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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 8 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 8 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 8 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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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 Alpine7784 on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 09:48

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I'm a late-comer to this contest, but I just posted a video of my band RailRider doing Cumberland Blues from our farewell performance in Windsor, CT on March 26,2011. View it here: http://youtu.be/bmZmRG-8S7E If you like it, please vote! Thanks. :)
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Submitted by bluedaniel714 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 13:02

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j4SfqeOqe0 Here is a unique, fun, heartwarming, warm and fuzzy video of a tried and true group of talented and lovely friends and lovers doing a cover of Crazy Fingers as our submission to The Grateful Dead Covers Project. You gotta watch this – you may just watch it again and again and your smile will get bigger and bigger. Lots of love and effort went into this and it was so much fun to create – I hope everyone has friends like this, to have evenings like this with, to celebrate what the Grateful Dead means to them. Thanks for the project idea – we had a grate time.
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Submitted by star69bandnyc on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 09:52

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Hey fellow deadheads! Here's a Star '69 playlist of Dead covers for your consideration..enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3CDBDCB4452A0FE9&feature=view_all And our Halloween performance of Dancin...in the streets: Star '69 is a NYC area Grateful Dead tribute band. Find out where we're gonna be on the Star '69 facebook page :)
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Submitted by free idea on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 17:16

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I bleebedyblopped with a cellphone and a guitar today. Not sure if that's how you're supposed to play the guitar. 'Hell in a Bucket' 'Walkin' Blues' 'The Days Between' posted by mysteriongalaxy enjoy
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Submitted by stealyourboognish on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 05:58

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This is my bluegrass version of Stella Blue. Hope you enjoy...
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Submitted by Canyon Critter on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 02:00

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Wow, you all have made me so proud to be called a "deadhead". I really have enjoyed all that you put forth. I'm leaning toward the Ukelie SmokaPocaHontaus so far, but remember folks....I ain't put out ours yet. Kudos for all the talented Dead.Netters who have put out the good vibe and showcased their talent so far (wasn't that a GD Video on VHS?) (~);-) There's plenty more to come, including the showcase of a special video made by yours truly, but rock on, and keep em coming. Hope the embedding directions I posted earlier on this thread helped you all. Never forget two things. #1 We are Family! #2 Well.... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Love Is Real! Not Fade Away! All people interested in Dead "Cover" bands around the country of America go here.......Who knows, maybe you'll make a killer video and rock the Dead.Net? Just sayin' All inquiries go to this email and write me: canyoncritter@southerntwirl.com Or as always you could PM me here on dead.net. ~Critter Love you folks!
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Submitted by deadheadland on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:20

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can't wait to see whatcha got! and... will you be at P&F in Broomfield? Hope to C YA THERE! happycat!
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Submitted by zerosea06 on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 12:26

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Fire on mountain>darkstar renditionlil rendition of my own. hope you enjoy
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Submitted by scott1129 on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 20:44

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They're playing tonight in Long Beach, CAThis ain't no one off, either, I've seen her do this song many times and am blown away every time. plus she does great on Tumblin' Dice and White Rabbit, but Cubensis is on for the rest of the catalog, look up Alligator or Viola Lee or Run For The Roses or Shakedown Street or Cream Puff War or Candyman (w/pedal steel), or Estimated Prophet or Lazy Lightning/Supplication or Dark Star and Cubensis will get your feet movin', so truck on down and boogie your bones til the cows come (home) and we'll be there , too
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Submitted by dsw1958 on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 21:46

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This was a duplicate post so I decided to edit one and just say I really like this contest and all the talent out there.
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Submitted by dsw1958 on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 21:50

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Thanks for posting this. I really like Dead On The Tracks cover of Scarlet Begonias.
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Submitted by Brosen1 on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 08:08

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How do I know which were the "official" videos that were posted for Feb 1 and 2?
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Submitted by shaddley on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 09:51

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DeadEye (Austin TX Grateful Dead Tribute) with Papa Mali! Performing Bob Dylan's Just like Tom Thumb's Blues
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Submitted by mona on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 11:06

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It's already popular with me!!