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    The Dead Covers Project

    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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    What about those vids without top ratings?
    Maybe it's time to start highlighting some of the bands and renditions that didn't get as much attention. So many submissions, and yet it seems the same bands keep getting reposted. What about some of the less popular/lesser "known" bands that offered some interesting takes on Dead tunes? Do they not get their day in the sun now that the official contest is over? I mean, since you're still posting vids, it would be nice to see a more diverse offering. Sure, we could search ourselves, but it's nice to see them up here where they are "highlighted." Some of those small bands could probably use the exposure and appreciation.
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Submitted by lilgoldie on

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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Submitted by Hal_M on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 14:28

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Local L.A. band DOG GONE has covered a number of Dead tunes. The core of the band has always been Daniel Raznick and Hal Masonberg on lead guitar and rhythm guitar respectively. I've posted some of our Dead covers up on Youtube. Since each incarnation of the band has a somewhat different sound, I've posted a couple of versions of our EYES OF THE WORLD-> BIRD SONG as they are, truly, two different animals. Plus, one is video of us live, while the other is also from a live gig, but the image is some fun psychedelic imagery to accompany the sounds. Same with the SCARLET BEGONIAS. Some of our faves. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQViNTWvR40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P_ityqosfo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6lW4cnraNo All have been tagged on youtube as “DeadCoversProject"
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Submitted by Hal_M on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 16:25

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Since the Dead covered this Dylan tune AND released a live cut of it (Postcards from the Hanging), I guess that means it falls under the general rules of "either written by or recorded by the Dead." At least I hope it does :) Here's DOG GONE's version of SHE BELONGS TO ME.
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Submitted by acornaxe on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 20:27

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I think it's appropriate, and perhaps even long overdue. Given the difficulty of finding people who can play Grateful Dead songs at all, other than campfire versions of simpler things. Since living in or near a city is almost a pre-requisite for playing any kind of rock, let alone alternative music, it's gonna be a mighty hard row to hoe for me, but it doesn't say specifically you have to have a band. I spent from January through July trying to put a group together, all to no avail, so someone will have to suffer through, however briefly, my solo attempts, because this is TOO FREAKIN' GOOD to pass up. Having said that out loud, i will now of course find myself working overtime through the next Further tour. Everybody that can play - get out and do this - it'll be Go-o-od for you! "Althea told me, now cool down, boy, settle back, easy - Jim".
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Submitted by acornaxe on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 20:35

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I think it's appropriate, and perhaps even long overdue. Given the difficulty of finding people who can play Grateful Dead songs at all, other than campfire versions of simpler things. Since living in or near a city is almost a pre-requisite for playing any kind of rock, let alone alternative music, it's gonna be a mighty hard row to hoe for me, but it doesn't say specifically you have to have a band. I spent from January through July trying to put a group together, out here in the California gold country foothills, all to no avail, so someone will have to suffer through, however briefly, my solo attempts, because this is TOO FREAKIN' GOOD to pass up. Having said that out loud, I will now of course find myself working overtime through the next Further tour. Everybody that can play - get out and do this - it'll be Go-o-od for you! "Althea told me, now cool down, boy, settle back, easy - Jim".
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Submitted by shrams23 on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 22:36

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Man, sorry about all the repeat posts. I kept getting a gateway error message and I assumed they didn't submit. Hope it doesn't deter anyone from checking out the vids.Peace
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Submitted by GRTUD on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 03:06

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Can't wait to see the entries ... Something to look forward to for sure.
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Submitted by HoHW on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 09:43

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Dead Covers is an excellent idea! Thanks to all involved for such a cool idea. check out the submissions for the Hell or High Water Band
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Submitted by Hyryder on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 15:15

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This is my band Hyryder from Indianapolis and a complete set from July of this year at the Jerry birthday show. Setlist: China>Rider, Cumberland Blues, To Lay Me Down, U.S. Blues> Not Fade Away, He's Gone, Touch of Grey, My Sisters and Brothers. This is part of first set. Setlist: Ain't No Bread in the Breadbox, Brown Eyed Women, Candyman, The Way You Do The Things You Do, Loser, Tough Mama
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Submitted by rattlesnakejones on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 15:58

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Deal has always been an important song to me. The day Jerry died I was on vacation in Hawaii. I was in a Van on my way to go parasailing and the driver was listening to the radio. The song playing on the radio was "Deal" i thought to myself "wow what a cool radio station" But after the song ended the dj came on to share the news of Jerry's passing. The station was playing all Dead, all day as a tribute, but Deal has always stuck out as the last Dead song I heard before I heard the tragic news that changed everything forever......
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Submitted by ziphler on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 15:20

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so far not much is showing up at www.youtube.com/gratefuldead but if you search youtube for DeadCoversProject it returns 25 pages of results - since my video only shows up in the latter I'm hoping you guys are aware of all the other entries and it would be nice if you let everyone see em all. thanks for doing this
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Submitted by Doctor T on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:32

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As a video artist, I'd love to see a parallel project in which video artists were invited to make videos using music from their favorite Dead, Furthur, Phil, Ratdog performances
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Submitted by Canyon Critter on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 00:01

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Love the Videos and I hope you all figured out how to embed by now....Everyone learned well....except for the part about the dimensions....only thing you have to do (and you can edit your comments if you need to) is change the dimensions of the width......you should have no greater than 400 for the Width! Whatever the number says in the embed code you should change it to 400 or less. I think I answered everyone who wanted to know how to embed, but if not you can always PM or email me. Anyway.....I've got some things looking good coming up it looks like for this contest, can't wait. Looks Like Furthur is playing with The Allman Brothers at Wanee Music Festival in 2012 (wohoooooo!) So here's a teaser I did for the kids in 2011 down at the Suwanee River to get exctied. And the portrait of the famous Calveras County Festival 2010 ~Furthur Fest Can't wait to get to work on these actual band videos! I'm looking forward to it. ~Critter
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Submitted by unclejohnthezef on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 04:11

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here are my kids singing birdsong right after amy winehouse died (i thought of jerry on the train saying "Janis, i have always loved you") our favorite bakery out in the country has an awesome open mic every sunday
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Submitted by KindredSpiritRocksNJ on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:01

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Kindred Spirit Rocks-One More Saturday Nighthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRw_z783TTs We had a lot of fun putting together the video version of our "live in concert" recording of One More Saturday Night- we played last July at the annual Lawrenceville NJ Fireworks concert for 5000+ people, Recorded our whole 3 hour show in 16 track soundboard quality sound. We hope you'll enjoy the imagery and sound on this! Come out and see us when you are in NJ!