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    Grateful Dead Press Conference To Announce Partnership With UC Santa Cruz

    The conference is over. We will be putting it up permanently on this page as soon as we get it.

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    (NOTE: Contrary to rumor, this has nothing to do with any sort of Dead reunion or tour)

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  • hemphit
    16 years 8 months ago
    Conference.
    "You have an empty cup that only love can fill.". Peace and Happiness to all. Namaste<><>....Very cool. Can not wait...
  • Grasshead
    16 years 8 months ago
    Press Conference stuff
    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.”
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    jackstraw172
    16 years 8 months ago
    GDP
    NO REUNION, just political stuff.
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Grateful Dead Press Conference To Announce Partnership With UC Santa Cruz

The conference is over. We will be putting it up permanently on this page as soon as we get it.

 

(NOTE: Contrary to rumor, this has nothing to do with any sort of Dead reunion or tour)

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Submitted by Dancingbear.dk on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 01:46

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I won't hold my breath waiting for a refund of my contribution to the Terrapin Station project, but after this announcement they should lower the price of the album by ten bucks, at least.
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Submitted by thump66 on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 07:57

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Bring on Phil... this is nonsense
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Submitted by Olompali on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 09:02

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LOL!!!Lesh was the "genius" behind the Terrapin Station holographic Jerry museum/ Buy the CD to fund it plan.
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Submitted by anotherhead on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 09:16

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I just don't understand why all of this is taken so SERIOUSLY . . .(must be important) & then i learned what GDTRFB meant –]
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Submitted by cousinkix1953 on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 21:12

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"All that material, which Law explained would have found a home in the Dead's once-planned Terrapin Station museum, will be housed at the McHenry library at Santa Cruz." RELIX Magazine There is your answer. I haven't seen this comment in any other article regarding that UCSC deal. It's been more than a week. Don't bet on them posting the MP-3 of that press conference here either...
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Submitted by presto on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 11:05

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im hopin they announce soon