Lesh initially provided backing vocals on the original 70s albums Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty. “In terms of the ...

Grateful Dead founding member Bobby Weir is one of the last men standing in his legendary rock band. The thought of mortality has crossed Weir’s mind, as he’s seen many of his band members pass.

Who said the Grateful Dead were lazy? After hanging with Crosby, Stills and Nash, Jerry Garcia realised his boys could own the mic sing too, albeit with a rougher edge, but it suited Workingman's ...

One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead ... His pictures of the Dead, a favorite subject, include Jerry Garcia, the band’s leader, in a vest and tie, playing a banjo while seated on a ...

The group of seasoned players reached back into the Dead’s songbook, landing on 1970’s Workingman’s Dead ... Arrow” was first performed by the Grateful Dead on February 23, 1993, at ...

Guitarist Weir, 77, cofounded the Grateful Dead alongside Garcia, Lesh and Pigpen. In 1995, he formed the band RatDog, a side ...

After Garcia’s death of a heart attack in 1995, the surviving members of the Dead continued playing the band’s music in various combinations; offshoot bands included the Dead, Furthur, Phil ...

Dogfish Head has released its new Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale nationwide to coincide with the Delaware-based brewery's 30th anniversary and the iconic American band's founding 60 years ago.

To commemorate popular music‘s longest, strangest trip, there are the countless Dead reissues, boxed sets and fashion items. But Grateful Dead imagery — the Skulls & Roses, the Dancing Bears ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The band formed after the Grateful Dead's "Fare Thee Well" shows in summer 2015, which included the "Core Four" of Weir, Hart, bass player ...

"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 ...