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Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, ca. 1980 (L-R): Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Brent Mydland, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir
Grateful Dead, ca. 1980 (L-R): Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Brent Mydland, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir
Background information
Also known asThe Warlocks, The Dead
OriginFlag of United States San Francisco, California, USA
Genre(s)Rock
Folk rock
Country rock
R&B
Blues
Rock and Roll
Psychedelic rock
Jam
Years active1965 – 1995
Label(s)Warner Bros. (1966 - 1972)
Grateful Dead (1973 - 1976)
Arista (1977 - 1989)
Rhino (Remasters) (2001 - Present)
Associated
acts
Jerry Garcia Band
Phil Lesh and Friends
Ratdog
The Other Ones
The Dead
Rhythm Devils
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Bobby and the Midnites
WebsiteDead.net
Former members
Jerry Garcia
Bob Weir
Phil Lesh
Bill Kreutzmann
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Mickey Hart
Tom Constanten
Keith Godchaux
Donna Godchaux
Brent Mydland
Vince Welnick

Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco, California. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, country, jazz, psychedelia, space music and gospel—and for live performances of long musical improvisation. "Their music," Lenny Kaye wrote, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists."

The Grateful Dead's fans, some of whom followed the band from concert to concert for years, were known as Deadheads and were renowned for their dedication to the band's music. Many followers referred to the band simply as The Dead.

Their musical influences varied widely, and in concert or on record album one can hear psychedelic rock (in the late sixties), the blues, rock nuggets, country-western, bluegrass, country-rock, and although they rarely played jazz music, the band certainly borrowed for their music the kind of long improvisatory sequences that jazz artists such as Charles Mingus and John Coltrane perfected in the 1950s. These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world."


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    A sculpture screen made of "dead" light bulbs. Moving spots of light are projected on its surface and as a visitor comes closer to the screen, the light dots gather and re-create the silhouette of the person. The dead light bulbs seem to come to life again. The presence of a public metaphorically gives back their lost splendor to the bulbs.

    Jonathan king reaching new lows to drum up some publicity for his dead career. The quality, content, and reaction to the song indicates it might have backfired somewhat.

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