"the grateful dead"

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*OFFICIAL WEBSITE*

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“casey jones”

off 1970 grateful dead album “workingman’s dead”

music by jerry garcia / lyrics by robert hunter

“driving that train…”

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(the Grateful Dead was an american rock band formed in 1965 in ‘Palo Alto’, ‘california’)

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(ranging from ‘quintet’ to ‘septet’, the band is known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, psychedelia, experimental music, modal jazz, country, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, and space rock, for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams, and for their devoted fan base, known as “deadheads”)

(“their music,” writes Lenny Kaye, “touches on ground that most other groups don’t even know exists”)

(these various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the ‘grateful dead “the pioneering godfathers of the jam band world”)

(the band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its” The Greatest Artists of All Time” issue)

(the band was inducted into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’ in 1994 and a recording of their ‘8 may 1977’ performance at Cornell University’s ‘Barton Hall’ was added to the “National Recording Registry” of the “Library of Congress” in 2012)

(“The Grateful Dead” have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide)

(“The Grateful Dead” was founded in the “San Francisco Bay Area” amid the rise of the ‘counterculture’ of the 1960s)

(the founding members were ‘Jerry Garcia’ (lead guitar, vocals), ‘Bob Weir’ (rhythm guitar, vocals), ‘Ron “Pigpen” McKernan’ (keyboards, harmonica, vocals), ‘Phil Lesh’ (bass, vocals), and ‘Bill Kreutzmann’ (drums))

(dispersing “bring back pigpen!” to a group of airheaded teenage blonde current ‘clueless deadheads’)

(members of the ‘Grateful Dead’ had played together in various San Francisco bands, including Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions and “the warlocks”)

(“Lesh” was the last member to join “the warlocks” before they became the “grateful dead”; he replaced “Dana Morgan Junior”, who had played ‘bass’ for a few gigs)

(drummer ‘Mickey Hart’ and nonperforming lyricist ‘Robert Hunter’ joined in 1967)

(with the exception of ‘McKernan’, who died in 1973, and ‘Hart’, who took time off from 1971 to 1974, the core of the band stayed together for its entire 30-year history)

(the other official members of the band are ‘Tom Constanten’ (keyboards; 1968–1970), ‘John Perry Barlow’ (nonperforming lyricist; 1971–1995), ‘Keith Godchaux’ (keyboards; 1971–1979), ‘Donna Godchaux’ (vocals; 1972–1979), ‘Brent Mydland’ (keyboards, vocals; 1979–1990), and ‘Vince Welnick’ (keyboards, vocals; 1990–1995))

(pianist ‘Bruce Hornsby’ was a touring member from 1990 to 1992, as well as a guest with the band on occasion before and after the tours)

(after the death of ‘garcia’ in 1995, former members of the band, along with other musicians, toured as the ‘Other Ones’ in 1998, 2000, and 2002, and the ‘Dead’ in 2003, 2004, and 2009)

(in 2015, the four surviving core members marked the band’s 50th anniversary in a series of concerts that were billed as their last performances together)

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(there have also been several spin-offs featuring one or more core members, such as ‘Dead & Company’, ‘Furthur’, the ‘Rhythm Devils’, ‘Phil Lesh & Friends’, ‘RatDog’, and ‘Billy & the Kids’)

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