Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 93. Chapters: Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, The Flaming Lips, Vanilla Fudge, GONN, Big Brother and the Holding Company, H. P. Lovecraft, Them Crooked Vultures, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Iron Butterfly, Days Between Stations, Davenport, The Misunderstood, Coven, We the People, The Cherry People, The Green Pajamas, Tadpoles, Love Battery, The Pillbugs, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Linus Pauling Quartet, Dirty Little Rabbits, The Love Exchange, PFFR, The Human Expression, The Dodos, Firework Show, Aorta, Dr. Dog, The Pharmacy, Rotary Connection, Charalambides, Wooden Shjips, The Music Machine, Circus Maximus, Fifty Foot Hose, The Shag, Tiffany Shade, The David, Country Weather, Lothar and the Hand People, Neighb’rhood Childr’n, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Darker My Love, The Tomorrowpeople, Hair Police, Opal, Species Being, Heavy Young Heathens, Circus Devils, The Deep, The Other Half, Earth Opera, Ford Theatre, Yume Bitsu, Fever Tree, Fly Ashtray, JPT Scare Band, Circulatory System, SubArachnoid Space, Mystic Tide, Sopwith Camel, Dr. Ed and the Flu Shots, The Millennium, The Slant, Death Is Not a Joyride, Major Stars, Danava, The Frost, Tidal Arms, Astra, The Illusion, Malkauns, Hunger, The Lollipop Shoppe, Fear Itself, Prince Rama, Through the Sparks, Tarantula Hawk, Beme Seed, Haymarket Square, Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band, Fraternity of Man, World, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Zerfas. Excerpt: The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock-and for live performances of long musical improvisation. “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.” They were ranked 57th in the issue The Greatest Artists of all Time by Rolling Stone magazine. The fans of the Grateful Dead, some of whom followed the band from concert to concert for years, are known as “Deadheads” and are known for their dedication to the band’s music. Many referred to the band simply as “the Dead.” Phil Lesh and Jerry Garcia were brought together by Gert Chiarito in 1964 to perform on The Midnight Special, her Saturday night radio program on KPFA, Berkeley. The Grateful Dead began their career as the Warlocks, a group formed in early 1965 from the remnants of a Palo Alto jug band called Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions. The band’s first show was at Magoo’s Pizza in suburban Menlo Park, California on May 5, 1965. They were still known as the Warlocks although the Velvet Underground was also using that name on the east coast. The show was not recorded and not even the set list has been preserved. The band changed its name after finding out that another band of the same name had signed a recording contract (not the Velvet Underground who by then had also changed their name). The first show under the new name Grateful Dead was in San Jose, California on December 4, 1965, at one of Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests. Earlier demo tapes have survived, but the first of over 2,000 concerts known to have been recorded by the band’s fans was a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on