home > features > The Dead Covers Project

Features

  • https://www.dead.net/features/news/dead-covers-project-2012
    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.

    <?php $youtubeurl = 'https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=DeadCoversProject&max-results=10&orderby=rating&time=this_month&start-index=2&v=2'; $xml = simplexml_load_file($youtubeurl) or print '

    There was a problem loading the youtube API xml

    '; $count = '1'; foreach ($xml->entry as $entry) { $media = $entry->children('https://search.yahoo.com/mrss/'); $attrs = $media->group->player->attributes(); $videourl = $attrs['url']; $attrs = $media->group->thumbnail[0]->attributes(); $imageurl = $attrs['url']; print '
    '; print '

    '; print $count++; print '

    '; print ''; print ''; print ''; print '

    '; print ''; print $entry->title; print ''; print '

    '; print '

    Watch it and "Like" it on YouTube.

    '; print '
    '; print '
    '; } ?>
    h1.page-title { display:none !important; } .videoTitle { text-align:center; margin:-24px 0 24px 0; padding:0; z-index:2; } .videoTitle a { text-decoration:none !important; } span.blueTitle { font-size:18px !important; font-weight:bold !important; color: #336699; } #videoContainer { height:580px; width:580px; background-image:url(/sites/default/files/todays-featured-video-page-back2.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; margin:0 0 18px 0; padding:0; } #videoContainer iframe { margin:226px 0 0 22px; padding:0; } #topRated { clear:both; width:100%; margin:10px 0 20px 0; } #topRated h3 { display:block; width:260px; float:left; padding:0; margin:10px 0 0 10px; } #topRated img { float:left; padding:0; margin:0; } .videoItem { clear:both; width:540px; padding:10px; margin:0 0 20px 0; background-image:url(/sites/default/files/covers-wires2.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; } #topRated p.numberPlace { font-size:36px; font-family:georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; float:left; display:block; margin:14px 10px 0 0; padding:0; width:80px; text-align:center; } #topRated p.watchLink { float:left; margin:10px 0 0 10px; padding:0; } #topRated p.watchLink a { text-decoration:none; } p.stillTime { font-size:24px !important; font-family:georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; padding:0; margin:0; } .newDivide { /* background-image:url(/sites/default/files/dead-covers-top-horiz-rule.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; */ text-align:center; padding:16px 0 0 0 !important; margin:0 0 10px 0 !important; } /*facebook comments */ .fbcommentlink, .deadnetcommentlink { cursor: pointer; display:block; padding:4px 4px 4px 16px; color:#660000; background-color:#eadfcd; width:260px; float:left; display:inline; margin:0 0 14px 0; } a.fbcommentlink:hover, a.deadnetcommentlink:hover { background-color:#821919; color:white; } .commentselected { background-color:#660000; color:white; } a.commentselected:hover { background-color:#660000; color:white; } .fbcomments { clear:both; } .hideit { display:none; }
    Comment with your Dead.net accountComment with your Facebook account
    <?php function curPageURL() { $pageURL = 'http'; if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";} $pageURL .= "://"; if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") { $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; } else { $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; } return $pageURL; } ?>
    (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=161122420573373"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
    " data-num-posts="20" data-width="500">
    $(document).ready(function() { $('a.fbcommentlink').bind('click', function() { $(".fbcomments").removeClass("hideit"); $(".comment_add").addClass("hideit"); $("#forum-comments").addClass("hideit"); $('a.fbcommentlink').addClass("commentselected"); $('a.deadnetcommentlink').removeClass("commentselected"); }); $('a.deadnetcommentlink').bind('click', function() { $(".fbcomments").addClass("hideit"); $(".comment_add").removeClass("hideit"); $("#forum-comments").removeClass("hideit"); $('a.fbcommentlink').removeClass("commentselected"); $('a.deadnetcommentlink').addClass("commentselected"); }); });
    338011

Next Article:

  • newsdefaultimage
    Grateful Dead Hour no. 1544

    Week of April 23, 2018

    Last of four featuring the complete unreleased soundboard recording of 6/12/80 in Portland. According to Deadhead legend, My St Helens erupted during "Fire on the…

    read more
    >>
  • newsdefaultimage
    The Season of “What Now?” (Again!)

    Now... Where Were We?

    Well, we’ve been pretty much right here — that is, wherever “here” might happen to be at any given moment in this strange, still-pretty-new world…

    <<
689 comments
sort by
Recent
Recent Oldest A to Z Z to A
Reset
Items displayed
  • PAPPYPGH
    12 years 3 months ago
    ziphler
    I love that last post of yours. Hell yes! Collaboration is the greatest. I love playing with new players (and look at me - I'm not at all hurt that you posted one of leafcutters vids but not one of mine...hahahahaha)!!!I am looking forward to my boss leaving so I can check out that 30 minute jam you put up! I play a party every year that is a gathering of musicians & a bunch of our friends. It's rather small - only about 200 or so show up every year (and that's the way we like it). But it's a weekend of musical exploration. Each of our bands play, and there are several long jams with much crossover. Lots of GD tunes, original songs & other psychedelia. :0) I wish I had the equipment to start, or add to, a jam where one records 10 minutes or so of jamming, then mails it onto the next person and they lay a track on top of it, etc.... Could be killer.
  • ziphler
    12 years 3 months ago
    so then let's look dead ahead
    leafcuttermultimedia, I like the way you think and thanks for jarring my memory about Birdhouse. They brought tears to my eyes in the best Here Comes Sunshine ever and a perfectly executed video. Now if only I could find this jam band that was playing on one of those mystic hot springs videos. They totally smoked, touched down on cumberland blues briefly then were off on intense jams. When I first visited this project ready to upload samplings from a few bands I've been in and others I'm just filming they were the first video I encountered. Once I heard them I dropped all pretense and delusion that any of my entries would place and humility is a good thing cause it allows one to stand for whats right without personal agenda. PAPPYPGH, 9 likes is better than anything I put up got but each video did garner one or two comments that were really nice and like you they made me feel pretty good. I'm listening to leafcuttermultimedia's dark star now and am impressed. everyone, check it out: You and PAPPYPGH are about 20 years yonger than me. My decade with the dead was the 70's. I probably only saw them 10 to 20 times in the eighties and maybe 5 times in the 90's but they nevertheless completely altered the trajectory of my life. I studied Phil lesh in detail and was a technical guy so I understood what he and alembic were going for and am amazed that to this day few emulate his style even though he and alembic invented the modern bass guitar that all bass players play. I also learned to play blues, a place Lesh, oddly, never really went to.This is my entry like your dark star an out of the box jam that makes it way to part of truckin and a lame bossman but thist guitarist I had the honor of playing with still brings chills to my spine 32 years later, you'll need 30 minutes to listen to it though: This project has the potential to bring deadhead musicians together for a collaboration big enought to spark an era that would make the dead's run look like a rehearsal. I totally agree it's not about the whining about what was, but what this could be. I don't want to race birdcage I wanna play with them or spomehow see all of us pitch in to create an ongoing event as reliable as a deadshow was to provide a really good time cause I don't know about you guys but I miss those shows. I don't much feel like waiting til dead.net's clock says quarter to february
  • Default Avatar
    DerekWoodz
    12 years 3 months ago
    DEAD COVERS PROJECT
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAREHwKPJdw&feature=related WOODZ BAND Featuring: TIM WOODS - performing FRANKLIN'S TOWER/ DEEP ELEM BLUES. @The Wicked Googly. LIGONIER, PENNSYLVANIA FEATURING: TIM WOODS 07-02-11.
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

15 years 2 months
Submitted by lilgoldie on

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.

There was a problem loading the youtube API xml

'; $count = '1'; foreach ($xml->entry as $entry) { $media = $entry->children('https://search.yahoo.com/mrss/'); $attrs = $media->group->player->attributes(); $videourl = $attrs['url']; $attrs = $media->group->thumbnail[0]->attributes(); $imageurl = $attrs['url']; print '
'; print '

'; print $count++; print '

'; print ''; print ''; print ''; print '

'; print ''; print $entry->title; print ''; print '

'; print '

Watch it and "Like" it on YouTube.

'; print '
'; print '
'; } ?>
Comment with your Dead.net accountComment with your Facebook account
" data-num-posts="20" data-width="500">
Display on homepage featured list
Off
Custom Teaser

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.

Feature type
News
Tags
The Dead Covers Project

dead comment

user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 11 months

Submitted by Hal_M on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 14:28

Permalink

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"
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

16 years 11 months

Submitted by Hal_M on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 16:25

Permalink

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.
user picture

Member for

14 years

Submitted by acornaxe on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 20:27

Permalink

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".
user picture

Member for

14 years

Submitted by acornaxe on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 20:35

Permalink

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".
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

12 years 5 months

Submitted by shrams23 on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 22:36

Permalink

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
user picture

Member for

17 years

Submitted by GRTUD on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 03:06

Permalink

Can't wait to see the entries ... Something to look forward to for sure.
user picture

Member for

12 years 5 months

Submitted by HoHW on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 09:43

Permalink

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
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

12 years 5 months

Submitted by Hyryder on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 15:15

Permalink

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
user picture

Member for

12 years 7 months

Submitted by rattlesnakejones on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 15:58

Permalink

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......
user picture

Member for

12 years 6 months

Submitted by ziphler on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 15:20

Permalink

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
user picture

Member for

12 years 5 months

Submitted by Doctor T on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:32

Permalink

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
user picture

Member for

15 years 8 months

Submitted by Canyon Critter on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:01

Permalink

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
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

12 years 5 months

Submitted by unclejohnthezef on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 04:11

Permalink

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
user picture

Member for

12 years 5 months

Submitted by KindredSpiritRocksNJ on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:01

Permalink

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!