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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For some folks....The Grateful Dead ceased to exist when Jerry Garcia died. To these folks Jerry's soaring liquid laserbeam guitar squiggles were the very essence of The Grateful dead. His gentle voice gave life & character to the lyrics of Robert Hunter in ways no one can replicate, and to The Dead's credit, they do not try. By calling themselves The Dead they maintain their ties to their ...
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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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.........During their Cosmic Muffin years The Grateful Dead did produce some incredibly beautiful songs...of great lyrical ambiguityYour rain falls like crazy fingers Peals of fragile thunder keeping time Recall the days that still are to come some sing blue. Hang your heart on laughing willow stray Down to the water, deep sea of love beneath the sweet calm face of the sea swift undertow. Life ...
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hey freak folksters, hey bon iver fans, hey bonnie prince billy fans...if y'all want to hear the mother-ship, get your ass over to amazon and get the grateful dead, reckoning.http://mog.com/music/Grateful_Dead/Reckoning - there's a link here to get the cd or downloadi finally got a hold of a used copy at amoeba last week and i have not taken it off since.this is NOT a jam record, but the dead p...
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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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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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The Grateful Dead....1972 Rockin' Pnuemonia & The Boogiw Woogie Flu.
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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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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...
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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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Lately 2 things have been happening with my 5 year old son. The first is that he demands to play Monopoly almost every night and the second is that when he hears a song he likes he wants me to make a CD for him. While we engaged in our family Monopoly game the other day my itunes was randomly playing Greatful Dead tracks.My son was kinda groovin' and he kept asking who was singing, so I told h...
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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 lock...
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