"We never rehearsed. That probably helped." Grateful Dead drummer Vitt looks back on how it all started and what it meant.
Though Jerry Garcia remained the focal point of the Grateful Dead from the '60s until his death in 1995 (and, some would say, beyond), the bespectacled guitarist was a musical seeker whose career involved numerous projects outside the group he’d helped form. When he wasn’t touring or recording with the Dead, he often sat in with other players in and around the San Francisco area. At some point in 1969 he showed up at a…
