The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

The band was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s. The founding members were Jerry Garcia (guitar, vocals), Bob Weir (guitar, vocals), Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Phil Lesh (bass, vocals), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums).

They fused elements of country, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, rock, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock.

After the death of Jerry 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. 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. There have also been several spin-offs featuring one or more core members, such as Dead & Company, Furthur, the Rhythm Devils, Phil Lesh & Friends, RatDog, and Billy & the Kids.
- from wikipedia.org

Here's a taste of the band, in live performance from 1976.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf1dNTexCL4

Europe '72: The Complete Recordings.

It's a box set of live recordings by the rock band the Grateful Dead. Billed as a "mega box set", it contains all of the band's spring 1972 concert tour of Europe — 22 complete shows, on 73 CDs. It was released on September 1, 2011.

The collection was first announced on January 19, 2011 and was described as consisting of "over 60" CDs; the final CD count was 73. Initially, the set was offered only as an exclusive limited edition of 7,200 copies, each of which is encased in a box that looks like a steamer trunk, and includes an illustrated hardcover book and other bonus material. The first 3,000 of these sets are personalized with a name of the buyer's choice. The demand was much greater than anticipated, and all 7,200 sets were sold online within four days. In response to the ongoing demand, subsequent copies of the set were released, dubbed Europe '72: The Complete Recordings — All the Music Edition, which have individual packaging for each concert, with liner notes, but which do not include the steamer trunk case, the book, or the other extras.

Alas, I missed out on an original trunkfullofsounds and had to make do with liberating the virtual thing in it's entirety.

Go look for your own if you need it!

Dark Star

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9mt_kdAmhU

'As soon as I hear a darkstar to my ears I'm transported to another dimension, a very happy dimension 😀'
- Grateful Zen

Grateful Dead - Sunshine Daydream Movie HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URtCml8FHrU

Amazing what a crowd of heads can do!

Incredible!

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Jerry's 1st solo album, released in 1972.

The album starts off like, well, good old rock music ... then the psychedelics kick in and Jerry's off higher and higher on a magical trip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqauQmyDxjc

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GLsyWdWAyY

Bob Weir's 1st 'solo' album - Ace. Released in 1972.

A founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead. Weir also founded and played in several other bands during and after his career with the Grateful Dead, including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, RatDog and Furthur, co-led by former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. In 2015, Weir, along with former Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined with Grammy-winning singer/guitarist John Mayer to form the band Dead & Company. Weir continued to tour with Dead & Company in 2016.


A record worthy of anyone's collection.