Grateful Dead
- MatchGrateful Dead
- 100%Jerry Garcia
- 79%Phish
- 45%Bob Weir
- 42%New Riders of the Purple Sage
- 34%The String Cheese Incident
- 29%Little Feat
- 27%Hot Tuna
Biography
The enigmatic, erratic and mercurial (cliché, but absolutely true) Grateful Dead evolved from Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions to become the Warlocks in 1965. A number of conflicting reasons for the choice of name have arisen over the years. The most popular one is that the name was chosen from a randomly opened copy of theOxford Companion To Classical Music (others say a Funk & Wagnells dictionary and group member Phil Lesh cites the Britannica World Language Dictionary),... Read more