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Nov 7, 2018 · They became popular in the area with their free live shows which eventually led them to play at the Fillmore in San Francisco and the psych rock Trips Festival. It was legendary rock music promoter Bill Graham who helped catapult them into the scene.
Sep 4, 2024 · Grateful Dead, American rock band that was the incarnation of the improvisational psychedelic music that flowered around San Francisco in the 1960s. It was one of the most successful touring bands in rock history despite having had virtually no radio hits. Learn more about the band’s history and music.
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Beginning in the early 1990s, a new generation of bands became inspired by the Grateful Dead's improvisational ethos and marketing strategy, and began to incorporate elements of the Grateful Dead's live performances into their own shows.
Formed as a quintet in California in 1965, the Grateful Dead became as much a folktale as the story from which they drew their name. Fusing rock and roll, folk, and jazz with avant-garde, visual, and literary traditions--and virtually inventing a new way to play music in the process--they became one of the most popular, enduring, and ...
Jun 18, 2015 · 1967. Jan. 14: First signs of the Summer of Love: At least 20,000 — including some Hells Angels — gathered at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field for the “Gathering of the Tribes,” the prelude to the...
Jul 3, 2015 · The histories of the Grateful Dead and contemporary tech are intertwined, growing together out of the Bay Area in the 1960s and '70s.
Sep 8, 2005 · How, in the course of one year, did a jug band from the Northern California peninsula become one of the most important — and by far the most durable and influential — musical phenomena to have...
