Shashibo - Steal Your Face

Nothing says “Grateful Dead” more than the iconic Steal Your Face graphic of a skull and lightning bolt. Orig- inally created in 1969 by Owsley Stanley, the band’s sound engineer, and artist Bob Thomas, the symbol was spray painted onto their gear to make identification easy. Years later the art was featured on the cover of the 1976 album Steal Your Face. One of the songs (He’s Gone) contains the lyrics “steal your face right off your head” – a reference to the band’s early (and ungrateful) manager who ran off with funds. They lost money but gained a priceless logo.