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31 unusual facts about Grateful Dead


4442 Garcia

Minor Planet 4442 is named 4442 Garcia to honor Jerry Garcia, frontman of the Grateful Dead.

Baron Wolman

Because of Wolman's virtually unlimited access to his subjects, his photographs of Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Phil Spector, Jim Morrison, Ike & Tina Turner, and other musicians were the graphic centerpieces of Rolling Stones layout.

Bob Masse

As folk became folk-rock, and Vancouver was visited by such bands as the Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Steve Miller, Bob continued to produce memorable concert posters for these bands, and helped pioneer the emerging psychedelic art genre.

With the rise of folk-rock, Vancouver played host to concerts from the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and the Steve Miller Band, with Masse contributing increasingly psychedelicized artwork for their appearances; in 1966, he travelled to San Francisco, with a revelatory journey to the Haight-Ashbury district as well as direct contact with the poster art of the Fillmore and the Family Dog exerting a profound influence on his own subsequent work.

Brian Halligan

It uses the marketing activities of the rock band The Grateful Dead as an example of this.

Clarke Mackey

Clarke Mackey was one of four cinematographers on the 1970 Canadian concert film Festival Express featuring Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and The Band, that was not released until 2003, 33 years after the original event.

David E. Smith

In the spring of 1973, Bill Graham staged two consecutive Saturday concerts at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, CA featuring The Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin.

Dead Ahead

Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead, a rock concert video recorded in 1980 and released in 1981

Eugene Mall

When Springfield Creamery owner Chuck Kesey, brother of author Ken Kesey, brought the Grateful Dead to the Oregon Renaissance Faire to play a benefit concert for the creamery in 1972, the Eugene Mall seemed like a good waiting room for the next concert.

Event cinema

The thrill of Live broadcasts means they are generally regarded as more popular than recorded events, but there are exceptions; artists with a loyal cult or teenage following tend to do particularly well in this area, as concert films featuring artists such as the Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, JLS, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones have shown.

Flashback with the Grateful Dead

Flashback with the Grateful Dead is an album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.

Future Sonics

The Grateful Dead and The Steve Miller Band where among the early bands to tour with this form of personal monitoring.

Garry Goodrow

While a member of The Committee in San Francisco, he emceed several benefits featuring artists and musicians such as Allen Ginsberg and the Grateful Dead.

Jimmy Patsos

Patsos has eclectic taste including being an avid fan of The Grateful Dead.

Kaiser Convention Center

From 1967 through 1989, the Grateful Dead, an American rock band, performed at the Convention Center 57 times.

Louis Brown Athletic Center

The Grateful Dead played at the Rutgers Athletic Center on May 15, 1981.

Luke Walton

On his right arm, there is a tattoo of four Grateful Dead-type dancing skeletons, each one with a basketball; the skeletons represent Luke and his three brothers.

Manuel Cuevas

Cuevas created Johnny Cash's black suits, the roses and skeletons insignia of the Grateful Dead, crafted Elvis' signature suits, and an inflated lips pillow for Mick Jagger that designer John Pasche modified into the logo for The Rolling Stones.

Mike Cowan

He is an avowed "Deadhead" (ardent fan of the American rock and roll band The Grateful Dead), and is a member of Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland where he resides with his wife, Jennifer, and their child, Bobbie.

Nepalese rock

The history of rock music in Nepal dates back to the 70s when there were a few acts influenced by Western bands such as The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and later Led Zeppelin, The Who, the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple and Bob Marley.

Oklahoma State Fair Arena

The Grateful Dead's performance on October 19, 1973, was recorded and later released as Dick's Picks Volume 19.

One from the Heart

Tavoularis, whose art department was next door to the musical rehearsal space, used Waits' music as tonal inspiration, incorporating it into the film's highly stylized "look." Mickey Hart, drummer for The Grateful Dead, and musician Bobby Vega were also credited for their contributions to the production.

Patrick Lundborg

Certain representative works and artists are selected for detailed analysis, such as William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now, William Blake, Eden Ahbez, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Mel Lyman Family, Terence McKenna, Grateful Dead, Philip K Dick, Father Yod & The Source Family, and several more.

Polaroids from the Dead

Topics of the stories include a Grateful Dead concert (source of "The Dead" in title), a post-mortem letter to Kurt Cobain, Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge, and an homage to James Rosenquist's painting F-111.

Richmond–San Rafael Bridge

According to Dennis McNally, Jerry Garcia conceived the idea for the Grateful Dead song Terrapin Station while driving across the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge.

Rock 'n' Roll Band

Directed by Justin Kreutzmann, son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, this part concert DVD, part documentary, fully encapsulates the essence of the band, both on and off the stage.

Rocket Yoga

Rocket Yoga has attracted a wide following including: Willem Dafoe, Madonna, Sting, The Grateful Dead, and Christy Turlington.

Set list

The Grateful Dead are one example, having never played the same set list twice in the band's entire existence.

Sophie Masloff

When the Grateful Dead came to Pittsburgh, she called them the "Dreadful Dead" and their fans "Deadenders".

Terrapin Beer Company

Buckowski, a Grateful Dead fan, named the brewery after his favorite Grateful Dead album Terrapin Station.

Timothy L. Tyler

After graduation, he toured the country attending Grateful Dead concerts.


Al Green Explores Your Mind

"Take Me To The River" has been covered by several other performers including Talking Heads (on 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food), Ron Fleeger & The Stranger, Al's label mate Syl Johnson, Levon Helm, Annie Lennox, Toni Childs, Max on the Rox, Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Bryan Ferry, Delbert McClinton, Maná, The Commitments, Foghat, Gov't Mule, Phish and Eva Cassidy.

Bakersfield sound

Love of the Bakersfield Sound has never died, carried on by artists such as the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers in the 1960s-70s, Highway 101, Hillman and The Desert Rose Band, and Marty Stuart in the 1980s and '90s, and Big House, Dwight Yoakam, Red Simpson, Ferlin Husky.

Bickershaw Festival

Although the organisers put together a line-up of United Kingdom and American acts such as the Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Dr John, Hawkwind, The Kinks, Country Joe McDonald, The Incredible String Band, Donovan, Wishbone Ash, Maynard Ferguson, and a host of mixed-media acts such as high divers and clowns, the festival suffered from several major deficiencies.

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Grateful Dead – "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" as "One Kind Favor" on Birth of the Dead

Dillon Stadium

On July 16, 1972, the Grateful Dead played in Dillon Stadium and were joined on stage by Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley and Jai Johanny Johanson of the Allman Brothers.

Frank Wakefield

He toured with Jerry Garcia, and New Riders of the Purple Sage and opened for the Grateful Dead.

Fuzz-wah

Jerry Garcia, guitarist of the Grateful Dead, used a Morley Fuzz Wah during that band's 1973-74 tours.

Gargoyle Mechanique

Internationally known artists, sculptors, poets, musicians and inspired thinkers have also shared their expressions in GMLab, from Allen Ginsberg to Jivamukti Yoga founders David Life and Sharon Gannon to Timothy Leary to John Perry Barlow of the Grateful Dead and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Hollywood Music Festival

It was notable for the first performance of Grateful Dead in the UK and also for the triumphant performance of the band Mungo Jerry (of "In the Summertime" fame) and featured such notable bands as Free, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Colosseum, Family, Black Sabbath and Traffic.

Home, Home on the Road

Home, Home on the Road was produced by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, who had co-founded the New Riders and had been their original pedal steel guitar player.

Hot Tuna

The two Sweetwater albums were predominantly acoustic sets with guests; Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead, singer Maria Muldaur, and ex-Rod Stewart, Jefferson Starship keyboards player Pete Sears; the latter was to join the group on a permanent basis during the decade.

Jeff Austin

Available only for digital download, the album features non-traditional bluegrass versions of songs by the Grateful Dead with 100% of the proceeds going to the Rex Foundation.

Jeff Mattson

A founding member of the jam band, the Zen Tricksters, and guitarist in the Donna Jean Godchaux Band with Jeff Mattson, which features the Grateful Dead’s Donna Jean Godchaux, Mattson was named the permanent lead guitarist for Dark Star Orchestra.

KFRC-FM

Some of the music played in the Spring of 1967 included Jefferson Airplane's album Surrealistic Pillow, the first Grateful Dead album, Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced and The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which KMPX played uninterrupted in its entirety.

Kyle Hollingsworth

In 2007, Kyle toured with The Mickey Hart Band, featuring Steve Kimock', George Porter Jr. and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead

Marshall Blonstein

Among the Audio Fidelity catalogue titles are popular items such as James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James, Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, Carly Simon’s No Secrets and several Grateful Dead titles.

Mississippi River Festival

Bob Heil, President and founder of Heil Sound as well as production adviser to national touring groups, such as Grateful Dead and the Who provided sound production for seven years.

Mr. Blotto

In 2007, the group released an album jointly written with John Perry Barlow, who had previously worked as a lyricist with the Grateful Dead.

Musictoday

Capshaw's business model is that of bands like the Grateful Dead and Phish, who for years ran mail order presales of their concert tickets to their biggest fans.

Ralph J. Gleason

In the later 1960s, Gleason was a widely respected commentator and he chose to write supportively of the better cut of the Bay Area rock bands, such as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead.

Sam Cutler

Following the events at Altamont, Cutler stayed in the U.S. to deal with the aftermath, was befriended by Jerry Garcia, and subsequently hired by the Grateful Dead as their tour manager.

The Altamont Free Concert was planned and put together by a loose amalgamation of West Coast American bands which included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills and Nash, Santana, and others.

Stephen Barncard

He is best known for his work producing rock albums of the 1970s, including the Grateful Dead's American Beauty and David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name.

The Avalon

The Grateful Dead played at the Avalon 29 times from 1966 through 1969, and recorded two live albums, entitled Vintage Dead and Historic Dead, in the autumn of 1966.

The Grateful Dead Channel

The Grateful Dead Channel is a Sirius XM Radio channel playing music spanning American rock band Grateful Dead's entire career including unreleased concert recordings and original shows hosted by band members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann.

The Grateful Dead Family Album

The Grateful Dead Family Album is a photographic music reference book by Jerilyn Lee Brandelius, cover art by Stanley Mouse with hundreds of intimate photographs and stories from members of the Grateful Dead and the Dead Family.

The Relix Bay Rock Shop, No. 1

The two songs from Before Time Began were recorded in the studio in 1969 by the original lineup of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, which included Dawson, David Nelson, and three members of the Grateful DeadJerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, and Phil Lesh.

The Rhythm Devils Concert Experience

The Rhythm Devils Concert Experience is a 2008 two-disc DVD concert and documentary of the Rhythm Devils 2006 tour, featuring members of the Grateful Dead, Phish, The Other Ones, and Deep Banana Blackout.

View from the Vault, Volume Four

View from the Vault, Volume Four (or View from the Vault IV) is the fourth release in the "View from the Vault" series of rock concert recordings by the Grateful Dead.

View from the Vault, Volume One

View from the Vault, Volume One, sometimes known simply as View from the Vault, is the first release in a series of DVDs and companion soundtracks by the Grateful Dead known as "View from the Vault".

View from the Vault, Volume Three

View from the Vault, Volume Three (or View from the Vault III) is the third release in the "View from the Vault" series by the Grateful Dead.