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Grateful Dead

Active

1960s - 1990s

Formed

1965 in San Francisco, CA

Genre

Pop/Rock

Styles

Country-Rock Jam Bands Rock & Roll Psychedelic/Garage Album Rock Folk-Rock

Group Members

Bill Kreutzmann Bob Weir Jerry Garcia Mickey Hart Phil Lesh Ron "Pigpen" McKernan Brent Mydland Donna Jean Godchaux Keith Godchaux Tom Constanten Vince Welnick
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Grateful Dead

Biography by Jason Ankeny

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Legendary Haight-Ashbury sextet who took a long, strange trip from acid-testing jugband to worldwide countercultural institution.
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