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    Don't miss the photos! On Jambase: http://www.jambase.com/Articles/125019/Grateful-Dead-Inducted-Into-MSG-…
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    It's their birthday!
    Just read this online: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/photo/fifty-years-ago-today-grateful-dead-p…
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    cool radio broadcast from England re Donna Jean
    Is going on now-Donna is features http://wickedspinsradio.org/wsr2012/chat-and-listen/
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    Thanks for the comments, I've sent them on to our new favorite British radio host...her commenst back are, " Amazing thank you - not sure how much of that I can cover this week, but the thing is I do come back to stuff and go further into things." Again, that link to her radio broadcast featuring Donna Jean (and others) is Every Thursday 9-11pm GMT tune in via wickedspinsradio.org That's 4 PM central, your results may vary...keep in mind... Objects is mirror may be closer than you think...
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    I would point you to this CC - amazing (this is the first one that comes to my mind)https://archive.org/details/gd1976-06-19.aud.digitalrbb.miller.111875.f… Sorry Geo for not taking it seriously - it has been a running gag with rrrrrrrrrrrrgrrrrrrrrrrrr and I...peace
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    Sorry - I had that built up
    Really rrrrrrrgrrrr summed it up well. Really she was tough to listen to at first, I mean not only was she thrown into the part in Playin' but she also (may have been) a key factor in Greatest Story, but again, she either approached it like Playin' with loud caterwauling. In my opinion, there were two factors playing with her - first she hadn't figured out the singing styles of either Jerry or Bobby and just plain blew the house down; Jerry never stood a chance. Second, the levels were pretty crap till around '76 when Bear finally seemed to have the early spiders in the electronics system worked out and his new invention of monitors and stereo concerts (not on a venue PA) was running like a top. That said, to maybe add to what rrrrrrrrgrrrrrrrr said I would draw your attention to '76, where she completely changed Cosmic Charlie...before it was this loopy kinda bouncy song that the tempo varied considerably from one playing to the next, then DJ turned it into this beautiful opus. Look at her June '76 run with it...amazing how she harmonized with the guys and turned this song that was choppy and all over the place, to this magnificent ballad with an upper range that it never knew and needed (imo). Symphonic and magnificent - it was at this point that I changed my opinion from "I hope Donna isn't going to sing tonight" to "I hope DJ burns the house down like she did the night before." Let's not even talk about her work with the JGB...Jerry kept her around for a reason. She had/has a range that most other professional singers would kill for...she just needed to reign herself in and blend with the others...
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    Early Donna, Playin' she joined as the song was being worked out and by 77 it was often a 30 minute monster...that's all I got, it was mostly filler until she felt comfortable around Mars Hotel time.... You ain't woman enough to take my man? But it ain't Dead... Anyone anyone Beuller?
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    Donna Jean featured on the radio tonite
    I should have asked, "Anyone have a constructive comment to answer Juliet's question?"
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    re: DJ on the radio tonite
    OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!(f-you Eva Braun)
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    Hi all- We have British radio host doing a feature on Donna Jean this afternoon/evening. The show is called Bird on a Wire, and is about Female musicians. Juliet Bowbrick is the host, and she reached out to dead.net two days ago for some insight on Donna. Here are details: Bird on the Wire Every Thursday 9-11pm GMT tune in via wickedspinsradio.org To chat: just login with a name no need for password Web page bird.co.uk Also, she reached out this morning with some details, as follows: "Ok so I went with the live version of St Stephen and I have mixed that with an interview she did about hearing the Dead for the first time - it is just a 5 minute stint, and each week I try and find a woman in music who has spoken of her experiences and mix that in with a song, so if you do listen don't be pissed off that the song is cut with talking!! I will play more of them as, as I mentioned, I am a newbie. What I would be interested to know is what you'd consider their heaviest (preferably early) song with Donna on them or did her time with them herald a different style?" Anyone care to comment?
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Submitted by Hal R on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 21:04

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the comic strip Adam today? Has a reference that we thought was pretty funny. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Submitted by starsleeper on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 15:45

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funny! And you know that seems to me to be about right
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Submitted by Pamie on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 15:56

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I put it in my Grateful Dead scrapbook, thought it was cool , yay !
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Submitted by Richard Vigeant on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 21:37

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Where can we see it?
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Submitted by JackstrawfromC… on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 15:24

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As long as you are not peeing or pooping in the streets everything is ok! lol "I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel. Can't win for tryin. Dust off those rusty strings just one more time. Gonna make em shine."
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Submitted by Mr. Pid on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 16:12

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The Grateful Dead is a correct answer on Jeopardy tonight! Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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Submitted by BobbaLee on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 04:50

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Nice interview in today's Miami Herald with Bob Weir.I wish i could post it but I don't know how. And the road goes on forever.... BobbaLee
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Submitted by RaymondMBrown on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 05:08

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Hey all...Just leafing through last week's Sports Illustrated magazine (Jan 25th) and noticed a piece written on Jim Irsay, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts.... I was interested in the article for many reasons.... none of which I guess I need to go into here.... but right there on Page 57 in the picture with Irsay is Jerry's Tiger. I remember that Irsay bought it many years ago... among many other interesting purchases... the guitar is not mentioned in the article but Stephen Stills and other references are made.... Thought you might find that curious.... I did. Be well all. Raymond
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Submitted by Richard Vigeant on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 17:44

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my friend leaved this magazine on a table at the job. I kept it in my bag just to have a look at this article. Didn't see it before I read your post.Thanks Raymond.
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Submitted by BobbaLee on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 21:01

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What an amazing event And the road goes on forever.... BobbaLee
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Submitted by Gr8fulTed on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 07:29

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Longtime Deadhead acquaintance and friend, Barry, contributed to Josh Greens article.
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Submitted by marye on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 10:53

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and yeah, great to hear from Barry and Rebecca!
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Submitted by Richard Vigeant on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 19:48

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looks like we gonna be around forever. Love it!
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 15:31

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Are deadheads really drawn to warm indoor places? Egads, will have to reload on the mace, put the heat down and lock the doors! We must repel them at Ithaca or face them in ever-greater numbers in Utica, Manchester and Amherst where the "Earthmothers" make them multiply! ~ And it's real, and it won't go away! ~
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Submitted by Hal R on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 16:28

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We are the People Our Children Warned Us Against! a rephrasing of the classic "We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against: The Classic Account of the 1960s Counter-Culture in San Francisco" If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Submitted by AlpineMike on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 17:15

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That made my wife giggle ...
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Submitted by marye on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 11:16

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Barry's a great guy and always has insightful stuff to say, in my experience.
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Submitted by blue.jay.way. on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 09:02

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Not exactly a "sighting," more a reference, but today, the NPR comedy news quiz show "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" followed a segment about the increase of marijuana use in US senior citizens with a snippet of "Touch of Grey."
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Submitted by BobbaLee on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 04:01

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I was watching this movie I guess from the 80's and the young cop had to explain to Sean Connery who or What the Dead were and then I flashed on wasn't this the army base Jerry and Hunter met at? And the road goes on forever.... BobbaLee
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Submitted by GRTUD on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 17:48

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this morning around 3 et on the Nat Geo channel "Thrill Zone" (sorry but their web site is a complete mess and I can't find the exact show) the owner of a demolition company spoke of the "bitter sweet" job of imploding the Cap Center, complete with a good picture of the band on stage there. He talked about seeing The Grateful Dead there himself "many times" as the picture was aired. Sent shivers up my spine as I reminisced the cosmic energy we shared in that place of time and space. My brother-in-law and a handful of old fiends went there to witness this sad demise when they brought Her down but I couldn't bring myself to join them.
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Submitted by GRTUD on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 14:46

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On Easter Sunday morning... I hadn't slept very well in several days (nothing to do with drugs of any kind - I just get zonked from work and the insane schedule sometimes) and I was like a zombie in front of the TV watching the local Comcast Sports Net telecast and there's Curt Callahan the director of Cole Field House pointing out a picture of The Grateful Dead performing from a show I was at in the late '70s! The piece was on Cole Field House btw - not the Dead. I was revived again... enough to make it back across Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate. I don't know why certain things ease my mind these daze but seeing those kind of psychedelic moments seem to work best for me. It's as if I can feel like I've done my days work or something... I know, crazy.
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Submitted by starsleeper on Fri, 07/09/2010 - 11:22

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The latest issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine has The Grateful Dead's song New Speedway Boogie featured!
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Submitted by GRTUD on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 01:22

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... last night he talked about Jerry's old house up for sale and tonight he made a Jerry reference when handling a lizard the wrangler said could, "... take off a finger..." I still can't get over the fact that The Roots are his house band. How cool is that?
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Submitted by ripple70 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 05:21

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i seen this earlier excellent
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Submitted by blue.jay.way. on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 10:49

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Seems like the best place to post this-- The Fresh Air Interview: Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band A fine interview and studio performance of Peter Rowan and his Bluegrass Band, including his reminiscences of Old and in the Way and Jerry Garcia. Well worth the listen. "A well put together unreality is pretty hard to beat." --Mark Twain
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Submitted by marye on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 12:47

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thanks for the link!
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Submitted by puroshaggy on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 09:39

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Any Sportscenter/Chicago Bulls fans out there? Last night on Sportscenter, one of the anchors quoted several lines of "Ramble On Rose" while showing a bunch of Derrick Rose highlights. Wait, he did not quote, he sang several lines of "Ramble On Rose"- "Did you say your name was...?" on through the end of that short little stanza. A beautiful ESPN moment.
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Submitted by GRTUD on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 14:53

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I saw that too shaggy. Along with the many "Lebowski" qutoes I hear from Neil, I think we are indeed - EVERYWHERE! Hahahaha!
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Submitted by trailbird on Thu, 02/24/2011 - 10:34

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I watched Pearl Jam : Live at the Garden, '03 last night, after the final song the band was a little freaked ' cause the crowd was going so wild that the stage was moving around. Eddie came out for the encores and said what they felt and a stage manager told him that that had only happened 3 times before: For the Grateful Dead, Iron Maiden, and Bruce Springsteen.
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Submitted by Gr8fulTed on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 05:52

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If Phil follows through with the city folks, this will be a fun place to visit & listen to the music play
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Submitted by marye on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 09:39

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and it sounds like it might be on a somewhat more manageable scale than the extremely ambitious Terrapin Station plan, which kind of collapsed under its own overwhelmingness I think.
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Submitted by cosmicbadger on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 11:12

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So does this mean that all the money raised for the 'Terrapin Station' centre through selling the Terrapin Limited 3 CD set will actually be used. I have long wondered what happened to that money. The set is still on sale in the shop here for a whopping $39.50. Is a proporion of that still going to the Terrapin project? It would be nice to know there is an account somewhere accumulating money and that it has not just been absorbed.
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Submitted by puroshaggy on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 09:27

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This isn't a media sighting but it is a far-stretch-connection-to-the-Dead sighting: I saw The Decemberists last week and during one of their songs (one of the new ones but I don't remember which), I was afforded the chance to see a Hurdy-Gurdy being played. No China Doll, but the Hurdy-Gurdy was there. Sweet instrument. J.T. Gossard http://thehallucinogenicbible.blogspot.com/
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Submitted by Deadinstead on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 22:24

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I'm not sure if this is the right section but a promo commercial for the mystery channel Cloo TV had a guy who was like an amateur detective buying a car. The seller said the car hadn't been driven far and the buyer pointed out evidence refuting his statement, including a painted-over bumper sticker of the dancing bears. It's still running on tv.
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Submitted by marye on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 08:17

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HuffPo article too good not to share. "...maybe it is the honesty in their music and a trust that, just like their audience, the Grateful Dead were simply who they were, without judgment and without apologies -- even when they were dark figments of themselves. And, maybe it's because of this that on these warm June nights, I mark another year. I reflect on being ten years old, sitting in stadium seats at my first Grateful Dead concert, the summer breeze blowing through my hair as I listen to Jerry Garcia sing "Standing on the Moon," with a weathered and tired voice that was far from perfect -- but it was entirely his own and that's all I ever wanted to hear."
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Submitted by Anna rRxia on Wed, 06/12/2013 - 10:41

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Nice article - lacking in judging and huge on honesty. Loved it.