Vintage Grateful Dead

The vintage Grateful Dead Summer Tour 1993 T-shirt is a poignant memento from one of the band’s final full touring years, capturing the enduring spirit of the Deadhead community in the twilight of the band’s career. The front graphic, featuring a Jerry Garcia skull—a playful riff on the classic “Steal Your Face” imagery, with Garcia’s smiling face replacing the skull’s cranium—personifies the band’s unique blend of dark iconography and benevolent hippie ethos. The tour itself, detailed on the back with key stadium and arena dates from June 1993, featured the band embracing newer material from the time, like “Days Between,” alongside their legendary psychedelic jams and classics. Though the decade saw Jerry Garcia’s health decline, making performances sometimes inconsistent, the 1993 Summer Tour remains historically significant as one of the last full-scale East Coast stadium runs, representing the band’s unwavering commitment to their improvisational craft and the massive cultural movement that followed them to every city on the schedule.

Size 75x60cm
Condition 9/10 (Stains & Pin Hole)