Grateful Dead

While it would be nice to see all the stuff in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. I'd rather support the efforts going on at UCSC. The music industry has never really been kind to the Grateful Dead or Deadheads plights.Every once in awhile, the Grateful Dead, becomes a item again. Well it looks like we are there again. Maybe based on Furthur's success. I am not into supporting people or things, that have shunned me in the past. Yet now they want to put on a display and charge us. Its funny how we get bashed for our lifestyle. Yet, they are always eager to take our monies. Shameless

As I seem to recall they used a life-size cut out of Jerry at the RR HOF induction as the fat man wanted no part....holding true to the way Jerry probably would have wanted it I'd tell the Hall thanks.....but NAH!! I'll listen to my tapes instead!!

Your average Deadhead's preferred travel destination: Cleveland, or Santa Cruz? I think we may be talking different demographics here. It's okay, the R&R Museum will probably snag some new Heads and get them on the Bus... I mean, look at it this way, we are rapidly reaching a point when the majority of Dead Heads will have been born after 1995. Things evolve. The Golden Road has many side paths...

Have a good time in Cleveland. It is a diverse city that offers a lot of activities, including the Rock Hall of Fame. FM radio really brought rock n roll up front here.Check out the lakefront, the metropolitan park system, Indian baseball, Cavalier basketball, Browns football and the many microbrew opportunities.

I never thought of the domographics moving like that but, yea, things evlove and take new shapes and direction. I'm sure Jerry would say "Nah..." but the Deadhead just getting on the bus can really cover some mighty old road taking a stroll down memory lane... Not at all a bad thing. Cleveland or Santa Cruz... can't lose...

I never really thought of it before, but I am from the East Coast and have never been to Cleveland. I have been to Santa Cruz more times than I can remember.

I have been there twice (having relatives in Pittsburgh). whether or not you like it, it has a lot of great stuff. the Sex Pistols called it a "piss stain" (makes me giggle every time I hear that. What a bunch of babies, but it fits the SP image). i disagree. it legitimizes RnR as an art form. Jerry sent a cut out, but the rest went. Whatever. The GD aren't pure (but i still love em.) the GD organization sells lots of trinkets and what not (a GD cutting board? GD golf balls? I always cringe when I see that stuff in the almanac or whatever. If i didn't live in the Seattle area, I would go see the RnRHoF GD exhibit. if it's still there when i go to Pittsburgh again, i'll be there. everything is for sale. never been to santa cruz. did you see that 7/31/74 will soon be available??????? :))))))))))))))))))))))))))) did you see the article in Rolling Stone magazine about the GD selling trinkets? about ten years to late, RS. go listen to 2/26/77, and then 2/27/77, and then anything you want from 1969. carry on...

band that i lovelisten to them, and groove to them through the night and the light of the day from the fillmore to the avalon greek, frost, msg, iowa, god bless the grateful dead they did it best god bless the grateful dead they did it best.

Well, that was a very Californian thing to say, marye. Been to Cleveland in the past decade? It is actually a good, fun Midwestern city on a beautiful Great Lake. I am thinking the R&R HOF will be more accessible to the majority of American Deadheads east of the Rocky Mountains. This is not going to appeal to only a younger, new audience. The HOF is right on Lake Erie with a beautiful view. It is a really good facility with amazing artifacts you are not going to see anywhere else-- part of the Otis Redding plane that ended up in Lake Mendota! One can easily spend the full day in that museum and go back for more the next day. And, as Gr8fulTed said, Cleveland is a fun city with lots to do. I had a great time when we visited the HOF a couple years ago. While I am sure the folks at UCSC are going to stage a nice exhibit, I believe the longtime professional curatorial staff at the HOF are going to stage a better exhibit. Space-wise it is larger and they have more resources, human and financial (based upon Blair's blog on the archive). I saw a Springsteen exhibit in that space and this will be a blockbuster exhibit for Deadheads to see. And, most of Jerry's custom guitars are there all the time.

I live here! And frankly admit that my touring days are behind me, too. My point is that those whose touring days are not behind them, hey. There's another stop. It's different. Possibly comparable to the difference between, say, the Frost and MSG. No disrespect to either one. Things change. Different folks, different worlds, different opportunities. I don't think it behooves those of us who got to see Jer PLAY those guitars to begrudge people's opportunities to see 'em, regardless of venue. I mean, what we want is to have Jer here playing them, and it's not like that's gonna happen. We were always the lucky ones; what the museum is about is much longer term than our audience generation, and so, for that matter, is the Grateful Dead, in ways yet TBD, I expect.

Ain't so bad. I've lived in Ohio most of my life and I still havent visited the HOF. I must check this out. It's fun for people to hate Cleveland, but it has some upside to it. Anyone who ever saw a Richfield or Blossom show knows what that's about.

in a world in which Phil and Bob are opening up nightclubs in Marin, we are not in the days when the boys were playing on the back of a truck on Haight Street! And yet, new ones coming as the old ones go. And then some. Of all the bands I can think of, this one seems to have known from the beginning that something important was going on, or at least between the band and its followers, there is a whole lot of archived material for historians present and future to draw on (and, as Nick Meriwether said recently, what they've got and know about is just a tiny bit of what's out there), and there's still a pretty lively scene going on, artistically and otherwise. So I don't think any of this is going to stand still and coalesce into the One True Anything anytime soon... And if it did we would all run away screaming, most likely. So lots of people brilliant in their field, like say the R&R Museum, will do their interpretation. Who knows, maybe someday there may be Grateful Dead at the Opry, too, though I am totally making this up.

Marye, I'm not going to repeat all that's been said above but I love Cleveland too. It's a really flawed city but has tons of great qualities and wonderful, kind people many of whom have been really screwed by the system. "You just gotta poke around!" My only advice to one and all is to come during the summer or fall, and by summer I mean summer! Summer life along Lake Erie and in Cleveland's beautiful Metroparks is as nice as anywhere with tons of sun. Autumn days can be surprisingly awesome. Come during the winter if you like always being cold and never seeing the sun, or for the adventurous, if you've never experienced a Great Lakes winter and want to. Come in the spring if you want to see and meet natives who are mostly miserable because they can't understand why it won't warm up already or if you have to be the first at the GD exhibit. (Unless you hit one of those miraculous warm April days that is like a food drop on a famine.) Finally, if you're into history we've got it. Cleveland was a destination of choice for hundreds of thousands of immigrants and they brought a diversity that made for a great continuing saga with many new immigrants too. Lots of live classical, folk, and country music as well. We'd love to have you all. Look me up. I'd love to give y'all a tour.

Nicely put.

you want flawed cities... And yet, we had some shows here... If they were to perfect the Star Trek transporter, I'd love to check out Cleveland. Given the current joys of air travel I lean to staying home these days, but I think there would be plenty to delight the visitor, especially with a local guide. All else aside, my favorite Springsteen show of all time was played there in 1978! Just to bring this back to the Springsteen exhibit...

NE Ohio is an odd place that I really enjoy. Been HOF a few times. Family started buying me a membership in 99(fathers day gift). Go twice a year. Everytime I go I see something new. I'll be there on opening day(Ap.12).

I'm planning catching the last 3 shows of Marillion's 2012 US Tour (they don't do Australia!) and will be in San Francisco on 6/29/12. I was going to tack on a couple of days to browse Amoeba Music and re-fresh my Dead related TShirt wardrobe up on Haight Street but now I'm wondering if it's going to be worth a trip down to Santa Cruz. Let's see - CalTrain to San Jose and switch to a bus from there....can't be that hard to find. Will it be worth my while? What exactly is being exhibited?

I agree Cleveland has really bounced back the water front with the Hall of Fame and Football Stadium is beautiful. My one and only visit I was very lucky to have all of Jerry's Guitars on display in the entrance lobby. It was great remebering all the great shows with the Wolf (74), Dancin Skeleton (80) really brought back some memories. Will plan on going back to see this new display and catch a game at the Jake! Cleveland Rocks!!!!

Paul Grushkin and Steven Marcus will be doing a multimedia presentation around Dead Letters on June 13 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Road trip! Details here.