Grateful Dead 2 Vinyl Set LIVE Previously Unreleased Material

Description: The Grateful Dead Were One of the Greatest Touring Bands of All TimeThe Grateful Dead, were a band with a cult following.The band’s touring success rivals many others.The Grateful Dead played to an estimated 25 million people over their career—more than any other band in history. In 1998, The Guinness Book of World Records certified that the band had played the “most rock concerts ever performed” at the time with 2,318. The Grateful Dead played to one of the biggest audiences ever recorded for a live event when they performed at Summer Jam at Watkins Glen in 1973 to an estimated 600,000 people. In the 1990’s, the Grateful Dead made a total revenue of $285 million off of touring, making them the highest-grossing American band of the decade, and the second-highest grossing band only behind The Rolling Stones. What makes that statistic even more remarkable is Jerry Garcia died in 1995, meaning they achieved his feat in the first half of the decade alone. Simply put, the Grateful Dead was a touring juggernaut.And beyond the astounding statistics and world records, they played countless legendary smaller venues and other important events throughout the country and world. The Grateful Dead played Woodstock. The Grateful Dead played a series of concerts at the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. They were the house band for the Kool-Aid acid tests. They also played an astounding 500 different documented songs during their legendarily improvised concert sets. They also were pioneers and innovators for concert sound. One of the reasons the Grateful Dead was so popular live is because the band just sounded so much better than any other live band. The Grateful Dead were arguably the most important, and most successful live band ever.

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Location: Exeter, NSW

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