Any Grateful Dead fan, or even if you are not a fan but any aging hippie from the 60's and 70's (worth their salt or pot) would know that the Dancin' Bears are just for FUN! One of several symbols of the Dead---the rose, skelton, VW Bus, bumper stickers (Picture Whirled Peas!) are some other things associated with that group.
"The dancing bears symbolized the fun-loving aspect of the Grateful Dead and their fans. Over the years these bears have appeared on multi-colored bumper stickers, T-Shirts and posters.
The origin of the bear was taken from the Bob Thomas album art cover (Bear's Choice). The back cover of History of the Grateful Dead, vol 1 (recorded Feb 13 and 14, 1970) showed multi-colored marching bears. Bob's inspiration for the bear came from a 36 point lead slug of a generic bear that was a standardized figure from a printer's font box."
So there you have it! Straight from the Grateful Dead fan site!
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the bear was a symbol for their friend Bear aka owsley who was a sound engineer for the band and a LSD distributor for all the great bands we listen to such as the dead jefferson airplane, first shown on the history of the dead bears choice which had the first dancin bears on it and he also helped make the syf logo so yeah dance n dose
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