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The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area.<ref name="encyclobrit1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9117536/the-Grateful-Dead|title=Grateful Dead|accessdate=2007-02-04|publisher=EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica, Inc|year=2007|author=Santoro, Gene|work=EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica</ref> The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music|rock, Folk music|folk, bluegrass music|bluegrass, blues, reggae, country music|country, jazz, Psychedelic rock|psychedelia, space music<ref>"purveyors of freely improvised space music," -- [http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=932 Blender Magazine, May 2003]</ref><ref>""Dark Star," both in its title and in its structure (designed to incorporate improvisational exploration), is the perfect example of the kind of "space music" that the Dead are famous for. Oswald's titular pun "Grayfolded" adds the concept of folding to the idea of space, and rightly so when considering the way he uses sampling to fold the Dead's musical evolution in on itself." -- Islands of Order, Part 2,by Randolph Jordan, in [http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/islands_part2.html Offscreen Journal], edited by Donato Totaro, Ph.D, film studies lecturer at Concordia University since 1990.</ref&... read all