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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That is a lovely part of Norway in the summer! The fjords are amazing, the sun is up until 10pm, the nights are warm...mmmm....
I bet Bobby was having fun!
Surprised nobody's mentioned this...........
Why doesn't this Olsen guy just buy out Rhino and make downloads free for everybody. ; )
You might want to keep an
You might want to keep an eye open for him if he's online. Then shoot him a quick email. I believe his user name is tripperwithmoneybags.
Bobby in Europe
a pity he can't do a proper Europe Tour
I look forward to seeing him again
Bob
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Deadaheads website
http://www.freewebs.com/deadaheads/
Bob
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pictures
from another list ( Yahoo eurotraders )
photos of the event
Bobby and Olsen
http://www.abcnyheter.no/system/files/images/2007-35/weir250.jpg
Bobby on stage
http://www.rootsy.nu/bilder/nyheter/1394.jpg
Bob
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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
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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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!
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 tryto 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.
Deadaheads and weir part 3
Then, a week before the gig, we got the call we did not expect. "Bobby iscoming as Olsen's private guest".
This certainly made the whole thing slightly more serious, but we were of
course thrilled as well. We planned (and planted) the idea that we would
love it if he came up for a OMSN. We thought it was a 50/50 chance, maybe he
would come up, maybe he wouldn't.
Then, after our sound check at Ramme last Saturday, we were hanging out and
he came walking over to us, handshaking everybody in the band, saying: "I
would love to come up and play with you guys". But he said he needed a
guitar.
Deadaheads and weir part 4
So we went up on the stage, gave him a guitar, and he made ONE preset on theLine 6 amp he used during the gig. He had seen our setlist from before, and
said he would like to come on for He's Gone, but he was jet lagged, and
needed to take a nap.
So we went on stage at 4 pm, and played Jack Straw, FOTD, Eyes and Scarlet,
without seeing him anywhere. After Scarlet he all of a sudden
stood backstage, looking in at us, and we realized our dream was about to
come true...
The rest of the story (the sound) is hopefully available in a little
while. In respect of Bobby we feel a bit obligated to make sure that it
is OK to spread the soundboard recording. Allot of video was shot as well,
and we hope to make that available in not to long, as well.
Deadahead and Weir PART 5
That is more or less the story from our point of view. The truth is that we
have no idea how Olsen got him to Norway, but we know they had talks about
environmental issues, and that we owe both Bob Weir and Petter Olsen
everything for letting this happen.
A million (or even a billion) thanks to them both!
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DEADAHEADS
E-mail: deadaheads@...
Web: freewebs.com/deadaheadsnorway
Myspace: myspace.com/deadaheads
YouTube: youtube.com/deadaheads
"We're not the best at what we do - but we're the only ones who do it (in
Norway)"
Fritt etter Bill Graham
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Deadaheads and Weir
this story was posted on the Eurotraders site by the Band
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Reason for visit
This is from your exclusive Norwegian correspondent mentioned in the main story. (My name's Morten, not Peter.)
What was not mentioned in the story was that the main reason Bobby came to this event was to discuss certain important humaniterian issues with a panel of distinguished experts that Petter Olsen had put together, and the Summer of Love Revisited festival was the perfect venue. The fact that he came on stage and played the set with the Deadaheads was therefore a great bonus for all of us.
Morten
Damn..! ;)
Next time someone let me know!!! I would have definitely been there!!! Not much chance for European based heads so we need a heads up people! Next time..! :)
Are you kind?
Deadacace saturday
http://www.ridethewind.org/Deadicace.htm
Deadacace play on Saturday 8th with Barry (The Fish) Melton In (or Near) Paris
i saw Barry at the SOL Party in Kent he is definately worth seeing
Bob
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Too late!
Oh, had we known this! We were in Norway just then, cruising South of Oslo with our shooner Gypsea.I just happened to read this news recently. Too late anyway.
We certainly will keep the Daedaheads in mind and when we are back in Norway we will check them out. It will be really nice to be at a festival with great music that reminds us of those beautiful times in the past.
Let's stop looking in awe at the Americans and wishing we were over there. This event means that we Europeans should hold our own festivals. If they are nice enough the Americans will try to come over here.
Ship of Fools