A year after Jerry Garcia emerged from a diabetic coma, the Dead released its first new album in six years. Other than keyboardist Brent Mydland—who joined in 1979—the album features the band's classic core lineup (minus Pigpen). It gave the band its biggest hit, "Touch of Grey," ...
Getting their first LP 'Terrapin Station' was the biggest disappointment in music in my life. The music was just bad and utterly boring. I still tend to think that Grateful Dead was actually a bad, boring and probably most overrated band ever. Many claim they were best while playing live ...
Three of the eight songs on the album are sung by Pigpen, with Side 1 being the definitive example of early Acoustic Dead, and Side 2 being electric blues and rock & roll, with Pigpen leading the charge on both tracks on the second side. This has been re-mastered by David Glasser ...
Grateful Dead Concerts Hit YoutubeThe Grateful Dead's final five concerts will stream live on YouTube. The "Fare Thee Well"...McCoy, Adrian
Where to start with live Dead? Our team of experts breaks it down, combing through thousands of shows to find their greatest songs and most transcendent moments
By the mid Eighties, the Dead were in a musical and personal rut, and Garcia was grappling with drug addiction. After he nearly died, the Dead regrouped and in 1987 had its biggest hit with the relatively bouncy “Touch of Grey.” With it, the group had a second wind, pulling in a ...
Producer Ryan Adams picked most of the cover songs for the album leading Nelson to call it the Ryan Adams Project. 2. “Standing on the Moon” by Molly Tuttle The Dead originally recorded “Standing on the Moon” for their 1989 studio album Built to Last. It was to be the band’s ...
Originally we always went to see the Dead high on acid, mescaline, or copious amounts of marijuana. I remember one very important show that my friend and I attended at the Hollywood Bowl to see the band and hear their new “wall of sound” which was basically the biggest sound system ev...
” The Monterey Pop Festival, which confirmed and culminated that insanely explosive spring of 1967, is now two years gone by. The biggest rock and roll event of its time, that three-day weekend marked the beginning of a new era.The Beatles(who sent their regards),the Stones,Dylan, even...
The band's biggest commercial hit, and only top-ten hit on the Billboard charts was... "Touch of Grey" "Uncle John's Band" "Friend of the Devil" "Sugar Magnolia" Early on, the Dead played events in association with which famous author?