Bob Weir: Norway '07!
Completists will want to start looking for a copy of Bob Weir's latest musical appearance, as reported to us by our exclusive Norwegian correspondent, Peter Aas:
Last Saturday (8/25), Petter Olsen, billionaire philanthropist, organic farmer and Dead Head, arranged a private "Summer of Love Revisited, 40 Years After" festival at his estate just south of Oslo, Norway. Petter had invited Bob Weir over for the party as his private guest and Bob flew over right after his tour finished in NJ last Wednesday. We convinced Bobby to join the local tribute band, The Deadaheads, on stage and he finished their set with "He's Gone" > "Truckin'" > "The Other One" > "Not Fade Away" > "One More Saturday Night." The crowd had no idea that he was there and went bananas when he came on stage.
Thanks for that report, Petter! Sounds like a good time was had by all. Who knew that Oslo had a Dead tribute band? We ARE everywhere!
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Some more pictures
http://picasaweb.google.com/deadaheads
Ramme Rokk
I knew he was comin'!
What a great day and Deadaheads has become a great band, now with Jerry licks, Phil Bombs, God-like piano and a hell of a rhythm section! Add Bob Weir and what more can one ask for ! Eco burgers, cold beers and hippies mingling together with the excentric Peter Olsen, Hunters ex girl friend and a few deadheads shaking their bones to Truckin' Ahh what a great day it was. I also have video and lots of pictures of the event, maybe post them somewhere later. Thanx for the autograph Bobby, hope you'll enjoy Carl Hiassens book and come back europe with the Rats and Dogs next year. If not, we got THE band right here in Oslo!
Causes
Petter must be the samaritan that Bob spoke of during his Bonnaroo Solar Stage interview. He said a really wealthy fella contacted him and was looking for a new way to make a difference envronmentally- speaking. Bob was aking for project ideas from the crowd.
Any recordings out there amongst the Norway Deadahead contingent? I bet it was a fun get together.
Susan
Setlist
is there a setlist ?
Bob
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Spanish Jam
Yes!
...there is a setlist, http://www.freewebs.com/deadaheads/songssetlists.htm
Yes, we guess Peter Olsen is the "samaritan", at least he has a deep enviromental concern.
Yes, the show was recorded, we just want to make 100% sure that everybody agree that it is ok to give it away. Better safe then sorry :-)
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DEADAHEADS
"We're not the best at what we do - but we're the only ones who do it (in Norway)"
Wait and Hope
We will have to wait and hope then
Bob W
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Spanish Jam
Hey, if you check out the
Hey, if you check out the band's website at the addy above, scroll down the page and check out the group's cool logo, a SYF reindeer! (Different than the ones pictured above). I'd wear a shirt of that!
test
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Spanish Jam
Deadaheads and weir
Re: [eurotraders] Re: Deadahead
OK, here is the DEADAHEADS' Bob Weir story (in a bit broken English).
Anyway:
The band played a gig last December in Oslo, and via some friends Peter
Olsen (the billionaire that owns the farm Ramme Gård) got a CD of our show.
One of the guys in the band "warned" us that Olsen was a deadhead, and that
we might get a gig at his farm this summer. In February we got a mail from
the director of cultural activities at Ramme, telling us that Olsen wanted
us to play. We said "cool", and in a way forgot about it for a few months.
During May it became clear that the gig would be a part of a one-night
festival, called Ramme Rokke Festival ("Rokke" has a double meanding, "Rock"
and the fish "Stingray"). The other bands would be "CC Cowboys", "Home
Groan" and the superb Neil Young cover band "Young Neils".
Deadaheads and weir part 2
During our talks with the festival manager he once said that Olsen would try
to get Bobby over, something we quietly laughed at, and called wishful
thinking amongst ourselves. In June we got informed that Olsen actually had
dinner with Weir in New York (?), and we knew of another Norwegian, Morten
(the guy that tipped dead.net off with this story), also met Weir (we got a
nice picture of them, backstage in NY, June 14.). But we still thought it
was too far out to believe that Bobby actually would come to our gig, and in
a way we decided not to focus on it.
During the summer we finally found our keyboard player (hard to find someone
for that seat), and fooled back and forth with ideas for a setlist for
Ramme.