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  • DenverMan
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    Just wanted to share my blog/site for anyone interested in reading about artists and subjects related to the Grateful Dead (and roots-related music in general). Feel free to contact me through the site! here's a recent interview with Steve Kimock that might be of interest: http://www.tipjarmag.com/2017/12/steve-kimock-blasts-off-satellite-city… the site home page is www.tipjarmag.com cheers!
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    Dear weirfreakin
    Thank for the bobsessed list. It helps me a lot !
  • Jeffmixer
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    TRUCKIN WITH THE DEAD - Radnomy Internet Radio
    Unique mix spinning around the Music of the Grateful Dead in all its shades and incarnations along with other Jam Bands, Rock"n"Roll, Folk Rock, Electric Blues and other Music that fits into our universe. Mostly live Deadhead friendly this is NOT a "classic rock" station. No same old stuff or hairband noise anywhere. http://truckin-withthedead.playtheradio.com
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    Great Story Janet, successful company and time with my favorite band.Jim
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    Furman's a good story
    Thanks Janet for sharing all that stuff about the beginnings of sound reinforcement and how you were involved in inventing and tweaking the various electronic gizmo's that musicians use to craft the art of music. I learned a ton about the history of sound and the Bay Area from your unique point of view and enjoyed all the details about the family way-back-when. Best wishes for all good things!
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    Thanks Janet Furman!!
  • Janet Furman
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    Furman Sound and its Grateful Dead roots
    Read the story of how I founded pro audio company Furman Sound with a helping hand from the Grateful Dead. It all began in 1970 when I was hired by Alembic as a guitar amp tech. I was the person who modified Jerry's Twin Reverbs, and all kinds of other guitar and bass amps belonging to the Dead and other San Francisco musicians of that era. Later on, I went on the road with the Dead to do live recording, along with Betty Cantor-Jackson and Wizard (Dennis Leonard). You can find my name on the Europe 72 recordings, the Sunshine Daydream movie, and other stuff from that time. After that... well, you can read the rest at http://furmanhistory.com/ Don't worry, it's not a book-length memoir. It's only got the good stuff. You can read the whole thing in 15 minutes.
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    How to lose hours, weeks, months, or even years on the net.
    After exploring the net since seriously discovering the Dead almost 4 years ago, here is a list of at least some of my favorite sites in the ether. Note that a couple entries may simply link to a relevant article on an otherwise nonexclusive Dead site or a page on an exclusive Dead site the link for which can be trimmed back to the root for access to the main page and more resources therein. Certainly many will be well known to most, but you may yet find a few undiscovered gems. Enjoy!/K (sorry for the internal spacing, but in yet another flaw, these boards don't seem to recognize a hard "return" - thus, lists otherwise become a compressed mess) http://deadessays.blogspot.com http://www.gratefuldeadprojects.com http://www.darkstarpalace.com http://deadthinking.blogspot.com http://headyversion.com/ http://www.relix.com/articles/detail/whats_become_of_the_bettys http://www.deaddisc.com http://www.dharmarose.com/deadbase/dbsearch.html http://www.levity.com/orfeo/index.part1.html http://www.live-grateful-dead-music.com/free-grateful-dead-music.html http://www.gdao.org/items/show/396130 http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/ http://thoughtsonthedead.wordpress.com/ http://agitators.com/gd/dick_1972.html http://www.dicklatvala.com/notebooks.htm http://www.gdradio.net/ http://www.deadlistening.com/ http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/ http://www.andrewgeller.me/other-audio/musicologist-david-malvinni-on-t… https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead
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    just an fyi... nedbase has gone live! Annotated Nedbase 1970 - 1975 Below are listed the performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions where Ned Lagin is known to have performed with the Grateful Dead, or with Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, and others. These occurred in the years between 1970 to 1975. This list is thought to be accurate but remains incomplete. http://nedbase.blogspot.com/ I-) ihor
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    A remarkably intuitive and helpful site; I just searched out one of my favourite unrealeased shows (RFK 6/10/73)and jumped immediately to a Miller/Tobin SBD on AO, thanks!/kate
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expectingrain.com is a Dylan inspired site that posts links daily to stories regarding Dylan and like minded musicians. There are often Dead related stories. Good site. www.expectingrain.com Yo Soy Boricua!
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Gotta put up the Rex Foundation, another way that this community can interact and affect positive change www.rexfoundation.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you want that groove that invokes dreams, close your eyes and focus on the dream not the groove
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Well, I'm sure a lot of you already have most of these but here's what I've found -Ratdog (and more) Live Cds and downloads - https://www.munckmusic.com/wms/ratdog/index.html Setbreak (minding the music) - http://www.setbreak.com/content/ David' Site - http://www.dgans.com/ GD Radio (streaming Grateful Dead and more) - http://www.gdradio.net/ The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics - http://arts.ucsc.edu/Gdead/AGDL/ Internet Archives (my bookmarks) - http://www.archive.org/bookmarks/B42 My Links to stuff about John Perry Barlow - http://del.icio.us/B42/JohnPerryBarlow and there are just so many more, I suppose that's what Google is for - http://tinyurl.com/358epr - Results - about 5,970,000 for Grateful Dead. "if you get confused..."
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--long time no type : )
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Anyone know what happened to this site? I think I was on the page less than two weeks ago but can't access it at all now.
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click megdradio.net - click me!
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for those here who aren't already on the Well, I'd like to invite you to a very cool on-line interview in which you can participate. Our own is interviewing Nicholas Meriwether, author of "All Graceful Instruments" on the Well's publicly available interview conference called Inkwell. go here: www.well.com and under Fresh Conversations, click on the Deadhead link to go check it out!
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thanks for the heads-up, iz! There are also boatloads of interesting interviews in the inkwell archives, often book authors, including David Dodd (of Annotated Lyrics, Oxford Reader and more), Bruce Sterling, Richie Unterberger and more.
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Google searching (does anyone Yahoo search anymore?!) for Grateful Dead displays the following: "about 6,180,000" However, did you know that using quotes narrows down what you're really looking for? Case in point -- about 1,550,000 for "grateful dead". (Much easier to look through a million and a half web pages than 6 million, isn't it?!) Anyway, I only bring this up 'cause some people don't actually know that if you type in Jerry Garcia you might get TONS of sites that have absolutely NOTHING to do with Captain Trips. But if you use quotes, my friends, you will magically be given better results!! Have a Grateful Dead!
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Hi all, I enjoyed 's tip on using quotes. As a librarian, I've learned a lot about searching Google. And one thing I've done is to construct a custom search engine (This Old Engine) for Grateful Dead topics. It's located at http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/thisoldengine.html Always happy to add new sites for the engine to peruse... --David
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tj crowley fried-days 6pm - midnite (e.s.t.) reliving the sounds (and vibes) of the 60's/70's with a splash of the 50's and todays sounds w e s s 90.3fm www.esu.edu/wess 'six strings...more or Lesh' official GD hour 10pm voted best radio broadcast n.e.Pa./n.w.NJ 11 years
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Deadhook.comfriendliest folks on the internet check it out and see
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ah yeah
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we, your humble mods, take a dim view of forum spamming. People are welcome here, including notorious spammers of other forums. They are not welcome to be disruptive, clutter topics with nonresponsive posts (except of course in the topics that are designated areas for nonresponsive posts, e.g. Spinnin'...), and bother folks. Spam here, and your account is toast. ME, the old and cranky mod
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HiI am ARCHURE, I do quick load (less than 1 min/song download time with dial up) DIGITAL MUSIC, and my music has greatly been influenced by the Dead, as well as other S.F. area musicians from the same era. I have met some members of the Grateful Dead, on various occasions, and had some good chats with them. I had a great chat with Jerry, about and Indian ritual I read about (in the college of marin library), where one pretends to die, then moves away for a number of years, and we chatted about this, Jerry thought this was very interesting. One may possibly come back to Haunt you. I had a great discussion with Phil regarding sound systems, with speakers in phase, and he might have said something about different band members getting different spots on the main graphic equalizer. I used to chat with Bill too. And several of us (including Bob Weir) were talking about recording vocals over instrumentals with headphones vercus listening to speakers, and what a difference that makes with pitch. I do like the Dead vocals, and I play quite a bit like Jerry, I know some Jerry like riffs,(and also do Led Zepelin and Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton and BB King, and Mike Bloomfield, and Elvin Bishop, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother, style of things too). I gave the Grateful Dead astrological advice to help them get their European Tour going (mid 70's) and when they got it together (they came back to thank me, it worked, I also helped Joe Montana, he too was impressed), I gave them a list of Good Days for the band before the tour. I HAVE LOTS OF GOOD ORIGINAL MUSIC (QUICK LOAD) and lots of GOOD ADVICE: Nutrition, Psychology (including sex), Web Advcie, and ASTROLOGICAL articles and Astro Forecast all at www.archure.net I got a Trademark on ARCHURE upon the advice of members of The Dead and members of Van Halen (who both had trademark issues with their names). I have good friends (old friends) who know members of The Dead more than I do. I am Grateful for their good vibes, and good music, and especially like their Improvisational Music. I too am into Improvisational Music at www.archure.net Music for the New Millennium by ARCHURE reg tmrk www.archure.net
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...on WNCW, whom I listen to every Wednesday night! I named my blog Daisy's Dead Air, after uncle Dave's Dead Air: http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/ I blog about whatever I want (politics, religion, whatever), and so far, have not even blogged about the Dead, but of course, they guide me in all things! :)
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http://zippyblogs.freeforums.org/portal.phpThe Grateful Dead was the greatest show on earth. From 1965 to 1995 the boys played one of popular culture’s most extraordinary epic adventures. Jerry Garcia once said "Maybe one day we can build something that can never be torn down". Huge caravans of people would travel to every show on the tour and you would see the same smiling faces at each show. It was a community and a family. You could arguably say that that community and family is still alive and in full force today even 12 years after Jerry Garcia's death. The Phil Zone was a place you could space out and listen to the music knowing everyone was there to do the same. A safe space to the left of the stage right below base player Phil Lesh. He just so happened to be my favorite member of the group so I spent much of my time there grooving to the music. Years later I think about that time with many smiles and memories. I still go to his solo shows and see the same people in the same spot. One day I was having one of these flashbacks and I decided to search for a simple phrase on the excite search engine. This was before google was widely popular. The year was 1999 and I was looking for tour dates and news. I found a web page called The Philzone which had what I was looking for. About three years later in 2002 I clicked on a link on that page that said community and found a discussion group. I was floored. It was the community I knew from the shows online discussing all manner of topics including my favorite band The Grateful Dead. Here it is 5 years later and Ive found at least 6 other discussion groups like it including my own. A couple of those pages are restrictive about what you can and cannot post there. I'm all about free speech so you can say whatever you feel the need to say on my site. We have a few rules but nothing that a mature adult cannot handle. Believe it or not deadheads are fun to hang out with. We welcome all manner of people to come hang with us and share ideas about music, love and life. Some times you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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http://www.setbreakmusic.com/drupal/GDtimeline.php Browse through 1,500 SBD & Matrix recordings and listen to any show. Filter by date/location or enter a song title in the full-text search box. Select a show to see the setlist and click on the "listen" icon to launch the music player. Most shows include song lyrics and performance-specific notes ("bobby on acoustic", "final version", "santana opened").
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Archive.org seems to be a legal source of dead recordings, no? I'm almost sure that they're okay to use, considering that they're backed by such a large non-profit, but I thought I should check here. Can anyone verify their legality? Thanks, and sorry if my post is inappropriate in this forum, I haven't seen one quite like this before. er.
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Downloads from arichive.org are OK as they are audience recordings. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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thanx my brother...the pictures were spectacular mark. stay safe and feel good! (~):}}
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Does any one have info on Billy's new band?I am going to NoHo Mass tonight to see them play. How ever I just of this last night. Are they playing other gigs? thanks M Oh yes I think that someone from the Allmans is in the band...
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in light of recent news events, please visit www.savetibet.org and pass the information along to as many folks as you can. in a nutshell, china is trying to destroy tibet's culture and religion and hide this fact from the rest of the world. tibet is a country and a culture that actually practices "peace, love and compassion". please help any way you can. thank you
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check out the site. send me an email if you want a free cd. peace, ben Jesus Loves You The Best! greateststoryevertold.org
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Hello everyone, I've just launched a new website to display live concert photos I've taken over the past 30+ years. Although the site is still under construction, with lots more photos to come, I thought I'd invite everyone here at Dead.net to take an early look around. There's several Grateful Dead shows from the '70's already uploaded, with photos from Red Rocks and Telluride in the '80s to come. There's also some Phil and Bob solo shows and lots more. To take a look, point your browser to http://www.billallenphotos.com. Enter the site, click on Gallery, then click on Music and scroll down to the Grateful Dead links. Enjoy!! Bill Allen Birmingham, AL
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The JerryGarcia.com website is currently offline. We'll be back at a future date. Copyright © 2008 Jerry Garcia Estate LLC
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You should check out the wonderful 3-D simulated shrine to Everything Dead in Second Life (secondlife.com) There is a sim called Darkstar, a loving tribute to the Grateful Dead that features an amphitheater complete with the "wall of sound", a parking lot with Further style buses, surrounding the Mars Hotel. There is also the beautiful Terrapin Station dancehall, modeled after the building from the Terrapin Station Limited Edition release. The island streams GDRadio 24/7 except during events such as special archival streams and live streaming performances by many of the musically talented residents. It is the most loving tribute to the legacy of the Grateful Dead I have ever seen. With Darkstar Deadheads have an opportunity to spend time in a virtual 3-D universe where the tour never ends and the lot never closes, where there is always another show, another drum circle, where the music TRULY never stops. Ever!
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I've just launched a new comedy story website http://www.dredly.com 2 Deadheads go on a quest to rid the world of evil and find comfortable footwear... But mainly to find comfortable footwear. On the way they take on psychotic moustaches, shape-shifting polar bears, Swiss killer gnomes, evil children’s entertainers and surveillance pigeons. And don't worry, this isn't a bit of clever corporate viral marketing, just me and my illustrator, so if you want trippy laughs, go to http://www.dredly.com Hope to see you there... And if you like it, tell everyone you know!! Please. Pigeons work in pairs!
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What's up guys, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about the inaugural Chicago Bluegrass & Blues festival, this 11/22 at the historic Congress Theater, all benefiting the Saving Tiny Hearts Societies fight against the country's most common birth defect. www.cbgbfestival.com The first 10 folks that hit me up at michael.raspatello@gmail.com will get a pair of tickets mailed to them. We're excited for you to help us spread the word about this righteous endeavor Michael Raspatello