The Real Estate Investor Who Spent $1.5 Million to Keep the Grateful Dead Alive
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Investin’, like the doo-dah man
A million dollars on the Jerry Garcia Glen, half a mil on an archive. After attending 143 Dead concerts, Scott Brittingham is still high on the band
Fifty years ago today, a band called the Warlocks played its first gig in Menlo Park, Calif. That jam might have been lost to the dustbin of Magoo’s Pizza Parlor, where it was held, if the group hadn’t changed its name and spent the next decades touring as the Grateful Dead.
These days, the biggest supporter of the psychedelic jam band—renowned for fans who followed it on tour for years at a time—might be one Scott Brittingham, a Santa Barbara real estate investor and philanthropist who traces his roots to a Wisconsin lumber fortune and who attended 143 Dead concerts…
The Real Estate Investor Who Spent $1.5 Million to Keep the Grateful Dead Alive
