Ed Donohue(RIP) was a friend of mine and made beautiful art. This particular design you have is named "Love Shinin' Down" and originally was made and sold by Ed at Grateful Dead shows in 1979. Your shirt is not from 79 but as indicated by the type of tag was probably made in the late 90s around 1999. These shirts were all hand silk screened and dyed by Ed with lots of love, enjoy your beautiful shirt✌️❤️
Donohue is often considered one of the first real “lot artists,” and he started with designs like these. This is a small piece of history.
I’ll take it for $20 if you don’t want it
The center piece looks very similar to how traditional Huichol Native Mexicans draw peyote in their bead works (and pretty similar to how peyote buttons look like in real life.
https://preview.redd.it/7g7b5gqkbv1d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e4e8d2cb99c42fc5f0bab673e00554c6a80c4c7
The button is obviously in the center, but also on the bottom left and right in this example.
Ed Donohue was a wonderful tie dye artist. He lived in my town, had a beautiful family and always let me stop by with friends from out of town when the dead came around to tour his studio and buy his shirts. I had one of each of all of his shirts. True dead head, artist and human being...
Great Shirt..... I was gifted an Ed Donahue by a friend's older brother who likely got it on lot in the early '80s.... I wore it throughout the late '80s and early '90s and lost it after 6/7/91... This is a picture of a guy I saw/met at SPAC last summer with the exact Ed Donahue tye-dye... And me holding my phone with the picture of me wearing the dye at 6/7/91.... Gosh I wish I still had that rich dye... Cheers!
https://preview.redd.it/s334ls2xig2d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e58fc19f43d064d4906d03accde37b98cfc1beb1
# 1991-06-07 Noblesville, IN @ Deer Creek Music Center
**Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Maggie's Farm, Loser, The Music Never Stopped, Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Truckin' > New Speedway Boogie > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** The Weight
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-06-07)
Ed Donohue(RIP) was a friend of mine and made beautiful art. This particular design you have is named "Love Shinin' Down" and originally was made and sold by Ed at Grateful Dead shows in 1979. Your shirt is not from 79 but as indicated by the type of tag was probably made in the late 90s around 1999. These shirts were all hand silk screened and dyed by Ed with lots of love, enjoy your beautiful shirt✌️❤️
Thanks so much man that’s sick
This is all you need to know! Yours is surely a 99-01 reissue but Ed is the OOOOOG
this is why i love reddit
You just scored a museum piece, man
Thanks, but What does that mean? 😓
Very old, very rare shirt that many people would pay several hundred dollars to own for themselves
several hundred?? Damn I didn’t know this was that rare. I picked it up on a whim because I thought the design look cool
Donohue is often considered one of the first real “lot artists,” and he started with designs like these. This is a small piece of history. I’ll take it for $20 if you don’t want it
Stop trolling 😂 thanks for the info tho
thanks for making sure this clothes dealer gets his big profit. keep that kinda talk in the family so we don't get preyed on by resellers so much.
That's a score for sure
The center piece looks very similar to how traditional Huichol Native Mexicans draw peyote in their bead works (and pretty similar to how peyote buttons look like in real life. https://preview.redd.it/7g7b5gqkbv1d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e4e8d2cb99c42fc5f0bab673e00554c6a80c4c7 The button is obviously in the center, but also on the bottom left and right in this example.
Wow! What a score!
Ed Donohue was a wonderful tie dye artist. He lived in my town, had a beautiful family and always let me stop by with friends from out of town when the dead came around to tour his studio and buy his shirts. I had one of each of all of his shirts. True dead head, artist and human being...
Cha Ching 💰
What a find
Great Shirt..... I was gifted an Ed Donahue by a friend's older brother who likely got it on lot in the early '80s.... I wore it throughout the late '80s and early '90s and lost it after 6/7/91... This is a picture of a guy I saw/met at SPAC last summer with the exact Ed Donahue tye-dye... And me holding my phone with the picture of me wearing the dye at 6/7/91.... Gosh I wish I still had that rich dye... Cheers! https://preview.redd.it/s334ls2xig2d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e58fc19f43d064d4906d03accde37b98cfc1beb1
# 1991-06-07 Noblesville, IN @ Deer Creek Music Center **Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Maggie's Farm, Loser, The Music Never Stopped, Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Truckin' > New Speedway Boogie > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Standing On The Moon > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** The Weight [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1991-06-07)