2/6/2024 0 Comments Grateful dead hippie font![]() In the ’80s the band released several live tapes but had unexpected success with the studio Album In the Dark featuring their first, and only, top ten song Touch of Grey. Throughout the ’70s and ’80s the lineup changed as keyboardist McKernan died of liver failure in 1973 and was replaced by Keith Godchaux who died in a car crash in 1980 and was replaced by Brent Mydland. Over the years the band had several studio albums some of which led to commercial success and songs on the radio, however many were unsuccessful in capturing their live, improvisational feel leading many fans to see them as primarily a live band. Their music, while rooted in bluegrass and rhythm and blues, began to shift towards psychedelic and improvisational styles, mirroring their involvement in the “exploratory ethos of the countercultural context” ( Sylvan 2002:84). The group started out in the local San Francisco music scene as the Warlocks (eventually becoming the Grateful Dead after learning of another band with this name) and made their debut at Ken Kersey’s “acid tests” which were public LSD parties to experiment with the drug. ![]() Robert Hunter was the band’s lyricist along with Jerry Garcia and was not a member of the band, but was nonetheless an influential figure in the band’s history. The lineup consisted of Jerry Garcia on lead guitar, Bob Weir on rhythm guitar, Rob “Pigpen” McKernan on keyboard and harmonica, Phil Lesh on bass and Bill Kreutsman on drums. Members of The Grateful Dead met in Palo Alto, California in 1965 at the height of the counterculture movement of the ’60s. The “Steal Your Face” Symbol named after the album “Steal Your Face” has come become a signifier of the deadhead subculture and the Grateful Dead. Commodification, Diffusion, and Defusion.Mapping the Landscape of Sexual Deviance. ![]() Toggle navigation Subcultures and Sociology Grinnell College
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