I was wearing this sweater in one of my TikTok’s where I was baking bread and complaining about big professional accounts who copy the content and ideas of small accounts by unemployed poor bastards like me. Oh the irony.

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. According to the musician and writer Lenny Kaye, “Their music touches on ground that most other groups don’t even know exists.”

Over the years, a number of iconic images have come to be associated with the Grateful Dead. Many of these images originated as artwork for concert posters or album covers.

A series of stylized bears who appear to be dancing was drawn by Bob Thomas as part of the back cover for the album History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) (1973). The bear is a reference to Owsley “Bear” Stanley, who recorded and produced the album. Bear himself wrote, “the bears on the album cover are not really ‘dancing’. I don’t know why people think they are; their positions are quite obviously those of a high-stepping march.”

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