Grateful Dead goes classical

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

LOS ANGELES -- It may be the longest, strangest trip the Grateful Dead's music has endured -- a performance by a symphony orchestra under the baton of a classical composer.

But to Lee Johnson, the guy with the baton, the real surprise is that his world of high culture took as long as it did to embrace the world of counterculture for which the Grateful Dead provided so much of the soundtrack.

Born in San Francisco in 1965, two years before the legendary Summer of Love it helped usher in, the band was dismissed by critics for years as a footnote to pop music's Psychedelic Era. But by the time ...

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