I went to many Grateful Dead shows all over the country in 1991. How many did you go to? I’d love to hear your comments. Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocalsBob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocalsVince Welnick – keyboards, vocalsBruce Hornsby – keyboards, vocalsPhil Lesh – bass, vocalsBill Kreutzmann – drumsMickey Hart – drums…
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Psychedelic pioneers, the Grateful Dead were the most improvisatory of all major rock groups. From the late 1960′s until the 1995 death of guitarist, singer/songwriter Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead played roughly 2,300 long, free-form concerts that touched down on their own country-, blues-, and folk-tinged rock songs, and on a similarly wide range of…
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The Human Be-In was a happening in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the afternoon and evening of January 14, 1967. It was a prelude to San Francisco’s Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol as the center of an American counterculture and introduced the word ‘psychedelic’ to suburbia. The Human Be-In focused…
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