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the grateful dead

Sex, drugs, and revolutionary politics are commonplace in North America, but rock and roll all melted it together, especially in San Francisco in the sixties. One notable band to come out of this era was the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead started out as a small rock and blues band, then would go on to stimulate an entire generation to prolong, and finally a whole population of people to follow them from concert to concert and enjoy their music through their whole lives. In just thirty years the Grateful Dead became one of the single most popular rock groups in the world, with their touring rates breaking records, without becoming a focus of the media. They hardly got radio play, top forty hits, or even best selling records. But their fans continued to grow in numbers in appreciation for the Dead. Even after the band’s dismembering in 1995 due to the death of guitarists/lead vocalist Jerry Garcia, people still focus their lives around the standard of living the Grateful Dead has ...

Posted by: John Mayes

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