The Grateful Dead

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Champions until Dana Morgan, owner at
the store where Jerry taught banjo and Pig Pen worked,provided the money and
equipment for them to become electric. After they had become electric they
renamed the group the Warlocks. Dawson and Matthews were soon to leave and they
were replaced by drummer Bill Sommers (Krentemann) and Phil Lesh, who was a
trumpet player who learned to play bass guitar in a very amazing two weeks just
to get the spot. This completes the now familiar Dead line up. The Warlocks
played their first concert in July 1965 and they played pretty straight rock and
roll music until the "acid tests." In early 1965 a state hospital in the Palo
Alto area was conducting experiments with hallucinogenic drugs. This was still
legal at the time. Robbert Hunter and others volunteered to try them. Before
long the whole music group was participating in "acid tests" and their music
became more diffused, the numbers stretched out and the volume turned up. Jerry
Garcia became ...

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that
range from San Francisco to the pyramids in Egypt. After each of them, at least
one more person became obsessed with the band and became part of the group known
as the "deadheads". According to the Dead heads "there is nothing like a
Grateful Dead concert". The Grateful Dead have many fans that follow them from
concert to concert; these fans are called deadheads. These fans thrive off of
the Grateful Dead's live performances. The deadheads would almost do anything to
get a ticket to a dead show. A typical deadhead would go to 25 or more shows a
year. Dead fans are so loyal, "They would come under water, from Utah, backwards,
to stand in line to see them play". Many people say ...

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