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The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1965. [1] [2] Known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia, [3] [4] the band is famous for improvisation during their live performances, [5] [6] and for their devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads".
Grateful Dead - June 16, 17, 18 and 19, 1976 (released as Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 4 and as part of the 30 Trips Around the Sun and June 1976 box sets) Billy Joel - October 2, 1976; Rush - December 10, 1976; Peter Gabriel - March 5, 1977 (his first concert as a solo artist)
Lyceum '72: The Complete Recordings is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.Packaged as a box set of 24 LPs, it contains four complete concerts recorded at the Lyceum Theatre in London on May 23, 24, 25, and 26, 1972.
“Rock concert traffic jams Highway 126,” read the headline in Section B of The Register-Guard on Sunday, Aug. 28, 1972. Billed as a “potluck picnic,” The Grateful Dead played a benefit ...
In the summer of 2005 the Dead began offering download versions of both their existing live releases, and a new Internet-only series, The Grateful Dead Download Series, that was available through their own online store (which offered the albums in both 256 kbit/s mp3 files and FLAC files – a preferred audio standard for those who archive Dead ...
In the liner notes for the show on 5/13/72 Nicholas Meriwether, a Grateful Dead archivist at UC Santa Cruz, explains that the show had been "Originally scheduled [for] halfway through the tour, right after the two Paris shows", but had to be postponed due to "an aggrieved young radical" who "After a losing encounter with some ice cream ...
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (second from left) as part of the Grateful Dead in 1970.. Along with Garcia and second guitarist Bob Weir, McKernan was a participant in the predecessor groups leading to the formation of the Grateful Dead, beginning with the Zodiacs and Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. [12]
Active: 1965 – June 17, 1972 (sick leave September–November 1971) Instruments: Keyboards, harmonica, percussion, lead and backing vocals. Mickey Hart; Active: 1967–1971; 1974–1995 Instruments: Drums, percussion Other projects: Rhythm Devils, The Other Ones, The Dead, Mickey Hart Band, Dead & Company. Tom Constanten