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Nice try JefMSmit

I hope you get some good responses from folks out there. You certainly put your finger on a huge problem out there, among many. The problem you have here is that this site is mainly commercial in nature and deadhead oriented second. That is, unless it sells something for Rhino/Warner Brothers/Dead.net there is not going to be a lot of time put into it, if any at all. So kudos to you for seeing a need and filling a hole. It's better than me bitching that we should have the vault indexed and graded, my pet peeve.

Deadism

I'm creating a religion formed by the ideas expressed by the Grateful Dead in their music. Check it out! deadism.weebly.com

Creative, yet subtle, designs - Dead shirts/decals

Please check out www.justexactlyright.com for creative, yet subtle, dead t shirts/decals

Jerry Garcia Lyric Poster

We have hand made a 24x36 Jerry Garcia poster entirely of his lyrics. Each song was carefully selected to capture the essence of the show at Son Et Lumiere Theater in Egypt. Check out our shop here! https://www.etsy.com/listing/175961772/jerry-garcia-lyric-poster-print-…

jef

A remarkably intuitive and helpful site; I just searched out one of my favourite unrealeased shows (RFK 6/10/73)and jumped immediately to a Miller/Tobin SBD on AO, thanks!/kate

nedbase - live!

just an fyi... nedbase has gone live! Annotated Nedbase 1970 - 1975 Below are listed the performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions where Ned Lagin is known to have performed with the Grateful Dead, or with Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and others. These occurred in the years between 1970 to 1975. This list is thought to be accurate but remains incomplete. http://nedbase.blogspot.com/ I-) ihor

How to lose hours, weeks, months, or even years on the net.

After exploring the net since seriously discovering the Dead almost 4 years ago, here is a list of at least some of my favorite sites in the ether. Note that a couple entries may simply link to a relevant article on an otherwise nonexclusive Dead site or a page on an exclusive Dead site the link for which can be trimmed back to the root for access to the main page and more resources therein. Certainly many will be well known to most, but you may yet find a few undiscovered gems. Enjoy!/K (sorry for the internal spacing, but in yet another flaw, these boards don't seem to recognize a hard "return" - thus, lists otherwise become a compressed mess) http://deadessays.blogspot.com http://www.gratefuldeadprojects.com http://www.darkstarpalace.com http://deadthinking.blogspot.com http://headyversion.com/ http://www.relix.com/articles/detail/whats_become_of_the_bettys http://www.deaddisc.com http://www.dharmarose.com/deadbase/dbsearch.html http://www.levity.com/orfeo/index.part1.html http://www.live-grateful-dead-music.com/free-grateful-dead-music.html http://www.gdao.org/items/show/396130 http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/ http://thoughtsonthedead.wordpress.com/ http://agitators.com/gd/dick_1972.html http://www.dicklatvala.com/notebooks.htm http://www.gdradio.net/ http://www.deadlistening.com/ http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/ http://www.andrewgeller.me/other-audio/musicologist-david-malvinni-on-t… https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

Furman Sound and its Grateful Dead roots

Read the story of how I founded pro audio company Furman Sound with a helping hand from the Grateful Dead. It all began in 1970 when I was hired by Alembic as a guitar amp tech. I was the person who modified Jerry's Twin Reverbs, and all kinds of other guitar and bass amps belonging to the Dead and other San Francisco musicians of that era. Later on, I went on the road with the Dead to do live recording, along with Betty Cantor-Jackson and Wizard (Dennis Leonard). You can find my name on the Europe 72 recordings, the Sunshine Daydream movie, and other stuff from that time. After that... well, you can read the rest at http://furmanhistory.com/ Don't worry, it's not a book-length memoir. It's only got the good stuff. You can read the whole thing in 15 minutes.

cool!

Thanks Janet Furman!!

Furman's a good story

Thanks Janet for sharing all that stuff about the beginnings of sound reinforcement and how you were involved in inventing and tweaking the various electronic gizmo's that musicians use to craft the art of music. I learned a ton about the history of sound and the Bay Area from your unique point of view and enjoyed all the details about the family way-back-when. Best wishes for all good things!

Furman Sound

Great Story Janet, successful company and time with my favorite band.Jim

TRUCKIN WITH THE DEAD - Radnomy Internet Radio

Unique mix spinning around the Music of the Grateful Dead in all its shades and incarnations along with other Jam Bands, Rock"n"Roll, Folk Rock, Electric Blues and other Music that fits into our universe. Mostly live Deadhead friendly this is NOT a "classic rock" station. No same old stuff or hairband noise anywhere. http://truckin-withthedead.playtheradio.com

Dear weirfreakin

Thank for the bobsessed list. It helps me a lot !

TipJar Mag

Just wanted to share my blog/site for anyone interested in reading about artists and subjects related to the Grateful Dead (and roots-related music in general). Feel free to contact me through the site! here's a recent interview with Steve Kimock that might be of interest: http://www.tipjarmag.com/2017/12/steve-kimock-blasts-off-satellite-city… the site home page is www.tipjarmag.com cheers!

ned lagin's spiritcats

http://spiritcats.com/ Spiritcats.com is the official website of Ned Lagin, his photography, art, writing, and music, including playing with the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia and others, his electronic music composition Seastones, and personal reflections on individual creativity, art, pictures, self portraits, erotica, and the natural history of electronic media world presence. ned has released two albums: 'cat dreams' in 2017 (http://spiritcats.com/catdreams.html) and a new 'seastones' in 2018 (http://spiritcats.com/seastones.html). both are available through the store at his web site.

cool!

I got to interview Ned Lagin once a thousand years ago. Very interesting guy. Thanks for the heads up.

Can anyone recommend any…

Can anyone recommend any European Deadhead sites?

language

Looking for Dead related sites that also support different languages. Using Google translate gives horrible results.

Song Singer List

Hello all, I'm a new GD fan and I was wondering is there a website/listing of songs where the singer is named. I know for pure Deadheads this is natural but for a newbie I get some of the other singers mixed up other than Jerry :). Thanks and sorry for the dumb question.

that's a great question!

I don't know the answer, though. Anybody?

Singer Song List

I suspect - at the very least - a latent hoarder in every Head; though in most cases it's patently obvious (the whole 'need more shows' meme is enduring because it's true!). So like any good fanatic I've stockpiled countless site links in a GoGD Favourites folder - a good 20%+ of which are probably now defunct. Actually, it's not 'countless', it's 42. I just checked. But among them I could not find (nor do I recall seeing) the isolated singer-song listing you requested.

Which doesn't mean you're out of luck. I don't listen to studio recordings (despite the obvious merit and popularity of Live/Dead, Workingmans & American Beauty), but the songs you hear in concert can - for the most part - be found with vocal credits there. Mucking about, I found the easiest way to locate this information is through the Wiki entries for each album. Start with the GD discography page and follow the studio release links to indiviual album pages where the singer(s) are identified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead#References

Anyway, here's a somewhat complete list, because - of course - a DeadHead can't have enough of those....

The Golden Road (Jerry)
Beat It On Down The Line (Bobby)
Good Morning, Little School Girl (Pigpen)
Cold Rain And Snow (Jerry)
Sittin' On Top Of The World (Jerry)
Cream Puff War (Jerry)
Morning Dew (Jerry)
New, New Minglewood Blues (Bobby)
Viola Lee Blues (Bobby & Jerry)

That's It For The Other One (Jerry & Bobby)
New Potato Caboose (Bobby)
Born Cross-Eyed (Bobby & Jerry)
Alligator (Pigpen)
Caution (Pigpen)

St. Stephen (Jerry & Bobby)
Dupree's Diamond Blues (Jerry)
Rosemary (Jerry)
Doin' That Rag (Jerry)
Mountains Of The Moon (Jerry)
China Cat Sunflower (Jerry)
What's Become Of The Baby (Jerry)
Cosmic Charlie (Jerry)

Uncle John's Band (Jerry)
High Time (Jerry)
Dire Wolf (Jerry)
New Speedway Boogie (Jerry)
Cumberland Blues (Bobby & Jerry)
Black Peter (Jerry)
Easy Wind (Pigpen)
Casey Jones (Jerry)

Box Of Rain (Phil)
Friend Of The Devil (Jerry)
Sugar Magnolia (Bobby)
Operator (Pigpen)
Candyman (Jerry)
Ripple (Jerry)
Brokedown Palace (Jerry)
Till The Morning Comes (Jerry)
Attics Of My Life (everybody)
Truckin' (Jerry & Bobby)

Bertha (Jerry)
Mama Tried (Bobby)
Big Railroad Blues (Jerry)
Playing In The Band (Bobby)
The Other One (Bobby)
Me and My Uncle (Bobby)
Big Boss Man (Pigpen)
Me and Bobby McGee (Bobby)
Johnny B. Goode (Bobby & Jerry)
Wharf Rat (Jerry)
Not Fade Away (Bobby & Jerry)
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad (Jerry)

Katie Mae (Pigpen)
Dark Hollow (Bobby)
I've Been All Around This World (Jerry)
Wake Up Little Susie (Bobby & Jerry)
Black Peter (Jerry)
Smokestack Lightnin' (Pigpen)
Hard To Handle (Pigpen)

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Jerry)
Let Me Sing Your Blues Away (Keith)
Row Jimmy (Jerry)
Stella Blue (Jerry)
Here Comes Sunshine (Jerry)
Eyes Of The World (Jerry)
Weather Report Suite (Bobby)

U.S. Blues (Jerry)
China Doll (Jerry)
Unbroken Chain (Phil)
Loose Lucy (Jerry)
Scarlet Begonias (Jerry)
Pride Of Cucamonga (Phil)
Money Money (Bobby)
Ship Of Fools (Jerry)

Help On The Way (Jerry)
Slipknot! (no vocals)
Franklin's Tower (Jerry)
King Solomon's Marbles (no vocals)
The Music Never Stopped (Bobby)
Crazy Fingers (Jerry)
Sage and Spirit (no vocals)
Blues For Allah (everybody)

Estimated Prophet (Bobby)
Dancin' In The Streets (everybody)
Passenger (Bobby & Donna)
Samson and Delilah (Bobby)
Sunrise (Donna)
Terrapin Station (Jerry)

Good Lovin' (Bobby)
France (Bobby & Donna)
Shakedown Street (Jerry)
Serengetti (no vocals)
Fire On The Mountain (Jerry)
I Need A Miracle (Bobby)
From The Heart Of Me (Donna)
Stagger Lee (Jerry)
All New Minglewood Blues (Bobby)
If I Had The World To Give (Jerry)

Alabama Getaway (Jerry)
Far From Me (Brent)
Althea (Jerry)
Feel Like A Stranger (Bobby)
Lost Sailor (Bobby)
Saint Of Circumstance (Bobby)
Antwerp's Placebo (no vocals)
Easy To Love You (Brent)
Don't Ease Me In (Jerry)

Dire Wolf (Jerry)
The Race Is On (Bobby)
Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie (Jerry)
It Must Have Been The Roses (Jerry)
Dark Hollow (Bobby)
China Doll (Jerry)
Been All Around This World (Jerry)
Monkey And The Engineer (Bobby)
Jack-A-Roe (Jerry)
Deep Elem Blues (Jerry)
Cassidy (Bobby)
To Lay Me Down (Jerry)
Rosa Lee McFall (Jery)
On The Road Again (Bobby)
Bird Song (Jerry)
Ripple (Jerry)

Touch Of Grey (Jerry)
Hell In A Bucket (Bobby)
When Push Comes To Shove (Jerry)
West L.A. Fadeaway (Jerry)
Tons Of Steel (Brent)
Throwing Stones (Bobby)
Black Muddy River (Jerry)
My Brother Esau (Bobby)

Foolish Heart (Jerry)
Just A Little Light (Brent)
Built To Last (Jerry)
Blow Away (Brent)
Victim Or The Crime (Bobby)
We Can Run (Brent)
Standing On The Moon (Jerry)
Picasso Moon (Bobby)
I Will Take You Home (Brent)

Two caveats. First, there's an ocean of cover songs not attributed here, but as you become familiar with this list, you'll also become an Ace at identifying who's doing the singing in just about every tune you hear. Second, remember that personnel changes resulted in different singers for different songs in different lineups, though this is largely isolated to Bobby taking over Pig's role with respect to the Blues-y staples. Just ask if you have any questions.

One day you'll graduate to exploring the arsenal of equipment used by the band over time, and that's a whole 'nother universe of study (guitars are a particularly fascinating area)!

EDIT: Something else you can do is search utube for vids of a song to see who's singing; again, there were some rare changes in vocalists, but for the most part you can find answers this way.

Finally, I'll be releasing a bound, stocking-stuffer edition of this post in time for the Holidays!/K

Thought some would enjoy this list

List of JGB members

http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2012/01/jerry-garcia-band-personnel-19…

Sort of Dead-related

Over at the Bill Graham Memorial Foundation, after many months of sporadic work by many folks, we have a searchable archive of (old) Fillmore, Fillmore West, and Winterland shows. We're still working on Fillmore East, and if you say, but...what about Days on the Green? you will not be the first. But in the meantime, have fun with it! https://billgrahamfoundation.org/shows/

Nice concert photos...

I was fortunate enough to have seen them ONCE. I snapped some nice shots of their 10-10-1981 show in Bremen (West) Germany. This is hopefully an effective way to share them.

I have a ticket page, an intro page and 4 pages of concert photos. (They played 4 hours, including the intermission!) The pictures can be accessed off the intro page, the second link below:

www.syntheory.com/policult/concerts/index.html

www.syntheory.com/policult/concerts/gdead/index.html

You'll find one page from a bit of a distance, and three pages from just right off front center!

Lol this cool paper model of Terrapin Station

If anyone is into model trains. Great paper HO scale model for Terrapin Station.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/836900501/terrapin-station-ho-187-scale-mo…

Wanting to start a GD Podcast

Hey all,

Wanted to start my own GD Podcast, play snippets of shows and talk about it, maybe have interviews/comments from folks that went. Does anyone know what the official policy is on this or who in the Dead organization I could talk to about that so I don't violate anything or step on anyone's toes?

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May 25, 2014 - 6:45am

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Stoki Design

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Jerry Garcia Lyric Poster

We have hand made a 24x36 Jerry Garcia poster entirely of his lyrics. Each song was carefully selected to capture the essence of the show at Son Et Lumiere Theater in Egypt. Check out our shop here! https://www.etsy.com/listing/175961772/jerry-garcia-lyric-poster-print-…
March 3, 2014 - 5:13pm

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Creative, yet subtle, designs - Dead shirts/decals

Please check out www.justexactlyright.com for creative, yet subtle, dead t shirts/decals
February 23, 2014 - 5:55pm

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Deadism

I'm creating a religion formed by the ideas expressed by the Grateful Dead in their music. Check it out! deadism.weebly.com
January 6, 2014 - 5:04pm

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Anna rRxia

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Nice try JefMSmit

I hope you get some good responses from folks out there. You certainly put your finger on a huge problem out there, among many. The problem you have here is that this site is mainly commercial in nature and deadhead oriented second. That is, unless it sells something for Rhino/Warner Brothers/Dead.net there is not going to be a lot of time put into it, if any at all. So kudos to you for seeing a need and filling a hole. It's better than me bitching that we should have the vault indexed and graded, my pet peeve.
January 6, 2014 - 10:36am

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jefmsmit

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www.shiningbest.com

I have had two problems with online Grateful Dead resources. 1.) The data is a mess, there are multiple names for the same song (i.e., IKYR vs. I Know You Rider vs. Rider). 2.) There was no way for people to mark which versions of a song are their favorite, then have those favorites aggregated to let other people see what the community thinks the best versions are. In fact, I see the "what's your favorite version of song-x?" question a lot. I tried to solve these problems by creating an open source project to solve the messy data problem. Then I built a website using that open source data to solve the "best version" problem. I'm hoping to get some community involvement and have people start marking songs as favorites. The site is www.shiningbest.com I'd love to know what you guys and gals think.
January 2, 2014 - 7:50am

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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM GRATEFUL DEAD BOOKS LLC !

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October 11, 2013 - 7:26pm

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yo

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September 7, 2013 - 10:58am

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New LIVE365 Station: DANCIN' WITH THE DEAD

Hi People, Just started a new station on LIVE365. Unique mix spinning on a Dead, Jam Band, Rock&Roll, Folk Rock, Electric Blues axis.Mostly live, Deadhead friendly, this is NOT a "classic rock" station. No Same old stuff, No hair band noise anywhere. If this sounds interesting to You just Google DANCIN' WITH THE DEAD. Enjoy the Music, Be well.
May 31, 2013 - 6:45am

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Anna rRxia

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Glad to hear about Bob

Thanks Ted
May 30, 2013 - 4:17pm

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marye

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yay!

great news!