Maggie Rogers’s Lollapalooza Look Is a Tie-Dye Tribute to the Grateful Dead
If you’re a proper Deadhead, the name Dan Healy should ring a bell. Healy, a sound engineer who lives in Marin County in California, worked with the Grateful Dead from 1967 to 1994. He first sold marijuana and acid to afford a new sound system for the band, but he became instrumental in shaping the Dead’s live sound and in allowing fans to record the legendary group’s performances, as he sometimes let tapers directly connect to the soundboard to ensure they captured the highest quality audio of their sets.
Not long after Healy’s untouched archive of vintage Grateful Dead T-shirts was uncovered, singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers borrowed something even more rare from Healy’s long lost collection of treasures. As she explained on Instagram, Healy’s daughter Ambrosia (who is also Rogers’s publicist) found a custom two-piece burnt orange and deep blue tie-dye set that Healy’s wife Kristine originally made for him in the late 1960s. Ambrosia kindly let Rogers borrow the stunning set, which she just wore during her Lollapalooza performance this past weekend.
Given how ubiquitous tie-dye has become over the past few months, it’s refreshing to see that Rogers isn’t just hopping on the trend without regard for the pattern’s origins—she’s steeped in the Dead’s musical history, too, clearly, as she wore it just a few days after what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 77th birthday. Rogers’s hand-dyed stage wardrobe proves that she’s a Deadhead through and through.
Originally Appeared on Vogue
