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How the Grateful Dead Invented the Ice Bucket Challenge
LONG, STRANGE TRIP
Decades before the Internet, the band created viral marketing by giving away their music for free, building a social network, and having fun.
Barry Barnes
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Aug. 24 2014
5:45AM EDT
The Daily Beast
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