Grateful Dead Press Conference To Announce Partnership With UC Santa Cruz
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We just read the article from The SF Gate . It is so nice to know it is NOT bad news !! I was scared that Rhino would take everything from the archives and sell it all .. Man what a releif !! When UC Santa Cruz gets it all organized it would be a heck of an exhibit.. We would heve to plan a trip to California to see that .. And a huge Thank you to Eileen Law for being the safe keeper of everything for all these years !! ( huge sigh of releif ) .. The UC of Santa Cruz sounds like the perfect place for the safe keeping of the Dead`s (and our ) history . I am quite sure they will take exelent care of everything.. And they have been teaching a music class on the Grateful Dead , WOW ,, that is way cool !! And a radio show , also way cool !!
I will still tune in for the press confrence .. man i feel so much better ,, i`ve been downloading everything i could for the past few days ,,i can take a break for now ..
So again Thank you Eileen !! And many thanx to the UC of Santa Cruz !! And also many thanx for all the previous posts of this imformation !! Peace everyone !!
deadmike
16 years 6 months ago
Amazing ...
If Eileen Law saved EVERYTHING ... all my nutty letters from the 1980's will be there ... and my frame-by-frame suggestion for a music video of Standing On The Moon (from early 1990?) and all other stuff I have sent to Dead Heads since my first fan letter in early 1981 ... ;-)
But what an archive it must be ... even though I have met older Heads from Sweden who have their OWN private archives, with drawings and you know what, stuff that have been made since the early 1970's ... so WHAT AN ARCHIVE IT COULD HAVE BEEN ,,, with EVERYTHING from around the globe ... it would take all of the actual university area to store all that ... ;-)
But ... I also say thanks to Eileen for saving everything ... the good ol' Grateful Dead will probably be the greatest treasure for researchers for years to come ... and perhaps their will be some more scrapbooks to be issued??
Micke Östlund,
Växjö, Sweden
(Garcia fan since Spring, 1976 and convinced Dead Head since November, 1978)
geezeressa
16 years 6 months ago
posters
I wonder if there is a copy of a poster I drew for Jerry Garcia Band back in 1973. Thanks Eileen for saving everything!!
April 24 (Bloomberg) -- The University of California atSanta Cruz will receive the Grateful Dead's archives from the
surviving members of the group, which helped to define the San
Francisco psychedelic sound, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The collection includes photos, artwork, press clippings,
posters, letters, backstage passes and other documents collected
by the band over 30 years, as well as fan memorabilia, the
Journal said. It doesn't include the group's vault of live
recordings, which still generate new releases and revenue, the
report said.
SAN FRANCISCO — It may be the ultimate collection of paraphernalia of a band known for its fondness of paraphernalia, legal and otherwise.
The Grateful Dead, whose songs celebrated personal freedom, American idealism and mind-altering drugs, will donate a cache of their papers, posters and props on Thursday to the University of California, Santa Cruz, which plans to use the musical miscellany as part of a research center to be known as Dead Central.
What exactly is to be donated, of course, is something of a mystery even to band insiders.
“It’s kind of a surprise box to us as well,” said John Perry Barlow, one of the group’s lyricists. “We’ll get to find out what’s in there as well.”
University archivists say the collection was drawn from the band’s various studios and business offices and dates back to the Dead’s founding in 1965. Among the items are rare photographs, press clippings, stage props, vintage posters, backstage passes and set and guest lists for some of the band’s innumerable concerts, which were famed for their lengthy jams and die-hard tape-swapping followers, the Deadheads.
The head of special collections and archives at the university, Christine Bunting, said much of the material to be unveiled Thursday at the Fillmore, the San Francisco rock club, was in fact sent to the band from Deadheads, including band-inspired artwork and personal letters.
“And lots of, you know, poems,” Ms. Bunting added.
Unfortunately for fans, the collection includes no new music from the group, which formally disbanded after the death of the guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia in 1995, though some members have continued to play together occasionally. Ms. Bunting said much of the material, which covers about 2,000 square feet, had been in a warehouse at an undisclosed location in Northern California, but would be open to the public in a renovated room at the university’s library.
While the band inspired no end of drug paraphernalia, Ms. Bunting said none was in the collection.
The university, located in a hippie-friendly city 75 miles south of San Francisco, already teaches a popular undergraduate course about the Grateful Dead’s music, and is known as “a hotbed of current Deadhead culture,” said Bob Weir, the group’s rhythm guitarist.
Mr. Weir said the band had decided to donate the memorabilia in part to keep it from getting lost as years went by.
“It seemed to all of us that the stuff really belongs to the community that supported us for all those years,” he said. “And Santa Cruz seemed the coziest possible home for it.”
In the good old soundboard tradition, GDP are going to make the complete collection of Dead music available for free listen/download.
Nothing left to do but ...
Now I'm VERY sure that stopping my job at UC Berkeley and starting my job at UC Santa Cruz was a most excellent idea. Looking forward to meditating in the Dead reading room at McHenry Library, a short walk from my office.
Could we finaly see the Terrapin Station complex? I bought my CD set several years ago that was supposed to help finance the building. Then no news at all.
I bet they have a location now and the building will start soon.
One man gathers what another man spills.
Where can we go to see this press confrence? The email I got said that it would be available to stream for a short time after. Anyone know anything? Thanks and rock on!
"The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean."
www.geocities.com/newcamptownraces/
gratefulgoddamneddead.html
eileen just spoke about how it is nice to have a place for it to go and that the dreams of BG to have a rock museum and the dream of terrapin station have faded....
I guess that answered my question as to what happened with the TS idea...
bobby and mickey are chatting away and seem really happy with the decision...where is phil and billy though (huh, maybe it says a lot as to why there will not be a reunion)
muffin
www.creativemuffin.com
TomBanjoI never had such a good time in my life before. Like to have it one time more, one good ride from start to end I would like to take that ride again.
From the sounds of it this is going to take a while to catalog this stuff. Plus just imagine how much is really there. Eileen said she has been saving stuff since the first Dead newsletters of the early 70's. Weir and Hart have no idea how much is in there. Some of it sounds more like it should go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rather than a library, but I am sure they will figure it out. A pretty cool press conference though and Bob and Mickey were pretty funny about it all.
Missed the conference.
No setup information on website until after the conference had started; it would be nice in the future to list connection and software requirements so one could be prepared ....
Aghhhh!
Brian
To get from 'cool' to 'real' you have to pass thru a lot of awkward - its a magical place we all trudge thru.
Posted a re-cap of the main points of the conference along with a couple of quotes by Bob and Mickey that I found a little humerous.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/8322910/
Love those guys! Missed Phil & Bill though... can't wait to see P+F and RatDog verrrry soon! =]
It was stated that UCSC would work with others, specifically the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, in loaning certain items for exhibition elsewhere. As a former Banana Slug, I'm totally stoked to go visit again, and again (and again!). :)
i believe the announcement is that they are gonna move their archive to UC santa cruz... heyyy....wait a minute... i live in santa cruz!!! ....maybe we should all enroll!!
I loved Mickey's warning to the archivists about not licking any of the papers ..... Great concept and a long time coming. There is a certain sense of redemption/satisfaction for having plunked down the $50 or bucks years back for the Terrapin Station release in support of the Dead's musuem that had possible chance (in hindsight) of getting of the ground.
I wonder if they will be contacting Bear for any of his materials.
... but Bear can't live forever and it makes no sense for his stash to remain stuck in the land downunder. I wouldn't mind seeing some of Latvala's binders with his notes on his tape collection, show reviews, etc included in the collection. That's some really relevant stuff as far as I'm concerned.
Can anyone PLEASE help me to get a copy of the concert that Phil, Mickey and Bobby played as the fundraiser for Obama??? I cannot find it anywhere...doctoral@verizon.net
Thank You,
Andrew
Does any other rock band/musician have a full fledged, public archive/library?Is there a Dylan museum?
Howzabout The Beatles?
Rolling Stones?
Hendrix is enshrined by th Experience Music Project in Seattle but he has become a smaller factor in their scheme of things
Elvis estate has Graceland but that is a home. But maybe that kinda' counts.
The Grateful Dead Center at UC Santa Cruz
Might just be a first for a rock and roll band.
This ol' goat just might find a reason to go.... Back to School!
Move over Rodney
I can't help thinking that putting this stuff at a university, sorta like a museum, sorta like a presidential library, pretty much says it all for the good 'ol grateful dead -- it's history.
We can still enjoy and appreciate it -- but only as artifacts.
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Cool with me. Using that ICLIPS website is a pain in the azz. Wanna listen to the Tapers Section here? Click...
So, since we were once told (long ago) that "Terrapin Station" would contain these same types of items, does this mean that those of us that donated money long ago should give up hope? Is this confirmation that, since an "official" GD museum will never happen, these types of objects will best be preserved at UCSC?
Also, given the LONG history between the GD and Berkeley, why not there? Does this have anything to do with the fact that UCSC has, for a LONG time, offered credit for a course in GD history? Or maybe it's because Cal has grown away from it's liberal roots in the past decade as it's academic reputation began to equal that of the Ivy league schools on the east coast (at a FRACTION of the cost) and it's students became more interested in their own careers than the social causes that helped to define and identify the name in the past.
As a UC grad, I agree that UCSC is the holdout. As the UC schools gain more grants, more reputation, and more applicants. UCSC stands out as continuing to hold onto a vision of providing quality, liberal, PUBLIC education that reflects the values of the California community it grew out of. Cal, UCLA, UCSB, UCI - all LOST their liberal values as they struggled to win research grants and "select" the "best" students (those with high GPAs and SATs, but low Emot IQ and social concern). UCSC remains as the school that never gave up on their ideals.
A good choice, IMNSHO... I wonder if any of the envelopes I drew on will be included!