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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
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To: Grateful Dead Whereas today, August 27, 2008, is the 36th anniversary of the classic Grateful Dead concert performed at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon (a show popularly known as "Springfield Creamery Benefit" or "Field Trip"); Whereas multi-camera visual and multi-track audio recordings of said show are known to exist; Whereas fans have circulated unofficial versions of the audio recordings and the video (popularly known as a move titled "Sunshi... MORE
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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
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sturgel's post stating that steve miller hates the dead has inspired me to ask.
i fluctuate. right now i love them. again.
speak your mind. no place for musically politically correct. can't offend on this subject.
GO!
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Jambase put up a really nice tribute post to Brent Mydland today, he passed away 18 years ago. Seems like just yesterday we were checking out "the new guy" on his first tour with the boys up in Maine. The waiters at the restaurant we went to that night swore my buddy ED D. was Brent and we were all with the band and we didn't do too much to deny it, they served us especially large lobsters with all the fixins' and treated us like royalty. Here's to you Brent, thanks - ... MORE
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You know where I'll be Monday Night :) You can virtually be there too! Three surviving members of the Grateful Dead - Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir - will reunite at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Warfield in San Francisco for "Deadheads for Obama," a concert to support Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The concert, which will also feature Lesh's current band of Friends - Jackie Greene, John Molo and Steve Molitz - marks the first time Hart, Lesh and We... MORE
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coming out now. i was a deadhead. at age 13, something snapped. had to do with my brother who ran away and left me with 700 albums. yes, very "almost famous" - he ran away to hawaii. he also left me a killer stereo!!!! i started playing everything, which was essentially the history of rock and roll. i put on i think europe 72 and heard tennessee jed. i had remembered hearing it through his locked bedroom (as well as many more). it clicked. maybe it was the sublim... MORE
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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
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It is important to remember that the Grateful Dead were a Rhythm & Blues based rock n roll band, with jugband/folk/country sensibilities around the edges.Early Dead shows would find Pigpen gettin' his Mojo workin', riffing on classic blues with an authentic vibe all his own.And the Dead had acoustic shows long before "unplugged" made it hip.And they had three great vocalists, dermahrk's assertions notwithstanding.From Bear's Choice then, we have the Dead's transcendent ta... MORE
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!977 was an amazing year for the Dead, if you've ever heard the tapes from Cornell you know what I'm talking about so this comes as a treat, give it a listen, even Donna is on key every now and then. "New Road Trips 2-CD SetIn this, the second volume of the new Road Trips series, lovingly compiled and painstakingly mastered (in HDCD), we take a blazing swing through the Southwest - Colorado and down to Louisiana circa October 1977. Special OfferEarly orders of Road Tri... MORE
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And as long as we're on the subject here's the cartoon from the first eight minutes of The Dead's 1977 movie wiki -"The Grateful Dead Movie, released in 1977 and directed by Jerry Garcia, is a film that captures performances from the Grateful Dead's October 1974 five-night stand at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. This end-of-tour run marked the beginning of an extended hiatus for the band, with no shows planned for 1975. The movie also faithfully portray... MORE
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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
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It might have been in analogue, but the Grateful Dead pretty much created p2p. Long before internet file sharing, fans were encouraged by the band to tape shows and share them freely with friends. This was a great viral marketing tool, turning the band into a touring powerhouse independent of record sales. That tradition continued on the web with many sites, including the bands own dead.net, offering downloads of live shows. Each week a new track was pulled from the band'... MORE
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6:10am on super tuesday, and to paraphrase Bob Weir's message from last night at 9:30pm, "get your ass out and vote, it could be the last chance in your lifetime to bring about fundamental change" is it that dire? i don't know, but lots of heavy shit is going on, and there is nothing like having a tiny little voice in it. if you need to register to vote, go here http://www.headcount.org/ but screw big time, massive money spending blotto politics, let's talk about music a... MORE