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The Grateful Dead allowed their fans to tape their shows like several other bands during the time. For many years the tapers set up their microphones wherever they could. The eventual forest of microphones became a problem for the official sound crew. Eventually this was solved by having a dedicated taping section located behind the soundboard, which required a special "tapers" ticket. The band allowed sharing of tapes of their shows, as long as no profits were made on the sale of their show tapes.[38] Recently, there was some dispute over what recordings archive.org could host on their site. Currently, all recordings are hosted, though soundboard recordings are not available for download, rather in a streaming format.[39]

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Artwork

Dancing bears
Dancing bears

Over the years, a number of iconic images have come to be associated with the Grateful Dead. Many of these images originated as artwork for concert posters or album covers.

  • Lightning bolt skull: Perhaps the best known Grateful Dead art icon is a red, white, and blue skull with a lightning bolt through it. The lightning bolt skull can be found on the cover of the album Steal Your Face, and the image is sometimes known by that name. It was designed by Owsley "Bear" Stanley and artist Bob Thomas, and was originally used as a logo to mark the band's equipment.[40]
  • Dancing bears: A series of stylized dancing bears was drawn by Bob Thomas as part of the back cover for the album History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice).[41] The bear is a reference to Owsley "Bear" Stanley, who recorded and produced the album. Bear himself wrote, "... the bears on the album cover are not really 'dancing'. I don't know why people think they are, their positions are quite obviously those of a high-stepping march."[42]
  • Skull and roses: The skull and roses design was composed by Alton Kelley, who added color and lettering to a black and white drawing by Edmund Joseph Sullivan. Sullivan's drawing was an illustration for a nineteenth century edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Kelly's design originally appeared on a poster for a 1966 Dead show at the Avalon Ballroom. Later it was used as the cover for the album Grateful Dead. The album is sometimes referred to as Skull and Roses.[43]
  • Uncle Sam skeleton: The Uncle Sam skeleton was devised by Gary Gutierrez as part of the animation for The Grateful Dead Movie.[44] The image combines the Grateful Dead skeleton motif with the character of Uncle Sam, a reference to the then-recently written song "U.S. Blues", which the Dead are seen performing near the beginning of the film.

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Impact

Throughout their 30 years, the Grateful Dead spent their career at the edge of the "official music industry" creating a business model that was antithetical to the model of creating a polished album and then touring to support its sales. The model they evolved was based primarily on touring. Their tours included playing multi-night runs at large arenas and stadiums from year to year. Their shows, usually longer than two hours, rarely featured the same song twice in succeeding nights and never played the songs in exactly the same way. These unique qualities made the Grateful Dead the most viewed rock band during their 30 year run. It spawned a faithful following of Deadheads that came from all parts of society, many of which went on to become influential artists themselves. They condoned the live taping of their shows which virally spread their music and added to the number of Deadheads. They proved that a touring rock band could be successful and self-sustaining outside of the standard music industry business model.

Their dissolution left a void which was filled by a variety of jam bands as their fan base sought out other alternatives, causing the 1990s jam bands boom.[citation needed]

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Lineups

Grateful Dead lineups (by year)
(1965–1967)
(1967–1968)
(1968–1970)
(1970–1971)
(1971)
(1971–1972)
(1972)
(1972–1974)
(1975–1979)
(1979–1990)
(1990–1992)
(1992–1995)

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Discography

Further information: Grateful Dead discography

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See also


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References

  • Garofalo, Reebee (1997). Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA. Allyn & Bacon. ISBN 0-205-13703-2. 
  • Lesh, Phil (2005). Searching for the Sound. Little, Brown and Co.. ISBN 0-316-00998-9. 
  • McNally, Dennis (2002). A Long Strange Trip: the Inside History of the Grateful Dead. Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-1186-5. 
  • Ward, Ed; Geoffrey Stokes and Ken Tucker (1986). Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll. Rolling Stone Press. ISBN 0-671-54438-1. 
  • Harrison, Hank (Various Editions 1972-1992). The Dead Vol 1 & Vol 2. Arkives. ISBN 0-918501-12-1. 
  • Silver, Murray, 2005. "When Elvis Meets the Dalai Lama," (Bonaventure Books, Savannah), in which the author recounts promoting the Dead's first appearance in Atlanta in 1970, and the band's attempts to dump LSD in the city's water supply.

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c Santoro, Gene (2007). Grateful Dead. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
  2. ^ "purveyors of freely improvised space music," -- Blender Magazine, May 2003
  3. ^ ""Dark Star," both in its title and in its structure (designed to incorporate improvisational exploration), is the perfect example of the kind of "space music" that the Dead are famous for. Oswald's titular pun "Grayfolded" adds the concept of folding to the idea of space, and rightly so when considering the way he uses sampling to fold the Dead's musical evolution in on itself." -- Islands of Order, Part 2,by Randolph Jordan, in Offscreen Journal, edited by Donato Totaro, Ph.D, film studies lecturer at Concordia University since 1990.
  4. ^ a b Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum – Grateful Dead detail (asp). Inductees. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. Retrieved on 2007-01-16.
  5. ^ Kaye, Lenny (1970). The Grateful Dead – Live/Dead. Music reviews. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2007-01-16.
  6. ^ Selvin, Joel. "Marin Icons Now The Dead", San Francisco Chronicle, February 12, 2003
  7. ^ Garofalo, pg. 219
  8. ^ "The way it works is it doesn't depend on a leader, and I'm not the leader of the Grateful Dead or anything like that; there isn't any fuckin' leader." Jerry Garcia interview, Rolling Stone, 1972
  9. ^ "Garcia's influence on the overall chemistry of the band was surprisingly subtle, McNally tells NPR's Scott Simon. 'Jerry was not the leader, except by example... He was a charismatic figure.'"Simon, Scott. "'A Long Strange Trip': Insider McNally Writes a History of the Grateful Dead", NPR Music, January 11, 2003
  10. ^ Carolyn Jones, (June 3, 2006). Grateful Dead's last keyboardist, Vince Welnick, dies at 55. San Francisco Chronicle.
  11. ^ McNally, Dennis, "A Long Strange Trip", New York 2002, p.118-19. ISBN 0-7679-1185-7 and Brightman, Carol, "Sweet Chaos", New York 1998, p. 100-104. ISBN 0-671-01117-0
  12. ^ Bove, Tony. Rockument's Rise and Fall of the Haight-Ashbury (html). Rockument.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
  13. ^ [1]The Music Box, May 1999.
  14. ^ Stanton, Scott (2003). The Tombstone Tourist. Simon and Schuster, 102. ISBN 0743463307. 
  15. ^ Herbst, Peter (1989). The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980. St. Martin's Press, 186. ISBN 0312034865. 
  16. ^ Rolling Stone, pg. 332
  17. ^ Garofalo, pg. 218
  18. ^ Weiner, Robert G. (1999). Perspectives on the Grateful Dead: Critical Writings By Robert G. Weiner. Greenwood Publishing, 145. ISBN 0313305692. 
  19. ^ Ankeny, Jason. American Beauty review. Allmusic. All Media Guide LLC. Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
  20. ^ Rolling Stone Magazine (2003). Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
  21. ^ Wolfe, Tom (1968). The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Farrar Straus & Giroux
  22. ^ Cavallo, Dominick. A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History. St. Martin's Press (1999), p. 160. ISBN 0-312-21930-X.
  23. ^ Kroichick, Ron. "Farewell Candlestick", San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 1999
  24. ^ OtherOnes.Net - The Other Ones & The Dead Information Archive
  25. ^ The Immortals: The First Fifty. Rolling Stone Issue 946. Rolling Stone.
  26. ^ Phil Speaks Out
  27. ^ Relix: Dead, Phish, Allmans Members Serve as “House Band” for Pelosi-palooza
  28. ^ Reuters article by Sue Zeidler, February 11, 2007
  29. ^ "Grateful Dead, Deadheads reunite for Obama", Reuters, February 5, 2008
  30. ^ Selvin, Joel. "Grateful Dead Bury Hatchet, Reunite for Obama", San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2008
  31. ^ Selvin, Joel. "Grateful Dead Reunite for Barack Obama Benefit Show", Rolling Stone, February 5, 2008
  32. ^ Scott Rappaport (April 24, 2008). Grateful Dead Donates Archives to UC Santa Cruz. UC Santa Cruz News and Events.
  33. ^ Garofalo, pg. 219, quote in Garofalo, cited to Roxon, Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia, 210
  34. ^ McNally, Dennis, "A Long Strange Trip", New York 2002, p.455-58. ISBN 0-7679-1185-7
  35. ^ Pechner Productions- powered by SmugMug
  36. ^ Alembic History - Long Version
  37. ^ Brock, Ted. "MORNING BRIEFING: IN OREGON, THEY'RE GRATEFUL FOR ALL EXTRA CASH THEY GET", Los Angeles Times, 1990-06-26, p. C2. 
  38. ^ Internet Archive: Grateful Dead
  39. ^ http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=47634>
  40. ^ Creation of the lightning bolt skull, as told by Owsley "Bear" Stanley
  41. ^ Back cover of History of the Gateful Dead Vol. 1 (Bear's Choice) on Dead.net
  42. ^ Creation of the dancing bear, as told by Owsley "Bear" Stanley
  43. ^ Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses) on DeadDisc.com
  44. ^ McNally, p. 499

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