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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".
This means that the band technically had no name, although it could be considered another version of The Dead, which is the name Weir, Lesh, Kreutzmann and Hart had sporadically performed with since the Grateful Dead's 1995 disbandment. [17] It is also referred to as The Dead on the taper's archive site Relisten.
Speaking about the selection of concerts for the box set from which the Definitive Live Story tracks were excerpted, producer and tape archivist David Lemieux said, "Our first criterion was the very best live music to represent any given year in the band's history. We wanted to make sure that there were not only the tent-pole shows that fans ...
Dead & Company’s three-song climax ended with the Grateful Dead’s “Touch of Grey,” presumably chosen not because it was the band’s biggest commercial radio hit — or at least not only ...
"Althea" was a key contributing factor to the formation of Dead & Company. Guitarist John Mayer first heard the song in 2011 on Pandora and became infatuated with the Grateful Dead. While guest hosting The Late Late Show in 2015, Mayer invited former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir to appear on the show as a musical guest. The two performed ...
Grateful Dead, the revolutionary San Francisco-birthed band, was 2025’s MusiCares Persons of the Year, and famous Deadheads came out to celebrate. ... The War and Treaty with Mick Fleetwood and ...
So Many Roads (1965–1995) is a five-disc box set by the Grateful Dead.Primarily consisting of concert recordings from different periods of the band's history, it also contains several songs recorded in the studio.
The album's version of "St. Stephen" appears on the 1977 Grateful Dead compilation What a Long Strange Trip It's Been, but fades out during the final verse. Live/Dead was expanded with hidden bonus tracks as part of the 2001 box set The Golden Road (1965–1973), and has a longer intro on "Dark Star". This version was released separately in 2003.