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The group released the album “Blues for Allah.” During this period, Mickey Hart rejoined the group as a second drummer.
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- Grateful Dead performed at the Civic Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Grateful Dead performed at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- Grateful Dead performed at the Municipal Auditorium Arena in Kansas City, Missouri.
- Grateful Dead performed at Pelletier Farm in St. Helens, Oregon, after local authorities refused to allow organizers to hold a three-day festival at the Columbia County Fairgrounds.
- Grateful Dead performed at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Grateful Dead performed as the headlining act at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit.
- Grateful Dead performed at Boreal Ski Resort on Donner's Summit in California.
- During the Grateful Dead concert marking the 20th anniversary of the Summer of Love at the Calaveras County Fairgrounds in Angel Camp, California, a man who had escaped from a drug treatment facility shot a police officer and was subsequently shot by police.
- The members met and decided to disband following the recent tragic death of founder and leader Jerry Garcia.