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Legendary Grateful Dead Shows in Egypt Emerge From the Sand

10/10/08, 3:12 pm EST

Photo: Blakesberg/Retna

Thirty years ago, the Grateful Dead played a series of concerts at the foot of the Sphinx in Giza, Egypt that went down in history both for their ambition and their myriad near-disasters. Hihglights from those concerts are finally getting an official release on the two-disc set Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978. “I went into eternity,” says Bob Weir of the experience. Click below for more on these infamous shows, including how the band employed a pair of camels after their equipment truck broke down.

The Dead Rock the Pyramids

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Mellow Unharshed | 10/11/2008, 4:37 pm EST

Maybe CPR will help the dead come back to life!

Jerry Garcia loves crack!

Joe | 10/11/2008, 11:50 am EST

But if you are a big U2 fan you are not going to care because the music always sounds good.

Olompali | 10/11/2008, 6:43 am EST

M Dubb, Kinda’ like……….
-but if you are a big Punk fan you are not going to care because the music always sounds good when you are an angry suicidal.
-but if you are a big Metal fan you are not going to care because the music always sounds good when plastered on Budweiser.
-but if you are a big Prog fan you are not going to care because the music always sounds good when living in your mother’s basement.
-but if you are a big Country fan you are not going to care because the music always sounds good when marrying a cousin.
-but if you are a big Indie fan you are not going to care because the music always sounds good when 17.

“Blah. blah woof woof”
~Jimi Hendrix

M Dubb | 10/10/2008, 11:42 pm EST

Wow…there are some rough vocals on some of these tracks, but if you are a big Dead fan you are not going to care because music always sounds good when you are stoned.

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