The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s. Despite having only one top-40 single in their 30-year career, " Touch of Grey", the Grateful Dead remained among the highest grossing American touring acts for multiple decades and gained a committed fanbase by word of mouth and the exchange of live recordings due to the band's permissive stance on taping. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a recording of their performance at Cornell University's Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2012. The band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its " The Greatest Artists of All Time" issue. "Their music", writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists." These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world". The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, world music, and psychedelia for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams that typically incorporated modal and tonal improvisation and for its devoted fan base, known as " Deadheads". The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.
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