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Grateful Dead Download Series
Dick's Picks
Multi-track Vault series -- are now
available for direct downloading through iTunes or through
Dead.net's own GDStore.com.
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Merl
Saunders RIP - (10-24-2008) 16:44 PDT SAN FRANCISCO --
Keyboardist Merl Saunders, the gentle lion of the San Francisco
music scene best known as co-captain of guitarist Jerry Garcia's
solo excursions outside the Grateful Dead, died Friday at Kaiser
Permanente Medical Center after fighting infections.
www.SFgate.com
Donna Jean and the Tricksters - Album
debut - Jan. 29, '08
Vault Releases:
The New Grateful Dead release series: Road Trips.
From the GD website.
" Here's the deal: We all loved the Dicks Picks series. Over
the course of 36 amazing releases between 1993 and 2005, GD
archivists Dick Latvala (R.I.P.) and David Lemieux continually blew
our little minds plucking one righteous show after another from the
vaults.
With Road Trips we're going to try something a little different. We
want to plug in a few more pieces of the Grateful Dead puzzle by
putting the spotlight on different tours and series of shows that
have been neglected through the years.
Also, every Road Trips release will come with a
beautifully designed booklet containing an essay about how the music
on the discs fits into the Dead's long history, plus many rare and
never-before-seen photographs."
We think you'll agree it's a pretty cool package.
Vault Release Miscellaneous
Winterland
1973: The Complete Recordings - 9 discs
Coming in Sept. Rocking
the Cradle: Egypt 1978 CD/DVD
Road Trips Series
Road
Trips Vol.1. No 4
- Live Oct. 1978 - Released Aug. 2008
Road
Trips Vol.1. No 3
- Live Summer '71 - Released May 2008
Full Show Road Trips
Download only
Spectrum
11/5/79 | Spectrum
11/06/79 - Sept. '08 release
Grateful
Dead Download Series
Vol.
2 | Vol.
3 |Vol.
5
|Vol. 7
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8 | Volume
9 | Vol.
10 | Vol.
11 |Vol. 12
| Family
Dog
Dick's Picks:
Dick's Pick #36 One of the top Grateful Dead shows -
9/21/72
DVD Releases
Coming in Sept. Rocking
the Cradle: Egypt 1978 CD/DVD
Dead
Ahead Expanded w/bonus material review - Order
Festival
Express Includes the G. Dead in 1970
Studio Releases
Now
available individually, single studio CD re-masters; previously only available by
purchasing the box-set Beyond
Description.
Wake of the
Flood |Mars Hotel |Blues
for Allah | Terrapin
Station |Shakedown
Street | Go To
Heaven | In The
Dark | Built To
Last
Dead Set | Reckoning
Of
interest:
Donna Jean and the Tricksters Album
debut
Released Jan '08
Dark
Star Orchestra performs 5/5/77 -
Order
Phil
and Friends DVD - October 31, 2006, release date.
Books:
Grateful
Dead Gear: The Band's Instruments, Sound Systems, and Recording
Sessions from 1965 to 1995
- Order
Jerry Garcia Band
- Garcia Band releases are
in a separate section.
Vince
Welnick - RIP
- S.F. Chronicle article - See
also
Grateful
Dead to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
The Grateful Dead, among others, will be honored at the 2007
Grammy's
with the prestigious Lifetime
Achievement Award.
Grateful
Dead Symphony
An Orchestral Tribute to the Music of the Grateful Dead
by Russian National Orchestra
"The essence of the Dead's music was improvisation, and the
root of that is an attitude that says transformation is at the
center of all art. Dead Symphony takes different fragments of the
Dead's music and reweaves them into a sparkling tapestry that
satisfies a whole 'nother realm of possibility."
Dennis McNally, Grateful Dead Historian and Publicist
Additional release information is available at itunes.
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Donna
Jean and the Tricksters - Donna Jean teams up with the Zen
Tricksters.
Misc.
Grateful Dead
Aretha
Franklin's reissued album Live
at Fillmore West, on the last page of the liner notes is a
photo of her sitting in a chair at the Fillmore. To the left, there
are paintings on the wall including one of the Grateful Dead.
G.
Dead memories - stories; Meeting Jerry, NYE '72 ...
Rob
Goetz reviews - Most of 1989 and some from '71 & '79.
Ramble
on Joe - Some terrific tape
recommendations through the years and full concert reviews of select
shows.
Bob
Minkin Photos - New. Phil
and Friends Dec. 17 - 19, '04
Garcia
releases: Been
All Around..| Box
Set | Pure
Jerry
Weir
Here review, Bob Weir
compilation's, one side studio and one side live; priced like a singe disc, yet it has two.
Any
Robert Hunter fans? He co-wrote all the songs on Jim Lauderdale's album Heading
for the Hills.
Miscellaneous
Grateful Dead Information
| Grateful Dead and
Yes tour? |
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The Grateful Dead
and Yes considered touring together in 2004; I guess this
never materialized. Cool logo though! |
We began
a project of Grateful
Dead songs.
An essay
about the Grateful Dead's interpretation of Freddie King's blues
classic "Hide
Away."
A super interview
with David Lemieux, Grateful Dead tape archivist, by Eric
Levy.
Visit our
page of Grateful
Dead personnel to see who played in the band at various
times.
An
article about
Warren Haynes from
the SF Chronicle
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