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" .
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jay blakesburg, one of the top rock photographers of all time, has just released tons of images of what it was like to be on the road as a deadhead in the late 70's early 80's. this was a few years before my time (my first show was garden 83) but it's impossible for me to see the differences. this was an incredibly adventurous and innocent way of life. just amazing to look at these photos. e...
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Jerry Garcia might be getting sued from the grave, but the rest of the Dead keep truckin' on. This spring the original remaining members of the Dead - Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart along with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and Allman Brothers Band/Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes - will hit the road for the first time in 5 years taking us back to the days of the Further Fest...
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Second year in and this festival is not 'effin' around. Rothbury, labeled jam-tastic, weird, and totally awesome by neo-hippies when last year's line-up coughed up Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio, Modest Mouse, John Mayer and Snoop Dogg - the latter who supposedly thought he was in Grand Rapids, MI the whole time, despite the fest's westward Rothbury, MI location - returns this year with The D
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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...
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You know those iPhone commercials where they say "there's just about an app for everything" even wiping your ass? I don't own an iPhone, but I have meself an iPod Touch because I figured it'd mean less trips to the Genius Bar. The iPod Touch lets me punch around with all these said "apps" and yesterday I got another cool one to match the Tetris game I got on there to keep me preoccupied while I...
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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, of...
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As previously reported here and there The Dead will be performing a concert in support of Obama for America with performances by Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, as well as Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Marc Quinones, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti Monday, October 13th, 2008 at the Bryce Jordan Center, Pennsylvania State University.Tu...
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ADVANCE LISTEN - TWO NEW TRACKS:Winterland June 1977The Complete Recordings (2009)Another essential Grateful Dead box, arriving Oct. 1st. Nine discs, 68 tracks, $100, every note of a 3 night stand.Jack Straw (6/7/77)Samson And Delilah (6/7/77)Click Here For A Pop Up PlayerSugaree (6/8/77)It's All Over Now (6/8/77)Click Here For A Pop Up Player (Not available in all countries)
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Saying Barack Obama embodies political hope absent since Robert Kennedy was slain 40 years ago, three surviving members of the Grateful Dead rock band reunited on Monday for the first time in four years to back the presidential candidate, reports Yahoo.Every few generations a guy like this comes along," drummer Mickey Hart told a news conference a day before California's primary, in which Obama...
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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 ing...
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GRATEFUL DEAD-OPOLY!!! I Must Have this.So I've known for some time that an awesome artist named Tim Truman has done a lot of art for the Grateful Dead. I've also known for a while that he used to be a teacher at the art college I graduated from. When he was still there I would run into him every so often and we'd get to talking about some of his good times seeing, being around, and working on ...
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As if we needed more evidence that the Grateful Dead's dream of a more civil, loving society was forgotten well before the band, SF Gate is reporting that a federal judge has reopened the case of a man convicted of murdering two homeless Deadheads in 1985. According to the report, lawyers for the defendant, Ralph International Thomas, did not do their due diligence in identifying and presenting...
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The year was 1978, I was on a merchant ship anchored off of Ascension Island feeding the piranha anything we could find just to see them frenzy in the daytime and watching the porpoises chase the flying fish into the sides of the ship to knock them senseless for an easy feed at night. I was reading a lot and listening to my stash of tapes, standing watch and performing the day to day chores ab...
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I know what you're thinking, this is getting blogged to death but I just wanted to post a simple time schedule (with links of course). USA START (EDT)Sydney - 9:10 p.m. 7/6Tokyo -11:00 p.m. 7/6Shanghai - 7:00 a.m. 7/7Hamburg - 8:00 a.m. 7/7London - 8:30 a.m. 7/7Johannesburg - 12:00 p.m. 7/7New York - 2:30 p.m. 7/7Rio - 3:00 p.m. 7/7I just want to see Nunatak -"But perhaps none will have as grea...
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