Dick Latvala

By VARIETY STAFF

Dick Latvala, the Grateful Dead's archivist, died Aug. 6 of a heart attack in Petaluma. He was 56.

The Berkeley native was an avid collector of the band's tapes during the 1960s and 1970s. By the early 1980s, he was known as an amateur expert and was eventually hired by the band as its archivist.

Since Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, the surviving band members have released 14 compact discs containing music from the archives called "Dick's Picks."