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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Thanks from the Charlies
A big thankyou for the mention the other week!
UK's No.1 Grateful Dead Cover Band - Cosmic Charlies
dont let go - brendan macnaughton and strange hobo
dont let go follows brendans ghanga baby rap
Goin Down the Road Feelin Bad
With only a couple days help us prevent this song from becoming a true prediction, we're musicians not prophets!
Babe It Ain't No Lie
Just figured out how to embed. This is my friend Steve playing Babe It Ain't No Lie.He used the cheezy "old film" effect on moviemaker, but it is a quiet, heartfelt performance. Enjoy.
Flux Capacitor Got Them Viola Lee Blues(DeadCoversProject)
Check out Flux Capacitor Doin' Viola Lee Blues, Philadelphia
Jugtown Pirates-I Know you Rider
Disappointed to see they're not in the top ten anymore!!!I hope the voting is not just be how many friends you have who post like on YouTube. These guys are AWESOME!! Please listen and like them on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU5gx75vZ6w
YouTube Listing
For some reason, our entry in the Dead Covers Project -- Liberty by The Professors -- has almost no other entries from the Dead Covers Project on the page.
There's another entry for Liberty, but then there's a bunch of stuff for Liberty University and professors talking about issues regarding liberty, ect.
Hmmmmm......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFH8mCBuM7o
YouTube Listing
For some reason, our entry in the Dead Covers Project -- Liberty by The Professors -- has almost no other entries from the Dead Covers Project on the page.
There's another entry for Liberty, but then there's a bunch of stuff for Liberty University and professors talking about issues regarding liberty, ect. There's even something about Justin Beiber, fawgodsakes. But no other Grateful Dead related stuff, save the one, at all.
Hmmmmm......
Well, at least everyone likes it so far. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFH8mCBuM7o
MUST SEE; MUST VOTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFH8mCBuM7o
http://youtu.be/RFH8mCBuM7o
The best of them all
Deep Elem Blues /Jason Anderson
A funky version of Deep Elem.
I was having so much fun, I had to sneak one in at the last minute!
Theo Cas - 'Playin' In The Band'
"What we need to do to allow magic to get hold of us is to banish doubts from our minds. Once doubts are banished anything is
possible." -don Juan Matus/Carlos Castaneda
http://youtu.be/j-hlnSIZLMI
Good Mornin' lil'schoolgirls n' skoolboyz! Pls checkout my Vid
I busted my nut all week to get and set up a new computer with the capability to transfer video from old VHS to digital... it's been a harrowing week as I tried several products that didn't cut it. Now I'm squeaking in under the wire. All I can say is THANK GOD IT'S A LEAP YEAR! and ohyea... PIGPEN would be PROUD of this one...
Please click on "Like", and subscribe for more great videos to come. Lil' Red Rooster is going up n a few minutes.
THANKS
The STEAMIEST LITTLE RED ROOSTER YOU WILL ever SEE!!
Live from a historic concert in Portugal, with the incredible Arthur Neilson on guitar.
No foolin.. hide the kids, or y'all have some 'splainin' to do...
;-)
DeadCoversProject
http://youtu.be/enWsVyaQvkI
We had fun with this. Thank You
West L A Fade Away
The first link did not work, I'll try it one more time.Thank you, we had fun.
http://youtu.be/enWsVyaQvkI
My video may have been overlooked due to a YouTube glitch
I think my video may have been overlooked due to a YouTube glitch:
I uploaded my video ("Headlight - The Wheel 9/4/11") on February 20 and tagged it "DeadCoversProject." However, it did not show up in YouTube's search results for "DeadCoversProject" for several days, unlike several videos which immediately showed up in a search for "DeadCoversProject" on February 20th, the same day they were uploaded. Today, the video still has only 17 views, and I still can't find the video on the gratefuldead YouTube channel, so I think the delay in my video showing up in search results for "DeadCoversProject" may have resulting in you not knowing it was there!
Since this is the last day to submit videos, I thought I should notify you about this...
Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKt7uLl11y4
Thanks!
- Jim Prange
scatterdome@yahoo.com
Brown-Eyed Women
by the Dead Covers Project..
You guys can play on my back porch any time you want.
One of my all-time favorites and you do a mighty righteous job indeed...
Sincerely,
The Old Man
Old recording of Stagger Lee
Not really a video, just a recording from a few years ago of me trying for the Jerry-John Kahn acoustic version of the song.
We Can Run
Didn't see any other covers of this, so I posted mine. My voice is a little off, and I messed up some, but I just love the song.
STOP THE PRESSES
My roommate just busted into my room and showed us all up ;)
Thanx Everyone!
I'd like to thank The Grateful Dead Family & Community for The Dead Covers Project!I've had a great time this month checking out all of the FANTASTIC videos that everyone has been submitting. What a great idea in the first place. Considering the response, I hope that this will carry on longer than originally intended. I haven't been able to check out all of the submissions; there's been so many!!!! I know that a lot of Deadheads might have had some difficulty with my interpretation of Franklin's Tower by bliss, in that it did not sound very much like the original. My personal philosophy is that as long as one stays true to the ORIGINAL SPIRIT of the song, then that gives them poetic license to create their own version! I hope to meet some of you at shows this Summer. I go to a lot!
Thanks again to everyone for all of this incredible music!
Peace & bliss,
Matt
OPERATOR - by Mark The Harper
Cranking along.. wish I had gotten to these puppies 3 weeks ago, but didnt have the hardware. Come n' see my clips, and please click "like". Another Pigpen chestnut here... I used to perform Tributes to Pigpen at Wetlands back in the early '90s.
SWAMPDADDY- WangDangDoodle/TheOtherOne/Wang
SWAMPDADDY opened for Johnny Winter in 2007 on the island of Kauai. Our friend Bill Kreutzmann was in the audience and thoroughly enjoyed this arrangement. We have since played this several times with BK on drums. Please check it out & "like" it if you do. Swampdaddy-WangDang/TheOtherOne/Wang
Lost Sailors - Ithaca, NY
Stella Blue - performed by Lost Sailors
More Lost Sailors videos
Jack Straw - Lost Sailors - Ithaca, NY
Jack Straw - performed by Lost Sailors
More Lost Sailors videos
Hard To Handle - Mark The Harper & The Journeymen LIVE!
Time for 1 more entry? This one is HOT HOT HOT HOT. Live from Manny's Car Wash in 1996. Hard To Handle medley into Mellow Down Easy, with shades of One Way Out, But Anyway, and Who Do You Love. Thrilling video. Please check it out! Thanks and I bid you goodnight.
Dead Covers Project, Jerry's Little Band playing "Mister Charlie
This is a video of our band as performed last Friday 2/24/12 at the Play It Forward Benefit in Cincinnati. I hope you enjoy and then "like" it on youtube for the Dead Covers Project. Thanks!!
Deep Elem Blues - FRONT PORCH REVIVAL
Just before the deadline,
How often do you see a truely professional washboard (Rub-board/Stomp) player?
call them a jug band, call 'em blue grass, these guys got da blues the old fashioned way
Go here: http://youtu.be/NPduBSMN3kk
and like 'em
Bertha!!!!!!!! - by Mark The Harper
And now I really bid you goodnight.
This thing just great.
Just needed to say that whoever came up with idea for this project, I tip my hat to you to give all these guys this exposure. It is just incredible the level and amount of just awesome talent out there spreading the love and music of Jerry and the Dead. Everyday great new posts. The Giving Tree Band really blew me away, just awesomeness!! They should keep this thing going as regular feature and keep the music flowing.
Peace, Love and the Grateful Dead!!!!
Jugtown Pirates-I Know you Rider-Haight Ashbury
What great improvisation! I would never expect to hear this song this way-that's what good musicians are about I guess!!Anyone can play copy tunes note for note. Please vote like on YouTube so they can become one of the featured videos. This band is too good not to get the publicity!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU5gx75vZ6w&feature=colike
Jam-> BIRD SONG by DOG GONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAUOZjWaidk
A dark and twisting BIRD SONG...
Dead Covers Project - Franklins Tower - Portsmouth, RI
Franklins Tower Performed By Mr. Chubb
Congratulations to all finalists
Congratulations to the final 5. I am a bit bias towards Cubensis (as their videographer) but there are soooo many great entries. I have bookmarked so many of them and have been watching a number of them over and over.
Re: Front Porch Revival - Deep Elem Blues
It's too bad this wasn't submitted earlier. It sounds great. I really think it could have had a shot at the top five.
Dear Dead.net
Yeah Mutt, I agree but it seems a litle harsh to hold a contest with a deadline for entries and then not treat all entries equally i.e.most contests start the competition AFTER the entries are in. but then this IS the Grateful Dead we're dealing with here. - sure don't know
I don't know what is more stunning; the audacuty of the crew who sat at the top of the deadcoversproject charts with thousands of "likes" for most of the month or the presumably innocent gullibility of the web master who left them there. But I forget, the supreme court now says its OK to buy votes.
I am so relieved to see that it was all a ruse anyway. I'm sure that many of us saw this coming. All the hype about contests and votes, in the end you knew someone in power would decide who won the vote and thank Jerry,they picked Aaron Gibson for he had dropped off lthe billboard as fast as he appeared and he's the clear innovative, creative, talented-exuding front runner (Brandon McCoy's chops are in the same league). The bluegrass ensemnble you featured who did "here comes sunshine", and also then disapeared, were the obvious acoustic act in my book but the van dwellers are cute and a legitimate choice also.
So why the damn contest? This is a great data mine you (dead.net) have started here. Why not strip off the top ten and let it continue just as it has. If you are gonna rank, make it a continuous ranking from one to a milion based on votes you collect right here not on youtube's extortable system.* That way everybody gets a sense of where they stand (even if its at #137) and you don't have these poor souls fretting that you never even noticed them (now they'll KNOW you didn't).
This wouldn't stop you from lifting that ocasional one of a kind phenomenon like Aron to the stars WHENEVER they come along and give everyone something to strive for all year round.
When dead.net anounced a virtual game that would be based on mutual coperation intead of competition we thought "wow, of course". The cover band project could be a rea-life creation of that. I knew there were dead bands out there but not this many. Back in the day the conventional wisdom was that dead heads couldn't play music and it was realy hard to fihnd talented musicians in the fold. I have had to trick more than one hot, non-deadhead musician into jaming on the dead with good result.Clearly now there is all sorts of talent among open deadheads and this site is gona help hook them up if you let it.
What ever hapened to that game anyway?
I know you're at bated breath and will be all so relieved to know that i absolve you of minor glitches in the process, believe on faith that you did wait for and consider everyone right up to the last entry , and made your best judgement. You've done a beaurtiful thing and we've been having a lot of fun - now don't fuck it up.
sure don't know . .
*see my addendum from tomorrow
Liberty by The Professors
Wish it had been posted sooner, but thanks to all who voted The Professors into the top ten in less than a week. (And we are quite curious who gave us the one "dislike"; Prof. Steve suspects a disgruntled student......)
And though the contest is over: Please continue to vote!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFH8mCBuM7o&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Oh, might as well mention this: I happened to be there the first night the Dead performed Liberty in front of an audience: Oakland Coliseum, early '93 (a Sunday night show, can't remember the exact date). Also the first time they performed Lazy River Road and Eternity. Yeah, I miss Jerry, I miss that band, I miss those shows.
Tennessee Jed - IVY Travelin' Band(DeadCoversProject)
IVY Travelin' Band perform Grateful Dead's "Tennessee Jed" at CAFE IVY, Tokyo Japan.
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!
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? (~);}
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
THANK YOU to All Staff &
THANK YOU to All Staff & Coordinators who coordinated DEAD COVERS PROJECT...!
It was Sooooo MUCH FUN!
I made so many new friends & family.... in my heart everyone who had the
inspiration to actually learn & perform these songs made this the best...
I loved listening to everyone's version of all my favorite songs....!
We are such a blessed community / Nation of people bonded by the greatest
everloving vibes & music created in our lifetime.....MUCHOS GARCIAS.....!!!!!!
http://youtu.be/hRFbT5LxZs4