Donna Jean: Still Grateful

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For most of you, Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay needs no introduction. The grizzled tour veterans among you likely had the pleasure of seeing and hearing her as a member of the Grateful Dead (the only woman ever to achieve that distinction) during some of the band’s peak performing years, from 1972 to early 1979. She also sang with various configurations of the Jerry Garcia Band, and in the Heart Of Gold Band with her late husband Keith after they left the GD.

Out We Jumped In The Warm Mad Night (with Neal, Jack and RatDog)

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"The usually blue windows of the Boott Mills in the night are piercing, heart-breaking with a blue that's never been seen before... terrible how that blue shines like a lost star in the blue city lights of Lowell."

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
from Doctor Sax

 

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Shake The Hand That Shook The Hand: Gathering Of The Vibes Returns To The Land Of Barnum

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The great American circus impresario, theatrical producer and perpetrator of legendary hoaxes, Phineas T. Barnum (1810-1891), is credited with one of the more famously cynical philosophical declarations in recorded history: “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Not exactly a charitable view of his fellow man (although there is considerable doubt as to whether Mr. Barnum ever really uttered the infamous phrase).

Catching Up With T.C.

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Tom ConstantenWhen we reach former Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten on his cell phone in early July, he’s in an elevator heading down to a gig with the Jefferson Starship at the Wildwood Convention Center in New Jersey, “an hour and a half from where I was born.”

Nobody’s Finished, We Ain’t Even Begun

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It feels like this:

Getting used to the venue… dialing things in… behind the scenes, the crew is on the case, hunting down the little glitches and bugs, trying to make it all just exactly perfect. So far it’s feeling good, and there’s a sense in the air that it’ll only get better.

Bob Bralove Has Both Hands Full

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So, what’s been happening with Bob Bralove—the former GD MIDI guru; Mickey and Bill’s partner in second set weirdness during the late ’80s and early ’90s; the genius behind both the exceptional Infrared Roses drumz-n-space CD and the instrumental group Second Sight (whose fine album marked one of Garcia’s last appearances outside the Dead); and many a mind-bending duet with ex-Dead keys man Tom Constanten in the ultra-trippy union known as Dose Hermanos?
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