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1978 and The Grateful Dead are in Egypt.
Playing three concerts before a thousand people a night at the Sound and Light Theatre, Giza, at the foot of the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx, with special guest, the local musician Hamza el Din. In reality the audience, other than a plane-load of Dead Heads, was a bunch bemused Bedouins and their goats. I am here with Max Bell from the NME and Mick Watts from the Melody Maker. My job was to photograph the event for both papers, in monochrome as the UK rock press was still 100% black and white. Our paymasters as usual was the record company, keen to promote the Grateful Deadu 2019s autumn UK concert and European tour. Today the idea of a rock band performing in Egypt holds far less cache than it in1978. It was unquestionably a novel notion when the Grateful Dead sought to begin diplomatic talks between the U.S. Government and Egyptian officials to permit the band to bring their acid trip to Cairo's new Gizah Sound %26 Light Theater. Considering the precarious political state of the world at the time, it is a minor miracle that these shows came off at all.

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  • Jerry Garcia and a camel at Saqqara - The Grateful Dead Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead concert in Egypt 1978
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  • Mickey Hart The Grateful Dead with Hamza and a bunch of Nubian musicians - Egypt 1978
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  • Mickey Hart The Grateful Dead with Hamza and a bunch of Nubian musicians - Egypt 1978
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  • Mickey Hart The Grateful Dead with Hamza and a bunch of Nubian musicians - Egypt 1978
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  • Jerry Garcia at The Grateful Dead concert in Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead with Hamza playing his Oud, a 12 string Lute like instrument. and a bunch of Nubian musicians
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  • The Grateful Dead with Hamza playing his Oud, a 12 string Lute like instrument. and a bunch of Nubian musicians
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  • The Grateful Dead with Hamza playing his Oud, a 12 string Lute like instrument. and a bunch of Nubian musicians
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  • Jerry Garcia at Saqqara - The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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  • Jerry Garcia and a camel at Saqqara - The Grateful Dead Egypt 1978
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  • Jerry Garcia and a camel at Saqqara - The Grateful Dead Egypt 1978
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  • Jerry Garcia exploring the tombs at Sakkara – Djoser’s funery complex - Egypt 1978
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  • Jerry Garcia exploring the tombs at Sakkara – Djoser’s funery complex - Egypt 1978
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  • Jerry Garcia exploring the tombs at Sakkara – Djoser’s funery complex - Egypt 1978
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  • Ry Cooder
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  • The Grateful Dead, Egypt 1978  Bob Weir inspects the Pyramids on the afternoon of the first concert.
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  • The Grateful Dead, Egypt 1978  Bob Weir inspects the Pyramids on the afternoon of the first concert.
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 - The band and its entourage arrive for the after show party at Sahara City, an hours ride from Giza, across the desert in the early hours of the morning by camel. Sahara City is a desert nightclub where, late into the next day, dancing horses, acrobats and belly dancers entertained in and around an eloborate  “Arabian Nights”  style tent.
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 - The band and its entourage arrive for the after show party at Sahara City, an hours ride from Giza, across the desert in the early hours of the morning by camel. Sahara City is a desert nightclub where, late into the next day, dancing horses, acrobats and belly dancers entertained in and around an eloborate  “Arabian Nights”  style tent.
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 - The band and its entourage arrive for the after show party at Sahara City, an hours ride from Giza, across the desert in the early hours of the morning by camel. Sahara City is a desert nightclub where, late into the next day, dancing horses, acrobats and belly dancers entertained in and around an eloborate  “Arabian Nights”  style tent.
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 Jerry Garcia visits the museum at the site of ancient capital Memphis
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 Jerry Garcia visits the museum at the site of ancient capital Memphis
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 Jerry Garcia visits the museum at the site of ancient capital Memphis
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 Jerry Garcia visits the museum at the site of ancient capital Memphis with UK journalist Mick Watts
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 Jerry Garcia visits the museum at the site of ancient capital Memphis
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  • Mickey Hart  with The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead, Egypt 1978  Bob Weir inspects the Pyramids on the afternoon of the first concert.
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  • Donna Jean and Jerry Garcia perform at The Grateful Dead concert in Egypt 1978
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  • Donna Jean and Jerry Garcia perform at The Grateful Dead concert in Egypt 1978
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  • Donna Jean and Jerry Garcia perform at The Grateful Dead concert in Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead with Hamza playing his Oud, a 12 string Lute like instrument. and a bunch of Nubian musicians
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  • The Grateful Dead with Hamza playing his Oud, a 12 string Lute like instrument. and a bunch of Nubian musicians
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  • Donna Jean and Jerry Garcia perform at The Grateful Dead concert in Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead with Hamza playing his Oud, a 12 string Lute like instrument. and a bunch of Nubian musicians
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  • Location - The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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  • Donna Jean and Jerry Garcia perform at The Grateful Dead concert in Egypt 1978
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  • Mickey Hart The Grateful Dead with Hamza and a bunch of Nubian musicians - Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead with Hamza playing his Oud, a 12 string Lute like instrument. and a bunch of Nubian musicians
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  • The Grateful Dead concert in Egypt 1978
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  • Mickey Hart  and Jerry Garcia The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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  • Mickey Hart  and Jerry Garcia The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead, Egypt 1978  Bob Weir inspects the Pyramids on the afternoon of the first concert.
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  • The Grateful Dead, Egypt 1978  Bob Weir inspects the Pyramids on the afternoon of the first concert.
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  • The Grateful Dead, Egypt 1978  Bob Weir inspects the Pyramids on the afternoon of the first concert.
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  • The Grateful Dead, Egypt 1978  Bob Weir inspects the Pyramids on the afternoon of the first concert.
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  • Jerry Garcia and a camel at Saqqara - The Grateful Dead Egypt 1978
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  • Jerry Garcia exploring the tombs at Sakkara – Djoser’s funery complex - Egypt 1978
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  • Jerry Garcia exploring the tombs at Sakkara – Djoser’s funery complex - Egypt 1978
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  • Jerry Garcia exploring the tombs at Sakkara – Djoser’s funery complex - Egypt 1978
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  • Jerry Garcia exploring the tombs at Sakkara – Djoser’s funery complex - Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978  Jerry Garcia visits the museum at the site of ancient capital Memphis
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  • Jerry Garcia exploring the tombs at Sakkara – Djoser’s funery complex - Egypt 1978
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  • Ken Kesey and Mickey Hart The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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  • Ken Kesey and Mickey Hart The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 . Ken kesey, Bob Weir, Richard Loren and guests at the Sahara City after show dinner.
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 . Ken kesey, Bob Weir, Richard Loren and guests at the Sahara City after show dinner.
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  • Bill Graham with The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 . Ken kesey, Bob Weir, Richard Loren and guests at the Sahara City after show dinner.
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  • Bill Graham with The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978 . Ken kesey, Bob Weir, Richard Loren and guests at the Sahara City after show dinner.
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  • Bill Graham with The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978. Ken Kesey original prankster and close friend of the Dead came to witness this latest “Rocking of the Cradle of Civilization." He later recalled that the Grateful Dead's assorted family, friends and fellow Pranksters arrival in Egypt's Nile as a very special contribution to the then-critical Middle Eastern peace effort.
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978. Ken Kesey original prankster and close friend of the Dead came to witness this latest “Rocking of the Cradle of Civilization." He later recalled that the Grateful Dead's assorted family, friends and fellow Pranksters arrival in Egypt's Nile as a very special contribution to the then-critical Middle Eastern peace effort.
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  • The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978. Ken Kesey original prankster and close friend of the Dead came to witness this latest “Rocking of the Cradle of Civilization." He later recalled that the Grateful Dead's assorted family, friends and fellow Pranksters arrival in Egypt's Nile as a very special contribution to the then-critical Middle Eastern peace effort.
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  • Bob Weir and The Grateful Dead – Egypt 1978
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