July 2008


Road Trips Volume One, Number Three Road Trips Volume One, Number Three

If you’re up on your Dick’s Picks releases—and we know you are—you’ll recall that Dick’s Picks 35, released in 2005, featured some smokin’ performances from the summer of 1971. The master reels from which it was culled, long believed to have been lost, had turned up miraculously on a houseboat owned by the parents of former GD keyboardist Keith Godchaux...>>More

Dead World Roundup

Bill Cutler: With a Lot of Help from His Friends
Drum roll, please…The 2008 Patience and Perseverance Award for a Rock Recording goes to….BILL CUTLER!
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Phil and Friends Complete Historic Warfield Run
Gather ’round all you young’uns and I’ll tell you a crazy story about the old days. See, when, I was comin’ up as a Dead Head, back in the fall of ’69, all we had were vinyl albums to listen to.
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Jackie Greene: New Album is Out; Touring with P&F and Solo
For anyone who has followed Greene’s remarkable pre-P&F career, the depth and excellence of Giving Up the Ghost will come as no surprise.
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The Education of Robin Sylvester
Just from seeing him onstage with RatDog the past few years, and with Missing Man Formation earlier, I could tell that Robin Sylvester would be a nice guy. He just exudes a certain warmth. He always looks like he’s happy to be onstage, and indeed that is the case.
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Bob, Phil, Mickey and Friends Rock for Barack at the Warfield
Word began to get out on the afternoon of Friday, February 1st, and quickly spread like a prairie fire: Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bob Weir were getting together to play some music for the first time since 2004
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KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon Fundraiser
On Saturday February 9th, 2008 from 9AM PST to 1AM PST
Produced and hosted by David Gans, is a fund-raiser for America's first listener-sponsored radio station.
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A Big Weekend of Music and Fun from Bob and Phil
January 25-26 was a big weekend for fans of Dead-family music in the S.F. Bay Area, with both Bob Weir and Phil Lesh making appearances with groups of respective “friends.”
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Phil & Jackie Help Celebrate Bill Graham’s Birthday Bash
Rock impresario Bill Graham may be long gone, but his memory and his legacy live on, and the philanthropic organization that bears his name continues to do important work.
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