* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )

The Grateful Dead performed " Not Fade Away " 530 times over the course of their career, making it their seventh most-performed song.

On March 25, 1972, he played with The Grateful Dead at the Academy of Music in New York City.

The Grateful Dead released part of this concert as Volume 30 of the band's Dick's Picks concert album series.

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in 1964 in San Francisco, California, to Linda Carroll, now a psychotherapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher who had some association with the Grateful Dead ; consequently, Love was included in a group picture on the back of the band's album Aoxomoxoa ( 1969 ).

* Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead tribute band

* Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead, by the David Murray Octet, 1996

* " Dark Star " ( song ), by the Grateful Dead

* 1951 – Vince Welnick, American musician ( The Grateful Dead and The Tubes ) ( d. 2006 )

Other Western artists such as the Grateful Dead, Incredible String Band, the Rolling Stones, the Move and Traffic soon incorporated Indian influences and instruments, and added Indian performers.

Legendary Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia joined guitarist Sanjay Mishra on his classic CD " Blue Incantation " ( 1995 ).

* 1967 – The " ultimate high " of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.

* 1948 – Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player ( Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold Band ) ( d. 1980 )

* 1946 – Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer ( Grateful Dead, The Other Ones The Dead, 7 Walkers, Rhythm Devils, and BK3 )

He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead.

He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995.

Before joining the Grateful Dead, Hart and his father, Leonard Hart, a champion rudimental drummer, owned and operated Hart Music, selling drums and musical instruments in San Carlos, California.

Hart joined the Grateful Dead in September 1967, and left in February 1971 when he extricated himself from the band, due to conflict between band management and Mickey's father.

Collaboration with the remaining members of the Grateful Dead continues, under the band name The Dead.

Alongside his work with the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart has flourished as a solo artist, percussionist, and the author of several books.

Olatunji later taught Hart and collaborated with Hart and the Grateful Dead on a regular basis.

In 1994, Mickey Hart was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Grateful Dead.

After the death of Jerry Garcia and the consequent dissolution of the Grateful Dead in 1995, Hart continued to play music with various groups including members of the Grateful Dead.

The first lyrics he wrote for the Grateful Dead were composed while on LSD, and mailed to the band from Arizona: a suite that would later become " China Cat Sunflower "/" The Eleven " ( these were originally performed together for a short time ).

The concert originally was scheduled to be held at San Jose State practice field since there had just recently been an outdoor free festival with fifty-two bands and eighty thousand people in attendance for three days, Dirt Cheap Productions was asked to help secure the property again for the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead to play a free concert.

" Turn On Your Love Light ", originally a hit for Bobby Bland in 1962, was later covered by Jerry Lee Lewis and the Grateful Dead.

The Wharf Rats originally came from a small group of Narcotics Anonymous members who went to a Grateful Dead concert in Philadelphia and located each other by their Yellow balloons with the NA symbol drawn on in Magic Marker.

Kelley's artwork on the 1971 self-titled live album, Grateful Dead, incorporated a black and white illustration of a skeleton by Edmund Sullivan, which originally appeared in a 19th century edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

They were billed with such groups as Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and Iron Butterfly.

On January 2, 2007, Gordon appeared with a group billed as The House Band containing many former members of The Grateful Dead playing at a party in honor of the new leadership of the United States House of Representatives hosted by Nancy Pelosi.

Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Ron " Pigpen " McKernan were in Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions before forming The Warlocks, which evolved into Grateful Dead.

Later that year, a band known as The Warlocks became the Grateful Dead, performing at The Fillmore, which was to become a major musical venue in the area.

* The Warlocks, the original name of the Grateful Dead

He frequently entertained friends and many others with parties he called " Acid Tests " involving music ( such as Kesey's favorite band, The Warlocks, later known as the Grateful Dead ), black lights, fluorescent paint, strobes and other " psychedelic " effects, and, of course, LSD.

Notable members of the group include Kesey's best friend Ken Babbs, Stewart Brand, Neal Cassady, Del Close, Paul Foster, Carolyn Garcia ( also known as Mountain Girl ), the Grateful Dead, Wavy Gravy, Paul Krassner, and Kentucky Fab Five authors Ed McClanahan ( also known as " Captain Kentucky ") and Gurney Norman.

* Jerry Garcia c / o Grateful Dead: Mouth Sounds and Chimes ( on " Backstage Pass ")

* Mickey Hart c / o Grateful Dead: Percussion and Processed Animals ( on " Backstage Pass ")

*(" Dadada ") ( Grateful Dead )

He and his cohorts created what became known as " The Red Dog Experience ", featuring previously unknown musical acts — Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Charlatans, and others — who played in the completely refurbished, intimate setting of Virginia City's Red Dog Saloon.

The Grateful Dead played, and some sources claim that LSD was consumed at the rally.

The tradition of hippie music festivals began in the United States in 1965 with Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, where the Grateful Dead played tripping on LSD and initiated psychedelic jamming.

In one collaboration, first-generation bluegrass fiddler Vassar Clements, progressive mandolin player David Grisman, Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia ( on banjo ), and Peter Rowan on lead vocals played in the band called Old and in the Way.

On August 27, 1972, the Grateful Dead played a concert — the first " Field Trip "— at the Oregon Country Fair site.

It was played by the Grateful Dead from 1993, and subsequently played by " The Dead ".

On May 3 – 4, 1972, The Grateful Dead played two concerts here as part of their first major European tour.

The Grateful Dead took part in the boogie woogie rhythmic style, they played a dance hall sort of music as they emerged.

No groups that performed at the original Woodstock festival took the stage at Woodstock 1999, although John Entwistle of The Who performed a solo set, and Mickey Hart, drummer of the Grateful Dead, played with his band Planet Drum.

Phillip Chapman Lesh ( born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California ) is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career.

Haight-Ashbury became a countercultural capital, and bands like Jefferson Airplane, Loading Zone, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, Santana, The Charlatans, Big Brother & the Holding Company and the Grateful Dead helped to launch the blues-and folk-rock scene ; other bands, like Moby Grape and The Flamin ' Groovies used a more country-influenced sound, while Cold Blood incorporated R & B and Orkustra played a sort of freeform psychedelia.

The Grateful Dead played a series of shows here, 9 September 1974 – 11 September 1974.

Grateful Dead keyboardist Vince Welnick joined the band in September 1995 and played in several shows but left a couple months later.

Through the period known as the Quintet years ( see below ), a Phil & Friends show was often focused on harder, faster rock than that which the Grateful Dead played, thanks in large part to Haynes ' and Herring's talents at the Southern rock style.

Both The Grateful Dead and Phish frequently played the Coliseum, concerts yielding live albums in both cases: Go to Nassau by the Dead ; and three installments of the Live Phish Series — 4-2-98, 4-3-98 and 2-28-03.

Leader Peter Albin, a country-blues guitarist who had played with future founders of the Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia and Ron McKernan, met Sam Andrew, a professional rock & roll guitarist with a jazz and classical background.

Hornsby played more than a hundred shows with the Grateful Dead from 1988 until Jerry Garcia's death in 1995.

He played piano ( and frequently accordion ) at many gigs following the death of Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland in July 1990 ; Mydland's place was filled in March 1992 by Vince Welnick, who became the sole keyboardist, although Hornsby still sat in with the band on occasion.

Grant's first stop for them was in New York City, for four shows at Fillmore East, where they played second on the bill to The Grateful Dead.

The Band played to receptive audiences in the summer of 1973 at the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen and on a double bill with the Grateful Dead at Jersey City's Roosevelt Stadium.

* The Grateful Dead played the Spectrum 53 times, by far the most of any musical act.

With the demolition of The Spectrum, all five venues ( within the City Of Philadelphia ) The Grateful Dead played through their career have succumbed to the wrecking ball.