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Grateful Dead :: Covers

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2008-11-21 15:14:44 by uwmryan in Muzzle of Bees | Music Blog
...Grateful Dead were known to bust out a cover song at most of their live shows. Many of them wrapped The Deads signature sound around an already popular composition. Today, I thought I would pull some favorites and new discoveries from the Live Music Archive . While there is a plethora of covers, dates, and versions to choose from, well start...
 
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Covered In Folk: (Not) The Grateful Dead (on Borrowed Tradsongs and the Dead as a Vehicle of Renewal)

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2008-06-06 11:01:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...Grateful Dead show at the Avalon Ballroom. You may not have seen the poster before, but you've seen the graphic it inspired on a hundred Volkswagen bumpers; the image, which Kelley and his long-time partner Stanley Mouse adapted from a nineteenth century illustration for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam , was the source from which the Grateful...
 
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sunday night live :: the grateful dead

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2008-05-04 16:49:00 by scott in anyone's guess
...grateful dead as part of our weekly sunday night live series . the following tracks are excerpted from an acoustic show at the fillmore east in new york back in 1970, and the quality is fairly good considering that's, you know, forty years ago now despite living in san francisco, mere blocks from the upper haight, even, i am by no means an...
 
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Library of Sound vol. 1: The Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel

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2008-10-17 10:14:51 by Berringer in Music Banter
...Grateful Dead. The first album I had the opportunity to hear from them was "Aoxomoxoa"; while that indeed left a lasting impression on me, it was the second recording I ran across that inspired me the most. Released on June 27th of 1974, "The Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel" is an extraordinary summation of the Dead's greatest capability:...
 
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Grateful Dead Roadie: I Took My Job as a Sacred Task

2008-11-04 19:32:13 by John Clarke Jr. in Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
 
...Grateful Dead biopic adapted from Home Before Daylight , already has a shortlist of hot directors including Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, Jonathan Demme and Larry Charles. Those are the guys that would really knock out of the park, producer Stephen Emery tells Rock Daily But like any business these days, the film industry is taking a kick in the...
 
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Single Song Sunday: Rain and Snow (On Traditional Folksongs as Tabula Rosa) Plus 3 bonus Grateful Dead rainsongs

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2007-12-16 00:01:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...Grateful Dead; it is so much a part of the Deadhead canon, in fact, that it was included on jazz/folk/world music label Shanachie 's "The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead". Rather than rehash those old familiars, here's a set of six stellar post-millenial versions, from folk to roots to celtic to true blue bluegrass, just to...
 
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Grateful Dead :: Alpine Valley, Wisconsin - August 8, 1982

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2008-03-21 11:45:34 by uwmryan in Muzzle of Bees | Music Blog
...Grateful Dead lately, specifically Europe 72 in my car. This resurgence in listening habits can be directly traced to seeing Ryan Adams back in September and, more recently, watching the Dark Star Orchestra recreate the Dead experience at the Barrymore During college I rocked Ripple on the regular, which remains to this day my favorite and...
 
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Former Grateful Dead Keyboardist Merl Saunders Dies

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2008-10-24 20:09:59 by John Clarke Jr. in Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
...Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band, died this morning at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco after complications from a stroke. Saunders was 74 Saunders suffered a stroke six years ago and lost the use of one of his hands and his ability to speak, but remained active in Bay Area music circles. Boy, did he get the most out of what he had left,...
 
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Carrie Brownstein says Grateful Dead asked NPR for story in exchange for tune

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2008-05-12 20:30:17 by Margaret Wappler in Soundboard
...Grateful Dead , defunct but forever- rolling-away-the-dew in some mushroom patch or another, can be described as scintillating According to Brownstein, who posted a mix of songs today featuring the Small Faces and Television, the Grateful Dead refused to give her one of its tunes for posting unless we promised to do a piece on them on All...
 
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