Busted down on Bourbon St.

Set up like a bowling pin

Knocked down, it gets to wearing thin

They just won’t let you be

• The Grateful Dead, “Truckin’”

When California psychedelic rock & rollers The Grateful Dead arrived for their New Orleans debut in 1970, they were greeted with a trick red carpet.

"There was a little party in one of our rooms," remembered Dead guitarist and ...