Felix Contreras

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2,270 appearances 28 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 16 Sep

Felix Contreras’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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NPR Music · What's next for the Grateful Dead's legacy? · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

They had a newsletter you could write to them and they would send you a newsletter about what's going on with the band and upcoming performances, album previews and stuff like that. voice-verified

The band collected all that stuff. voice-verified

And in 2008, the band donated a bunch of their stuff to the University of California at Santa Cruz to the library that holds special collections. voice-verified

And that's where we went. voice-verified

Beautiful campus nestled in the Redwoods, just a stone's throw from the picturesque, beautiful Central California coast. voice-verified

And we talked to the woman who was in charge of managing that archive. voice-verified

Well, besides the life-size marionettes that were used in the Touch of Gray video that were right there on exhibit. voice-verified

Look so phony. voice-verified

I think that the story of the Grateful Dead is in the minutiae of all the printed stuff that we saw, the things that we're developing. voice-verified

People tend to forget that you're coming out of the 1950s and then all of a sudden there's this giant movement of counterculture and expressing the way voice-verified

Just look at the pictures, the way people dressed, the tie-dyes, the colors, the swirls. voice-verified

Even in what some of the magazines were talking about back then in the mid-1960s, the late 60s, the politics, the civil rights, the anti-Vietnam War. voice-verified

There was a lot of stuff. voice-verified

It was electric. voice-verified

There was a lot of stuff popping. voice-verified

And people were thinking of different ways to express that. voice-verified

And it was spread out on this massive table. voice-verified

That was actually the table that was used in the Grateful Dead headquarters in San Rafael, California, where a lot of these decisions were made. voice-verified

That table was donated to the archive. voice-verified

It's got a glass enclosure on top and then a lot of this stuff underneath. voice-verified

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