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At more than $15 a bottle it had better be good. When it comes to exploiting the GD Brand this really is scraping the bottom of the barrel! Geddit?

According to the publicity on the web site "We begin with the classic sounds of the Grateful Dead’s “Steal Your Face” and started building from there" This is what Jerry Garcia had to say about "Steal Your Face": '"None of us liked it. I'm sure even Phil and Owsley didn't like it that much... I think part of it was that we were not working, and we didn't have anything else to deliver." say no more!

Ranks right up there with Bob Weir's hot sauce. Stick to the music please.

It's too bad the red blends couldn't be French, CB? LOL BTW, I used to play the heck out of Steal your Face. It did come from the short-lived Grateful Dead Records, from the October 1974 Winterland run, which certainly was a high point in their careers. Well, gotta go to a wine tasting (probably more California stuff...)

seems to be missing an important ingredient though
How to Make a Grateful Dead - Exotic Cocktails par GeoBeats

Tie dye tiesSteel your Panties right off your lady Loose lucy lemonade Dancing Bear bras Beat it on down the line boxer shorts Black throated Wind beer (this beer would be a black IPA) China Cat Sunflower IPA The Wheel wheat ale Scarlet Begonias Shiraz "We would have sold out a long time ago, but nobody was buying" Who said it?

Golden Road Incontinence Products (available for individual purchase or get them all in the Box Of Rain travel trunk)7 Walkers Walkers I Need A Miracle Ear He's (She's) Gone Cremation Urns

I don't think this is the first release along these lines (though I think this is the first label of this sort). There was all that Jerry Garcia wine... And here in lovely Northern California, let's just say there are quite a few wineries that are either Deadhead-owned or have some Deadhead influence (this one manages to go for the Deadhead market AND the dog lover market at the same time...). Now back in the day, before the first time I interviewed Hunter, I was astonished to find on the shelves of our local fancy wine shop Robert Hunter Wine (I forget the varietal involved, some good red). I scooped up a bottle and brought it to the interview and presented it to Hunter. It goes without saying that Hunter the vintner and Hunter the lyricist were two different people who had nothing to do with each other and I think Robert Hunter Wine has long since vanished from the planet, but it was a fun moment.

Lighten Up Kids - The Wine is fun! The group that puts these out also has a Dark Side of the Moon wine, and its pretty dam good. I tried it at a wine tasting in Brooklyn and it was actually the most interesting thing there. Not sure why everyone is so freaked out by the concept of selling a product either. The Grateful Dead themselves charged me $35 a night to see them in Virginia back 1988, and I paid them happily 3 nights in a row.

about 15 years ago i bought a bottle of 'dead red' b/c the giant stealie on the label. it was dealcoholized and $15-- i remember well! i never got to drink it-- my now-ex-husband stashed it in the attic with other 'junk' and then it heated up and exploded all over the attic-- but the bottle survived and sits in a corner of my study with a large and beautiful philodendron growing in it... the bottle was worth the money even if the wine wasn't... btw-- the original tag on the bottle claims the wine takes it's name from the steal your face icon, not the music... a wiser choice i think...

Wait a minute...This is big news to to me. Bob Weir has hot sauce??!!?? I want some!!!

It was many years ago. Probably a collector's item by now.

many of the products I've seen with the SYF have had me thinking "you gotta be kidding me." GD golf balls? I've seen 'em for sale. whatever. Keep dat good ol' GD MUSIC coming. the next RT is going to be...(I hope it's Oxford 88)

Details about Bob Weir's Snake Oil Hot Sauce: http://www.hotsauceworld.com/wesnoilhotsa.html Weir'd Ed