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 ===== Previous Name ===== ===== Previous Name =====
  
-The band, which included Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bill Kreutzmann, and finally Phil Lesh, was initially known as The Warlocks.[([[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/grateful-dead-mn0000988440/biography?1628760072180|allmusic]])]+The band, which included Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bill Kreutzmann and Phil Lesh, was initially known as The Warlocks.[([[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/grateful-dead-mn0000988440/biography?1628760072180|allmusic]])]
  
 ===== The Warlocks ===== ===== The Warlocks =====
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 ===== The Test ===== ===== The Test =====
  
-That first outing occurred during one of author Ken Kesey's earliest "Acid Tests." The Grateful Dead essentially became the house band for Kesey's LSD-inspired get-togethers, as chronicled in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test". [([[https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:336751/fulltext.pdf|Library]])]+That first outing occurred during one of author Ken Kesey's earliest "Acid Tests." The Grateful Dead essentially became the house band for Kesey's LSD-inspired get-togethers, as chronicled in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." [([[https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:336751/fulltext.pdf|Library]])]
  
 ===== LSD ===== ===== LSD =====
  
-One of the most significant outcomes of the Grateful Dead's Acid Tests was a collaboration with legendary LSD manufacturer Owsley Stanley, who went on to finance, produce, record, and do pioneering sound work for the band. [([[https://medium.com/entheogen/what-a-long-strange-trip-lsd-and-the-grateful-dead-e29ec57c39b8|Medium]])]+One of the most significant outcomes of the Grateful Dead's Acid Tests was a collaboration with legendary LSD manufacturer Owsley Stanley, who went on to finance, produce, record and do pioneering sound work for the band. [([[https://medium.com/entheogen/what-a-long-strange-trip-lsd-and-the-grateful-dead-e29ec57c39b8|Medium]])]
  
 ===== Summer Of Love ===== ===== Summer Of Love =====
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 ===== Busted ===== ===== Busted =====
  
-The band's Haight-Ashbury home was the site of a high-profile drug bust in late 1967, prompting the San Francisco Chronicle to print the above-the-masthead, front-page, all-caps title, "ROCK BAND BUSTED".[([[https://liveforlivemusic.com/features/the-grateful-dead-busted-in-new-orleans-on-this-day-in-1970/|liveforlivemusic]])] +The band's Haight-Ashbury home was the site of a high-profile drug bust in late 1967, prompting the San Francisco Chronicle to print the above-the-masthead, front-page, all-caps title, "ROCK BAND BUSTED."[([[https://liveforlivemusic.com/features/the-grateful-dead-busted-in-new-orleans-on-this-day-in-1970/|liveforlivemusic]])] 
  
 ===== McKernan ===== ===== McKernan =====
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 ===== Famous Art ===== ===== Famous Art =====
  
-The usage of famous motifs such as dancing terrapins and patriotic skeletons, skulls and roses, and “dancing” bears helped The Dead build their brand. [([[https://www.hippieshop.com/blogs/the-tribe/grateful-dead-symbols-deciphered-the-bolt|Hippie Shop]])]+The usage of famous motifs such as dancing terrapins and patriotic skeletons, skulls and roses and “dancing” bears helped The Dead build their brand. [([[https://www.hippieshop.com/blogs/the-tribe/grateful-dead-symbols-deciphered-the-bolt|Hippie Shop]])]
  
 ===== Dancing Bears ===== ===== Dancing Bears =====
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 ===== Rex Foundation ===== ===== Rex Foundation =====
  
-The charity Rex Foundation, founded by the Dead in 1983, has donated approximately $10 million to groups working in the fields of the environment, human rights, education, social services, and the arts. [([[https://relix.com/articles/detail/the-rex-foundations-cameron-sears-on-the-daze-between-pete-seeger-and-the-grateful-deads-righteous-initiative/|Relix]])]+The charity Rex Foundation, founded by the Dead in 1983, has donated approximately $10 million to groups working in the fields of the environment, human rights, education, social services and the arts. [([[https://relix.com/articles/detail/the-rex-foundations-cameron-sears-on-the-daze-between-pete-seeger-and-the-grateful-deads-righteous-initiative/|Relix]])]
  
 ===== Shows Played ===== ===== Shows Played =====
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 ===== Songs Played ===== ===== Songs Played =====
  
-They performed 36,086 songs on concerts. [([[https://mobile.twitter.com/tweeterreprise/status/1097689643649327110?lang=bn|Twitter]])]+They performed 36,086 songs in concerts. [([[https://mobile.twitter.com/tweeterreprise/status/1097689643649327110?lang=bn|Twitter]])]
  
 ===== Albums ===== ===== Albums =====
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 ===== Brent Mydland ===== ===== Brent Mydland =====
  
-Brent Mydland was the Dead's fourth and longest-serving keyboardist, and he dominated the band's most recent studio album, "Built to Last".  [([[https://991thewhale.com/its-the-little-things-in-life-that-excite-me-the-most/|991thewhale]])]+Brent Mydland was the Dead's fourth and longest-serving keyboardist, and he dominated the band's most recent studio album, "Built to Last."  [([[https://991thewhale.com/its-the-little-things-in-life-that-excite-me-the-most/|991thewhale]])] 
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 +===== Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia ===== 
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 +Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was named after the renowned American composer Jerome Kern, who wrote songs including "Ol' Man River," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," and "The Way You Look Tonight." [([[https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/jerome-john-garcia-1811.php|The Famous People]])] 
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 +===== Garcia And His Middle Finger ===== 
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 +Garcia lost most of his right middle finger in a wood-chopping accident in 1947. His handprint, with the majority of his finger gone, would become a distinctive emblem.[([[https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/grateful-dead-jerry-garcia-missing-middle-finger/|faroutmagazine]])] 
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 +===== Garcia's Early Work ===== 
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 +During the early 1960s, the future rock star worked in the Bay Area's bluegrass, folk, and old-timey music scenes.[([[https://acousticguitar.com/before-the-dead-new-box-set-sheds-light-on-jerry-garcias-roots-in-folk-music/|Acoustic Guitar]])] 
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