In the 1960s and 1970s, many musicians experimented with LSD and other psychedelics, including the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, and the Beatles, often integrating the experience into their music.

Barlow, who penned such songs as "Cassidy," "Estimated Prophet," "The Music Never Stopped," "Black-Throated Wind" and more, became a mainstay of the Grateful Dead, and introduced the band to LSD ...

Grateful Dead founding member and bassist Phil Lesh ... (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) early on for infamous, LSD-fueled “Acid Test” parties in the 1960s documented by another ...

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Robert Hunter, who wrote some of the Grateful Dead's most vivid and poetic lyrics ... ingesting hallucinogens including LSD, psilocybin and mescaline. The drugs unlocked something in his writing.

Grateful Dead ... Lesh met his future Dead bandmate Jerry Garcia in the Bay Area in 1959 and was a key contributor from day one amid their early experiments with LSD and associations with Ken ...

This story originally appeared in Issue 100, the January 20th, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone ...

So listen to the Grateful Dead and, in that way, we’ll all take a little bit of Phil with us, forever.” ...

Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, died Friday, a producer who worked with him, Peter Shapiro, confirmed to CBS News. Lesh was 84 years old. A post on his Instagram ...

Grateful Dead bassist and co-founder Phil Lesh has died at the age of 84. According to a statement from his family, the musician “passed peacefully this morning (Oct. 25). He was surrounded by ...

and he recalled that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, upon hearing the instrumental recording, approached him the next day with a lyric sheet. On that sheet, he said, were “some of the most ...

and he recalled that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, upon hearing the instrumental recording, approached him the next day with a lyric sheet. On that sheet, he said, were “some of the most ...