Grateful Dead Memorabilia Auction Rakes In More Than $1.1 Million

Grateful Dead Memorabilia Auction Rakes In More Than $1.1 Million
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Forty years after the Summer of Love celebrated the free-living ways of the 1960s counterculture, bidders paid more than $1.1 million at auction on Tuesday for Grateful Dead memorabilia.

A cream-colored 1975 Travis Bean electric guitar belonging to the band's legendary, late lead guitar player, Jerry Garcia, brought in $312,000 in a brisk sale, auction house said.

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