Category: Blog
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From Wake of the Flood to the Wall of Sound: Weather Report Suite Live
Read more: From Wake of the Flood to the Wall of Sound: Weather Report Suite LiveFor a little over a year, Weather Report Suite entered the regular rotation. As the Dead played the suite regularly, they transformed it from Bobby’s original orchestral vision to a monstrous jamming vehicle. And then it was gone; “summers fade, roses die.”
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Orchestrating Weather Report Suite: Recording for Wake of the Flood
Read more: Orchestrating Weather Report Suite: Recording for Wake of the FloodBobby had long imagined Weather Report Suite as a multi-movement ensemble piece that would push the band in a new direction. But even as the Dead entered the studio to record Wake of the Flood, he still had not completed the composition. Read more about how it all came together…
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Completing Weather Report Suite: Lyrics, Collaboration, and Creation
Read more: Completing Weather Report Suite: Lyrics, Collaboration, and CreationBob Weir had already written Sugar Magnolia, Playin’ in the Band, and Cassidy, among other great Dead tunes. But Weather Report Suite would be Bobby’s most ambitious compositional project to date…
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Becoming Weather Report Suite: The Evolution of the Prelude in 1972-73
Read more: Becoming Weather Report Suite: The Evolution of the Prelude in 1972-73Before Weather Report Suite became a fully formed composition, Bobby spent months shaping the Prelude live onstage, fragment by fragment. From tentative 1972 sketches to luminous spring 1973 jams, the Prelude evolved publicly into a brilliant transition piece and one of the Dead’s most evocative musical landscapes. Read more about the development of the Prelude…
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Baba O’Reilly> Tomorrow Never Knows
Read more: Baba O’Reilly> Tomorrow Never KnowsGetting ready for tomorrow, December 17th, I realized we have a Baba O’Reilly> Tomorrow Never Knows encore from the December 17, 1992 show at the Oakland Coliseum. I have been listening to a lot of these recently. And I just love this pairing, bringing together all-time songs from The Who and The Beatles. The coupling…
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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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Definitive Setlists
Read more: Definitive SetlistsHere at Grateful Dead, we are putting a definitive list of setlists together. Eventually, this will allow you to search for music and shows in all sorts of different ways. I started in 1977 and went forward. Compiling the setlists from the 70s, 80s, and 90s were a relative breeze. But as I returned to…
