I love the band Grateful Dead, i used to watch them tour, have you heard of them?
Oh, of course! I love the Grateful Dead. They're one of the greatest bands of all time, definitively. 
Jerry Garcia was missing two-thirds of his right middle finger, and still was able to rock that guitar!
Haha yeah, he's a legend! I love his side projects, too. The Jerry Garcia Band, The New Riders of the Purple Sage...He's super talented!
live version of the song "Dark Star" could run as long as 48 minutes, that must be the longest songs ever! My favorite also :D
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, gospel, and psychedelic rock; for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams; and for its devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads". "Their music", writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists". These various influences were
classical music in a rock setting, much like the music of one of their heroes, Frank Zappa.
In the 1990s, Phish were often compared to the Grateful Dead, a comparison that the band members often resisted or distanced themselves from. In November 1995, Anastasio told the "Baltimore Sun" "When we first came into the awareness of the media, it would always be the Dead or Zappa they'd compare us to. All of these bands I love, you know? But I got very sensitive about