This Is It mothersday The Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead

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This Is It mothersday The Grateful DeadReleased in 1962, This Is It is an imaginative cacophony of percussion, non verbal chanting, and free flowing expression, punctuated occasionally by leisurely passes at a terrestrial piano, marimba, or French horn. It is at once, experimental, intellectual, and experiential. Three years before Ken Kesey's inaugural Acid Test, This Is It! Constitutes the first transmission for a tuned in counterculture of hippies, beats, and psychedelic revolutionaries