The Grateful Dead join TikTok
nme.comThe Grateful Dead are the latest band to officially join TikTok, with their first video appearing last week.According to a press release, The Grateful Dead’s TikTok account “will serve as an outlet to celebrate the decades of music, generations of community, and endless array of creativity that has woven the band and its fans into every new era of the world’s counterculture and consciousness.”The band’s first video on the platform was a 30-second compilation of archival concert footage, artwork, interviews and more from the late ’60s to their final shows in 1995.At the beginning, an interviewer asks Jerry Garcia: “People are crazy about The Grateful Dead.
How can you account for that?” with Garcia responding at the end, “What’s the question? Say it again, real slow.”The clip is soundtracked by a remastered 1969 live recording of their song ‘St.
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