Grateful Dead Tapers


Grateful Dead Tapers

Related Lessons

lesson:
Business with the Grateful Dead

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: CTE, General Music

How did the Grateful Dead’s business practices create a dedicated fan culture and ensure the financial success of the group?

lesson:
The Original “Going Viral”

Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: CTE, General Music, Social Emotional Learning, Social Studies/History

Could a musical group “go viral” before the internet?

lesson:
Using Data to Analyze an Artist’s Success

Grades: Middle
Subjects: Math

How can data be analyzed and interpreted to better understand a band's success?

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Grateful Dead

Perhaps more then any other band, the Grateful Dead helped develop and propagate the 1960s San Francisco hippie image, and it’s an image they unwaveringly maintained throughout their 30-year career. Hugely popular as a touring act, the band was singular in a number of aspects, including the way it combined Blues, Country, and Folk influences with a devotion to psychedelia-drenched improvisation, the way it achieved large-scale popularity without radio hits, and the rabid intensity of its itinerant army of fans, called Deadheads. The roots of the Grateful Dead go back to 1964, when lead guitarist/vocalist Jerry Garcia, keyboard player Ron...