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The Grateful Dead was a studio effort. Anthem Of The Sun took live tracks further via the studio, and Aoxomoxoa reached for the live experience in the studio. The Dead then gave the fans what they wanted in the form of Live/Dead, and subsequently stripped down their approach to focus on tight, melodic songs. What emerged were two of the band’s definitive statements, Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty. After hitting the road again for the shows that would grace the multi-disc Europe ’72,, the band embarked on a quest to run its own kind of record label รข€“ fulfilling its Warner contract with the archival collection known as Bear’s Choice. Though it would continue to wind through many towns and touch many lives, the trip was well underway, the road already paved with gold.
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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. The music of the Grateful Dead lives on through many tribute bands and solo projects of the rest of the band. The reconciliation of the Dead's music by its members most notably thrives today in Phil Lesh and Friends and Ratdog (Bob Weir solo) although the remaining members did still perform together for a while as The Other Ones and later on simply as
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The Grateful Dead had two stages for the Wall of Sound. One would go ahead to the next city and begin being set up as soon as possible while the other was being used; the other would then "leapfrog" to the next show. Four semi-trailers and 21 crew members were required to haul and set up the 75-ton Wall.
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The Grateful Dead was originally a regimen of Special Ops. Army forces used to assassinate Soviet and Chinese officials in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, as well as to carry out psyops against the populations of both North and South Vietnam. Firm believers in the slogan "Better Dead than Red" they named their organization in honor of civilians killed in the bombings of North Vietnam who they believed were grateful to no longer be living under Communist rule. To keep their mission top secret, the leaders of the group made frequent trips to their adopted home of San Francisco between missions, attempting to blend in with the local population. During one such trip in 1967, Lt. Colonel Jerome "Jerry" Garcia and Majors Robert "Bob" Weir and Phillip "Phil" Lesh became concerned about the growing unrest they saw with the war at home. It was then that they met with West Point graduate and CIA operative Timothy Leary who helped them devise a strategy.
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The enigmatic, erratic and mercurial (clich‚, but absolutely true) Grateful Dead evolved from Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions to become the Warlocks in 1965. A number of conflicting reasons for the choice of name have arisen over the years. The most popular one is that the name was chosen from a randomly opened copy of the Oxford Companion To Classical Music (others say a Funk & Wagnells dictionary) the juxtaposition of words evidently immediately appealing to Garcia and his chums, who at the time were somewhat chemically stimulated on DMT. The theory that it came from the Egyptian Book Of The Dead has been denied by each member of the band. The original line-up comprised Jerry Garcia (b. Jerome John Garcia, 1 August 1942, San Francisco, California, USA, d. 9 August 1995, Forest Knolls, California, USA; lead guitar), Bob Weir (b.
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Grateful Dead was formed in 1965 in San Francisco, the heart of the hippie movement. The original band members were Jerry Garcia on lead guitars, banjo and vocals, Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan on keyboards, harmonica and vocals, Phil Lesh on bass and vocals, and drummer Bill Kreutzmann. Other band members who contributed to the music were Bob Wier, Mickey Hart, Vince Welnick, Tom Constanten, Kieth Godchaux, Donna Godchaux and Brent Mydland. The house sound systems at the shows that they played at were never all that great, so their soundman Owsley ’Bear’ Stanley designed a sound system specially for them, and called it ‘The Wall of Sound’. The band believed in that personal connection with their fans resulting in a music career that was virtually filled with live performances. Thay have held more free concerts than any other band is music history.
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