I hope Bob’s (Weir) feeling good today: The Race Is On…Happy Derby Day!
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Further at Boardwalk Hall – April 27th
Set One:
Jack Straw
Crazy Fingers
Bird Song
Cumberland Blues
Doin’ That Rag
Cosmic Charlie
In the Midnight HourSet Two:
Space
Mountains of the Moon
St. Stephen
Dark Star
Let It Grow
Days Between
Dark Star
Help on the Way
Slipknot!
Franklin’s TowerEncore:
Touch of Grey
And, then phone died…..
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DeadHead Land: Bob Weir’s Weather Report : SWEET!
Ive never done ambien….from deadheadland and thanks to them/it:
BOB WEIR IS OK!
Deadheads are concerned for the health and well being of the Grateful Dead’s Ace rhythm guitar player, Bob Weir, after he took a fall on stage during a concert performance by his band Furthur Thursday night April 25, at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. It was the 9th night in 12 days, concluding the bands sold out run at the theater. The band ended up completing the show without Weir. Deadheadland previously reported on these eventshere.
Confidential reports came in to the Deadheadland offices shortly after the show ended that Weir was fine. DHL did our best, to convey this message to the community, but we had yet to receive much detail or further information on whether Furthur would continue going further on their Furthur tour, which had one more date, Saturday April 27th (tonight) in Atlantic City.
Reports from the bands guitar player, John Kadlecik were posted online (though later removed) stating that Weir had taken an Ambien, thinking it was a pain killer, and that was the problem. Meanwhile social media exploded all day, Grateful Dead and Furthur fan groups and pages on Facebook, as well as online boards like ThePhilZone, getting into lengthy threads and SHOUT FESTS over the details. Many expressed outrage that the band continued playing, while others applauded their show must go on approach. Opinions covered the gamut, but overall there was a deep concern for Bob and his well being, and several calls for the band to cancel upcoming shows and give him a break.
Bob Weir’s fall garnered much media coverage (Rolling Stone, TMZ, Hidden Track, jambands,JamBase, ABC News), and a widely circulating YouTube video of Bob’s fall during the song “Unbroken Chain” the fans were getting most concerned. Deadheadland has chosen to not directly share this video, out of respect for Bob and his fans, as it is most disturbing to watch.
Deadheadland does not want to fuel any fires, and while we are striving for honest reporting, we are also fans and friends with the band and Deadhead community at large. DHL stayed positive, and waited to hear real news, and not spread rumor.
Gratefully, one of our lovely fans, shared a picture of Bob eating dinner, and that brought lots of calm to many a worried mind.
This picture was shared on our page by a fan, with these words:
Bobby Weir, alive & WELL right now in Greenwich CT having a nice dinner with some of the boys… LOVEBob was asked how he was doing, he said he is “feeling GOOD!” We were told he was not bothered by anyone, and was able to enjoy a nice meal. DHL shared this picture with the community, and everyone was able to give a sigh of relief.
We got final confirmation this morning, via a tweet from Furthur:
Getting ready for the show tonight at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City New Jersey. fb.me/16d2ceYYs
— Furthur (@furthurband) April 27, 2013
Might as well… (~);}
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The Sunset daily Blog is exactly one year old today!
English: Cover of Birth Control Review July 1919 Captions: “How shall we change the law?”, “Must She Always Plead in Vain? “You are a nurse – can you tell me? For the children’s sake – help me!” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Planned Parenthood (Photo credit: WeNews)
This was about the time last year when Planned Parenthood and susan komen had their thing start up fiercely and it was about the time I realized that I was in my own so called bubble…I just did not know people cared about abortion today and woman’s rights if you will…which tend to all be about birth control, etc…I did not know they were issues today…so to speak….and then we had an entire primary and an election based with that as the focal points…it was wild to me and so I guess i need to be heard…this thing here, the sustainable action network growing huge in the last year, and then Ram Phan will be out sooner than later this year….its been cool…
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“Grateful Dead: The Long Strange Trip” has gotten longer. The largest collection of the Marin-based band’s artifacts and historical documents ever displayed has been extended through March 24 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, it was announced Thursday.
“Everyone at Grateful Dead Productions is thrilled,” said David Lemieux, the band’s legacy manager and namesake of the “Dave’s Picks” CD series. “The museum’s curatorial team has collected historical items from the band members themselves, the UC Santa Cruz Grateful Dead Archive and from private collectors to create a two-story display that shouldn’t be missed by any Deadhead or music lover.”
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week festivities. It capped a long negotiation with the band that had been ongoing since the hall opened in 1995, the year guitarist Jerry Garcia, the Dead’s paterfamilias, died and the group stopped touring.”They finally said yes,” Curatorial Director Howard Kramer said before the opening.
In being the latest group to have a major exhibit at the hall, the Dead join a short list of rock legends that includes Elvis Presley, U2, the Who, the Clash, the Doors and the Supremes.
A highlight of the exhibit is a showcase of iconic instruments band members played on stage, including Garcia’s Travis Bean TB5 guitar, Bob Weir‘s Ibanez “cowboy” custom guitar and a bass from Phil Lesh. The band’s famed “Wall of Sound” concert system has been incorporated into the exhibit’s graphic design.
No Grateful Dead exhibit would be complete without documenting the band’s legions of Deadhead fans. The Deadhead section features a collection of homemade marijuana pipes and other paraphernalia that reflects the parking lot scene that sprouted outside the band’s shows.
“In a 30-year career, this group wrote their own rules and created a community unlike any band before or since,” Kramer said.
Since the exhibit opened, several band members have toured the exhibit and participated in various programs, including drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, singer Donna Jean Godchaux and keyboard player Tom Constanten.
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Does everyone know about this part of our childhood that is now coming to life in a doc film? Lithuania: The Other Dream Team
The story is from The Cycle of all places (Thanks guys and galz)…Of course the film is about the plight of the lithuanians leading up that year and what was decades of being under russian leadership….but whatever…we helped put the nail home so to speak….By giving money and whatnot to make sure would go down..Ironically,.,i would never wear a tied die in my life…but still…nor do I like these designs but again…still…..
Lithuania: The Other Dream Team.
Lithuanians Are Grateful to `Dead’ / Rock group came to rescue
C.W. NEVIUS
Published 4:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 21, 1996
THIS IS the story of how the Grateful Dead ended up on the victory stand of the 1992 Olympic Games, how tie-die became the official color of the Lithuanian basketball team and why it all matters to you.
The official announcement will be made at a press conference today in San Francisco. Basically it is simple. The Dead, the famous rock band, are once again teaming up with little Lithuania to take on the world. Don’t bet against them.
As you probably recall, it was back in 1992 that Sarunas Marciulionis, who came to this country to play guard for the Warriors, decided to attempt to put together a basketball team to represent his newly-independent homeland. Frankly, it didn’t look good.
Money was scarce, and it wasn’t exactly pouring in, although Marciulionis made several appeals for help. It was at that point that the Grateful Dead stepped in. They mailed the Lithuanian team a nice check, and threw in a load of tie- died T-shirts and shorts showing a skeleton dunking a basketball.
Donnie Nelson, son of former Warriors coach Don Nelson and a coach for the Lithuanians in the offseason, recalled the reaction.
“After all those years of those Soviet colors (in daily life), nothing but blues and grays,” he says, “the guys went nuts for those shirts. They ended up wearing them to bed, to practice, everywhere.”
To make a long story short, the team not only raised the money to compete, it managed to qualify for the Olympics. And once the players arrived in Barcelona, Spain, and started to knock off some of the teams, they turned into a cult favorite.
The big game was against the Russian team, because the Lithuanians had been forced to play for the Soviet Union for years. Many of them, including Marciulionis and 7- foot-4 center Arvidas Sabonis, were key players on the Russian team that beat the Americans in 1988 to win the gold.
When they won that game, there was delirium in Lithuania, not to mention the team’s locker room.
“The guys went crazy,” Nelson recalls, “and then all of a sudden everybody quieted down. And at that moment the President of the country walked in and everybody started singing the national anthem. There wasn’t a dry eye in the place.”
And then, well, they got a little carried away again. No one is sure how it happened, but somehow the President of Lithuania ended up doused in champagne. His suit was completely soaked. He had to change clothes. And that’s how he ended up leaving the locker room wearing a tie-died Grateful Dead T-shirt.
The kicker came when the Lithuanians won the bronze medal. By this time they had attracted a shoe company as a sponsor, which had provided them with some very spiffy warmups to wear on the victory stand. But the guys figured they should honor the group that had backed them from the first. They took the stand in full Dead regalia.
Overnight, Lithu-mania struck, and they had the hottest T-shirts at the Games. Nelson says the players were offered as much as $150 for their shirts, and when he came home he suggested to the Warriors that it might be a nice gesture to sell some of the shirts, with the money to go to the Lithuanian Children’s Fund. The response was overwhelming.
“We ended up shutting down the Warrior phone system for two days,” Nelson says.
All of which brings us to now. The Lithuanian basketball team is better than ever, having just won a silver medal at the European championships, and the Dead are as involved as ever. This year they have teamed up for an entire line of Lithu-mania sports clothes, including a tie-die game jersey. There’s also a new T-shirt.
“It’s a skeleton, dribbling a ball,” says Nelson. “It looks like Sarunas, when he’s dead, dribbling a ball.”
To order them, call 1-888-977- SLAM or 1-888-633-DEAD. They’re going to be hot, trust us.
“We will be the most marketable team at the Olympics,” says Nelson, “with the exception of the Dream Team.”
And we hear the Dream Team is hearing footsteps.
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I Guess They Never Found Out What Happened To Adam Katz…Or, I wonder If They Ever Did Get Any Resolve….
Its weird how I think this guy getting killed by the Brendan Byrne arena Security that year. I Guess They Never Found Out What Happened To Adam Katz…Or, I wonder If They Ever Did Get Any Resolve….
I watched the guards fight with the dead heads. I have no clue what happened to him but also at the LA Forum in 89…some other kid was killed because of the cops billy clubbing him to death.
The story i heard is that he fell off the walk bridge when guards and him clashed that night (It was the night they played dark star to open the second set at the BBA and the week I saw them play on Letterman’s show) in the lot….it was bad…It was kind of hairy too. There was a big circle of people trying to get the guards to mellow and they went batty…They hated hippies…Many people hated people with long hair. Like Mitt Romney when he tormented the kid in school for having long hair. What a pussy but yeah…I guess no one ever found out the deal with how Adam Katz died for real…..PS: I think this ad ran in relix for like 20 years…..
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Such A Long, Long Time To be Gone, And, A Short Time To Be There…..
Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia dead at 53
From CNN Correspondent Mark Scheerer August 9,1995
(CNN) — Jerry Garcia, the 53-year-old guitarist and co-founder of the Grateful Dead, died today at a Northern California residential drug treatment center. The cause, according to authorities, was a heart attack.
The Grateful Dead blended blues, rock, country and folk music with a dash of the psychedelic sound of the sixties counter-culture that grew out of their home base of San Francisco. Over three decades, the dead became one of the most popular concert draws in the world.
Songs like “Truckin’,” “Casey Jones,” and “Friend of the Devil” were staples of album rock radio, yet the Grateful Dead only had one top ten hit, “Touch of Gray,” in 1987.
Nonetheless, they became a cultural phenomenon and almost a way of life for their fans, known as “Deadheads.”Some followed them around the country, and many can boast of seeing hundreds of concerts. As one fan remembered, “You wanted to go to every show because you didn’t know what would happen next. The records didn’t necessarily convey that, but the live shows did.”
A veteran of the psychedelic sixties, Garcia battled drug addiction and later poor health, including diabetes, which culminated in a diabetic coma in 1986. After exhaustion sent him to the hospital in 1991, he stopped smoking and shed some weight with a personal trainer.
The Dead used their global influence to advance environmental concerns like saving the rainforest as well as other charitablecauses. As the band’s patriarch, Garcia became a larger-than-life figure to his fans. Those close to him knew him as sensitive man with a spiritual side. As Garcia put it, “I love great art, poetry, all the things that enrich human life are things that I like. Also, there’s tons of music that I love. I mean I don’t really think I’m gonna be able to get around to everything that I potentially like in this lifetime.”
Away from the Grateful Dead, Garcia turned out solo albums and paintings, some of which were re-created in a line of neckties. Onstage, where the Grateful Dead launched extended jams, Garcia’s guitar solos sent Deadheads into ecstatic dances and trances. But Garcia remained humble. “I’d like to learn how to play the guitar before I die, yeah, that’d be good.”
On July 9 in Chicago, Jerry Garcia played his last concert fronting the Grateful Dead. Will his passing mean the end of the band, as well? The answer remains to be seen, but Garcia’s music will live forever in the hearts and souls of his fans.
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Donna Jean Godchaux, Joe Russo, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh perform during the ‘Move Me Brightly’ 70th Birthday Tribute for Jerry Garcia at TRI Studios in San Rafael, California.
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By Benjy Eisen
August 4, 2012 3:30 PM ET
On Friday night, Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir hosted a five-hour celebration entitled Move Me Brightly, in honor of what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 70th birthday. A stirring 30-minute documentary directed by Justin Kreutzmann, son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, kicked off the proceedings. Then a rotating group of musicians that numbered nearly 20-deep took turns performing in various configurations, under Weir’s stewardship. The event was webcast live from Weir’s TRI Studios in San Rafael, California.
Fittingly, Garcia’s memory was honored with musical passages that sounded nothing like the licks Garcia himself would have played, but which captured his spirit by pushing the source material in new directions, and unearthing previously undiscovered territory between their beginnings and endings. As Weir told Rolling Stone during rehearsals, “You find Jerry in the songs. And he’s amply there.”
In addition to Weir and Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux, the one-time-only group of musicians included Phish’s Mike Gordon, Furthur’s Joe Russo and Jeff Chimenti, the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and Tad Kubler, Vampire Weekend’s Chris Tomson, the Yellowbirds’ Sam Cohen and Josh Kaufman, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals’ Neal Casal and Jon Graboff, the Black Crowes’ Adam MacDougall and Norah Jones’ Jason Abraham Roberts, as well as singer-songwriters Jim Lauderdale, Jonathan Wilson, Cass McCombs and Harper Simon.
“If you don’t know who some of these people are,” Weir told the crowd, “you’re in the same boat as me.”
That said, fans immediately recognized the unannounced starting bassist as Phil Lesh. This brought the Grateful Dead member count on stage up to three for the first two numbers, “The Wheel” and “Cumberland Blues.” As if passing some kind of torch, Lesh then handed the bass duties over to Phish’s Mike Gordon, who quickly established himself as one of the night’s MVPs.
Bob Weir and Mike Gordon perform during the ‘Move Me Brightly’ 70th Birthday Tribute for Jerry Garcia at TRI Studios in San Rafael, California.
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“I’ve heard Mike Gordon play bass more than anybody else in my whole life and his playing is just engrained in me,” guitarist Jason Abraham Roberts told Rolling Stone. “To get to stand beside him and hear him play like that, instead of in front or listening on headphones, is such a crazy feeling. I actually enjoyed getting to watch him play in rehearsal as much as I enjoyed playing.”
For keyboardist Adam MacDougall, the event was a chance for him to get up close and personal with the Grateful Dead songbook as much as it was an opportunity to celebrate Garcia. MacDougall admits that he wasn’t the biggest Deadhead growing up, but he got hooked more recently during tours with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood. Robinson plays “a lot” of Grateful Dead on the tour bus.
“Doing this event really gets you inside the music with the people who really started it, the mindset of the cats that were there,” MacDougall told Rolling Stone. “That really helps you to get ‘in it’ instead of just playing it. You really get to understand it from the inside out.”
Joe Russo has had that exact perspective for the past few years as the drummer in the Grateful Dead spinoff band, Furthur. “Jerry Garcia was a total man of his own who just recreated an instrument in his vision, in his voice,” Russo told Rolling Stone. “It’s just so cool to see the reach of this music so far outside its genre, and the influence. Everybody’s approach to it is just very fresh and different. I think people are respecting the original recordings and original arrangements, but putting their own contemporary spin on it, coming from a completely different place – these guys aren’t jam band guys that ended up playing Grateful Dead songs.”
Even Weir was willingly taken out of his comfort zone several times throughout the proceedings, as the marathon set focused on Garcia’s show pieces – some of which were pulled from his solo bands (“Don’t Let Go”) while others were his signature tunes in the Dead proper (“Terrapin Station”).
Neal Casal, Donna Jean Godchaux, Joe Russo, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Jason Roberts perform during the ‘Move Me Brightly’ 70th Birthday Tribute for Jerry Garcia at TRI Studios in San Rafael, California.
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The Hold Steady‘s Craig Finn brought his unique vocal style to the mix on several numbers, turning the traditionally sing-songy “Scarlet Begonias” into one of his speak-sing rave-ups. “I have a Dancing Bear on my guitar and people ask me all the time, ‘Are you really a Dead fan?’” Finn told Rolling Stone. “I am. And I’ve been into them since I’ve been in high school. They’re one of those bands that you can keep listening to over your life, because you can get new meanings out of these songs forever – and I think lyrically they’re some of the strongest songs in rock and roll.”
Midway through the set, retired basketball star, sportscaster and Deadhead celebrity Bill Walton became animated from four rows deep in the audience. “I like this band!” Walton shouted at one point. “It’s a good band you’ve got here!”
He wasn’t wrong. And afterwards, most of the musicians as well as a large percentage of the studio audience all made their way a few miles down Highway 101 to Terrapin Crossroads, the performance space that Phil Lesh recently opened. (Lesh had retreated to Terrapin following his cameo in Move Me Brightly for a previous commitment with Yonder Mountain String Band).
As all parties reconvened at Terrapin Crossroads after the respective shows, instruments were hastily moved to the bar area. Lesh then led a loose ensemble of musicians – including Jon Graboff, Jeff Chimenti, Jason Abrahman Roberts and Jonathan Wilson – through yet another set of Dead-based jams. The spontaneity of it combined with the fact that it was a free bar show was, in some ways, the most fitting Jerry Garcia tribute of all, in a night filled with them.
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Jerry Day in SF
SF Giants‘ Jerry Garcia Day, 2012 on August 1, 70th birthday party
On Wednesday, August 1, the San Francisco Giants baseball team will host a Jerry Garcia-themed park day in honor of the late guitarist’s 70th birthday on August 3rd. Garcia was a San Francisco native, born and raised in the city’s Excelsior District before going on to form theGrateful Dead. The Giants face off against theNew York Mets again tomorrow and the fun starts at 6:00 p.m. with the official game at 7:15 p.m. Unfortunately the game is completely sold out as of today. All-Star Giants pitcher Matt Cain will be the starting pitcher against Jon Niese of New York.
To commemorate Jerry’s big birthday anniversary, AT&T Park and the Giants will host a concert by Moonalice featuring songs by the Grateful Dead before the Giants’ game versus the New York Mets. Each attendee will receive a free Jerry Garcia bobblehead. Word is out that Jerry’s daughter, Keelin, will be tossing out the opening ball. Expect to see more than a few of Garcia’s oldest friends at the stadium, whether in the stands or in the exclusive party rooms.
All ticket proceeds will be donated to the Rex Foundation, a Grateful Dead family-run organization that aims to “help secure a healthy environment, promote individuality in the arts, provide support to critical and necessary social services, assist others less fortunate than ourselves, protect the rights of indigenous people and ensure their cultural survival, build a stronger community, and educate children and adults everywhere.”For more information, check out the event’s website.
Bob Weir will join other rock’n'roll musicians on August 3 to celebrate what would have been Garcia’s 70th birthday. The concert, titled “Move Me Brightly,” will be broadcast for free in HD video from Weir’s TRI Studios in San Rafael. Another event in honor of Garcia is the annual“Jerry Day” being held next Sunday, August 5, 2012, at MacLaren Park in the Excelsior District.
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Jerrys Birthday Today…
I was at the Zoo Amphitheatre on Jerrys Birthday in 1982. They broke out Iko….I am not sure if i was at any other shows on jerrys bday day….
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Jerome John “Jerry” Garcia was an American musician who was best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead. Wikipedia
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Born: August 1, 1942, San Francisco
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Further at the Mann; Phish on XM…
OMG…I take back everything i said about pohish and jones beach and not liking venues they play…i take it back..I am sorry….because if anyone truly goes to further and actually likes it…they are a total pussies, unknowledgeable about the real GD, let alone about intense music, and/or is an old fucking man…I have never seen anything so lame than this further shit at the mann..i will never..ever see a show on the night of a phish one I should i should be at..I heard bouncin at least three times tonight…I heard the wedge which turned out to be cassidy…i finally left after that first set…it was so lame…those people at those shows too..are also lame…they have never even seen jerry and my feeling is they dont count…their opinions about further and the dead mean nada….they need to shut up about it..There needs to be a thinning out of all jam bands that suck which is basically everyone…but phish/….,Trey could fart on his guitar ad it would be more i9ntense than what I heard in that first set tonight…I had to leave….I could not wait to hear phish on the radio…more than being at that show…and also…i totally get what trey (and glenn frey) meant about not being a caricature of themselves because man oh man…theses people in further, may as well be doing whatever in vegas like Niel diamond or Barry manilow…these people in further…are just playing these songs…that happen to be GD songs…again though…I will never see a show the night of a phish show…and every other so called jam band, besides phish and oi mean everyone….you all need to give it up already…you are all lame…and lets be real about most of you because of they wiped X off this planet… you would not have a career….regardless…even a loose DWD is better than anything out playing live today…Like for instance…what the fuck do poeople do for three days at say the gathering of the vibes,….if you are not onh acid and X…you would be asleep….cluelss wonders….wow….could you imagine these people heads if jerry was alive playing…well they would not be there because where were these people when the dead were a band in the first place…its so easy saying you are a dead head now…in the 80s…before touch broke…you were all fucking listenhing to anything else but the dead….thats whats wild tyo me..the newbie dead heads that have never even seen the fucking dead…its wild…Im pretty sure Phish just played a violent fucking femmes song which was honestly…more intense than anything I saw at the mann….
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Tell ‘em, Don!
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I am sorry chad…i was reciting this the entire ride home…and I know it did not come out perfect but the fact is that I am over it..I dont want to be pushed into seeing anything dead related ever again…unles jerry comes back alive to play…or iof trey and paige [play with them again..but thats it….phish is the best…phuck the rest….
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Further is Tonight at the Mann outside of Philly…
AN EVENING WITH FURTHUR
Phil Lesh & Bob Weir featuring Jeff Chimenti, John Kadlecik, Joe Russo, Sunshine Becker, Jeff Pehrson
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The Band Opens For The Grateful Dead at Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY, USA on October 22, 1983…Fall Tour Ends….
The Band Concert Setlist at Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY, USA on October 22, 1983
Oct 22 1983
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One of my favorite shows of all time was on this date in 1988 – at the Kaiser….
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
March 18, 1988
Oakland, CA US
Train To Sligo opens…I think thats the spelling of that band name….
Set List:
Iko Iko
Little Red Rooster
Brown Eyed Women
Masterpiece
Bird Song
Music Never Stopped
When Push Comes to Shove
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
Ship of Fools
Uncle John’s Band
drums
The Other One
Stella Blue
Throwin’ Stones
Not Fade Away
Brokedown Palace
Jerry’s music lives on with his world-embracing love and energy. I drew a psychedelic portrait of him to honor his legacy on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/08/touch-of-grey-jerry-garcia-in-memoriam.html Feel free to drop in and tell me about how the Deadhead movement affecting your life and appreciation of music.