Timeline Grateful Dead: American Beauty

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• 1965 Grateful Dead play their first show as the Warlocks Menlo Park Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Pigpen and Bill Kreutzmann. Renamed Grateful Dead in December.
• 1965 – 1966 Grateful Dead play Ken Kesey's Acid Tests House band The house band of the Merry Pranksters' happenings.
• 1967 Grateful Dead play the Human Be-In Golden Gate Park A key gathering of the San Francisco counterculture.
• 1967 Grateful Dead release their debut album The Grateful Dead Recorded in four days.
• 1969 Grateful Dead play Woodstock Rain-soaked set A set plagued by electric shocks from the wet stage.
• 1970 Grateful Dead release Workingman's Dead Casey Jones A turn to country and folk harmonies.
• 1970 Grateful Dead release American Beauty Truckin' and Ripple With Truckin', Ripple and Box of Rain.
• 1972 Grateful Dead's Europe '72 tour Live triple album A celebrated tour released as a triple live album.
• 1974 Grateful Dead debut the Wall of Sound Giant PA system A massive sound system of over 600 speakers.
• 1977 Grateful Dead play Barton Hall, Cornell Famous concert Often called their greatest show — added to the Library of Congress registry.
• 1978 Grateful Dead play the Pyramids of Giza Egypt Three concerts at the foot of the pyramids.
• 1987 Grateful Dead release In the Dark Touch of Grey Their only top-ten single, after 22 years.
• 1994 Grateful Dead inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Garcia skips the ceremony — a cardboard cutout stands in.
• 1995 Grateful Dead play their last concert Soldier Field, Chicago The final show with Jerry Garcia.
• 1995 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia dies End of the band Garcia dies in a rehab clinic — the band retires the name.
• 2015 Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well concerts 50th anniversary Farewell shows by the surviving members in Chicago.