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The Grateful Dead

THE GRATEFUL DEAD

YEAR

1994

INDUCTED BY

Bruce Hornsby

CATEGORY

Performers

No band embodied the psychedelic rock era’s mind-expanding, counterculture vibe better than the Grateful Dead.

During marathon concerts marked by communal, peaceful atmospheres, the San Francisco troupe combined traditional genres such as folk, bluegrass and roots with experimental, freewheeling musical excursions.

Bill Kreutzmann

Bill Kreutzmann

Bob Weir

Bob Weir

Brent Mydland

Brent Mydland

Donna Jean Godchaux

Donna Jean Godchaux

Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia

Keith Godchaux

Keith Godchaux

Mickey Hart

Mickey Hart

Phil Lesh

Phil Lesh

Robert Hunter

Robert Hunter

Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan

Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan

Tom Constanten

Tom Constanten

Vince Welnick

Vince Welnick

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Davin Seay

Evolution. Its a process measured in eons. But every so often, when a historic juncture is reached and critical mass achieved, evolution takes a breathtaking leap forward. In one moment, things are as they always were. In the next, they will never be the same again.

San Francisco. 1965. It was a time and place where the potent charge of rock & roll hotwired an epochal transformation, a generational shift that set the world wobbling. Music was an express agent of that change, articulating and animating the social and spiritual convulsions shredding the air.

But as much as music was the midwife of sixties revolution, it was also being revolutionized, goosed up the evolutionary ladder by a once-in-a-lifetime assemblage of pilgrims and pioneers, staking out new frontiers of consciousness along the rugged Western edge.

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