The NBA center devoted much of his life to the Grateful Dead
Bill Walton is dressed as Old Father Time before the game between the Atlanta Braves and the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park on August 26, 2016 in San Francisco, California., in all its iterations, for 48 years by that point.
Walton’s love for the band was far more than a useful sports analogy. For him, his Dead fandom served as a guiding light and constant beacon of stability, community and inspiration in a life plagued by pain and setbacks. “For me, the Grateful Dead, there are so many different reasons why I love it so much, but they give me strength, they give me confidence, they give me hope, and they make me believe that tomorrow is like, going to be even better,” hein 2016. “And at the end of the day, when they run off the stage and get out of there, I’m out in that pit just saying, ‘shows in California and Chicago in 2015, he had merely one quibble with the shows: the fact that they marked an ending.
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