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When one thinks of the Grateful Dead, thoughts don’t immediately turn to the Boston’s professional basketball franchise. But the link between the two outfits is strong, a connection that largely hinges on one man, the Dead fan/Basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Walton, affectionately known in Dead circles as “Grateful Red.” Walton has attended over 650 Dead shows in his life, including a few of the record 24 performances that the band played at the old Boston Garden. During Walton’s three-year stint in Boston from 1985-87, he gave Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart a Boston starter jacket, which Hart went on to wear in the video for the Dead’s biggest hit, “Touch of Grey,” forever sealing the Beantown/Dead universal state of harmony. We celebrate that harmony with this t-shirt, a fan tee from Walton’s Boston years that we found in a thrift store and lovingly reproduced.