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Dancing bears grateful dead icons4/17/2024 ![]() In 2015, the four surviving core members marked the band's 50th anniversary in a series of concerts that were billed as their last performances together. Bruce Hornsby (accordion, piano, vocals) was a touring member from 1990 to 1992, as well as a guest with the band on occasion before and after the tours.Īfter Garcia's death in 1995, former members of the band, along with other musicians, toured as The Other Ones in 1998, 2000, and 2002, and as The Dead in 2003, 2004, and 2009. Other official members of the band included Tom Constanten (keyboards from 1968 to 1970), John Perry Barlow (non-performing lyricist from 1971 to 1995), Keith Godchaux (keyboards and occasional vocals from 1971 to 1979), Donna Godchaux (vocals from 1972 to 1979), Brent Mydland (keyboards and vocals from 1979 to 1990), and Vince Welnick (keyboards and vocals from 1990 to 1995). ![]() With the exception of McKernan, who died in 1973, and Hart, who took time off from 1971 to 1974, the core of the band stayed together for its entire 30-year history. Drummer Mickey Hart and non-performing lyricist Robert Hunter joined in 1967. Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks before they changed their name to Grateful Dead, replacing Dana Morgan Jr., who had played bass for a few gigs. Members of Grateful Dead, originally known as the Warlocks, had played together in various Bay Area ensembles, including the traditional jug band Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. The band's founding members were Jerry Garcia ( lead guitar and vocals), Bob Weir (rhythm guitar and vocals), Ron "Pigpen" McKernan ( keyboards, harmonica, and vocals), Phil Lesh ( bass guitar and vocals), and Bill Kreutzmann ( drums). Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area during the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s. According to the musician and writer Lenny Kaye, the band's "music touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists." For the range of their influences and the structure of their live performances, the Grateful Dead are considered "the pioneering godfathers of the jam band world". The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia, the improvisation of their live performances, and its devoted fan base, known as " Deadheads". Now that's a long strange trip.Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. ![]() But outta left field she says "Like that rose you did!" Turned out that tucked away in her back room in a broken frame was the original of the centerpiece that I actually drew in '94, sitting in her kitchen when I needed something to draw for the next day's art class. A week after writing this post, and after the unsolicited, random email of the old poster, I was sitting in another friend's living room describing a work-in-progress that was "really rich in lush, textural detail like heavy crosshatching." Ironically enough the title of the work is a book-length story called "Dancing Bear" - more on that later. Update: Okay so now this is wonderful + weird. This in turn triggered another memory, that another friend had an awesome tattoo based on the poster (to my knowledge the only tat ever done of one of my drawings), and he emailed me a snapshot of it, very cool: potlucks at cabins, bonfires, music + friends. Man were those ever some great times with such good people in the neighborhood. This is around the time we had gotten the very first color copier in Fairbanks, and I was in heaven playing around with it at work. pre-computer, made way back when I worked at DateLine Copies: I had first assembled cut-up photocopies of the bears around a digital copy of the rose (done for an art class pen + ink assignment), then made another master copy and colored that in with Pantone markers, and made a limited set of posters from that new master. the copy's been stuck up on a wall somewhere even after all her travels, an that just made my whole day. from WikipediaĪ dear old friend long since migrated to the Lower 48 recently emailed a scan of this to me. Owsley "Bear" Stanley, who recorded and produced the album. Thomas reported that he based theīears on a lead sort from an unknown font. Thomas as part of the back cover for the album History of the Gratefulĭead, Volume One (Bear's Choice). A classic from daze of yore: my Alaskanized version of the Grateful Dead's " Dancing Bear" icon done twenty years ago in 1994 ( here's a link to some more serious collector's info on the characters):ĭancing bears: A series of stylized marching bears was drawn by Bob
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