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October 16, 2008

The Dead Rock the Pyramids

Three decades after playing Egypt, band to release legendary gigs
August 25, 2005

How the Dead Came to Life

Forty years ago, the Grateful Dead started down their golden road. How did a jug band from Northern California become the standard-bearers of San Francisco psychedelia? The untold story of the Dead's first breaths
April 7, 2005

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 55) Grateful Dead

By Warren Haynes
July 28, 2003

The Dead Inc.

The band reorganizes as a lean, mean, money-making machine

Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings

Late 1973 was a high time for the Grateful Dead. In October, they issued the first album on their own label, Wake of the Flood, a Top Twenty hit. The Dead had also beat the devilry of arena acoustics with a monstrous, traveling PA that was worth the bills just for the ice-knife slice of Jerry...

2008 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Three From the Vault

2007

Rockin' The Rhein With The Grateful Dead

2004

So Many Roads (1965-1995)

1999

Dick's Picks, Vol. 1

1993

One From The Vault

1991

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Psychedelic pioneers, the Grateful Dead were the most improvisatory of all major rock groups. From the late 1960's until the 1995 death of guitarist, singer/songwriter Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead played roughly 2,300 long, freeform concerts that touched down on their own country-, blues-, and folk-tinged rock songs, and on a similarly wide range of cover versions. Though Grateful Dead albums t...

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