The history of country music and the Grateful Dead may be more intertwined than you think. This past week, Dead & Company ...

Carl "Tinker" West managed the pre-E Street group Steel Mill, which included Bruce Springsteen, Vini Lopez, Danny Federici ...

Dear listeners, It has become a joke among a few friends and colleagues that I am the newspaper’s jam band correspondent. I have written (and Popcasted!) about the Grateful Dead ...

The Grateful Dead will celebrate their 60th anniversary this year not only with a massive 60-disc live collection but also with a just-announced Best Of compilation. Fittingly titled Gratest Hits ...

When you think about the Grateful Dead and their live performances of epic proportion ... which blurted out a number of dissonant notes over the sound system. The rest of the group looked around at ...

"When Phil's happening, the band's happening," Grateful Dead co-founder, frontman and lead guitarist Garcia, who died in 1995, once said of Lesh's bass playing. The Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995 ...

In December, he and his band the Grateful Dead were honored at the ... I’m not sure that you can get a better sound system anywhere. How clear is the sound for you when you’re playing onstage?

The Grateful Dead and McIntosh have had a deep connection ... At the time, it was the largest concert sound system ever built.

Pretty much all bands tour, but the Grateful Dead toured. The most hardcore members ... Bassist Phil Lesh wrote in his memoirs Searching For The Sound that the recordings taken from the PA system were ...

Toasting the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary this year? Dogfish Head is supplying the beer. The craft brewery, which turns 30 this year, is continuing its “long, strange trip” with the Dead ...

On March 23rd, 1974, the Grateful Dead unveiled one of the largest and most ambitious sound systems ever built. In his new book, Loud and Clear, author Brian Anderson, for the first time ever ...

as well as each string on the bass and individual drum to its own monitor to create a distortion-free sound. Bucking the system, the Grateful Dead chose to do all their own merchandising and ...