Category: Grateful Dead

Meet Ann Wolff. That’s her with Melvin Seals of the Jerry Garcia Band. Ann is a t-shirt designer from Tulsa, Oklahoma who has been in the game of selling tees since the early 1990s. She’s a Deadhead at heart who has also sold designs to the Grateful Dead merchandise catalog and has worked personally with bassist and founding Grateful Dead member Phil Lesh. Needless to say, she’s got some serious Dead cred. What’s your background as an artist prior to your Grateful Dead days? I have no formal training  as an artist. My mother was an artist and I learned ... Read more

A t-shirt gallery for Dead Heads who appreciate a vintage torso. Shirt # 5: Grateful Dead 15th Anniversary Availability: Check Defunkd Date: 1980 Fact: The Grateful Dead were the house band for the Acid Tests, which were a series of house parties held by Ken Kesey in the mid 1965-66. Kesey was heavily involved in experimental drugs and was best know for writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Approximate Value: $200-250 Image Courtesy of MaxVintage Check out all Grateful Dead tees on Defunkd Check out the previous vintage On the Road Again shirt

A t-shirt gallery for Dead Heads who appreciate a vintage torso. Shirt #4: On The Road Again Availability: Check Defunkd’s Grateful Dead Tees Date: 1980 Fact: The skull and rose design was only partially the handy work of Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelly. They added letters and color to a black and white illustration by Edmund Joseph Sullivan from 1913. Approximate value: $500 Image Courtesy of: VintagePimps Check out the previous vintage Ice Cream Kid t-shirt

A t-shirt gallery for Dead Heads who appreciate a vintage torso. Shirt #3: Stanley Mouse Ice Cream Kid Ringer Availability: Check Defunkd’s Grateful Dead Selection Date: 1979 Fact: Mouse was connected to The Dead because of his design gig at a music venue in San Fran known as the Avalon Ballroom. In 1966 The Grateful Dead (not yet a household name) were scheduled to play and the Ballroom requested that Mouse design a poster for the event. Approximate value: $500 Image Courtesy of: wyco-vintage Check out the previous vintage Long Strange Trip t-shirt

A t-shirt gallery for Dead Heads who appreciate a vintage torso. Shirt #2: Long Strange Trip 1965-1981, Stanley Mouse Availability: Check for Grateful Dead Tees on Defunkd Date: 1981 Fact: The legendary Stanley Mouse frequently did artwork for the Dead – album covers, t-shirts, posters. Approximate value: $300 Image Courtesy of: bigduke-6 Check out the previous vintage Blues For Allah t-shirt