uses. Their music was loved by so many because it was said, you can sing the lyrics without ever making a sound., and you could sing the lyrics with dance and drugs. A little while later they had a name change to the Warlocks when they grasped more unsuspecting followers that soon became life long "Deadheads". Before nineteen-sixty-five the band had in a way dropped out of society and the straight music scene, playing at houses and roadhouses and only performed for a good friend as a private house band. For the next six months only performed at the Acid Tests, immersing themselves in a sensosiorm of sound, light, and mind altering drugs that transformed their audiences, forever. "I know that if the Acid Tests had never happened we would have been just another band," stated Phil Lesh in a nineteen eighties interview. This is now where the Grateful Dead were born as we know them today. The name, Grateful Dead as every deadhead knows, choose itself when Garcia flipped open an old dictionary at Phil's house, "and there it was...It was one of those moments," he told Rolling Stone, "like everything else on the page went blank, diffuse, just sorta oozed away, and there it was grateful dead. Big black letters edged all around in gold, man, blasting out at me, such a stunning combination." A veritable fat trip. "So I said, 'How about Grateful Dead,' and that was it." The band was smoking a superpsychedelic DMT. In another, later account, Garcia didn't like the name at first but thought is was just to powerful to ignore. Weir and Kreutzmann didn't like it either but "people started calling us that and it just started, Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead..." Here is the definition of the word Grateful Dead in the 1955 Funk and Wagnalls Dictionary. GRATEFUL DEAD- The motif of a cycle of folk tales which begins with the hero's coming upon a group of people ill-treating or refusing to bury the corpse of a man who had died without paying his debts. He gives his last penny, either to pay the man's debts or to give him a decent burial. Within a few hours he meets with a traveling companion who aids him in some impossible task... The story ends with the companion's disclosing himself as the man whose corpse the other had befriended LSD, of course was the genie behind the birth of the Dead. It surprised me to learn that the Grateful Dead used LSD every time they played until the 1970's. By then, the larger crowds demanded more control from the musicians than LSD allowed. LSD, introduced the Dead to what percussionist Mickey Hart calls a "road map," to which they could return again and again to bring back the sights and sounds and sensations" of the early trips. However it wasn't the kind of map that told you what to do, "like if you go from here to there, you're going to find Eureka." It only showed you that "you're on the road" that you found "this rhythm and this zone," which is what made musical invention possible. The Acid Tests of the early sixties had a tremendous influence on the Grateful Dead. The initial experiments had been launched by the Central Intelligence Agency, which began to investigate mind-altering drugs and parapsychology in 1953 under the program called MK-ULTRA. MK-ULTRA had its roots

Some common words found in the essay are:
Grateful Dead, Bill Kreutzmann, UNITE Send, Hunter I'm, GRATEFUL DEAD-, Weir Pigpen, grateful dead, Mickey Hart, Acid Tests, Rolling Stone, Robert Hunter, acid tests, jerry garcia, dead grateful, dead grateful dead, ron pigpen mckernan, name grateful, garcia ron, liver disease, mickey hart, based band, name grateful dead, grateful dead grateful, rolling stone,
Approximate Word count = 2160
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)