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  • Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt

Grateful Dead 1980 Rick Griffin Radio City 15th Year Skull T-Shirt

$ 525.00
$ 525.00
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The year 1980 marked a significant milestone: the Grateful Dead's 15th anniversary of relentless touring. To commemorate this milestone, they embarked on an ambitious fall tour unlike anything they'd undertaken before. Three complete sets per night became the template, an acoustic set (their first regular acoustic performances since the early 1970s) followed by two electric sets. It was a bold artistic statement: we're not just here to play rock and roll; we're here to demonstrate the full range of what this band can do.

The Radio City Music Hall stands as the crown jewel of this legendary 15th Anniversary tour. Eight sold-out shows. Rick Griffin, the visionary who had designed some of the most iconic Dead imagery of the 1960s and 1970s, created the artwork for this tour. His design captures both the ceremonial weight of the moment and the band's enduring connection to skeleton imagery and skulls, symbols of mortality that paradoxically connect to eternal improvisation.

The tour proved transformative. Two live albums emerged from it: Reckoning (the acoustic recordings) and Dead Set (the electric sets), both landmark documents of the Dead's artistic evolution. This concert shirt commemorates a specific moment when the band reinvented itself, reflecting on fifteen years of relentless creativity.

  • Measurements: 19.5" armpit to armpit; 27-28.5" shoulder to hem
  • Condition: Original concert tee, minor stains on front, light yellowing
  • Format: White with black 3/4 sleeve baseball jersey
  • Era: 1980 15th Anniversary tour