Grateful Dead - Wikipedia. The Grateful Dead was an Americanrock band formed in 1. Palo Alto, California.[1][2] Ranging from quintet to septet, the band is known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, psychedelia, experimental music, modal jazz, country, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, and space rock,[3][4] for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams,[5][6] and for their devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads". Their music," writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists."[7] These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world".[8] The band was ranked 5.

Rolling Stone magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue.[9] The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1. Watch Already Dead Online Hollywoodtake more. May 8, 1. 97. 7 performance at Cornell University's Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2. Watch Men In Black II Online Facebook.

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The Grateful Dead have sold more than 3. The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1. The founding members were Jerry Garcia (lead guitar, vocals), Bob Weir (rhythm guitar, vocals), Ron "Pigpen" Mc. Kernan (keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Phil Lesh (bass, vocals), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums).[1. Members of the Grateful Dead had played together in various San Francisco bands, including Mother Mc. Cree's Uptown Jug Champions and the Warlocks.

Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks before they became the Grateful Dead; he replaced Dana Morgan Jr., who had played bass for a few gigs. Drummer Mickey Hart and nonperforming lyricist Robert Hunter joined in 1. With the exception of Mc. Kernan, who died in 1. Hart, who took time off from 1. Watch Moon 4Shared. The other official members of the band are Tom Constanten (keyboards; 1.

John Perry Barlow (nonperforming lyricist; 1. Keith Godchaux (keyboards; 1. Donna Godchaux (vocals; 1. Brent Mydland (keyboards, vocals; 1.

Vince Welnick (keyboards, vocals; 1. Pianist Bruce Hornsby was a touring member from 1.

After the death of Garcia in 1. Other Ones in 1. 99. Dead in 2. 00. 3, 2. In 2. 01. 5, the four surviving core members marked the band's 5.

There have also been several spin- offs featuring one or more core members, such as Dead & Company, Furthur, the Rhythm Devils, Phil Lesh & Friends, Rat. Dog, and Billy & the Kids.

Formation (1. 96. The Grateful Dead in 1. Left to right: Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh. Not pictured: Brent Mydland. The Grateful Dead began their career as the Warlocks, a group formed in early 1.

Palo Alto, Californiajug band called Mother Mc. Cree's Uptown Jug Champions.[2. The band's first show was at Magoo's Pizza located at 6.

Santa Cruz Avenue in suburban Menlo Park, California, on May 5, 1. They were initially known as the Warlocks; coincidentally, the Velvet Underground (similarly influenced by avant- garde music) was also using that name on the East Coast.[2. The show was not recorded but the set list has been preserved. Gigging as a bar band,[2. Velvet Underground, who by then had also changed their name) had signed a recording contract. The first show under the new name Grateful Dead was in San Jose, California on December 4, 1. Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.[2.

Earlier demo tapes have survived, but the first of over 2,0. Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on January 8, 1. Later that month, the Grateful Dead played at the Trips Festival, an early psychedelic rock concert.[2. The name "Grateful Dead" was chosen from a dictionary.

According to Phil Lesh, in his autobiography (pp. 6. Jerry Garcia] picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary .. In that silvery elf- voice he said to me, 'Hey, man, how about the Grateful Dead?'" The definition there was "the soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial." According to Alan Trist, director of the Grateful Dead's music publisher company Ice Nine, Garcia found the name in the Funk & Wagnalls.

Folklore Dictionary, when his finger landed on that phrase while playing a game of Fictionary.[2. In the Garcia biography, Captain Trips, author Sandy Troy states that the band was smoking the psychedelic DMT at the time.[3. The term "grateful dead" appears in folktales of a variety of cultures. In mid- 1. 96. 9, Phil Lesh told another version of the story to Carol Maw, a young Texan visiting with the band in Marin County who also ended up going on the road with them to the Fillmore East and Woodstock. In this version, Phil said, "Jerry found the name spontaneously when he picked up a dictionary and the pages fell open. The words 'grateful' and 'dead' appeared straight opposite each other across the crack between the pages in unrelated text."Other supporting personnel who signed on early included Rock Scully, who heard of the band from Kesey and signed on as manager after meeting them at the Big Beat Acid Test; Stewart Brand, "with his side show of taped music and slides of Indian life, a multimedia presentation" at the Big Beat and then, expanded, at the Trips Festival; and Owsley Stanley, the "Acid King" whose LSD supplied the tests and who, in early 1. Watts and buying them sound equipment.

We were living solely off of Owsley's good graces at that time. His] trip was he wanted to design equipment for us, and we were going to have to be in sort of a lab situation for him to do it," said Garcia.[3. Main career (1. 96. One of the group's earliest major performances in 1. Mantra- Rock Dance—a musical event held on January 2. Avalon Ballroom by the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple. The Grateful Dead performed at the event along with the Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, poet Allen Ginsberg, bands Moby Grape and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, donating proceeds to the Krishna temple.[3.

The band's first LP, The Grateful Dead, was released on Warner Brothers in 1. Classically trained trumpeter Phil Lesh performed on bass guitar.

Bob Weir, the youngest original member of the group, played rhythm guitar. Ron "Pigpen" Mc. Kernan played keyboards and harmonica until shortly before his death in 1. Garcia, Weir, and Mc. Kernan shared the lead vocal duties more or less equally; Lesh only sang a few leads but his tenor was a key part of the band's three- part vocal harmonies. Bill Kreutzmann played drums, and in September 1. New York native Mickey Hart, who also played a wide variety of other percussion instruments.

New Orleans, Louisiana, where the band performed at The Warehouse for two nights. On January 3. 1, 1. Bourbon Street, and arrested and charged a total of 1. The second night's concert was performed as scheduled after bail was posted. Eventually the charges were dismissed, with the exception of those against sound engineer Owsley Stanley, who was already facing charges in California for manufacturing LSD. This event was later memorialized in the lyrics of the song "Truckin'", a single from American Beauty which reached number 6. Mickey Hart took time off from the Grateful Dead beginning in February 1.

Kreutzmann once again as the sole percussionist. Hart rejoined the Grateful Dead for good in October 1. Tom "TC" Constanten was added as a second keyboardist from 1. Pigpen also played various percussion instruments and sang. After Constanten's departure, Pigpen reclaimed his position as sole keyboardist.

Less than two years later, in late 1. Pigpen was joined by another keyboardist, Keith Godchaux, who played grand piano alongside Pigpen's Hammond B- 3 organ. In early 1. 97. 2, Keith's wife, Donna Jean Godchaux, joined the Grateful Dead as a backing vocalist. Following the Grateful Dead's "Europe '7. Pigpen's health had deteriorated to the point that he could no longer tour with the band.

His final concert appearance was June 1. Hollywood Bowl, in Los Angeles; [3. March 1. 97. 3 of complications from liver damage.[3.

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