Fans of the Grateful Dead are pouring into San Francisco for three days of concerts and festivities marking the 60th anniversary of the scruffy jam band that came to embody a city where people wore flowers in their hair and made love,

San Francisco welcomed Grateful Dead offshoot Dead & Co. back Friday night for a hell of a birthday party. The first night of a three-night Grateful Dead 60th anniversary residency took over the Polo Fields of Golden Gate Park,

Under a blanket of San Francisco summer clouds, it was a sea of tie-dye, as die-hard deadheads came to pay tribute to San Francisco legends.