There’s a fantastic podcast that talks about this and goes into a deep dive about other parts of their history called Dead and Gone. It focuses primarily on a number of murders and disappearances that occurred within the community that followed the band. (As in literally, they had caravans of busses and would set up camps.)
Eibhleann t1_ixn31wg wrote
Reply to TIL the band Grateful Dead got its name in 1965 after Jerry Garcia found the term in the Britannica World Language Dictionary along with the definition "the soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial". by big_macaroons
There’s a fantastic podcast that talks about this and goes into a deep dive about other parts of their history called Dead and Gone. It focuses primarily on a number of murders and disappearances that occurred within the community that followed the band. (As in literally, they had caravans of busses and would set up camps.)