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Results for Grateful DeadWhat a long strange trip it's been. Enlisted to be house band for Ken Kesey's Acid Tests in 1965, The Grateful Dead (nee Warlocks) became synonymous with the cult of psychedelia and emerged as one of the most popular bands of the 20th century. Initially gaining popularity through their unique free-form jams, the band claimed the local center of attention through sincere commitment to the San Francisco movement. The members, who settled into Haight-Ashbury and were part of the "love-in" and "flower child" attitude, lived as members of a commune and played for countless hippie parties. They gave more free concerts than any other big-name band of the era and thus endeared themselves to the community that immortalized them. Their music, drawing from the spectrum of American blues, jazz, country and rock, was psychedelic, but in a relaxed way, and their performances were powerful within the context of their times. Never a huge seller of records, the Grateful Dead has maintained an incredibly loyal fan base to this day, even after losing lead singer, songwriter and guitarist Jerry Garcia to a sudden fatal heart attack in 1995, and regularly sells out contemporary concerts. The fact that the Grateful Dead has stayed so popular for so long attests to the universality and competence of their music....more
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by Paul Williams•February 27, 2008•
But San Francisco—the Fillmore, the Avalon, the Trips Festivals, the Diggers, Owsley’s acid, Haight Street and Ashbury and Masonic and Golden Gate Park, the Straight Theater, Herb Caen, the Barb, the communication company—these have been and are and will be the environment
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by Simon Frith•February 20, 2008•
I feel uneasy, confronting Landau. If a rock critic is a parasite, what is the critic of a rock critic? Landau is a rock critic pure and simple. He subtitles his book A Rock And Roll Journal, but it’s essentially a collection of past reviews, mostly of records, mostly from Rolling Stone and The Phoenix.
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by Dinky Dawson•December 26, 2007•
As December arrived, the Byrds fell into a paralyzing indifference toward working on new material or strengthening their live set. Perhaps this backslide was accelerated by talk about the reunion of the original Byrds lineup or encouraged by the poor and sometimes scathing reviews of Farther Along.
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by Denise Sullivan•October 24, 2007•
There comes a time in a music lover's life when one must ask a most fateful question: the Grateful Dead… do I or don't I? My fellows promised me that one day it would all come down to this
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by Ben Fong-Torres•October 24, 2007•
Bill Graham was a movie of a man. His 60-year-long life, which came to an end in a helicopter crash in Sonoma County the night of October 25, was a seemingly endless reel of stories. At his funeral service—before, during, and after—friends and family, musicians
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5/7/2008
OK VAULT PEOPLE-PUT YOUR THINKING CAPS ON-what are your all time favorite concerts ? mine are; procol harum ...
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3/5/2008
RobMac says regarding Van Morrison, " I always liked him but was not real familiar with his music until I started...
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1/2/2008
Since when did Clapton sound anything like Hendrix or vice versa for that matter? The only similarity that could be...
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12/2/2007
Thanks Corry. Once you provided the correct spelling of the name I found this bit in the San Francisco Chronicle of...
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12/1/2007
Bill Kreutzmann had a cabaret card based on a fake ID that said "Bill Sommers." The Dead could only play bars based on...
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