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Grateful Dead - Good Lovin', 4.17.71, Princeton, NJ
Today is Pigpen's 70th Birthday. I'm celebrating him with this, one of his famous Good Lovin' Brooklyn Bridge raps.
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Hitler Reacts to John Mayer and the Dead
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A Wall of Sound: How The Grateful Dead Built the First Modern Concert PA System and the Second Largest to Date.
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What's your go-to Dead show/album/tour/era?
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Free MP3 download: Billy & The Kids - Live, 8/15/15, Scranton, PA
Bill Kreutzmann (drummer for the Grateful Dead) has a new band, and they're HOT. Bonus - Bob Weir guests on the whole second set and encore. Download Billy & The Kids August 15, 2015, Peach Fest, Scranton, PA MP3 and FLAC. Download the entire concert or single track MP3s from livedownloads.com.
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40 Years Ago: Grateful Dead Welcome Back Mickey Hart on 'Blues for Allah'
The Grateful Dead released 'Blues for Allah,' their first album with Micky Hart in more than four years, on Sept. 1, 1975.
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Grateful Dead - Adams Field House, U of Montana, 1974-05-14 : Free Streaming : Internet Archive
Set 1 Bertha, Me & My Uncle, Loser, Black Throated Wind, Scarlet Begonias, It Must Have Been The Roses, Jack Straw, Tennessee Jed, Deal, Big River, Brown Eyed...
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Documenting The Dead: Symphonic Dead | Grateful Dead
In May 2011, the Marin Symphony and guests performed a memorable evening of arrangements of Dead songs by Bob Weir and Giancarlo Aquilanti, which delighted Deadheads and classical music fans alike. But the first effort was composer Lee Johnson's Dead Symphony No. 6
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Not your (grand)father's Grateful Dead
Certainly the legacy of the Grateful Dead is well worth celebrating, but this recent concert and the band presenting it have very little to do with the genuine article. Instead, they comprise a clinging remembrance and distorted re-enactment of an old event reinvented to suit modern tastes.
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NSFW Grateful Dead, "Jack Straw" - Sunshine Daydream (Veneta, OR 8/27/72)
NSFW, because of some naked fans. At a Dead show in '72 where it was 100+ degrees, it was a popular option.
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Dead & Co Officially Release Dates And Set Another Record In Music (Funny rant by 'Grateful' Dean Sottile)
In an event that was initially not taken seriously, surviving Grateful Dead members set another record Monday when their announcement for additional Dead and Company shows hit Instagram. The record...
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Deadhead - The New Yorker
"Each tape seemed to have its own particular note of decay, like the taste of the barnyard in a wine or a cheese. You came to love each one, as you might a three-legged dog. Or, having decided that it all sounded like one long meandering dirge, you went back to whatever normal people listened to."
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Bruce Hornsby on the Grateful Dead, Connecting with Trey Anastasio + Going Beyond His Hits: Exclusive Interview
Bruce Hornsby discusses performing with the Grateful Dead, interacting with Trey Anastasio and his solo career in a 2015 interview.
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Relisten.net - Grateful Dead
An intuitive and interesting way to navigate the archive.org GD collection, as far as I can tell. Not sure why I'm just discovering it now. They also have bootlegs of quite a few other good live acts (link below) like Phish, Fugazi, Grace Potter, Guster, My Morning Jacket, Little Feat, and more.
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Documenting the Dead
As we celebrate the Grateful Dead's fiftieth anniversary over the course of this year, this blog will explore one of the hidden sides of the band's story: the archive that the Dead built over a half-century, now housed in Special Collections at UC Santa Cruz's McHenry Library.
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Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD
Would the Summer of Love have ever happened without Stanley, the reclusive acid impresario who turned on the world?
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The time John Kasich got kicked out of a Grateful Dead concert
Witnesses at the scene described Kasich as "obnoxious," "disruptive," and "yelling."
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Schrödinger’s Dead: The Grateful Dead’s 1975 Retirement
The first Grateful Dead show I learned inside and out (or so I thought) was the double-disc One from the Vault, two sets recorded on Aug. 13, 1975 at the Great American Music Hall in San...
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Tales From David Gans: Profiling The Musician And Grateful Dead Expert
David Gans sat down with L4LM to talk about his history with The Grateful Dead, his music and upcoming projects.
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Grateful Dead - It Must Have Been The Roses [Great American Music Hall, SF, 8/13/75]
40 years ago, the Dead performed what would become their first full-length concert recording (One From the Vault, 1991), featuring the first performance of the Blues for Allah album in its entirety. Broadcast on the radio, the show was recorded by many fans and became common on the tape trading circuit and released as a bootleg LP under several titles.
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