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May 31, 2023: NYS Music: The Allman Brothers’ Post-Duane Breakthrough Profiled In “Brothers And Sisters”
One of the more interesting chapters is how the Allman Brothers help revive the Presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter, something covered in great detail in the wonderful 2020 documentary “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President.” Paul also spends a great deal of time exploring the history of The Allman Brothers’ on-going touring partnership with the Grateful Dead, something culminating with Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, the 1973 festival which attracted a world record 650,000 attendees. For the gossip minded, there’s a detailed look at the star-crossed union of Gregg and Cher, a relationship which, like the band itself, was severely compromised by Allman’s addictions. Another factor compromising the band was guitarist Betts’ dependence of cocaine and alcohol, something which made his stage performances, and the bands, more unpredictable as time passed. By 2000, Betts would be out of the band for good and The Allman Brothers would never play “Ramblin’ Man” again.
One of the more interesting chapters is how the Allman Brothers help revive the Presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter, something covered in great detail in the wonderful 2020 documentary “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President.” Paul also spends a great deal of time exploring the history of The Allman Brothers’ on-going touring partnership with the Grateful Dead, something culminating with Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, the 1973 festival which attracted a world record 650,000 attendees. For the gossip minded, there’s a detailed look at the star-crossed union of Gregg and Cher, a relationship which, like the band itself, was severely compromised by Allman’s addictions. Another factor compromising the band was guitarist Betts’ dependence of cocaine and alcohol, something which made his stage performances, and the bands, more unpredictable as time passed. By 2000, Betts would be out of the band for good and The Allman Brothers would never play “Ramblin’ Man” again.
November 26, 2022: Live For Live Music: Phil Lesh & Friends, Dark Star Orchestra, Oteil & Friends Top 2023 Skull & Roses Lineup
Skull & Roses will return to the burnin’ shore April 19th–23rd, 2023 for a celebration of all things Grateful Dead. The festival will once again welcome back Dead bassist Phil Lesh for two headlining performances with some special Friends as well as Dark Star Orchestra, Oteil & Friends, and more.
An alphabetical history of the Grateful Dead has been assembled for some of the band’s youngest fans. The ABCs of The Grateful Dead was penned by Howie Abrams and features colorful visual accompaniment courtesy of Michael “Kaves” McLeer. The book is due to be released on Nov. 22 via Permuted Press.
The forthcoming children’s book pulls in playful themes and vivid imagery and introduces the reader to various topics pertaining to the legendary San Francisco ensemble. An alphabetical journey beginning with the letter A, the book moves through the alphabet, highlighting significant moments and cultural contributions exhibited by the band.
The forthcoming children’s book pulls in playful themes and vivid imagery and introduces the reader to various topics pertaining to the legendary San Francisco ensemble. An alphabetical journey beginning with the letter A, the book moves through the alphabet, highlighting significant moments and cultural contributions exhibited by the band.
Oct 13, 2022: IHeart Radio: Watch The Trailer For Upcoming 'Let There Be Drums!' Documentary Film
A new documentary film from director Justin Kreutzmann asks the question: Where do drummers come from — are they born or built?
Justin is the son of co-founding Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and as such, enjoyed many Dead gigs as a youth from a seat on his dad's drum riser. While Justin didn't become a drummer himself, his lifelong curiosity about percussion has brought about the new movie, Let There Be Drums, arriving October 28 via Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video and in select theaters.
A new documentary film from director Justin Kreutzmann asks the question: Where do drummers come from — are they born or built?
Justin is the son of co-founding Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and as such, enjoyed many Dead gigs as a youth from a seat on his dad's drum riser. While Justin didn't become a drummer himself, his lifelong curiosity about percussion has brought about the new movie, Let There Be Drums, arriving October 28 via Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video and in select theaters.
Nov 8, 2021: Billboard: Grateful Dead Scores Highest Charting Album Since 1987 on Billboard 200
Grateful Dead scores its highest charting album since 1987 on the Billboard 200 – and its biggest sales week for an album in over 25 years – as the group’s latest archival live album arrives on…
Grateful Dead scores its highest charting album since 1987 on the Billboard 200 – and its biggest sales week for an album in over 25 years – as the group’s latest archival live album arrives on…
Oct 16, 2021: Louder Sound: The Grateful Dead: a guide to their best albums
Jerry Garcia never wanted to be the poster boy for psychedelic, acid-drenched rock'n'roll. During their 1978 Egypt Acid Test he told this writer, "You're asking me whether the Grateful Dead still represents the ideals of the '60s, but we're trying to uphold something else. Not so much idealism, more a delicate state of anarchy: anarchy in the USA, I guess.”
Jerry Garcia never wanted to be the poster boy for psychedelic, acid-drenched rock'n'roll. During their 1978 Egypt Acid Test he told this writer, "You're asking me whether the Grateful Dead still represents the ideals of the '60s, but we're trying to uphold something else. Not so much idealism, more a delicate state of anarchy: anarchy in the USA, I guess.”
Sept 1, 2021: New York Times: When the Parking Lot Is Its Own Strange Trip
Parking lots outside Grateful Dead shows were the stuff of lore, and that tradition has continued with Dead & Company, the post-Jerry Garcia incarnation of the band featuring John Mayer.
This summer, as the band tours the United States, the party outside the show is alive and well, though depending on location, each has a unique flavor. In New York City, when you’re exiting the subway at Citi Field, you can see Shakedown Street — as the legendary lot scene is known (named after a 1978 album by the Grateful Dead) — across from the stadium.
Parking lots outside Grateful Dead shows were the stuff of lore, and that tradition has continued with Dead & Company, the post-Jerry Garcia incarnation of the band featuring John Mayer.
This summer, as the band tours the United States, the party outside the show is alive and well, though depending on location, each has a unique flavor. In New York City, when you’re exiting the subway at Citi Field, you can see Shakedown Street — as the legendary lot scene is known (named after a 1978 album by the Grateful Dead) — across from the stadium.
Nov 29, 2020: Extra Chill: The History and Meaning of the Iconic Grateful Dead Bears
Whether or not you consider yourself a Deadhead, you’ve certainly seen the iconic Grateful Dead “dancing bears” a time or two.
Initially designed by artist Bob Thomas to appear on the back cover of the band’s 1973 release, The History of the Grateful Dead, Volume 1 (Bear’s Choice), the bears have become deeply ingrained in the culture surrounding the Grateful Dead, and have taken on layers of symbolic meaning over the years.
Whether or not you consider yourself a Deadhead, you’ve certainly seen the iconic Grateful Dead “dancing bears” a time or two.
Initially designed by artist Bob Thomas to appear on the back cover of the band’s 1973 release, The History of the Grateful Dead, Volume 1 (Bear’s Choice), the bears have become deeply ingrained in the culture surrounding the Grateful Dead, and have taken on layers of symbolic meaning over the years.
Sept 21, 2019: Rolling Stone: Grateful Dead Album Guide
From must-have LPs to highlights from the rest of the band's massive catalog, we detail Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and the rest's output over the decades
April 18, 2019: DateBook: The Grateful Dead’s official graphic novel comes to life
Every long, strange trip deserves its own comic book.
The story of the Grateful Dead’s formation and early days will be the subject of a new graphic novel scheduled for release in early 2020, the band and publisher Z2 Comics announced on Thursday, April 18.
“Grateful Dead Origins,” written by Chris Miskiewicz and illustrated by Noah Van Sciver, will trace the story of Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, from their first show as the Warlocks at a pizza parlor in Menlo Park through their appearance at Woodstock just four years later in summer 1969.
Every long, strange trip deserves its own comic book.
The story of the Grateful Dead’s formation and early days will be the subject of a new graphic novel scheduled for release in early 2020, the band and publisher Z2 Comics announced on Thursday, April 18.
“Grateful Dead Origins,” written by Chris Miskiewicz and illustrated by Noah Van Sciver, will trace the story of Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, from their first show as the Warlocks at a pizza parlor in Menlo Park through their appearance at Woodstock just four years later in summer 1969.
Jan 16, 2015: Los Angeles Times: Grateful Dead original surviving members plan final shows in July
The surviving members of the stalwart classic-rock band -- Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir -- have booked their final concerts together at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 3, 4 and 5.
The show, billed as “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead,” comes in celebration of their half-century as a band. The shows take place almost 20 years after the last full Grateful Dead show, which happened at the same venue
The surviving members of the stalwart classic-rock band -- Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir -- have booked their final concerts together at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 3, 4 and 5.
The show, billed as “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead,” comes in celebration of their half-century as a band. The shows take place almost 20 years after the last full Grateful Dead show, which happened at the same venue
Dec 4, 2012: JTA: For Jewish Deadheads, the music never stopped
Nov 18, 2012: New Yorker: Deadhead
One night in the winter of 1996, Rob Eaton, a recording engineer who’d worked with Duran Duran and Pat Metheny, showed up at the home of a high-school chemistry teacher in Petaluma, California. Eaton had heard that the teacher had something that he and others like him were eager to get their hands on. He’d also heard that the teacher wanted to sell what he had for a million dollars, a sum no studio engineer was likely to supply. Still, one could always tender expertise. The teacher drove Eaton to a barn he owned, and they ran in through the rain. Inside, amid piles of junk, were three road cases, of the kind that rock bands use to cart around their amplifiers. Each had “Grateful Dead” stencilled on its side. In the first one, Eaton found, in addition to some rotting cookbooks, several dozen reel-to-reel tapes, caked in mold and silt. Most of them were unmarked, or at least too encrusted to read, but Eaton had an idea what some of them might be, and he felt a surge of excitement. The other boxes contained dozens more tapes, similarly degraded.
One night in the winter of 1996, Rob Eaton, a recording engineer who’d worked with Duran Duran and Pat Metheny, showed up at the home of a high-school chemistry teacher in Petaluma, California. Eaton had heard that the teacher had something that he and others like him were eager to get their hands on. He’d also heard that the teacher wanted to sell what he had for a million dollars, a sum no studio engineer was likely to supply. Still, one could always tender expertise. The teacher drove Eaton to a barn he owned, and they ran in through the rain. Inside, amid piles of junk, were three road cases, of the kind that rock bands use to cart around their amplifiers. Each had “Grateful Dead” stencilled on its side. In the first one, Eaton found, in addition to some rotting cookbooks, several dozen reel-to-reel tapes, caked in mold and silt. Most of them were unmarked, or at least too encrusted to read, but Eaton had an idea what some of them might be, and he felt a surge of excitement. The other boxes contained dozens more tapes, similarly degraded.
| The Grateful Dead was formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long musical improvisation. "Their music," writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists." These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world." They were ranked 57th in the issue The Greatest Artists of all Time by Rolling Stone magazine. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and their Barton Hall Concert at Cornell University (May 8, 1977) was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.
The fans of the Grateful Dead, some of whom followed the band from concert to concert for years, are known as "Deadheads" and are known for their dedication to the band's music. From 2003 to 2009 former members of the Grateful Dead, along with other musicians, toured as The Dead and The Other Ones. There are many contemporary incarnations of the Dead, with the most prominent touring acts being Furthur and Phil Lesh & Friends. |
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is an authoritative text, providing standard versions of all the original songs you thought you knew forwards and backwards. These are some of the best-loved songs in the modern American songbook. They are hummed and spoken among thousands as counterculture code and recorded by musicians of all stripes for their inimitable singability and obscure accessibility. How do they do all this? To provide a context for this formidable body of work, of which his part is primary, Robert Hunter has written a foreword that goes to the heart of the matter. And the annotations on sources provide a gloss on the lyrics, which goes to the roots of Western culture as they are incorporated into them.
An avid Grateful Dead concertgoer for more than two decades, David Dodd is a librarian who brings to the work a detective’s love of following a clue as far as it will take him. Including essays by Dead lyricists Robert Hunter and John Perry and Jim Carpenter’s original illustrations, whimsical elements in the lyrics are brought to light, showcasing the American legend that is present in so many songs. A gorgeous keepsake edition of the Dead’s official annotated lyrics, The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is an absolute must-have for the fiftieth anniversary—you won’t think of this cultural icon the same way again. In fact, founding band member Bob Weir said: “This book is great. Now I’ll never have to explain myself.”
An avid Grateful Dead concertgoer for more than two decades, David Dodd is a librarian who brings to the work a detective’s love of following a clue as far as it will take him. Including essays by Dead lyricists Robert Hunter and John Perry and Jim Carpenter’s original illustrations, whimsical elements in the lyrics are brought to light, showcasing the American legend that is present in so many songs. A gorgeous keepsake edition of the Dead’s official annotated lyrics, The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is an absolute must-have for the fiftieth anniversary—you won’t think of this cultural icon the same way again. In fact, founding band member Bob Weir said: “This book is great. Now I’ll never have to explain myself.”
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