Grateful Dead crew member, Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff, described by Bob Weir as "our rock," has died in Petaluma, Calif., at age 61.

Ramrod joined the Dead in 1967 as truck driver and was named president of the Grateful Dead board of directors when the rock group incorporated in the '70s. It was a position he held until the ...

The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 1986 Minneapolis, Buffalo, NYC, Akron, Washington D.C. Statue of Liberty original 1st print tour poster. 7. Mickey Hart's Drum ...

Jerry Garcia performs with the Grateful Dead at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Mich., on Sunday, July 31, 1994. ... Parish and Ramrod still man the band's engine room.

Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff, a Grateful Dead crew member and executive, told Hart everyone was standing. The towering presence was the 6-11 Walton. Per The San Diego Union-Tribune, ...

The Grateful Dead took the stage at The Centrum in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Nov. 4, 1985. Band members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Brent Mydland, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann checked ...

Both were vendors who sold Grateful Dead merchandise and had independently become friends with Ramrod. Fitzy, who died in 2015 , was the son of former Warriors owner Jim Fitzgerald.

“I said, well, the Grateful Dead are coming to town.” Walton said he asked Laurence “Ramrod” Shurtliff, the Dead’s longtime road manager, if he could bring his teammates along.

On Friday night, Jan. 31, the meek Los Angeles Convention Center got a dose of the Grateful Dead during the MusiCares’ Persons of the Year gala.