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Because I was a white boy from North London trying to sing rhythm & blues and soul music, I was paranoid that the curtain would go back and it would be all full of black people, and they'd yell, 'Fraud! Fraud!' But it wasn't: We were on a bill with The Grateful Dead and it was loads of hippies, and they accepted me.More quotes »
Around the web
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North Carolina Symphony Presents Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration, featuring Warren Haynes
the past two decades. During that time Haynes has maintained his tenure in Gov't Mule, the Allman Brothers Band and the Grateful Dead, and while barely catching his breath between their tours and studio sessions, he has also performed or cut tunes with a diverse 3:30 AM from 24-7PressRelease.com Read more »
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Member of great rock and roll band who hasn't toured in a decade to play Allentown
Grateful Dead slogan – the climactic refrain of "Truckin'": "What a long, strange trip it's been." The majority of the Grateful Dead's original songs are collaborations in which singer-guitarist Jerry Garcia, who died in 1995, composed the music and Hunter from The Morning Call Read more »
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May 1977
Grateful Dead's May 8th, 1977, gig at Cornell University is widely considered the ne plus ultra of Dead bootlegs. This 14-disc set, packed in a psychedelic sarcophagus, documents five gigs from later that month. It puts the consensus-maker in perspective, from Rolling Stone Read more »
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The Band Festival Express Outtakes Surface On YouTube
1970 a number of acts including The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends embarked on a tour of Canada in which they traveled from stop-to-stop aboard a chartered train. The tour was immortalized in a 2003 concert filmed dubbed from Jam Base Read more »
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Meat Puppets I: “A Lawn Mower in the Process of Unclogging Itself”
guitarist in a gigging Phoenix cover band while his older brother Cris had mastered the oblique improv approach of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. The brothers must’ve been getting bored or they would never have let their non-musician pal Derrick Bostrom from The Vinyl District Read more »
