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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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  • PAPPYPGH
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    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
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    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.
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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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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.