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October 17, 2018 - 1:07pm

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marye

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So glad you made it... Welcome to the updated Dead.net! If you've been around for a while, you should find your familiar haunts much as you left them, though some of them may be in slightly different locations.
If you're joining us for the first time, we're delighted to see you! We invite you to just poke around and make yourselves at home.
A few possibilities:
-Tape trading (digital and otherwise)
- In Search Of (tickets! stuff! music! etc.!)
- The Ride Board (useful touring resource)
- All About My Band (the one you're playing in)
If you need a bit of navigational assistance, post here or send me (marye) a PM and we'll try to help!

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November 15, 2021 - 12:00pm

#51

funtimejokes

Joined:
November 15, 2021

Hello Everyone

I am new here, hope all is doing good in this website
October 6, 2021 - 5:10pm

#52

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
October 20, 2015

Welcome Hipnosis

The comments pages for the current releases are where there is ongoing discussions and stories from the past.

If you click on your account photo on the top of the page the drop down menu will show ‘recent posts’ and you can click on that.
October 6, 2021 - 2:21pm

#53

Hipnosis

Joined:
October 6, 2021

New here

I just signed up here and wanted to tell you my story with the Grateful Dead. I am 56 and consider myself a pretty sophisticated listener of rock music, but I admit I never really listened to a lot of the Grateful Dead. Recently I got hold of a lot of their catalog and am loving it. I do prefer the early albums, they sound unrehearsed, off the cuff and simplistically produced, but it gives them so much charm. The albums in the late 70's seem over produced to me... too slick and missing the raw charm. I now know why these guys were so revered in concert. I just listened to Dead Set and was stunned at how good it, and they are live. Astounding really. So far ahead of so many bands. The heartfelt vocals are so damn good. Truly an eye opening experience for me. I took me too long to get here. All the best.
October 5, 2021 - 7:35am

#54

ejones90

Joined:
September 19, 2021

MAGA and the Dead

No. Just no.
October 4, 2021 - 12:05pm

#55

DrEnuf67

Joined:
October 4, 2021

Grateful DeadCats

holy moly the podcast is amazing... so many things right with the way the people run the dead now.. the vinyl releases.. the amazing podcast... thank you!!
September 18, 2021 - 11:10am

#56

frankenfangs

Joined:
September 18, 2021

response to another comment in this thread about MAGA deadheads

unfortunately, bands with as big a cult following as the dead can garner a wide variety of people in their fanbase, and the trump crew is not exempt. most every deadhead i know is vehemently against fascism, many of them outright anarchists or at the very least socdems. i wouldn't let the trumpists represent the dead just because they have big numbers in the community. jerry did not stand for fascism, racism, or bigotry in any form, and he absolutely would not want his music being used to support that ideology.
June 25, 2021 - 12:17pm

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UncleJohnH

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November 19, 2011

Skull and Roses 50th Anniversary remaster out today!

Exciting to hear this music in brilliantly remastered form, not to mention 7/2/71! One comment, all the original live tracks on the new release show Fillmore East. I believe three are from Manhattan Center and one from Winterland?
June 7, 2021 - 8:47pm

#58

Northbound Phi…

Joined:
June 29, 2012

Dead and co. recklessly supporting experimental deadly vaccinei

It is absolutely outrageous that Dead and Company would push the covid vaccine on its fans. The vaccine has killed 10s of 1000s of people, is experimental and untested, is not a real vaccine and u have a much greater chance of dying from the vaccine than from covid. It is outrageous and reckless and will kill deadheads. U r not doctors or scientists. Watch this video and wake up and immediately remove any vaccine policy to see ur shows and save lives:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/f3nIQpXY80tv/
April 30, 2021 - 9:00am

#59

g-mane

Joined:
April 30, 2021

Howdy

Greetings all, I sent in my postcard in 1971 after buying a copy of Skullfuck, and now here I am! We need to keep the weird alive, while we’re alive, happy to see there’s still lotsa freaks out there!
April 25, 2021 - 11:04am

#60

craftbrewhikah

Joined:
April 25, 2021

Hello from MD!

Hey everyone, I'm G. Originally from MA, I currently live in MD; retiring from the military this coming September and moving back to New England. Great site and community here! I've been listening to GD 30 years of my 39 on Earth and love it! Cheers and happy Sunday funday!

John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow

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About the New Site

So glad you made it... Welcome to the updated Dead.net! If you've been around for a while, you should find your familiar haunts much as you left them, though some of them may be in slightly different locations.
If you're joining us for the first time, we're delighted to see you! We invite you to just poke around and make yourselves at home.
A few possibilities:
-Tape trading (digital and otherwise)
- In Search Of (tickets! stuff! music! etc.!)
- The Ride Board (useful touring resource)
- All About My Band (the one you're playing in)
If you need a bit of navigational assistance, post here or send me (marye) a PM and we'll try to help!

Hi folks!

Welcome back. Glad you're here.

New site looks great Marye!!!

Nice job!! bob t

It is the work of many fine folks!

Also we're still working on a few things that aren't quite right yet, so if you run into one of them feel free to PM me, or post, or whatever works!

Log out

How do I log out? I’m on an iPhone btw. Am I just old and in the way?

Marye

So grateful you're here. The new format feels good, clean, lots of bright. i like:)

well not exactly

but if my iphone is any indication, that black bar at the top is obscuring your avatar and its nice menu with Log Out on it. I will report this to the tech folks. Anyway, glad you're here.

I'm old and fear change

But the new site is alright with me.

It seems like its easier to get to some of the "other" sections, but not as quick to get to the latest release thread. Which is okay, it might spread out the traffic a little. Those threads could get unwieldy very quickly.

Test

I just wanted to see how replys get formatted.
Thx for the welcome and support marye.

Is this thing working? Is…

Is this thing working?
Is this thing on?
(Todd Snider)

My browser still says “Website Not Secure”

Glad some things never change.......

Eric, I think I have a better answer

Since the issue I described seems to be unlikely to be affecting you: If you can see and tap/click/press/whatever your avatar up there on the upper right, it will reveal a menu that includes Logout. Also the ever-popular Recent Posts. Let me know if this works okay for you. Thanks!

My Shows

Did they remove the My Shows part of my account of the new redesign? If not, where would I find them now, & if so, whyyyyy???

My Shows

hit a bit of a snag in the transition. The intrepid tech team is working on it. It may be some days before this gets fixed, but we're on the case, honest. Yeah, the golden road is bumpy sometimes... Thanks for the heads up, and bear with us!

Hello

Hello everyone, I'm new member.

Greetings and Salutations

and see you here or there.

Site looks nice, btw.

how come my avatar changed?

Are you all Dodgers fans or what?

Thx for getting back to me…

Thx for getting back to me and good luck sorting it out! It was just nice to see them all listed there :)

Hey, MaryE (reposted from DaP28 page)

My problems

1) Last night my password wouldn't work. to log in I had to request I new one (account info was remembered by the system).
To comment today I again had to request a new password after my new password wasn't recognized.

2) Wanted to post about this from IceCreamKid:
"After posting that last comment I was sent to page 6 of this message board. Why wasn’t I sent to the most recent post of this page?
And another... Those navigation numbers on the bottom of the page First......1,2,3......Last Put a copy of those on the top of the page too so that you don’t have to scroll to the bottom of the page just to move to another page."

That experience happened to me too (at first, thought my comment had not posted, then saw the page number) and his request is one I firmly second. If you have comments appearing newest first, scrolling to the bottom the page to change pages is annoying and there should be the same page list/links available above the comments as there is below.

Hope that my password problem goes away. Hope the vast fields of white do get filled in with something interesting but not distracting or obfuscatory.

The site did seem to need an overhaul. Hopefully, this overhaul will be beneficial. Thanks for trying, GDM crew.
(And when I posted this to the DaP page, I was bounced to page 6 again...)

thank you all!

We will get by!

Thanks Mary for all of your…

Thanks Mary for all of your patience, help and therapy!!! I know websites must stay current with trends and technology. I like the general direction the new site seems to be heading in, but will wait for pats-on-the-back at this point. Here are some things I've noticed.

[Viewing Via Chrome (Version 69.0.3497.100) on MacBook Pro/High Sierra v. 10.13.6]

GENERAL
1. Dim the background or add cool, subtle background so the new site does not continue causing headaches and/or blindness.
2. Seems like every time you do anything, you have to re-take the reCaptcha exam. Is this necessary?

MESSAGES
1. The personal message board takes a very long time to download compared to other locations on the new site..
2. There is no “PM member” button with poster’s avatar/comment, or on their member info page, or anywhere else I can see.
3. Doesn't look like you can "Preview" messages created on .../private_messages/ before sending. I'm only seeing a "Save" button.
4. PM’s seem to get posted to the wrong “Subject” thread, even if you re-enter the intended subject in the subject field. (Maybe they go to the first thread between the participants… or maybe by alphabet?)

COMMENTS PAGES
1. Indicate newly posted comments with “NEW”. This was a very helpful feature in the website’s previous incarnation.
2. Allow more comments per page - previously you could select how many comments were displayed per page.

Thanks again for the therapy!

Thank you Mr. Jeff

this is very helpful.

Marye

The drop down menu next to the avatar does not appear when using an iPad.

Thanks for spending your Sunday doing IT work.

3 days, 3 password problems

For the third day my password needed resetting to get me in.
The request email to reset password system works GREAT. Sends message instantly and the process is painless, but annoying. All in all, this is NOT a terrible problem for me and quite manageable.
Am logging in via a macBook, OS10.6.8 using FireFox 48.02. Did not have this problem before the site upgrade.

My avatar pic and account info all survived the upgrade fine and the password reset system leads me straight to my account. It is just the log in password recognition that has gone hinky.
My password choices are registered as "weak" by the evaluation system, but the "changes (are) recorded".

Thanks, Seth

I've passed this on.

Checking out new layout

Looks like my account is intact. Are discussions about new product on the product order pages now gone permanantly?

glitch?

I've been poking around...in the show archive section, if you key in a year, the screen returns with shows from that year. but if you try to page forward in the event the show you're looking for is not on the first page, the screen reverts back to 1965 shows. It didn't happen each time, but something like 4 out of 5 times this happened.
Searching by venue didn't seem to work at all.

EDIT: seems to be corrected now...thanks

also...your GOTCHA is incredibly aggressive

thanks folks

passing this on also

Spacebro et al, good news re the old Store threads

They are all here: https://www.dead.net/forum/72336 There's actually a lot of good thought behind this, because it was often the case that something would sell out or otherwise become unavailable, but wait, there's this huge conversation attached, we can't just remove it... This way, we avoid causing further distress to people trying to order something that's been out of stock since 2011, and the conversations are in a nice safe place where folks can go right on conversing. So please do!

New Site

I'm with those that say the new site sucks! I definitely don't like the white background, and in my opinion the text is too small. Or are you throwing us older Heads in the trash?

102

This is definitely not a one-size-fits-all issue, but I (being old) find it helpful to use the Zoom In or equivalent in the browser's View menu, which makes things bigger. And also reduces whitespace. fwiw.

Account Editing not working

Been trying to Edit my account picture, but will not save .... site needs a bit more work

This is an improvement? Don…

This is an improvement? Don't fix what ain't broke………….

I like it!

The old site was tired. :)

Login

Every time I try and login it doesn't work. I have to reset my password every time. I have to go into the link in my email. Why won't it remember my password? I've tried on my phone and computer. It does the same thing on both.

GD Hour

Can you listen to archived Grateful Dead Hours?

Little Help please

Hi Marye...

Where do you find a Dave's pick where you can go to that particular pick and see Dave's chat, Music samples, and peoples comments. Then you click on it in the store and it just says sold out.

Welcome back

Great to see you back online. Looking forward to exploring the new features and links. Much love and peace to all of you at Dead.net. Keep the fires burning. - PK

Nice to see the new site!!

Will have to work on figuring out how to navigate! Nice to be here though and know the community is still alive and well.

same here OUTPOST

What's the deal? I would like to change mine from the one I've been "assigned". Help!

Kevin

The discussion threads from the product pages moved here: http://www.dead.net/forum/72336 The reasoning behind this was finding a way to keep the discussions available and live even after the product was sold out. I'll see what I can find out about the Dave clips etc.