The Grateful Dead were a US psychedelic folk rock band led by Jerry Garcia. They were one of the cornerstones of 60’s counterculture.

Their career commenced in the spiritual home of the hippy, Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. They evolved from a band called The Warlocks, one of the bands to regularly play at Ken Kesey’s acid tests, where people would gather to tune in, turn on and drop out. The Warlocks were an evolution of a jug band, and the country/blues influence can be heard in the Grateful Dead’s music. Perhaps inevitably, with a career spanning forty years, the band had lots of members…