All things must pass, and with the coming senescence of the Boomers, we may finally be able to lay the legacy of the 1960s to rest. And yet, by all appearances, one part of that legacy is still going strong – one might even say truckin’ – in the popular imagination. I’m speaking of course of the Grateful Dead, the cult band from San Francisco who have retained an elusive cultural cachet up to the present day. Whence the popularity?
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