licensing and Merchandise at Grateful Dead — and the Club Dead Archive. Comes with both DVDs comprising this edition of the film.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $75 (domestic US) / $225 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Grateful Dead Movie DVD — Signed by Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Donna Jean Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, Steve Parish & Gary Gutierrez

A multi-signed concert poster bearing the signatures of Bob Dylan alongside the four surviving core members of the Grateful Dead — Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann — performing together under the name The Dead, joined by keyboardists Jeff Chimenti and Rob Barraco, guitarist Jimmy Herring, and vocalist Joan Osborne. Nine signatures gathered on a single poster, documenting one of the most notable post-Garcia collaborations between the Dead and one of the central figures of twentieth-century American songwriting.Dimensions: 17 x 25 inches.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $125 (domestic US) / $300 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Multi-Signed The Dead Poster — Signed by Bob Dylan, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Joan Osborne, Jimmy Herring, Jeff Chimenti & Rob Barraco

A concert poster from Furthur's debut New Year's Eve run — December 30 and 31, 2009, at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium — signed by both Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. Furthur was the touring band Lesh and Weir launched together in September 2009, and these shows marked the new project's first turn-of-the-year run, carrying forward the Grateful Dead's long tradition of marking the new year with multi-night stands in their home city. The lot includes the original event laminate.Dimensions: 16 x 23 inches.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $125 (domestic US) / $300 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Furthur 2009 New Year's Eve Run Poster — Signed by Phil Lesh & Bob Weir, with Original Event Laminate, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

An original artwork created by graphic artist Chuck Hughes for the Grateful Dead's “Paul Revere” run at Boston Garden — a series of shows held September 27, 28, 29 and October 1, 2, and 3, 1994, representing the band's final extended run at the fabled arena. The lot includes Hughes' original painting, black-and-white workup film, and a never-worn “Paul Revere” event shirt (size XL) with the location and full run dates printed on the back. From the Collection of Tom Stack — founder of Club Dead and former Vice President of Licensing and Merchandise at Grateful Dead — and the Club Dead Archive. Hughes and Stack worked closely together on Grateful Dead merchandise design during this period; this piece represents the creative process in its rawest form, before it reached mass production.Painting dimensions: 18.5 x 22 inches.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $75 (domestic US) / $225 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Grateful Dead 'Paul Revere' Boston Garden Original Artwork by Chuck Hughes — With Event Shirt & Film

A complete set of six Grateful Dead 1992 Summer Tour all-access band member laminates, from the personal collection of Robbie Taylor — one laminate for each member of the band as it stood during that season: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Vince Welnick, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann. All-access laminates issued specifically for band members — rather than crew, press, or guests — are among the rarest categories of Grateful Dead backstage credentials, and a complete set of all six band members from a single tour is exceptional.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Grateful Dead 1992 Summer All-Access Band Member Laminates —  Complete Set of Six

A primary document from one of the most celebrated tours in rock history, this set of crew documents belonged to Dan Healy — the Grateful Dead's chief sound engineer from 1967 through 1994, and one of the most consequential figures in the history of live sound reinforcement. The documents outline the full schedule and logistical itinerary for the Grateful Dead's spring 1972 European tour, which ran from April 7 to May 26, comprising 22 performances across six countries including England, Denmark, Germany, France, and Luxembourg. The tour resulted in the landmark triple live album Europe '72, released in November 1972, and is widely regarded as one of the finest extended concert documents in rock history. Healy — who helped design and operate the Wall of Sound and served as the band's primary audio architect for nearly three decades — was part of the touring entourage of approximately 43 people who accompanied the band across 5,572 miles of travel. An itinerary from his personal archive is an exceptional primary document of a legendary tour.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $75 (domestic US) / $225 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Grateful Dead Dan Healy's 1972 Europe Tour Itinerary

A veteran of the Grateful Dead's 1980s touring operation, this large white production case was built and managed by Robbie Taylor, the band's long-serving production manager. Whether housing cables, tools, or essential crew supplies, cases like this one were the unglamorous backbone of the Dead's remarkably consistent touring machine. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995 following Jerry Garcia's death, this case continued its working life on the road with Phil Lesh and Friends — Lesh's post-Dead touring project — lending it a continuous thread of Bay Area rock history across two decades of live music. The case still contains a roll of 6-mil Visqueen plastic sheeting, used by the crew to cover their outdoor footwear in wet weather conditions during outdoor shows.Size: 24.5 x 54.5 x 29.5 inches.Shipping: Due to the size and nature of this item, shipping requires custom freight/cartage. ANALOGr will contact you following the auction to arrange shipping logistics and coordinate a custom solution.

Grateful Dead 1980s Robbie Taylor White Production Case

A striking piece of the Grateful Dead's touring infrastructure, this red production trunk was built and used by Robbie Taylor — the band's trusted production manager throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s — during the 1990 touring season. Constructed from heavy-duty road case materials with spring loaded clips, the trunk was used to store and transport extra packing blankets used to protect equipment between shows. A Steal Your Face sticker on the exterior marks it unmistakably as a piece of Dead family gear. Road cases of this quality and documented provenance rarely make it to the open market; most were retired, repurposed, or simply lost after the band ceased touring in 1995.Size: 24.5 x 48 x 31 inches.Local pickup preferred; Rock-It Cargo shipping can be facilitated upon request.Shipping: Due to the size and nature of this item, shipping requires custom freight/cartage. ANALOGr will contact you following the auction to arrange shipping logistics and coordinate a custom solution.

Long Strange Trip: Relics from the Road