The Real Estate Investor Who Spent $1.5 Million to Keep the Grateful Dead Alive

A million dollars on the Jerry Garcia Glen, half a mil on an archive. After attending 143 Dead concerts, Scott Brittingham is still high on the band


These days, the biggest supporter of the psychedelic jam band—renowned for fans who followed it on tour for years at a time—might be one Scott Brittingham, a Santa Barbara real estate investor and philanthropist who traces his roots to a Wisconsin lumber fortune and who attended 143 Dead concerts.

Brittingham donated $1 million to the renovation of a wooded area near the entrance to the Santa Barbara Bowl, a 4,500-seat amphitheater in his hometown. When the job was completed in 2009, the area was renamed the Jerry Garcia Glen and outfitted with a 75-pound bronze of the guitarist's right hand—with its famously severed middle finger—sculpted by an artist who has created busts for the Baseball Hall of Fame. 

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