Grateful Dead

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The Grateful Dead was an American psychedelia-influenced rock band. Formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, “Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions,” the Grateful Dead were known for their unique and eclectic songwriting style—which fused elements of rock, folk music, bluegrass, blues, country, and jazz—and for live performances of long modal jams.

Some of the band’s fans followed the band from concert to concert for years. These “Deadheads” were renowned for their dedication to the band’s music. Many followers referred to the band simply as The Dead.

The Grateful Dead became the de facto resident band of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, with the early sound heavily influenced by Kesey’s LSD-soaked Acid Tests, as well as rnb. Their musical influences varied widely with input from the psychedelic music of the era, combined with blues, jazz, rock and roll, and bluegrass. These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead “the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world.”

One of the most notable things about the existence of the Grateful Dead is the extent to which they were together as a band. They were a complete band for thirty years only being stopped by the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995. Their recorded output, with the vast number of concerts available as downloads as well as cds etc is probably unmatched by any other band in terms of quantity, although it is generally acknowledged that the quality is uneven. (read more)

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–	4	Add this track to your playlist Sugar Magnolia	12,414
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–	10	Add this track to your playlist Franklin's Tower	7,897
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–	15	Add this track to your playlist Till the Morning Comes	5,189
–	16	Add this track to your playlist St. Stephen	4,774
–	17	Add this track to your playlist Attics of My Life	4,641
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