Topic 40 of 100 [music]: Grateful Dead
 Response 1 of 8: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jan 13, 1998 (07:39) * 15 lines 
 

 Topic 40 of 100 [music]: Grateful Dead
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 Topic 40 of 100 [music]: Grateful Dead
 Response 5 of 8: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 18, 1998 (21:41) * 36 lines 
 

. Everything is in order as
it was and the site is fully operational, with the exception of the
chat room which is undergoing renovations. Please update your links and
bookmarks.
All tapelists saved locally on the old site have a message referring
visitors to the new address. All the tapelists from the old site have
been moved to the new site. When you visit the new site and click on
your list you will be able to determine the new url for your
tapelist. Of course, if you only submitted a link to your list,
nothing has changed at all.

As always, if you have any questions or comments regarding the site,
please let me know.

Regards,

Jim Denaro (jim@demonsys.com)
Curator, Grateful Dead Tapelists
http://bertha.wwimpact.com/gdtapelists/
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 Topic 40 of 100 [music]: Grateful Dead
 Response 6 of 8: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar  2, 1998 (02:14) * 72 lines 
 

This probably belongs in the media conference but the media conference
hasn't attracted enough journalists and writers yet to make it hot stuff
(I'm workin' on it, I'm workin' on it) so here goes.

Uh, sit down, deadheads.


this was apparently in the LA Times...


POP EYE
Weir, Lesh, Hart Bring Dead to Life
By STEVE HOCHMAN

What would you call a new band featuring three key members of the
Grateful Dead performing three-hour sets of the old band's music? Dead
Again? Half Dead? Dead Remains? Deadheads are calling it the answer to their
prayers. The name is the one thing left to be determined in plans for a tour
this summer by singer-guitarist Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh and
percussionist Mickey Hart, along with auxiliary Dead keyboardist Bruce
Hornsby.
They will anchor a band that will headline the third annual
Furthur Festival, a Dead-related tour created in the wake of Jerry Garcia's
August 1995 death to keep the Deadhead community together. Hornsby is
expected to handle most of the lead vocals on songs that had been sung by
Garcia, while most of Garcia's lead guitar work will be turned over to jazz-
oriented musician Stan Franks, though there is talk of guests joining in on
some shows, with such names as Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton popping up in the
Deadhead rumor mill. Dead spokesman Dennis McNally would not confirm the
plans, but sources close to the band say that Lesh, who had declined similar
proposals, found he was missing the experience of performing the music that
had been his life for 30 years.
Short of Garcia's resurrection, it's the news many Deadheads have
most been hoping to hear.
"They had talked about [reuniting] at the end of the millennium, but
why wait?" says Toni Brown, publisher of Brooklyn-based Deadhead magazine
Relix. "We were all tired of waiting."
Others who were waiting for such news are concert promoters, who
had missed the reliable and sizable business of a Grateful Dead tour. In the
decade before Garcia's death, the San Francisco band pitched camp annually
among the top-grossing tours with steady sales at both arenas and stadiums.
The Furthur Festival, even with Weir and Hart each fronting bands,
couldn't come close to that. Last year, with the Black Crowes headlining,
the tour was only the 47th-biggest U.S. tour, averaging attendance of about
8,600 and a total box-office gross of $6.3 million for 28 dates, according
to figures magazine.
"It won't fill the [Dead's] hole," Gary Bongiovanni, Pollstar's
editor-in-chief, says of the reunion. "But that's not to say it won't be a
great touring act. And obviously with the higher profile connected to the
Dead name, you'd expect it to do much better this year."
Can the music live up to the Dead?
"Without Jerry it's a totally different thing," Brown says. "But
last year many people said the most rewarding thing was when Weir finally
played Dead tunes. And having new players gives it credibility and its own
voice. And who knows? It could blossom into something of its own.
DEAD TIME: While they're waiting for summer, Deadheads can keep busy
reliving the old days with "The Deadhead's Taping Compendium, Volume I," an
in-depth guide to the vast flow of concert tapes traded freely among the
most serious fans. Compiled by Michael M. Getz and John R. Dwork, the book
is due in May. So detailed are its show-by-show descriptions and
analyses of
available tapes that its nearly 600 pages take us only through 1974.
However, it does reach back way before the Dead itself came
together, starting with a 1959 show by the College of San Mateo Jazz Band,
which included Phil Lesh on trumpet. There are also such oddities as a 1962
recording of Jerry Garcia's folk band the Sleepy Hog Hollow Stompers at the
San Carlos Jewish Community Center. It's much more information than anyone
who isn't obsessed with finding the greatest-ever performance of "Dark Star"
needs, but even a casual Deadhead should get some flashbacks thumbing
through these pages.

Copyright Los Angeles Times

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 Topic 40 of 100 [music]: Grateful Dead
 Response 7 of 8: taakak  (KitchenManager) * Sun, Mar 21, 1999 (01:31) * 1 lines 
 

Since it's been over a year later, what happened?

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 Topic 40 of 100 [music]: Grateful Dead
 Response 8 of 8: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Mar 22, 1999 (08:31) * 2 lines 
 

I'm not sure. Any deadheads here?

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