Grateful Dead Trivia Questions for True Deadheads

The Grateful Dead were originally called The Warlocks, and changed their name after discovering another artist called The Warlocks.

Owsley Stanley was the Dead’s acid chemist and sound engineer in the early days. He is known as a quirky figure, and is also the inventor of the Wall of Sound.

5/8/77, required listening for Deadheads.

u0022Me And My Uncleu0022 is a song that stayed in the band’s rotation from the early days to the very end. It was played live 616 times.

Named after the song, and later adopted by other bands and festivals.

Jerry played a Doug Irwin guitar called Eagle and fell in love. He had Doug make Wolf for him, which he famously played throughout the 1970s.

The Grateful Dead took a hiatus in 1975. They filmed the Grateful Dead movie at their final shows before the hiatus.

Jerry Garcia was an avid Bob Dylan fan, as were his bandmates. They covered many Dylan songs in the Dead, and Jerry Garcia Band, and even had Dylan join them on stage.

Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics to many of the most famous Grateful Dead compositions.

u0022Touch of Greyu0022 was released in 1987 and brought the Dead to new levels of success.

The final Grateful Dead concert took place on July 9th, 1995 at Soldier Field in Chicago.

Vince Welnick joined the Grateful Dead in September 1990, following the death of Brent Mydland. He remained in the band until Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995.

The recording of u0022So Many Roadsu0022 from 7/9/95 is near and dear in the hearts of Deadheads.