Last week was major in Deadhead music history, with July 9 marking 27 years since Jerry Garcia’s last live performance – at Soldier Field, in Chicago – before his death shortly thereafter. The last words uttered that show were the final lyrics of the late, great Robert Hunter’s “Box of Rain,” which spell out, poignantly, “Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.”

Exactly one month later, Garcia passed away, just eight days following his 53rd birthday.