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The Grateful Dead were decades ahead of their time

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imageA Grateful Dead fan wears a shirt commemorating the band's farewell tour. Stephen Lam/Reuters

Over the Fourth of July weekend, the Grateful Dead performed a farewell series of shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field, celebrating 50 years as a band.

Reading about these final sets brought me back to the 1970s, when I attended a New Hampshire summer...

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