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    The Dead Covers Project

    What a wonderful month it's been, sharing our love of the Grateful Dead through song and video! We applaud all the hard work and effort that you, the fans, put into the DEAD COVERS PROJECT, and we hope you'll continue to watch and support all the amazing participant videos on YouTube until we fire up the DEAD COVERS PROJECT again next February.

    Throughout the month of April, we'll be shining our lovelight on a handful of artists that really made the grade. You'll get to know each of these five artists and find out just what made them connect with the Dead in our exclusive DEAD COVERS PROJECT profiles, but for now we'd simply like to congratulate the following participants (in no particular order)...

    Now Playing In The Band...

    The project may be over for 2012, but you can continue to check out some of the "Top Rated" videos that were submitted and "Like" them here.

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  • ziphler
    12 years 9 months ago
    Campaign to make DeadCoversProject a project not a pagent
    There is a statistic in youtube's stat's that would be ideal for ranking entries. You can access it from the video's page just below the video on the right The button is a bar graph. It shows a timeline and lists events on that timeline including in this case "the first referral from dead.net" and indicates the total number of views that came from here. This would be a very difficult system to game and there are many ways your website could access that number from youtube. You could also generate that number yourself by tracking outgoing links but you'd have to make sure you separate repeat viewers from new although repeat viewers is an important stat and needs to be measured with same day repeats thrown out. I have a degree in biostatistics (don't ask me why) and there are a million reasons why views is a better measure than likes and why views thru your portal are better than total views for your purposes. Just another 2 cents in my campaign to drop the annual contest and make this site an ongoing, highly functional project. For deadheads who are musicians, sound engineers, and videographers this site is a gift from Jerry himself (a jerrysend) but the annual beauty pagent is the anti-jerry to overuse a metaphor. The site brings us together, provides a platform and an audience, and if modified to a continuous rather than annual timeframe, doesn't make us have to wear watches. Have you ever seen those studies where they take deadheads and make them wear watches. One of the cruelest experiments conducted in our lifetimes - very disturbing as you can well imagine. ziph
  • deadheadland
    12 years 9 months ago
    good job everyone!
    really happy to see two of my favorites in the winners! I have been seeing Cubensis since around 1990, and cannot think of a band more deserving. They earned it, through 25 years of playing LIVE DEAD in their own unique way, several nights a week. Crag Marshall recieved Jerry's blessing to play the Dead's music - Jerry told him to do a good job of it! Larry Ryan holds down the bass bottom so solidly grooving, Steve Harris and Ed Fletcher drumming their hearts out (Steve sings good too!) - awesome keyboardist Tom Ryan (who has also toured with DSO) makes Brent songs his own. Nate LaPointe is unsurpassed at acing rhythm quitar, and leading it beyond... and the lovely Cece Sherman - newest member of the band, her voice is so gorgeous. makes all of us cry sometimes, (and she can play strings rather beautifully too!).... GO TEAM QB!!! And Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers - what canIi say? I am blessed every time I get to hear Nicki sing, and Deren Ney's guitar is a gift to all of us... listen to him solo, beautiful every time. Go see this band live! (by the way, they are not a Dead Cover band, they do mostly originals, with a wide variety of covers). Maybe we can hear Nicki Bluhm and Cece Sherman doing a duet someday? (~);}
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    jojo2275
    12 years 9 months ago
    Getting Liked
    Good post Ziph, It seems a little harsh to have to rely on the video getting 'liked' to have it recognized, also. I am pleased they will do it again next year. Perhaps I'll have time to learn how to play a decent solo!
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What a wonderful month it's been, sharing our love of the Grateful Dead through song and video! We applaud all the hard work and effort that you, the fans, put into the DEAD COVERS PROJECT, and we hope you'll continue to watch and support all the amazing participant videos on YouTube until we fire up the DEAD COVERS PROJECT again next February.

Throughout the month of April, we'll be shining our lovelight on a handful of artists that really made the grade. You'll get to know each of these five artists and find out just what made them connect with the Dead in our exclusive DEAD COVERS PROJECT profiles, but for now we'd simply like to congratulate the following participants (in no particular order)...

Now Playing In The Band...

The project may be over for 2012, but you can continue to check out some of the "Top Rated" videos that were submitted and "Like" them here.

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Local L.A. band DOG GONE has covered a number of Dead tunes. The core of the band has always been Daniel Raznick and Hal Masonberg on lead guitar and rhythm guitar respectively. I've posted some of our Dead covers up on Youtube. Since each incarnation of the band has a somewhat different sound, I've posted a couple of versions of our EYES OF THE WORLD-> BIRD SONG as they are, truly, two different animals. Plus, one is video of us live, while the other is also from a live gig, but the image is some fun psychedelic imagery to accompany the sounds. Same with the SCARLET BEGONIAS. Some of our faves. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQViNTWvR40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P_ityqosfo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6lW4cnraNo All have been tagged on youtube as “DeadCoversProject"
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Since the Dead covered this Dylan tune AND released a live cut of it (Postcards from the Hanging), I guess that means it falls under the general rules of "either written by or recorded by the Dead." At least I hope it does :) Here's DOG GONE's version of SHE BELONGS TO ME.
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I think it's appropriate, and perhaps even long overdue. Given the difficulty of finding people who can play Grateful Dead songs at all, other than campfire versions of simpler things. Since living in or near a city is almost a pre-requisite for playing any kind of rock, let alone alternative music, it's gonna be a mighty hard row to hoe for me, but it doesn't say specifically you have to have a band. I spent from January through July trying to put a group together, all to no avail, so someone will have to suffer through, however briefly, my solo attempts, because this is TOO FREAKIN' GOOD to pass up. Having said that out loud, i will now of course find myself working overtime through the next Further tour. Everybody that can play - get out and do this - it'll be Go-o-od for you! "Althea told me, now cool down, boy, settle back, easy - Jim".
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I think it's appropriate, and perhaps even long overdue. Given the difficulty of finding people who can play Grateful Dead songs at all, other than campfire versions of simpler things. Since living in or near a city is almost a pre-requisite for playing any kind of rock, let alone alternative music, it's gonna be a mighty hard row to hoe for me, but it doesn't say specifically you have to have a band. I spent from January through July trying to put a group together, out here in the California gold country foothills, all to no avail, so someone will have to suffer through, however briefly, my solo attempts, because this is TOO FREAKIN' GOOD to pass up. Having said that out loud, I will now of course find myself working overtime through the next Further tour. Everybody that can play - get out and do this - it'll be Go-o-od for you! "Althea told me, now cool down, boy, settle back, easy - Jim".
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Man, sorry about all the repeat posts. I kept getting a gateway error message and I assumed they didn't submit. Hope it doesn't deter anyone from checking out the vids.Peace
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Can't wait to see the entries ... Something to look forward to for sure.
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Dead Covers is an excellent idea! Thanks to all involved for such a cool idea. check out the submissions for the Hell or High Water Band
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This is my band Hyryder from Indianapolis and a complete set from July of this year at the Jerry birthday show. Setlist: China>Rider, Cumberland Blues, To Lay Me Down, U.S. Blues> Not Fade Away, He's Gone, Touch of Grey, My Sisters and Brothers. This is part of first set. Setlist: Ain't No Bread in the Breadbox, Brown Eyed Women, Candyman, The Way You Do The Things You Do, Loser, Tough Mama
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Deal has always been an important song to me. The day Jerry died I was on vacation in Hawaii. I was in a Van on my way to go parasailing and the driver was listening to the radio. The song playing on the radio was "Deal" i thought to myself "wow what a cool radio station" But after the song ended the dj came on to share the news of Jerry's passing. The station was playing all Dead, all day as a tribute, but Deal has always stuck out as the last Dead song I heard before I heard the tragic news that changed everything forever......
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so far not much is showing up at www.youtube.com/gratefuldead but if you search youtube for DeadCoversProject it returns 25 pages of results - since my video only shows up in the latter I'm hoping you guys are aware of all the other entries and it would be nice if you let everyone see em all. thanks for doing this
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As a video artist, I'd love to see a parallel project in which video artists were invited to make videos using music from their favorite Dead, Furthur, Phil, Ratdog performances
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Love the Videos and I hope you all figured out how to embed by now....Everyone learned well....except for the part about the dimensions....only thing you have to do (and you can edit your comments if you need to) is change the dimensions of the width......you should have no greater than 400 for the Width! Whatever the number says in the embed code you should change it to 400 or less. I think I answered everyone who wanted to know how to embed, but if not you can always PM or email me. Anyway.....I've got some things looking good coming up it looks like for this contest, can't wait. Looks Like Furthur is playing with The Allman Brothers at Wanee Music Festival in 2012 (wohoooooo!) So here's a teaser I did for the kids in 2011 down at the Suwanee River to get exctied. And the portrait of the famous Calveras County Festival 2010 ~Furthur Fest Can't wait to get to work on these actual band videos! I'm looking forward to it. ~Critter
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here are my kids singing birdsong right after amy winehouse died (i thought of jerry on the train saying "Janis, i have always loved you") our favorite bakery out in the country has an awesome open mic every sunday
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Kindred Spirit Rocks-One More Saturday Nighthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRw_z783TTs We had a lot of fun putting together the video version of our "live in concert" recording of One More Saturday Night- we played last July at the annual Lawrenceville NJ Fireworks concert for 5000+ people, Recorded our whole 3 hour show in 16 track soundboard quality sound. We hope you'll enjoy the imagery and sound on this! Come out and see us when you are in NJ!