It continued playing bar shows, like Frenchy's Bikini-A-Go-Go in Hayward and, importantly, five sets a night, five nights a week, for six weeks, at the In Room in Belmont as the Warlocks, but quickly changed the band's name after finding out that a different band known as the Warlocks had put out a record under the same name. The band's first show was at Magoo's Pizza Parlor located at 639 Santa Cruz Avenue in suburban Menlo Park, on May 5, 1965, now a Harvest furniture store. The Grateful Dead began its career as the Warlocks, a group formed in early 1965 from the remnants of a Palo Alto, California jug band called Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. Left to right: Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh. There have also been several spin-offs featuring one or more core members, such as Dead & Company, Furthur, the Rhythm Devils, Phil Lesh and Friends, RatDog, and Billy & the Kids.
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In 2015, the four surviving core members marked the band's 50th anniversary in a series of concerts that were billed as their last performances together. Bruce Hornsby (accordion, piano, vocals) was a touring member from 1990 to 1992, as well as a guest with the band on occasion before and after the tours.Īfter the death of Garcia in 1995, former members of the band, along with other musicians, toured as the Other Ones in 1998, 2000, and 2002, and the Dead in 2003, 2004, and 2009. The other official members of the band are Tom Constanten (keyboards 1968–1970), John Perry Barlow (non-performing lyricist 1971–1995), Keith Godchaux (keyboards, occasional vocals 1971–1979), Donna Godchaux (vocals 1972–1979), Brent Mydland (keyboards, vocals 1979–1990), and Vince Welnick (keyboards, vocals 1990–1995). With the exception of McKernan, who died in 1973, and Hart, who took time off from 1971 to 1974, the core of the band stayed together for its entire 30-year history. Drummer Mickey Hart and non-performing lyricist Robert Hunter joined in 1967. Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks before they changed their name to the Grateful Dead replacing Dana Morgan Jr., who had played bass for a few gigs. Members of the Grateful Dead, originally known as the Warlocks, had played together in various Bay Area ensembles, including the traditional jug band Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. The founding members were Jerry Garcia ( lead guitar, vocals), Bob Weir (rhythm guitar, vocals), Ron "Pigpen" McKernan ( keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Phil Lesh ( bass, vocals), and Bill Kreutzmann ( drums). The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s. Despite having only one top-40 single in their 30-year career, " Touch of Grey", the Grateful Dead remained among the highest-grossing American touring acts for multiple decades and gained a committed fanbase by word of mouth and the exchange of live recordings due to the band's permissive stance on taping. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a recording of their performance at Cornell University's Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2012.
The band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its " The Greatest Artists of All Time" issue. According to Lenny Kaye, "their music touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists." These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world". The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, world music, and psychedelia for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams that typically incorporated modal and tonal improvisation and for its devoted fan base, known as " Deadheads".
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.
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