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'{{Short description|Band}} {{Other uses|Dinosaur (disambiguation)}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox musical artist | honorific_prefix = | name = The Dinosaurs | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = | caption = | background = group_or_band | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per [[WP:DOB]] --> | birth_place = | origin = [[San Francisco Bay Area]] | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date 1st) --> | death_place = | genre = [[Rock and roll]], [[psychedelic rock]], [[supergroup (music)|supergroup]] | occupation = | instrument = | years_active = <!-- YYYY–YYYY (or –present) --> | label = | associated_acts = [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]]<br>[[Country Joe and the Fish]]<br>[[John Cipollina]]<br>[[Grateful Dead]]<br>[[Hot Tuna]]<br>[[Jefferson Airplane]] | website = {{URL|cjfishlegacy.com/dinosaurshomepage.html|dinosaurshomepage.html}} | module = | module2 = | module3 = }} '''The Dinosaurs''', formed in 1982, was an American, [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] based [[supergroup (music)|supergroup]], that emerged from the [[psychedelic music]] era of [[San Francisco]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dinosaurs-mn0000147940/biography|title=Dinosaurs &#124; Biography & History|website=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=November 2, 2019}}</ref> The core group consisted of Peter Albin of [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]], [[John Cipollina]] of [[Quicksilver Messenger Service]], [[Spencer Dryden]] of [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Robert Hunter (lyricist)|Robert Hunter]] of the [[Grateful Dead]], [[Barry Melton]] of [[Country Joe and the Fish]] and keyboardist [[Merl Saunders]] from the Saunders-Garcia Band.<ref name="Larkin80">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2003|edition=Third|isbn=1-85227-969-9|page=160}}</ref> Over time [[Papa John Creach]] of [[Hot Tuna]], [[Jack Casady]] of [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Nicky Hopkins]], [[Dave Getz]], [[Country Joe McDonald]] and other prominent San Francisco musicians guest starred with the group.<ref name="Larkin80"/> In the 1990s, [[David LaFlamme]] of [[It's a Beautiful Day]] and [[Jerry Miller]] of [[Moby Grape]] also toured with this group. The Dinosaurs became active in 1982, with Albin, Dryden, Cipollina, Melton, and Hunter at its center. Hunter left the group in 1985 before the end of its "classic" run, although he returned to record a track for their only album. By 1987, Merl Saunders had more or less taken Hunter's place in the band. The original group presumably ran its course up through 1989, at which point the group broke up.<ref name="Larkin80"/> John Cipollina died just two weeks after the band's final concert, during which he had to sit in a wheelchair due to health issues. In 1988, the band released its only studio album, ''Dinosaurs''.<ref name="Larkin80"/> In 2005, the band released a retrospective album on the Evangeline label, entitled ''Friends of Extinction''. They were the band that forced [[Dinosaur Jr.]] to add on the "Jr." in 1987, shortly after that band released ''[[You're Living All Over Me]]''. The important paleontologist howard e. smith discovered that the dinosaurs actually had thumb like appendages and they built complex building . he shaped the way that we see dinosaurs on our modern world. ==Discography== * ''Dinosaurs'' · 1988 * ''Friends of Extinction'' · 2005 ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.cjfishlegacy.com/dinosaurshomepage.html The Dinosaurs homepage] *[https://archive.org/details/Dinosaurs Dinosaurs : Free Music : Free Audio : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive] *[http://www.bigmuddyrecords.com/artist/the-dinosaurs/ The Dinosaurs – Big Muddy Records] {{DEFAULTSORT:Dinosaurs, The}} [[Category:1982 establishments in California]] [[Category:Musical groups established in 1982]] [[Category:Psychedelic rock music groups from California]] [[Category:Supergroups (music)]]'