The Grateful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann wrote a book about his time drumming for the band and yesterday he told some trippy stories from it to Conan O’Brien yesterday.
Did you know the traveling band’s name was originally the Warlocks. Then one day when Jerry Garcia was reading through a dictionary, he saw two words that eventually became the band’s name. A name the other members all hated. A name we have all grown to know and love.
The drummer also shared a story that had Conan hallucinating that something like that would happen to him. Back in 1969, they were guests on Playboy After Dark and someone (not them) laced the coffee with LSD. Hugh Hefner and the crew were taking an acid trip, making the show really interesting.
Not only did he talk about that, he also explained why The Dead isn’t in the Woodstock movie. Kreutzmann also shared what it was to like to march to a different beat when they played the Monterey Pop Festival back in 1967 between The Who and Jimi Hendrix.
With all of those stories he was telling, it is almost like how did the band become as iconic as they did. But they are more than a few stories, they are the band that defined a generation.
