The Grateful Dead's musical influences varied widely, including blues, rock and roll, country music, bluegrass, country-rock, and jazz.
The name Grateful Dead was chosen from a dictionary: "The soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial." The term "Grateful Dead" also appears in folktales of a variety of cultures. In early December 1965, the group changed its name to Grateful Dead when it was discovered that another band was already recording under the "Warlocks" name. The founding members of the band were: Guitar and banjo player Jerry Garcia, guitarist Bob Weir, organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, bassist Phil Lesh, and jazz drummer Bill Kreutzmann. Soon after they moved to the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, joining groups as the Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother & the Holding Company, and Santana in the city that was quickly becoming known as the epi-center of the hippie counterculture movement. The group originally took The Warlocks in April, 1964 and emerged from from the remnants of a Palo Alto jug band called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. The Grateful Dead began its career in Menlo Park, California, playing live shows at Kepler's Books. In 2007, the group received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Grateful Dead were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Their emphasis on touring and creating a sense of community centered on their concepts made the "Dead" the most viewed rock band in its time.
A small number of these tickets for each event were identified as taper tickets, allowing the owner to bring in personal sound recording equipment. In the mid 1980s, twenty years into their "long strange trip" the band began selling tickets privately to their fan base in advance and for a reduced cost under the venue's and ticket merchant prices. This included letting their fans record their concerts. As "the Dead" and its sound matured over 30 years of touring and recording, each member's stylistic contribution became more identifiable, especially guitarist Jerry Garcia, the band's de facto leader, although he refused the role officially.Īs a highly successful, self-sustaining touring rock band, the Grateful Dead established an approach to their craft outside the standard music-industry business model. Some followed the band from concert to concert for years, creating a unique and tolerated parking lot scene for each concert event. Members of Grateful Dead are regarded as the grandfathers of the jam band music style.įans of the Grateful Dead were known as "Deadheads" and were renowned for their dedication to the band's music. It was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, jazz, psychedelic rock, and gospel-and for live performances of long musical improvisation. Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965, in the San Francisco Bay Area. We reserve the ability to withdraw our sanction of non-commercial digital music should circumstances arise that compromise our ability to protect and steward the integrity of our work.Warner Bros., Grateful Dead, Arista, Rhino This notice should be clearly posted on all sites engaged in this activity. No commercial gain may be sought by websites offering digital files of our music, whether through advertising, exploiting databases compiled from their traffic, or any other means.Īll participants in such digital exchange acknowledge and respect the copyrights of the performers, writers and publishers of the music. Our stipulations regarding digital distribution are merely extensions of those long-standing principles and they are as follow: That a new medium of distribution has arisen - digital audio files being traded over the Internet - does not change our policy in this regard. The Grateful Dead and our managing organizations have long encouraged the purely non-commercial exchange of music taped at our concerts and those of our individual members. Here are some examples of currently nonpublic items (list is not comprehensive):, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, See:Īdditional note on Limitations for this site: Specific items (show dates and/or recording versions) may become unavailable for downloading or streaming here by rights-holder request. Limited Flag: LimSpecial / LimProject / LimShows / LimSBDs / LimRangeġ1/2005 brought a major change to GD material here.
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