Category: Blog
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The 2005 Thanksgiving Day Massacre: Archive Removes the Dead
Read more: The 2005 Thanksgiving Day Massacre: Archive Removes the DeadIn what quickly became billed as the Thanksgiving Day Massacre, on November 22, 2005, Archive.org, at the Grateful Dead’s request, stopped all streaming and downloading of Dead shows on Archive. Outcry from Deadheads against what they saw as a money grab contrary to the band’s ethics came quick and furious, and a petition to make…
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Join Our New Facebook Group
Read more: Join Our New Facebook GroupWe invite you to become a member of our new Grateful Dead of the Day Facebook group. And also click through to read about how our old 27,000 Deadhead-strong Facebook page ended up in Zuckerberg’s jail.
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Steve Brown
Read more: Steve BrownAfter working at KSFO Radio, managing the band Friendly Stranger, and promoting records, Steve Brown – Bones to friends – served in the US Navy Reserve from 1966 to 1971 and on active duty from June 1967 to December 1968. During that time, Brown created the music tapes for the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet, which…
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Chelsea Clinton Backstage with the Grateful Dead
Read more: Chelsea Clinton Backstage with the Grateful DeadA thirteen-year-old Chelsea Clinton, together with some teenybopper friends and a phalanx of Secret Service agents, attended the June 26, 1993 show at RFK. Backstage at the show, Chelsea ended up hanging with Jerry and Bobby, but not before she was accosted by Bear. Read all about Chelsea’s Dead experience…
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Dancin’ In The Streets
Read more: Dancin’ In The StreetsWhenever the Dead turned to Dancin’ In The Streets, often to open a set, you knew things were about to get hot and funky. But there were some different flavors to this funk because the Dead trotted out Dancin’ during three distinct periods, first, from its debut on July 3, 1966 until late 1970, then…
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Cracking Open The Year
Read more: Cracking Open The YearThe Grateful Dead often took their time getting going in any given year. Sure, through 1972, they started each new year sometime in January. But in the years after that, they were far more likely to start in February or even March than early in the year. Check out our breakdown of how the boys…
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The Days Between
Read more: The Days BetweenThe days between is a fitting name for the holy week between Jerry’s birthday on August 1st and the anniversary of his passing on the 9th, referencing, as it does, one of the last collaborations between Robert Hunter and Garcia. Read our reflection on the tune and listen to some lovely versions of this emotional…
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Videos on Grateful Dead of the Day
Read more: Videos on Grateful Dead of the DayEagle-eye visitors to the site might have already seen that we have re-introduced videos to the website. Up to this point, we have over 400 videos on the site and are adding more daily. You can see a complete list of all the videos on Grateful Dead of the Day, which is now accessible via…
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It’s A Far Gone Lullaby, Sung Many Years Ago
Read more: It’s A Far Gone Lullaby, Sung Many Years AgoDear Grateful Dead of the Day community, Normally today, Margaret and I would be putting together the show notes for our latest episode of the Heads’ Tales podcast. Unfortunately, we are instead both caring for parents – Margaret’s father and my mother – who have fallen gravely ill the last two weeks. As anyone who…
