“Here’s a rock ‘n roll band on a thousands-of-years-old stage at the foot of the Great Pyramid, surrounded by a cloud of bats…and I think to myself ‘take me now, Lord, I wanna remember it just like this.’” - Bobby Weir �The Grateful Dead became the first rock band to ever play in front of the Great Pyramids in Egypt on this day in 1978. The run carried weight both musically and diplomatically as the band featured local musicians and embraced residents filling the audience alongside traveling Dea