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Tumblebug_bumpercars t1_iujbfoh wrote

Grateful Dead only had one top ten hit but did pretty good for themselves.

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Necessary_Comfort812 OP t1_iujc7j6 wrote

Yeah and they were really big on the live era too right? Grateful dead was the band that had a whole big controversial thing with drugs and conspiracy thing around that?

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Tumblebug_bumpercars t1_iujedoa wrote

Well, one of their most important sound engineers (Owsley Stanley, a.k.a. “Bear”) manufactured about 5 million doses of LSD as his side gig. (Or perhaps sound engineering was his side gig…).

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Necessary_Comfort812 OP t1_iujels9 wrote

Lol yeah I think I've heard about that before. They were a little bit before my time but I remember the name mainly for this.

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