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The Grateful Dead were an American rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. Many followers referred to the band simply as The Dead. The Grateful Dead became the de facto resident band of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, with the early sound heavily influenced by LSD-soaked Acid Tests, as well as R&B-some of which is described in their song "The Other One". Their musical influences varied widely with input from the psychedelic rock of the era, combined with blues, jazz, rock and roll, and blue...Read More >
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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
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Nice to see a band that hasn't even been around for almost thirteen years still riding the wave.1. 1. Bob Dylan
2. 2. Grateful Dead
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 ... 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 a... MORE
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Last week's Mog post discussions about the Grateful Dead got me digging up some old stuff. Check out this youtube classic find, especially the young Jerry singing "Mountains of The Moon" with TC on Harpsichord. This is great:
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the second part of this song sit back relax and enjoymog.com More about this song Share
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the grateful dead the fillmore east and it's 1969 talk about flashbacksmog.com More about this song Share
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"The goal of the game is to use Google shares to buy as many properties as you can without landing in the deadpool and losing your stock. As with any great board game, there’s a very real metaphor to what’s going on…. What happens when the Google monster gobbles up all that is left in the web world, is present on your cell phone, desktop, and even controls your health information?" cont...
(From Box.net via TechCrunch)
(click here for larger board image) Read th... 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
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"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 po... 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 transc... MORE
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The earlier talk of the ethics of downloading music vs used cd's But how 'bout true bootlegs? Rehearsal tapes, outtakes, concert performances, etc etc?
These usually are stolen from the creators of the music and marketed illegally. How do we feel about that?
I know I feel just awful. Each and every time I purchase a bootleg album I think about this. But I have a couple of hundred of such things. I can't help it, I enjoy hearing how a song comes together. So he... 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 ... MORE
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David H. started a nice discussion of the Grateful Dead
This inspired Dave to weigh in and offer this
For Funky Friday
And I in turn was inspired to offer this.
On an unrelated note: I Have A New Granddaughter!... 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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Yes, it's true... See for yourself. Amazing how much time some people have.
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