What does Steal Your Face logo mean?
As for the bolt, it may signify enlightenment and transformation through the band’s music. As the symbol is on the cover of the album Steal Your Face, it is often referred to as the Steal Your Face skull emblem and the skull is called Stealie.
Who created the Steal Your Face logo?
Bob Thomas
One of the band’s iconic images, it was designed by Owsley Stanley to mark equipment cases, then rendered by Bob Thomas. The graphic previously appeared on the cover of History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice).
What’s the Grateful Dead skull called?
Steal Your Face
‘Steal Your Face’ lightning skull Without question, the single most recognized image for the band, even more so than Garcia’s face probably, is the “Steal Your Face” design. Also commonly referred to as the “lightning skull,” the concept was born out of necessity, really.
Where did the Grateful Dead Stealie come from?
According to the official website of the late Bear Stanley, the Grateful Dead skull and lightning bolt symbol was first designed out of necessity way back in 1969, right near the beginning of their long, strange, trip.
What is the skull with the lightning bolt?
The Dead wove the image of the skull through much of their presentation, from album design to music-festival art. Two skull-based logos that hold up include the red, white and blue lightning bolt and the rose.
What is the Grateful Dead symbol?
After it was used in the poster for the show, the Dead cropped it to the skull for the cover of their 1971 live album Grateful Dead (also known as “Skull and Roses,” or sometimes by the name the band preferred, “Skullfuck”). The image also became the band’s logo, used on stationery and business cards.
Can I use the Steal Your Face logo?
All of the icons including the Steal Your Face, Bertha, Terrapins & Dancing Bears have long since been copyrighted and trademarked. Yes, the 13 point lightning bolt is too. Do fans have a right to use copyrighted artwork? Commercially, no.
Why is Bertha a skeleton?
Skull and Roses (“Bertha”) Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse designed the poster, but the famous skeleton originally comes from a 1913 “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” illustration by Edmund Joseph Sullivan. The band later used the design again on their untitled 1971 album (often called “Skull and Roses”).
Why are there 13 points on a Grateful Dead bolt?
The 13-point lightning bolt was derived from a stencil Stanley created to spray-paint on the Grateful Dead’s equipment boxes (he wanted an easily identifiable mark to help the crew find the Dead’s equipment in the jumble of multiple bands’ identical black equipment boxes at festivals).
What does the red and blue skull mean?
Americans who wear the Punisher skull signify spiritual fidelity to the dark heart of murder beating underneath the red, white and blue façade of American identity.
Why is it called the Grateful Dead?
December: Grateful Dead born: The band changes its name after learning of another group called Warlocks. Garcia spotted the phrase “grateful dead,” which the band later discovered to be from an Egyptian prayer, in a dictionary, and it stuck.