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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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    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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'; print '

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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 NotDeadYetBand on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 08:21

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Sorry bout that, I thought I had set the width right on that last post, as I have on all previous ones... BTW I was using 400 as mentioned by Canyon Critter ?'s posts, and to clarify to anyone doing this, there are two widths in the embed code, I just changed 'em both to 400 and it works out. Cheers.
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Submitted by PhilipLoGerfo on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:20

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Loser w/ Stephen Palazola on Piano SOM Row Jimmy Dark Star 1st Verse > UJB > Morning Dew, cutoff Bird Song Jack Straw Naughty Girl > Dark Star > Come As You Are > Dark Star > Naughty Girl Thanks Dead.net for this great project. It's been a real good time! www.soundcloud.com/philip-logerfo
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Submitted by grantstomb on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 05:48

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For those of us that can't be on Bourbon Street today here's a little musical taste of New Orleans for you. Recorded live at Sullivan Hall in Greenwhich Village 1/18/12, we'll be jamming in the Village tomorrow night (Wed 2/22) at Kenny's Castaways, come check us out!!
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Submitted by pozzio on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 07:30

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Thanks for the Feature,We have some originals up on our youtube channel which could use some love We are primarily an original band who started out 24 years ago using the Grateful Dead as our model peace
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Submitted by Semper Fire on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 11:41

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How did you get those guys to play together so well. It is like they are inside eachothers heads.
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Submitted by Semper Fire on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 11:41

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How did you get those guys to play together so well. It is like they are inside eachothers heads.
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Submitted by NotDeadYetBand on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 17:59

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Hi All, First off, thanks again Dead Net !! A quick note on my recent vid posted, solo acoustic China Doll - Hightime. I never thought it would make it so quick into the dead's youtube page, and now it is double listed there. I touched it up with titles and fades and reupped to my personal Youtube channel here: Sorry for the confusion. I didn't want to just delete it off my band's channel, and the newer one is cleaner. The whole video thing is kinda new to me. I was inspired the other night watching Dead covers (There sure is some amazing talent out here !) , so decided to give it a quick go. My next hurdle will be adding in the pro audio, instead of the handycam mike. Thanks for being kind! Yvan , Not Dead Yet, Ottawa Canada
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Submitted by mrfish on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 18:20

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thanks that was for sure the most challenging part was trying to hear the other instruments in my head while laying down the drum and bass track. once i got to lead guitar and last keys it got alot easier
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Submitted by rollout on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 13:14

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These guys are amazing! Listened to their other music on YouTube. Great originals too.Surprised their Midnight Moonlight and Jack a Roe were not viewed as much. This is the the next realm!! Cant wait to see them live! Hope they make it!
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Submitted by alittlepeace3 on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 15:50

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I agree and feel the same way!! I am loving all the different styles but would like to see some of the fantastic female talent showcased again.
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Submitted by Sagesisters on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 18:39

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Inspiration from Hightime led to another.... Rosemary Album: Aoxomoxoa Technique: I played the song straight through on Vocal & Guitar with 1 mic + added a strumming & vox track to give a more depth of sound & reverb. Video recorded with iPhone on the 8mm video app., I like to make everything I do a "Dreamy Art Peace", this is one of my FAVorite Grateful Dead songs
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Submitted by Ratdog83 on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 18:42

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Hey all, we cut this last night. It was a blast playing this song with this instrumentation. Hope you enjoy it, long live the Dead!
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Submitted by ziphler on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 20:22

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I been in a few dead bands but none had as much fun as strangely enough -OSU circa 1991 ziphler
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Submitted by gitargar on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 06:58

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Awesome concept. Happy that I could contribute a tune I almost know. Cellphone vid in my living room.
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Submitted by musiccircus on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 07:08

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Tennessee Jed, my new favorite acoustic version of the song!
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Submitted by musiccircus on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 07:08

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Tennessee Jed, my new favorite acoustic version of the song!
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Submitted by gitargar on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 07:44

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select embed vs share on your youtube vid. paste the code into your comment. Change width to 380
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Submitted by rollout on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 07:31

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Love the unique style-anyone can copy a song or style..it's when you bring your own improvisation that really makes the difference. I hope they make it. Please like too-I did!!
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Submitted by rollout on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 07:31

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Love the unique style-anyone can copy a song or style..it's when you bring your own improvisation that really makes the difference. I hope they make it. Please like too-I did!!
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Submitted by Packy on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 08:28

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Submitted by deal by dusk on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 11:33

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thanks gitargar for resize help
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Submitted by mrfish on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 15:35

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pappy is the fuckin man!!!!
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Submitted by PAPPYPGH on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 16:00

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Best video on here, IMO is MRFISH's "King Solomon's Marbles". GREAT to see it leap to the top 5. THE GUY LEARNED THE TUNE IN ONE DAY!!! Thanks, Senor. YOU, my friend, ROCK. (now make that bed!)
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Submitted by rollout on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 16:42

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It looks like I Know you Rider is stepping it up! They are soooooo unique and can play anything. Harmonies are amazing!! Check out their Midnight Moonlight and Jack-A-Roe ones too. Please keep voting. You are supporting the next breakthrough from Haight Asbury...Please vote Like!!!!!!! They're almost there