Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead at the Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, NY on March 24, 1990. A classic show from a classic run (and a version of Loser for the history books)... Setlist: Set I Good Time Blues Help on the Way Slipknot! Franklin's Tower Walkin' Blues Loser Desolation Row Tennessee Jed One More Saturday Night Set II Playin' in the Band Uncle John's Band Terrapin Station drums The Wheel All Along the Watchtower Stella Blue Not Fade Away encore We Bid You Goodnight Downloads... MORE

Grateful Dead, Civic Center, Hartford, CT, March 19, 1990. This show was broadcast on WHCN, the local rock station in Hartford...It was the final Grateful Dead show at the Civic Center... Set List: Set I Hell in a Bucket Bertha We Can Run But We Can't Hide Jack-a-Roe Picasso Moon Brown Eyed Women It's All Over Now Deal Set II Box of Rain Foolish Heart Playin' in the Band jam Eyes of the World drums China Doll Gimme Some Lovin' Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Aroun... MORE

    Well, thanks to my great and goodly friend poebegone, I now know how to look at the "share" tab on Mixwit to get the embed code! (Doh!)
CAUTION If you listen to this, you might at times think somebody flipped on an FM radio somewhere (although, on a pretty good station). This is a playlist of songs I practice on the piano, because if I played what I really wanted to, there wouldn't be no sing alongs. xJmxPTEyMTQzMjg5OTQxNzQmcHQ9MTIxNDMyOTAxNTA4MCZwPTE4NDMzMSZkPSZuPS... MORE

A little while ago MOG ran a story on the new Kurt Cobain converse. A cool concept considering the kicks were a trademark of the late rocker's look. But what we didn't see coming was Converse's homage to jam rockers the Grateful Dead. Coining them "renegades of sound," the shoe company has re-created their classic Chuck Taylor® All Star® high top baring Grateful Dead's iconic "steal your face" and dancing bear logos and Alton Kelley's and Stanley Mouse's Skull & Roses, ... MORE

One of the great rock poster artists of all time, Alton Kelley, passed away Sunday. His death was due to "complications from a long illness," according to a press release. Alton Kelly's contribution to the legendary art exhibit, Joint Show. It was Kelley, along with his creative partner Stanley Mouse and a handful of other artists, Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin, who created a visual style that defined what '60s psychedelic rock looked like through the we... MORE

Grateful Dead at the Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT, April 5, 1988. Source: MAC: Senn 460 > Cm > Dat > Sound Forge > CD Disc 1, Set 1:Hell In A BucketSugareeWalkin' BluesDire WolfIt's All Over NowBird SongMasterpieceMight As WellSet 2:Iko IkoLouie LouieSamson And Delilah Disc 2:Ship Of FoolsSmokestack Lightnin'>Drums>Space>I Need A Miracle>Wharf Rat>Throwin' Stones>Not Fade AwayE: Knockin' On Heaven's Door OR Source: AUD>PCM>CD (Possible Matrix, Healy-FM or one... MORE

Grateful Dead at the Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT, April 4, 1988. Sources:Main - SBD>DAT>CD (Possible Matrix)Alternate - SBD>MC>DAT>CD Disc One: First Set1. Alabama Getaway [5:50] >2. Johnny B. Goode [4:45]3. Never Trust a Woman [7:26]4. They Love Each Other [7:20]5. Queen Jane Approximately [5:33]6. When Push Comes To Shove [6:12]7. Cassidy [6:06]8. Don't Ease Me In [3:39]9. Touch Of Grey [6:45]

Second Set

Disc Two: Second Set (Continued) 1. Looks... MORE

The Grateful Dead perform Wang Dang Doodle with John Popper on harp at the Bill Graham Memorial Concert "Laughter, Love, and Music" in San Francisco, CA 11-3-91 Wang Dang Doodle written by Willie Dixon for Howlin' Wolf at Chess Records in Chicago. Willie Dixon says in his autobiography that of all the songs he wrote for Howlin' Wolf, "Wang Dang Doodle" is the one he hated the most. Howling Wolf did not think much of it either, calling it a "levee camp" song. Dix... MORE

Grateful Dead at the Civic Center in Hartford, CT on April 3, 1997. First of three nights...Jerry's voice was froggy from a cold and try as he might, this not he could not compensate with his playing what he could not do with his voice... SetlistSet IPromised LandGreatest Story Ever ToldAltheaLittle Red RoosterCold Rain and SnowStuck Inside of MobileBox of RainDon't Ease Me In Set II Playin' in the BandCrazy FingersFranklin's TowerMan Smart/Woman SmarterdrumsGimme ... MORE

OK, maybe this one is not fair to promote since it is another blog I maintain but what the hell, I make the rules around here... I actually started this new blog because I wanted to play around with some new features in blogger (the platform I use for my blogs), experiment with some search engine stuff and just have a site I could monkey around with. I wasn't sure I would keep it going but after two months and 100+ posts I guess we know how that is shaking out... I... MORE

Thank you Dr. Hofmann, for a real good time. NY Times "Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday of a heart attack at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102. Mr. Hofmann synthesized LSD in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance." The vid is Dark Star - 8-27-72 part 1(part 2 is in the com... MORE

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Nice to see a band that hasn't even been around for almost thirteen years still riding the wave.Watched a great show on the History channel over the weekend, "Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey", Dark Star was the background music for almost the entire show. "Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schulte's discoveries of hallucinogenic plants revolutionized science and laid the foundation for... MORE

Dancing bears, meet the Banana Slugs. The surviving members of the Grateful Dead are turning over the rock band's archives to the University of California at Santa Cruz. The archive will hold the band's correspondence and other memorabilia, but not its recordings, longtime band spokesman Dennis McNally said Wednesday. Ex-Dead guitarist Bob Weir and drummer Mickey Hart will announce a partnership with the university Thursday. The announcement will take place at San ... MORE