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    The Dead Covers Project 2016

    This year's submissions period has ended. Check out all the great performance with the Official 2016 DEAD COVERS PROJECT playlist.

    Whether you play just like Jerry or like to give the Grateful Dead's beloved classics a unique spin, the 2016 Dead Covers Project wants you! We're calling all musicians - near and far - to share your love for the music and magic of the Dead through video. Show off your musical chops and you just might find yourself front and center on Dead.net during the month of February! The rules are simple - all video submissions must contain a song either written by or recorded by the Dead. How that song is interpreted, however, is entirely up to you.

    Upload your video to YouTube, tag it "DeadCoversProject," and we'll make it available to view on the band's official YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/gratefuldead. Can't carry a tune? Join the fun by "liking" your favorites on YouTube.

    Good luck!

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    Ziph, Great picks. I've been watching some of their other vids. These guys are really really good. Travis is awesome, Annie too, they freakin' nailed that High Time.
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    Wow, here it is again, already. The 2nd iteration of the DeadCoversProject. Welcome and hello. I'm ziphler, a completely delusional, thus official, DCP editorialist, music critic, journalist, and otherwise complete nuisance. And this is the first edition of this year's ziph's picks, probably the bane of DCP's existence. It looks so far as if there's been about 130 entries in the project since sometime in December. Of course, who knows what the ground rules are this year? Are we looking at all entries since time began or is it just entries since the event officially closed March 1, 2012, OR is it since DCP announced this year's event? Is it based on when a video is tagged "DeadCoversProject" or when it was uploaded? Beats me and I'm happy with the obscurity for now since rules can all be circumvented. Anyhoo, I couldn't help but to notice a major contender right off the bat. They, it, them, him is called the volunteer string band and have jumped in with a plethora of entries. What sets VSB apart from some of the other early and aggressive "more entries is better" players is some serious musical talent. VSB seems to have a completely fluid membership and, in the case of lovelight, actually has no string players at all, instead sporting a brass band. So, sparing you anymore blather, here are the first two ziph's picks: The Volunteer String Band sings "HIGH TIME" and "LOVELIGHT" freakin well done! ziphler Oh and PS: like she says, you don't enter the project by posting videos in this forum. Every video in ziph's picks has already been officially attached to the project by TAGGING the video in YouTube with this exact one word: DeadCoversProject - (I know it looks like three words but its not). TAG IT: DeadCoversProject
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This year's submissions period has ended. Check out all the great performance with the Official 2016 DEAD COVERS PROJECT playlist.

Whether you play just like Jerry or like to give the Grateful Dead's beloved classics a unique spin, the 2016 Dead Covers Project wants you! We're calling all musicians - near and far - to share your love for the music and magic of the Dead through video. Show off your musical chops and you just might find yourself front and center on Dead.net during the month of February! The rules are simple - all video submissions must contain a song either written by or recorded by the Dead. How that song is interpreted, however, is entirely up to you.

Upload your video to YouTube, tag it "DeadCoversProject," and we'll make it available to view on the band's official YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/gratefuldead. Can't carry a tune? Join the fun by "liking" your favorites on YouTube.

Good luck!

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Whether you play just like Jerry or like to give the Grateful Dead's beloved classics a unique spin, the 2016 Dead Covers Project wants you! We're calling all musicians - near and far - to share your love for the music and magic of the Dead through video. Show off your musical chops and you just might find yourself front and center on Dead.net during the month of February! The rules are simple - all video submissions must contain a song either written by or recorded by the Dead. How that song is interpreted, however, is entirely up to you.
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Whether you play just like Jerry or like to give the Grateful Dead's beloved classics a unique spin, the 2016 Dead Covers Project wants you! We're calling all musicians - near and far - to share your love for the music and magic of the Dead through video. Show off your musical chops and you just might find yourself front and center on Dead.net during the month of February! The rules are simple - all video submissions must contain a song either written by or recorded by the Dead. How that song is interpreted, however, is entirely up to you.
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Submitted by jim wise on Sun, 02/16/2014 - 07:44

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how do you link your you tube video? copy & paste the URL? thx ...nice work btw
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Submitted by grantstomb on Sun, 02/16/2014 - 12:02

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Check out our video submission for the 2014 Dead Covers Project. A big thank you to Reiko Yanagi and Steven Speliotis for shooting and editing. Let me know what you think.facebook.com/grantstomb
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Submitted by marye on Mon, 02/17/2014 - 08:53

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on YouTube, click the Share tab, then Embed. It will present you with a window of code. Copy it and paste it here, and all should be well.
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Submitted by Matthew Lepkowski on Mon, 02/17/2014 - 21:33

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This ain't an official submission from the INTERLOPERS. I just wanted to share this stuff with y'all... The INTERLOPERS are the buzz of the What's what, of what's goin' on around the BERKLEE COLLEGE of MUSIC scene, as well as the Greater New England area of the States for that matter. The first time I had the distinct pleasure of catching them live was this past fall, at GARCIA's (The CAPITOL THEATER ). The INTERLOPERS were the official featured After-party, following the MICKEY HART BAND's absolutely freakin' STELLAR show at the CAPITOL THEATER in Port Chester NY that night... pretty darn hard act to follow, but I'm tellin' you what... the INTERLOPERS kept those Positive Vibes & groooove thangs going, going, strong in to the wee hours, & they did it up right; they made it happen CAP'n!!! Super added bonus... MICKEY HART's Lead vocalists, CRYSTAL MONEE HALL & JOE BAGALE sat in with the INTERLOPERS on a few tunes - twas sublime! Keep your antennas tuned for more stuff from the INTERLOPERS, because they're coming, you're going to hear about the shows, & they are going to be gooood, good for your body & good for your soul :D ! Click it...
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Submitted by marye on Wed, 02/19/2014 - 10:08

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one more time. On YouTube, click the Share tab, then click Embed. You will get a window of code. Copy it. Paste it here. All should be well. Thank you!
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Submitted by ste4ve on Wed, 02/19/2014 - 10:29

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Was just wondering: Our DCP (Victim or the Crime, by accident of birth) has around 1700 views (putting it in about 6th place of the most viewed videos), and yet does not show up on the Dead's YouTube list. How come?
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Submitted by Bob weird on Wed, 02/19/2014 - 14:22

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I've been really digging everyone's stuff! I hope you enjoy my submission this year, missed doing it last year. One of my favorite Hunter/Garcia tunes.
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Submitted by staggerleib on Wed, 02/19/2014 - 14:31

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Lead singer, lead guitar, the arrangement, all of it! Great song choice as well.
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Submitted by jim wise on Wed, 02/19/2014 - 14:49

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seems like some of the video submissions are not getting to the official you tube site ... i submitted my own a while back and as of yet nadda
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Submitted by chuckpuckett on Wed, 02/19/2014 - 18:31

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Here's one for DeadCoversProject 2014. Hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed playing it.
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Submitted by chuckpuckett on Wed, 02/19/2014 - 18:36

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We'll segue into IKYR from almost anything :), but this seems particularly "right", especially when we started playing IKYR in A (for years, we played it in E). Hope you like it.
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Submitted by chuckpuckett on Wed, 02/19/2014 - 18:40

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I pasted the embed html into a comment. No show. OTOH, there's a whole slue of similar postings of the same recent (ie, tonight) vintage. Just the Subject, maybe a line of text or two. No video.weird. CANCEL THAT!. Just seems to take a minute or so show up. All is well.
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Submitted by wunnation on Thu, 02/20/2014 - 09:09

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I can verify what gdradio is saying. The youtube playlist has been at 73 videos since about Valentines day. After a couple of days, we went all out, and our videos are currently tagged all of the following: DeadCoversProject DeadCoversProject2014 DeadCoversProject 2014 Dead Covers Project 2014 so I think we've ruled out user error, here. Let me know if there's anything else that I can do :)
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Submitted by mattcappadocia… on Thu, 02/20/2014 - 14:10

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....whatever. Check your Private Messages on your gdnet My Account Page to the right -> INBOX Also, on their Facebook page banner, there is an -> to the right. If you click that, you can embed you're video into a Comment there too.
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Submitted by wunnation on Thu, 02/20/2014 - 10:30

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This contest is a fun opportunity to pay tribute to this wonderful band.I mean, the contest doesn't even really have prizes, so who cares who wins? I just like being part of it!
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Submitted by UncleJohn78 on Thu, 02/20/2014 - 14:44

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Greetings from The Silent Trees! We're back this year covering Peggy-O. We're enjoying everyone's videos, what a fun project! Here's ours, hope you dig it! If you want to hear more, give us a like on Facebook. Thanks everyone. We love you Jerry!! https://www.facebook.com/thesilenttrees
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Submitted by gdradio on Thu, 02/20/2014 - 14:49

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it isn't about winning but it WOULD be helpful if the videos were even INCLUDED to be AT LEAST SEEN which they aren't understand?
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Submitted by jim wise on Thu, 02/20/2014 - 20:50

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nice work everyone! here's my version of "New Potato Caboose" ... hope you like it
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Submitted by Dead Pondo on Fri, 02/21/2014 - 10:15

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I guess I didn't know this was a contest, I thought it was just a collection of music...a project. Where does it say it's a contest? Has it been a contest in years past? We're all winners as far as I can tell. Nice playin' ya'll! Peace, JP
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Submitted by ste4ve on Sat, 02/22/2014 - 14:50

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Rave reviews from the Grateful Dead Scholar's Caucus this weekend in ABQ. See what all the buzz is about!
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Submitted by thovex on Sat, 02/22/2014 - 22:52

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We hope you enjoy. Cheers.
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Submitted by Someone-uninte… on Sun, 02/23/2014 - 04:07

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My Attempt at Birdsong...