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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)...

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    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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    Just a lil' promotion here...
    Please check out my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/weingrad NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT, 3/31. I'll be posting a link to a LIVE STREAM of our little band, theCAUSE playing ALL NIGHT LONG with the incredible STEVE KIMOCK. We do this benefit concert for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank every year with local guests, but this year we've lucked out and Mr. Kimock will be jamming all night with us. I couldn't be more thrilled. So click in - hope you enjoy! Pappy www.theCAUSEjams.com www.kimock.com www.pittsburghfoodbank.org FOR TICKETS (if you wanna go - or just DONATE)... http://www.pittsburghfoodbank.org/Details.aspx?RecId=127&type=calendar
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    I know I wrote all this in a dream before. Damn. Beautious in Maine today, grabbin a cold one outa the sun and writing a note real quick... Ziphler, your 79 jam truckin jam big boss is stellar. great Phil style bass for sure. I think his style is appreciated and incorporated more than you might think into tons of stuff...also tone, sound quality, instrument design, etc. Various local people I know, but also many "jam band" bassists take a lot from him. 5 or 6 strings and a pick is just the beginning. I think Mike Gordon would be the first to admit he is heavily influenced by Phil. Of course I love Stanley Clark, Jaco and Ron Carter, himself, but Mike is a giant, and Phil is right up there in terms of everything bass in the grand scheme of things. Phil's been blowing my mind for years, but Furthur Portland last fall was really amazing from the floor fairly close to the stage. My whole life has been connected thru shows at that place, starting with Portland 83, the greatest first set ever. Note, Keith, the bassist in our Darkstar posted only saw Portland 83. That's what happened to him. Puddle of liquids, and he's now like a small child (loves spongebob, totally hilarious - and he's a virtuoistic bass player who can't read a note of written music.) Ok ok ok. Some tangents. Your 79 jam had incredible clean, psychedelic bluesy guitar for sure. Many chills up the spine for sure. I think it's clean and modern ( 79 clean and modern at least - before rap even existed....ahh the world was perhaps a better place....) Pappy, great solo Reuben. Very nice vocals and guitar. Your band doing Loose Lucy is fantastic. Totally smokin!!! He's Gone by infamous string dusters is as good as it gets. A song worthy of such a great band and rendition. very cool black and white cabin video shoot. What's become of the Baby by Gelatinous Cube is intense. That's what I'm talking about. This is the most "out there" completely psychedelic piece of music and video I've seen on or near Dead Covers Project. Of course that tune is more related to Relics or Umma Gumma or some shit like that than San Fran 60's and 70's psychedelic rock, and one needs to be in a certain mood to "appreciate" the lyric sections - very weird dissonant music... but the synthesizer build/jam/video out of the lyrics is incredible. Outside the box. Yeah, it's kind of low quality, kind of low budget, but it's phenomenal. I checked a bunch of other stuff by them. I love Orb, Floyd and quality ambient techno, so I'm into it. refreshingly long, drawn out, weird, non commercial and psychedelic. Jamtronica for sure. Everyone should check out OK GO stuff. Currently my favorite artists of all time, beyond Salvadore Dali himself, or even Wayne Newton. Dial in This Too Shall Pass on you tube. The one with 35 million hits. Greatest piece of art ever. Yeah, simple pop music on all there stuff, but appropriate for what they do. The time, skill and creativity that goes into their videos is remarkable, but there is a grass roots, homegrown flavor to it. Just makes you feel good about humanity and the Universe. Like some things are going right... peace-
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    NotDeadYetBand
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    Ottawa Ontario Dead cover band Not Dead Yet - upcoming shows
    Hi All, Not Dead Yet will be playing many shows around Ottawa this year, we have just announced 5 shows for May and June. Details and sample tracks on our myspace page: www.myspace.com/not-dead-yet We hope all local deadheads will learn about us and support our efforts to keep this great music alive. Unfortunately Grateful Dead music is not very well known in Canada, and gets very little airplay. We were rewarded at a recent show by some young adults who had never heard of the Dead and were totally awed by the music. We've heard similar stories many times, young people who at first listen aren't very interested but get turned on to it at a live event, and learn what we all knew, there is nothing like a Grateful Dead concert! (or a Furthur show, since the GD ship has sailed) Anyway, please help us get the word out and support Grateful Dead music in Ottawa. Thanks!
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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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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.

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Submitted by PAPPYPGH on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 13:16

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theCAUSE with Jill Paone Simmons on lead vocals and guests, Andrea Pearl on vocals & Patti Spadaro on guitar. Performed live in Potter County, July 2011.
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Submitted by nicolisp on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 16:02

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This is me doing a take on Bertha. Although I may look like I am overly-serious, I'm actually quite happy. I just get that look when I'm in the zone. Peace.
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Submitted by jonwiner on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 21:11

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Whew, I really like theCause playing Sittin' On Top of the World! What a great feel... I submitted a video of my one-day-a-year MusicFest Band playing All Along the Watchtower from 2009, with the tag "DeadCoversProject", but it has not shown up on the site-- not sure why. Here it is, if you care to take a look... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTvocNic3bA Enjoy!
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Submitted by earlbny on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 08:30

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Great thread and lots of great videos. I wish I was as talanted. One of my favorite bands other then the Dead is the Brooklyn band Yarn. Here is there contribution to the Dead covers project. This video has a nice Electric Mandolin solo. Yarn plays Dead - Sugaree - Floydfest X - DeadCoversProject http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcma6bnTTYI
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Submitted by chuckpuckett on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 10:28

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Instructions say to just add the tag DeadCoversProject to the video. And then it magically shows up in the Dead Covers Project? But where?
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Submitted by guit30 on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 16:09

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Nice playin', great tone, using any pedals? Jim
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Submitted by 8Limbs on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 03:46

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I used a Boss Loop Station and a few other tools during the instrumental sections. The loops were not pre-recorded; they were recorded live on the fly.
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Submitted by Canyon Critter on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 23:14

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Hella Cool Brother...Really enjoyed that....you are what we call in the "ear" world of music...ROCKIN. Find yourself a band brother, you will go far....just take a little step back and be humble. Right on! Keep rockin DeadFolk! ~Critter
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Submitted by Canyon Critter on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 23:20

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Ok, I've been asked a few times (ok like 12 already, but hey I love Deadheads) on how to embed a video, and unfortunately, most people don't take the time to copy and paste these days.....so if you want your video to be seen on this thread you must do this.....as I've wrote 12 kind folk on this site so far..... Hey now Dead.Net, Hope you have a grateful day....I'm just gonna paste what I've wrote others to help you out. You need to go to the youtube/vimeo/etc video you want and right click and pick Copy Embed html. Something like that....what you need to do is right click on the "you tube" video and click copy embed html. it should look like this....I took out a few things so you could actually see what it is. object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9FaFvhiWOOk?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true">param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9FaFvhiWOOk?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360" I took out the symbols that make it embed but you can see those if you right click and copy and paste the html embed code. One thing you have to change is the width of the project or movie, they have it set at 640 and the biggest you can go is 400 on this site.....Hope that helps. THIS IS KEY! So in essence you all have enough videos on here, just don't paste the URL...paste the EMBED CODE with the changes of width from 640 (or something like that) to 400!!!! EJOYA. Love is real. ~Critter
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Submitted by 8Limbs on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 04:07

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Critter,thanks for the kind words and thanks for the tip on changing the width on the embed code to 400. I couldn't figure that out for anything. Now that I've posted my song I can't wait to hop on the other links and check out everybody else's music. What a great website!!!
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Submitted by jeffmal on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 09:56

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Here's my wife and my take on Stella Blue: and Cassidy:
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Submitted by 8Limbs on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 16:05

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Man, you guys sound great together! Well done.
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Submitted by jonwiner on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 14:23

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Turn up your Volume Control (recording level is low)... Critter, Thanks for posting the embed instructions again... Okay, now it is up on the Dead Covers Project site as well... Whew! Jon
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Submitted by Mjula on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 12:49

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http://youtu.be/02l0o041GQM - Jack-A-Roe http://youtu.be/5l_wMF7slyY - Golden Road/Dark Star http://youtu.be/FQ0wnXJLrN4 - Drums Forgotten Space - Dallas Texas - http://www.forgottenspace.net BOB MCCONVILLE - Bass, Vocal JERRY SARACINI - Drums KENNY WITHROW - Guitar, Vocal PABLO RUSSELL - Drums, Vocal SCOTT PROSSER - Guitar, Vocal WILL HODGES - Keyboards, Vocal
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Submitted by Chuck2E on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 12:38

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I fixed the embed width so it displays properly ... have a grateful day ;)
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Submitted by leedesj on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 08:43

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Peggy O by Blue Line Highway from Richmond VA at Rapunzel's Books and Coffee, Lovingston VA 1/14/12 video shot and produced by Doug Bade ....more to come
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Submitted by chuckpuckett on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 08:13

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Here's one of our band (Bimini Road) doing our original tune Hopefully Paranoia, which is kinda insect fearful all by itself, and in the playoff, we do the noodle thing (what we call "psycho jive music") and eventually get to what I think is a pretty doggone cool version of The Other One. Which is itself bifurcated, the space between the two verses has *another* jam that turns into a reel (we called it Jigger Dee), then finally back to finish up the Other One.You won't see many acoustic versions of The Other One, but you will here. :) Hope you enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhZ1o5RwIqQ
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Submitted by chuckpuckett on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 07:10

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Bimini Road performs the Grateful Dead classics, "Ripple", segueing into "Brokedown Palace". This was the set closer, recorded at Berkeley Bob's Coffee House in Cullman, Alabama in February 16, 2009. There's a sweetness in this rendition, I think. A bit of sincerity that tries to atone for the fact that while we're not perfect, we do sing and play from the heart.
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Submitted by chuckpuckett on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 07:54

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Bimini Road plays their tune, "Train o'Time" which segues into "Touch of Gray", and hence to "Scarlet Begonias", finally circling back to Train o'Time". Recorded at Berkeley Bob's Coffee House in Cullman, Alabama in February, 2009. A bit of enthusiastic psycho-jive music. We'd not done TOG before this (and that shows a little :), but I knew the folks in the crowd would love the attempt.
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Submitted by Kitty Kindbud on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 09:37

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Please consider The Kind Buds in the Dead Covers Project! Bud & Budd, an acoustic duo, perform Deal with a few raucous, wide-open jams at this show in Warwick, NY. (especially the last two minutes) Find a lot of other "The Kind Buds" videos on youtube
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Submitted by Jed Luckless on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 13:49

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Hey heads! What a great event! So much fantastic Dead music being played out here. I've put together a playlist of my DeadCoversProject entries....various tunes from various shows. Enjoy :) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9A3DB2BF7C8913FD&feature=view_all Jed Luckless is a New York area original musician, inspired by the Grateful Dead, Phish and other improvisational rock bands. Known as "Jammin Jed" to fans, he streams live performances on the internet at jedluckless.tv, from his studio overlooking the Hudson River. Jed also plays live shows in the NY area and streams from local venues whenever possible. Additional information and schedule available at www.jedluckless.com.
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Submitted by Jed Luckless on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 14:02

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Hey hey! Really enjoying hearing all the great Dead bands out here :) I've put together a playlist of DeadCoversProject entries for The Jed Luckless Band, a fine group of musicians that I have the pleasure of playing with! It's a fantasy set of various tunes from various JLB shows. Enjoy :) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0DD2210D7630B76F&feature=view_all The Jed Luckless Band is Jed Luckless on guitar, Eric Stramiello on drums, Ken Kaufman on bass and Mark Gutenplan on keys. Their live shows are streamed on the internet at jedluckless.tv, from Stramland Studios, a home version of TRI in the drummer's basement :) JLB also plays live shows in the NY area, featuring Grateful Dead, Phish, original music and more. Additional info, live show audio and gig schedules at can be found www.jedlucklessband.com.