Few bands have as varied a sound as the Dead. They incorporated country, folk, rock, psychadelic, reggae, bluegrass, jazz, blues, and whatever they felt like into their work. They were born of the San Francisco hippie movement and the surviving members have stayed there for 40 years. Their loyal fans, called deadheads, follow them from concert to concert; place to place eternally reliving 1967’s Summer of Love. In later years, the band went commercial and sold out.
Rock n Roll Moment: The Dead have played over 2300 concerts. They were the house band for San Francisco’s counter culture acid tests, played Monterey and Woodstock, and played three nights before the Great Pyramid in Giza. In 1973, they played before 600,000 at Watkins Glen.
Essential Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun (1968), Live/Dead (1969), Workingman’s Dead (1970)
The Dead’s Top 10:
Truckin’
Touch of Grey
Casey Jones
One More Saturday Night
Box of Rain
Fire on the Mountain
Uncle John’s Band
Friend of the Devil
Sugar Magnolia
Mexicali Blues
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