Worst Guitar Ever
Jerry Garcia & Roses, a custom carved guitar and more photos of said guitar.
by Michael Z. at 5/30/2004 02:12:30 PM
The Vault (more or less) via Archive.org
Some sharp Deadheads realized that the Official Grateful Dead Trading Policy does not prohibit Archive.org (a noncommercial site) from hosting GD recordings for public downloading. So recently the site managers started the process of transferring the "best" versions of available recordings to their servers, year by year. As of this writing, 1244 recordings are there, with new ones added daily. They won't have every show that's in The Vault (over which the Gratefuls are still negotiating with Apple for iTunes availability), but it will be close enough for most collectors. (Plus, the shows on Archive.org are in "lossless" CD quality, in addition to compressed MP3 versions.)
by Michael Z. at 5/14/2004 12:00:13 PM
Improbable Screen Credits Dept.: "Based on a book by Steve Parish"
From Variety.com:
Sun May 9, 8:00 PM ET NEW YORK -- Former Showtime programming prexy Jerry Offsay has resurfaced with production shingle Parkchester Pictures, and plans to raise the Dead with his first feature. Offsay has acquired rights to "Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road With the Grateful Dead," a book written by Steve Parish, who spent 30 years with the band as roadie and senior tour manager, and journalist Joe Layden. The band has pledged to cooperate on the project: guitarist and singer Bob Weir will write the music for the film.Read the full story.
by Michael Z. at 5/14/2004 11:51:13 AM
The Jerry boxed set
I've been working my way through the wonderful All Good Things release shipped to me the other day with two bonus CDs from the new Jerry Garcia store. The bonus stuff is great, plus I'm realizing that I never gave the second Garcia (known as Compliments in the vulgate) a fair listen. It's much more hip than the reedy thin covers of Beatles and Stones songs had suggested to me originally. The alternate take of Russian Lullaby on one of the bonus CDs is pure gold, with Richard Greene (Great American String Band, Old and In the Way) sounding a lot like Stephane Grappelli on a Hot Club of Paris tune. I still need to report on the recent Dead conference in San Antonio as well as the upcoming Festival Express movie release, but I'm busy with deadline and I have been planning to convert this blog over to a different engine that I use for most of my websites now. Then I saw they added comments here at Blogger so I thought I just had to check that out.
by Christian Crumlish at 5/11/2004 09:50:01 AM
