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  • Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt
  • Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt

Grateful Dead 1983 Alton Kelly San Francisco White T-Shirt

$ 350.00
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This San Francisco white tee showcases Kelley's ability to create multiple distinct artworks celebrating the same band during the same tour season. San Francisco remained the Dead's true home, the place where they rehearsed, where their crew maintained the Wall of Sound components, where the family lived.

By 1983, San Francisco shows carried a different weight than they had in the early 1970s. The city had transformed. The Dead's role within San Francisco had shifted from counterculture innovators to elder statesmen. Yet the connection remained unbroken. Playing the Warfield, the Fillmore (now managed differently), and other Bay Area venues meant something specific: accountability to the place that made them.

Alton Kelley's San Francisco designs acknowledge this history. They're more grounded than his other work, less ornate, and connected to the city's geography.

  • FRONT: Melting Stealie Sunset. Copyright 1983 G.D.P. / Kelley / Scully.
  • BACK: Grateful Dead Spring Tour 1983.
  • All-white baseball jersey t-shirt with crisp colors and bright design.
  • SIZE: Small.
  • CONDITION: Original concert t-shirt, new/never worn.