123315 EFTA02710738 Grateful Dead in 1970. Left to righ=: Bill Kreutzmann, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir= Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California under the name of The Warlocks but quickly change its name when it was discovered

May 8= 1977) was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registr=. The Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide. The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of counterculture of the 1960s. The founding m=mbers were Jerry Garcia (guitar, vocals), Bob