
The Grateful Dead
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Year:
1994
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Inducted by:
Bruce Hornsby
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Category:
Performers
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Bill Kreutzmann
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Bob Weir
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Brent Mydland
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Donna Jean Godchaux
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Jerry Garcia
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Keith Godchaux
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Mickey Hart
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Phil Lesh
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Robert Hunter
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Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan
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Tom Constanten
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Vince Welnick
Introduction
No band embodied the psychedelic rock era's mind-expanding, counterculture vibe better than the Grateful Dead.
During marathon concerts marked by communal, peaceful atmospheres, the San Francisco troupe combined traditional genres such as folk, bluegrass and roots with experimental, freewheeling musical excursions.

Bruce Hornsby Inducts the Grateful Dead
Bruce Hornsby Inducts the Grateful Dead at the 1994 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
Bruce Hornsby Inducts the Grateful Dead00:06:34
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The Grateful Dead Acceptance Speech00:04:41
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"Roll Over Beethoven"00:04:56
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"Wang Dang Doodle"00:07:39
Hall of Fame Essay
1994
Evolution. Its a process measured in eons. But every so often, when a historic juncture is reached and critical mass achieved, evolution takes a breathtaking leap forward. In one moment, things are as they always were. In the next, they will never be the same again.
San Francisco. 1965. It was a time and place where the potent charge of rock & roll hotwired an epochal transformation, a generational shift that set the world wobbling. Music was an express agent of that change, articulating and animating the social and spiritual convulsions shredding the air.
But as much as music was the midwife of sixties revolution, it was also being revolutionized, goosed up the evolutionary ladder by a once-in-a-lifetime assemblage of pilgrims and pioneers, staking out new frontiers of consciousness along the rugged Western edge.


The Dead has always been about artistic curiosity and freedom
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