So very sad. Your words have guided us thru every part of our lives. The peaks and valleys and in times like this it is your words that we use to comfort each other. “Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock… instagram.com/p/B2ze2UfBigr/…
Jay Blakesberg
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Jay Blakesberg
@jayblakesberg
Photographer, Filmmaker
- September 2 is a big day for me in Grateful Dead history. On September 2, 1978 I photographed my first @gratefuldead concert. I was 16 years old. My father loaned me his Pentax Camera and gave me a few rolls of black… instagram.com/p/B16li50BxRy/…
- 39 years ago today I was fortunate enough to spend my 18th birthday with the good Ole’ @gratefuldead at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pa today I turn 57 and spent the day doing new… instagram.com/p/Bq3t_jRg8or/…
- 40 years ago today I saw the @gratefuldead at Giants Stadium - The Meadowlands! Life changing on so many levels for me. This was my second Grateful Dead concert. My father loaned me his… instagram.com/p/BnOh-HEnUsn/…
- 25 years ago today - April 17, 1995 would be the last time I would be face to face with Garcia. The Jerry Garcia Band was filming a video for The song “smoke gets in your eyes”. This song ran over the credits in the… instagram.com/p/B_GOtn7DBxs/…
- 40 years ago today!! 12.31.79 my first @gratefuldead New Year’s Eve! Oakland, Ca. Still at it 40 years later in SF with deadandcompany ! Can’t quit the mob! 📷🌹📷 @jayblakesberg instagram.com/p/B6w6t5BBIHm/…
- Life changing experience! First Grateful Dead concert. Today 42 years ago. September 3, 1977 - Englishtown, NJ - legendary show. Pure 1977 GD! One of the greatest He’s Gone>Not Fade Away ever! Picture #2 is the only… instagram.com/p/B1-n_Sxhisw/…
- And then Fare Thee Well was part of our collective history! We came, we danced, we reconnected all the dots of all of our long strange trip! It was magical and I am so grateful for my role in this moment!! Thank you… instagram.com/p/CCR7U1ejmtV/…
- Honored to have the cover photo on the new issue of @relixmag . Many of you know that my first photo ever published in print was in Relix Magazine when I was 16 years old. Relix has been my family for 40 years!!…
- This is what happens when you take copious amounts of LSD and you have a camera with you at a Grateful Dead concert in Anchorage Alaska while they play in a High School Auditorium and it is summer solstice in 1980…
- December 26, 1979. 40 years ago today. This was a huge day in my Grateful Dead history! I had jumped on a Greyhound Bus a few days earlier heading for California to see my first west coast Dead shows. We reached…
- 40 years ago today - 12.01.79 - I spent my 18th birthday with the @gratefuldead in Pittsburgh, PA! Last year on my 57th birthday 12.01.18 I did a portrait of Phil Lesh and he sang me happy birthday! What a long… instagram.com/p/B5iycGRBI-7/…
- On March 30, 1980 I met this guy pictured at a Dead show at the Capitol Theatre in NJ. He gave me about 50 hits of blotter and I turned on everyone around me. His name was BT (past tense… instagram.com/p/BwIqk0oAW2l/…
