Formed in Palo Alto, California in 1965, the Grateful Dead are remembered for a great many things: for their counter-cultural ...

Although Jerry Garcia passed away in 1995, and bassist Phil Lesh joined him in the great gig in the sky last year, the music ...

Every musician has a song they hate, and so does Bob Weir, as this Grateful Dead song has seemingly lived rent-free in his ...

Painted Mandolin is a tribute band in the most creative sense of the word: Influenced by the songs of Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead, the music they make is uniquely theirs. The culture and community ...

Hart may not have been a founding member of the Grateful Dead, but he was a vital part of the band's most celebrated era in ...

Rather than rush into song, he addressed the audience ... on original “Robot World,” and the Grateful Dead favorite “Franklin’s Tower.” The following year, Lesh rejoined the group ...

Iconic rock band the Grateful Dead was named a Kennedy Center ... heard Jerry Garcia playing banjo outside a music shop in Palo Alto. "It was New Year's Eve, basically he invited us in.

Mayer, who had discovered the Grateful Dead’s music just a few years earlier, started poring over the band’s songbook. Weir, for his part, knew that he had to do more with Mayer. The elder ...