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This has to be about Rhino, whether or not they are still in control, and it has to have something to do with access to the vault or future releases. I noticed an abrupt halt to the release of 70's material from the most generous head I have never known. I have a feeling this is going to be an exciting thing about access to alot of the vault material. If it were bad news, I really don't think they would make us wait.

The Grateful Dead held thier first official press conference since last Tuesday's nightly bens-over spectacular to announce that they will be PRESSING more GRATEFUL announcments about thier CONFERENCES upcoming in the past.

It must just be... A Grateful Dead CLASS and / or a GD Degree :o)( with credits for attended shows ) Deadhead

The Grateful Dead to donate warm up suits for the UCSC Women's Basketball Team a la the Lithuanian Olympic Team.

St. Dilbert for President!

they could just mean the allman bros/ratdog show already sch for there in august... sometimes folks just refer to any member of the dead's bands as the dead and it runs from there! muffin www.creativemuffin.com

maybe they're giving rebates to everyone who bought the overpriced "cd packages"

in other words, a museum, postage stamp, releases, downloads, a collectively written book, etc. either that, or like timmy suggested, more hoopla. what the hell, i like hoopla.

...If a person is in a coastal area where the sea suddenly draws back (many survivors report an accompanying sucking sound), their only real chance of survival, is to run for high ground or seek the high floors of high rise buildings... or Bust out your surfboads!

At the press conference the Dead will condemn, reject, and (of course) renounce the songs "Keep Your Day Job," "Money, Money," and "Picasso Moon." Phil, on behalf of the band, will issue an apology to fans and to the general music world for having unleashed these utterly craptastic songs upon the world. Bob will urge fans, retailers, and even Rhino to erase or scratch out any existence of these songs. The offending songs will be played backwards while Mickey and Billy drum sacred purifying rhythm. It will end an ugly and embarrassing chapter in Dead history. And we will vow to never speak of it again.

Very witty! I agree about Picasso & Day Job, but I gotta say, I dig the part in Money, Money, that goes" I just load my gun & mosey down to the Bank" Reconsider, it's just the image I get {in my head} that cracks me up. Mosey!! PEACE

Isn't David Dodd of the Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics site and book from UC Santa Cruz???? hummmmm, very interesting (rubbing imaginary goateed chin) muffin www.creativemuffin.com

(might as) well well well ... we sit with great(est story ever told) anticipation ...

I've got more important things to do.If its that important I should be able to see it on the front page of The New York Post .......ha ha

Check out this article on UCSC and Data Archival. http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2130 My guess, they have chosen to archive their data at UCSC. Data = Music Support Net Neutrality!

It's an anti-drug statement...They have recently discovered a new drug that get's you off of the bus.

Let's hope for good news!!! Without love in the dream it'll never come true!

FDA better jump on that one, imtwisted2

Historical stuff???? THEY ARE FINALLY GOING TO BUILD IT!!!! Terrapin Station!! :-)

I had been trying for days to figure out just exactly what they were going to announce. Well I just got a call from someone very high up in the organization who asked me NOT to mention his name. Excuse me, coughcoughbobcough. There's going to be a 10% off sale in the store!!!!! So everybody can start their holiday shopping early!! BTW I wear a size XL shirt. Hint hint.

In all the excitement I have not really thought about how to watch it. Do we need any software or will it just play on the home page? Anyone know? I don't want to miss it!!!!

Chia Pet Jerrys? Garcia home clone kits? I'm breathless with anticipation. And why am I against cipation anyway?

...i have no personal knowledge - it's been erased :) - but with the technological wizards inhabiting this place in space...aka dead.net...i'd wager there will be a simple link to the press conference. and if not - UC Santa Cruz will have something later in the day.

university of California at Santa Cruz ??maybe not as bad as some have thought..????

Any one remember this?

Tomorrow, April 24th at 11:00am Pacific Time, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart will participate in a press conference from the Fillmore Auditorium to announce an important new partnership between GDP and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Fans, scholars and Dead Heads of all kinds can watch this event live on dead.net courtesy of iclips.net. Streaming video of the broadcast will be available for a period of time after the conference as well. Fire up your browsers and tune in!

I am really happy to get this announcement via email. I hope dead.net will continue this practice. I sure could have used a heads-up before the Obama concert.

KUU I'm still looking foward to the day the vault goes on sale for 499.50. I guess I'll bank that money for the next news conference

SF Gate got the news already posted!!!!! And frankly this makes me very happy!!! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/23/DDML109ACN… (04-23) 14:36 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The Dead will live on at UC Santa Cruz, in a way. On Thursday, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are scheduled to announce that the archives of the legendary band - 30 years worth of correspondence, business records, merchandise and memorabilia, including stage backdrops, a large "Blues for Allah" stained-glass artwork a fan gave the band in 1978 and some of the life-size skeletons of the band members for the 1987 "Touch of Grey" video shoot - will be donated to the UC Santa Cruz archives. UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal is also scheduled to be on hand for the announcement, which, appropriately enough, will be made at the Fillmore in San Francisco, one of the most storied venues in Bay Area music history. Eileen Law is one of the reasons that much of this material still exists. She was a teenager in the San Francisco psychedelic ballroom scene when the Grateful Dead first hit the stage in 1965. When she started working for the band in 1972, she was put in charge of Dead Heads, the casually formed fan club that came into being after the band invited its fans to write to the address of a San Rafael post office box printed on its 1971 eponymous album (colloquially known as "Skull & Roses" for the artwork that graced the cover). That opened the floodgates for a fan base whose devotion was unprecedented and remains unmatched in the history of rock 'n' roll. They sent in letters, postcards, Christmas cards, gifts and handmade artwork. And Law, who worked for the band for the next 34 years, saved everything. She also kept press clippings dating back to the band's inception in '65, photographs, tickets, back stage passes, handbills, promotional materials, business records, stage backdrops, posters, T-shirts and other Grateful Dead merchandise, issues of the band's erratically published '70s newsletter and the more regularly published Grateful Dead Almanac that began in the '90s, copies of all the band's posters, vinyl albums, CDs, videos, all the awards and the books written about the band, show files, cassette tapes of the hot line messages announcing tour dates, publishing information, thousands of fan-decorated envelopes mailed to the band's ticket office, even all the guest lists that went to the venues the band played. "I was just the person that never shredded," Law said in a phone interview from her home in San Anselmo. "It started off in my little closet," at the Dead's headquarters on Lincoln St. in San Rafael, "and it kept growing and growing, and now it fills up a warehouse." That's 2,000 square feet of a Marin warehouse, to be exact. After the band ended following Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, the surviving members kept the office open, then finally shut down operations in the summer of 2006. In August that year they moved the extensive vault of the band's musical recordings in four refrigerated 18-wheelers to Los Angeles, where it is maintained by Rhino Records, which is licensed to release product from it. At that point, the question arose of what to do with the archive. Both UC Berkeley, where bassist Phil Lesh was once a student, and Stanford, where his son now goes, made a pitch for it. But the Dead members ultimately chose Santa Cruz. The connections between the band and the university are long and deep. They both came into existence at the same time, in the mid-'60s. Law's son-in-law, Cameron Sears, former manager of the Grateful Dead and now of Weir's band RatDog - is a UCSC alumnus, as is the daughter of Alan Trist, head of the Grateful Dead's publishing company, Ice Nine. Santa Cruz Music Professor Fred Lieberman has taught a class in the music of the Grateful Dead for years and has collaborated with Dead drummer Hart on two books. The campus radio station has a weekly show featuring the band's music called "Dead Serious." "I think it's a perfect fit for Santa Cruz - the ethos of the band, the whole idea of community sharing, is really well matched with our campus," said Christine Bunting, head of special collections for McHenry Library, which will house the archive. "Our campus has a great music program, and we're really interested in the study of American vernacular music and popular culture. We also have this whole side that's concerned with social justice and tolerance and community spirit. And I think that fits so perfectly with what the band has done and what the Dead Heads have sustained over the years." McHenry, the university's main library, is currently closed for renovation and expansion. When it reopens in fall 2009, it will have a reading room dedicated to the archive, tentatively named Dead Central, which will be located right at the library entrance. The room will feature music playing and exhibitions of material from the archive, to be curated by Bunting, who, while she doesn't call herself a Dead Head, said she saw the band live several times and their music "helped me get through high school." She said Dead Central will be a place for fans and researchers alike to use as a resource, and she hopes to make as much of it as possible available online. The archive's advisory board - dubbed Slugs & Roses, a blend of the university's banana slug mascot and the Dead's floral icon - includes Nion McEvoy, chairman and CEO of Chronicle Books, who also got his undergraduate degree from UCSC, and Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate Technology, a major U.S. manufacturer of computer hard drives, who has committed in-kind technical support. The library already has the archive of science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, Beat poet, painter and novelist Kenneth Patchen and the only intact collection of photographer Edward Weston's project prints in the world, according to Bunting. But this is the biggest archive the university has acquired. It contains historic documents, such as the band's first recording contract, with Warner Bros. Records, and notes from band's weekly meetings. "That's really exciting," said Bunting, "because that's the kind of primary material that shows what their decisions were are the time they were making them." She said business files on the band's concerts contain "the contracts and tickets and box office receipts and the guest lists and itineraries. You see the progression from all the concerts and tours." But the most interesting aspect of the archive, she said, is "the whole Dead Head side to it. The band's following is a phenomenon in itself." How does Law feel about letting go of the archive she tended all those years? "It's like sending your kids off to college: Oh, they're leaving home! That's what it feels like, even though now I know it will be preserved and well taken care of. It's another stage of development." E-mail Regan McMahon at rmcmahon@sfchronicle.com. muffin www.creativemuffin.com

... to dust all that stuff all the time

Why would you choose to partner with a campus that has made a cottage industry out of hosting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel "conferences" and speakers to spread these racist ideas? This is way beyond offensive. Good-bye, Dead.net

Bless you Eileen. You are the stuff of magic(much like my wife). You have alway's really been the eyes of the world. Standing on the moon with a warm and gracious heart, looking over the history with a heart full of love for all you have witnessed. Thank you Eileen, I am so proud of you and what you have done. pk mcvicker

This is terrific news! As one who has worked in the museum/curation field (studied pre-historic puebloan/cliff-dweller cultures in the southwestern U.S.) and as a DeadHead, I cannot wait to peruse the archives! Wink, a nod and a high five to Eileen. Way to go! "There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed." -Edward Abbey

This is terrific news! As one who has worked in the museum/curation field (studied pre-historic puebloan/cliff-dweller cultures in the southwestern U.S.) and as a DeadHead, I cannot wait to peruse the archives! Wink, a nod and a high five to Eileen. Way to go! "There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed." -Edward Abbey

Apologies for the double posting earlier... Question: does anyone know if we DeadHeads/fans/collectors of stuff can submit additional material to the archives at UCSC? I have my own (relatively small) stash -- much of it from the parking lot scene ('83-'95), such as flyers I traded, tape covers, stickers, news clippings, photos, etc. I'd bet that many other 'Heads do also and may be willing to share. Just a thought... "There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed." -Edward Abbey

Bill Walton cleared as suspect in toilet theft. Jerry's stolen salmon colored toilet has been located in the UCSC Chancellors executive bathroom.

God I miss my home town I wonder whar is going on Now in life by the Ocean

I heard a really disturbing piece of news today which I HOPE I misconstrued, and got the wrong meaning, but is sounded like I was being told that Billy Kreutzmann (or someone close to him) had passed away?!?!?!? I felt punched...I have been praying and prayin that this is untrue and have not heard anything else since, that is close to this information but I'll keep checking back and make sure to have my wife watch that press conference... GOD BLESS and LONG LIVE the STRANGE THAT REMAIN!!!!-e

another marketing ploy? the pump dont work cause the vandal stole the handle.rhino stole the pump....

UC Santa Cruz slated to get archives of Grateful Dead 04/23/2008 7:06 PM, AP Dancing bears, meet the Banana Slugs. The surviving members of the Grateful Dead are turning over the rock band's archives to the University of California at Santa Cruz. The archive will hold the band's correspondence and other memorabilia, but not its recordings, longtime band spokesman Dennis McNally said Wednesday. Ex-Dead guitarist Bob Weir and drummer Mickey Hart will announce a partnership with the university Thursday. The announcement will take place at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, where many of the band's legendary shows were held. A spokesman for UC Santa Cruz would not comment on the details of the deal ahead of Thursday's planned announcement. ___

If you can't wait for tomorrow here is the link to the story. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/23/DDML109ACN… Gratefuljohn is right.

A very special thanks goes out to Eileen Law for her years of saving all the Dead memorabilia. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/23/DDML109ACN… Here is the link to the story if you can't wait until tomorrow. Disregard the post by Even on the death of BK.

the more I read and scramble for information, the more it becomes obvious to me that my earlier post and concerns regarding BK were unfounded. I AM THRILLED AND RELIEVED, that I either misunderstood the information that I received, or it was incorrect in the first place. Whew...I'll tell you though it has been over eight hours since I got that disturbing message and I haven't thought about much else since...LONG LIVE THE STRANGE THAT REMAIN (and all of you with better sources than me..thanks :)-e

Hey shannon, I found one of those old bumperstickers the other day.

I hope I can get iclips to work this time....things are getting more and more interesting every day.

I wonder if there is a copy of a poster I drew for Jerry Garcia Band back in 1973. Thanks Eileen for saving everything!!

If Eileen Law saved EVERYTHING ... all my nutty letters from the 1980's will be there ... and my frame-by-frame suggestion for a music video of Standing On The Moon (from early 1990?) and all other stuff I have sent to Dead Heads since my first fan letter in early 1981 ... ;-) But what an archive it must be ... even though I have met older Heads from Sweden who have their OWN private archives, with drawings and you know what, stuff that have been made since the early 1970's ... so WHAT AN ARCHIVE IT COULD HAVE BEEN ,,, with EVERYTHING from around the globe ... it would take all of the actual university area to store all that ... ;-) But ... I also say thanks to Eileen for saving everything ... the good ol' Grateful Dead will probably be the greatest treasure for researchers for years to come ... and perhaps their will be some more scrapbooks to be issued?? Micke Östlund, Växjö, Sweden (Garcia fan since Spring, 1976 and convinced Dead Head since November, 1978)

We just read the article from The SF Gate . It is so nice to know it is NOT bad news !! I was scared that Rhino would take everything from the archives and sell it all .. Man what a releif !! When UC Santa Cruz gets it all organized it would be a heck of an exhibit.. We would heve to plan a trip to California to see that .. And a huge Thank you to Eileen Law for being the safe keeper of everything for all these years !! ( huge sigh of releif ) .. The UC of Santa Cruz sounds like the perfect place for the safe keeping of the Dead`s (and our ) history . I am quite sure they will take exelent care of everything.. And they have been teaching a music class on the Grateful Dead , WOW ,, that is way cool !! And a radio show , also way cool !! I will still tune in for the press confrence .. man i feel so much better ,, i`ve been downloading everything i could for the past few days ,,i can take a break for now .. So again Thank you Eileen !! And many thanx to the UC of Santa Cruz !! And also many thanx for all the previous posts of this imformation !! Peace everyone !!

The Grateful Dead, whose songs celebrated personal freedom, American idealism and mind-altering drugs, will donate a cache of their papers, posters and props on Thursday to the University of California, Santa Cruz, which plans to use the musical miscellany as part of a research center to be known as Dead.

Now that would have been a strange one as right around when it was posted here, I got an email from GDSTOO list announcing the NYC boat show he is having on June 1st... if it were not for my daughters dance recital getting out that time, I would so be there... muffin www.creativemuffin.com