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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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    songstofill
    8 years 10 months ago
    Contest?
    You're right man. My bad. It's a project and it's a great project. Perhaps the term "leader board" is throwing some of us off. And it does feel like there is a reward or "prize" a.k.a. getting posted on the home page. I will take your advice and just enjoy. Thanks for giving me another perspective. Jim
  • Dead Pondo
    8 years 10 months ago
    Contest?
    Folks - I don't see anywhere on the Dead Covers Project page that this is a contest. If it is a contest, please let me know...cuz if it is, I'm not sure I even want to enter. From what I can tell, this is a project for fans of the dead to share some music, art, and love. Why does everything have to be so competitive these days? Just enjoy the music and be happy you're alive to experience it! (Or not, sorry I don't mean to tell y'all what to do.) Let there be songs to fill the air! JP
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    songstofill
    8 years 10 months ago
    Like it or not
    I know this has been brought up before. But, it's hard to understand how a popularity contest based on likes has anything to do with the integrity of the music. We could ask all our Facebook friends to like a video whether they actually listen to it or not. Grandma, neighbors, coworkers, etc, we are stepping outside of an audience that knows anything about the dead. Sorry, just an old deadhead's grumblings—breathe. Miss you Jerry!
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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 broken_angel on Mon, 02/23/2015 - 23:45

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How do you get the nice YouTube links to show up here? I just was able to post the URL that isn't really a link. ANy help would be greatly appreciated!
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Submitted by marye on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 08:54

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On YouTube in the Share tab, get the embed code and paste it here. Should work.
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Submitted by ollinarageed on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:25

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Thanks for selecting our version of Bird Song for today's featured Dead Covers project video, we're eternally grateful (pun intended). We have a few more videos to post, which we're adding to our Dead Covers Project 2015 playlist on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL6dbBL6mZzPGIs9pc03i1d4DC-ID71ql To hear more of Stackabones' original Psychedelic Americana, check us out here: http://stackabones.com/ And if you're in the NY/CT vicinity, come see us live on March 7th at BRYAC: https://www.facebook.com/events/1578121159098892/
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Submitted by marye on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 14:05

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Q:. Where's the list of all the featured videos so far? A: Coming in next month's March Madness, where you'll be able to watch and rate the featured clips. Starts mid-March. Meanwhile, if you want to see all the clips submitted so far, go here.
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Submitted by broken_angel on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 16:58

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Having a lot of trouble with this site. There appear to be links to some of the videos but not others. Refreshing the page doesn't help. However sending a ''reply'' message to the posts with no links telling them their link is not visible and then returning to the page for some reason forces the llink or video to appear. I feel like I'm being punked. Weird problem.
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Submitted by broken_angel on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 17:19

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I have solved the links/videos problem and it was on my end, kind of. I use an iMac computer and thus have Safari as a default browser. Now I know for sure, Safari sucks! I switched over to my Firefox browser and lo and behold, videos are now loading as they should. If you're having trouble with the videos not loading use Firefox. Last question/comment. There seems to be conflicting info on the tags. I read somewhere that the tag should read DeadCoversProject2015 and then I read here that the tag should read DeadCoversProject (no 2015). Can I get clarification on this? I also think I saw somewhere that the tag should read Dead Covers Project 2015 (shown with spaces). Sorry to be such a pain in the bucket!
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Submitted by marye on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 17:40

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tag it with whatever else makes sense, but be sure to tag it with that.
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Submitted by broken_angel on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 17:52

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Gotcha! And thank you for all you do, Mary!
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Submitted by geomeister on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 04:57

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Submitted by geomeister on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 18:09

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Yo...You guys sound real real good. Congrats on the tight sound and the vibe.... Peace....g
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Submitted by The ScarletBegonia on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 10:35

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DAVID BRYAN & FRIENDS: Brokedown Palace at that church band!! WOW to another coverJust wanted to say I really admire your work. So original compared to everything else I have seen. Where are ya'll based? Do you have a youtube page or anything? MUST see this band!!!
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Submitted by David Bryan an… on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 13:46

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or should i just call you by your first name, "the"? or mr. or ms. begonia? :-) thanks SO MUCH for your kind words! we are based out of NYC. if we can ever find funding, we would love to go on tour! where are you? if you want to send me your email address, i'll be happy to put you on our band listserve, for gig info. ALSO, we did a FULL LENGTH concert (featuring kenny brooks from ratdog) in that church last august! and we had it professionally recorded. that should be out later this year, and we'd send out an email about that as well. thanks again for your enthusiasm. i really appreciate it. cheers, david
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Submitted by broken_angel on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 18:08

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Tried posting a YouTube link for the first time here and this is how it turned out. Not optimal, for sure. Any hints on how to get a better transfer of a link? I used the embed feature on YouTube and this is what it gave me.
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Submitted by broken_angel on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 23:26

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Are we supposed to be posting videos here on our own? Or are we only supposed to post on YouTube and tag properly? Do the videos then somehow make their way over here? Still confused; guess I'll just listen to the music play!
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Submitted by marye on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 09:16

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is post them, properly tagged as above, on YouTube. That's what gets them into our queue from which Featured videos get selected, etc. A lot of folks take the additional step of posting them here (use the embed code on YouTube), which is nice too.
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Submitted by Dave Williams on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 10:27

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I was able to upload it to YouTube, tagged as "Dead Covers Project 2015", but have no idea how it gets to the site here. Any beta would be appreciated, thanks.
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Submitted by wunnation on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 18:16

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@dave williamsTo post your video here, - go to your youtube video, - click 'share' down just below the title of your video. - click the 'embed' tab just below that, when it pops up - copy that text, and paste it into a comment here. To officially "enter", you'll need to 'tag' your video. To do this... enter the 'video manager' in youtube, and add these tags to your video DeadCoversProject DeadCoversProject2015 DeadCoversProject 2015 Supposedly only the first one is necessary, but there was some disagreement about it last year, so I tagged all three, and it worked. Cheers.
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Submitted by broken_angel on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 01:25

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This song is also dedicated to all the loved ones we have lost along the way. Though not technically a cover, I hope it can be included in the Covers Project. Sunshine Daydream on a Saturday Night, Rest Now in Peace We Will Carry Your Tunes
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Submitted by Dave Williams on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 15:25

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Thanks for the instructions, I should be able to get that done.
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Submitted by Dave Williams on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 16:40

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After a whole lot of head scratching I figured out that if you're on a Mac, don't use Safari, it just won't work as it should. As soon as I tried Firefox everything got easy.
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Submitted by broken_angel on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 19:51

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I found the same issues using Safari on Mac. Firefox solved all my problems, too. By the way, I've found some awesome musical nuggets among the videos here and found a way to convert them to MP3 for my iPod so I can listen in my car. The URL below will get you there. http://www.video2mp3.net/ I'll be adding some of the Covers Project music permanently to my iPod! Lovin' the submissions by all. Tons of fun. Thank you to all the good people taking the time to manage the rabble!
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Submitted by peter g on Mon, 03/02/2015 - 12:29

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Thanks Eddy Bee. Your artistic vision made this a reality.