The Grateful Dead have a long and illustrious history at New York's Madison Square Garden, and its surviving members more than lived up to it Saturday night. Now...
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He's still got a little work to do on the economy, but already President Barack Obama has accomplished at least one task that had appeared all but impossible just a year...
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As the Dead prepare for their first tour since 2004, they're determined that an auction of prime seats will raise money for charities as well as put those tickets in the...
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It was time, says The Dead's Bob Weir, to give charitable causes a boost while directing a kick to the hindquarters of ticket scalpers. So he and his bandmates announced...
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The Dead, Bob Dylan, the String Cheese Incident, Willie Nelson & Family, and the Black Crowes are among the top acts set for the second annual Rothbury, a weekend-long music...
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Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and surviving members of the Grateful Dead are scheduled to perform at the Rothbury music festival in Michigan. Organizers of the second annual...
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The Dead have turned the page on their differences. Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann—original members of pioneering jam band the Grateful...
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It looks like the old Dead are gettin' on. Surviving members of the Grateful Dead say they'll regroup for a 19-city tour, their first since 2004, beginning April 12 in...
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Tie-dyed T-shirts and political slogans made for a heady mixture as the four surviving members of the rock band Grateful Dead put on a concert in support of Barack Obama. ...
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First Barack Obama raised the Dead. Now he's healing the sick. Despite a TMZ report that Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir was suffering from recently...
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Barack Obama has a lot to be Grateful for. Surviving Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann have signed on to headline a fundraiser for...
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Barack Obama's presidential run might pay dividends for Deadheads this year. Three of the Grateful Dead's surviving members -- Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Mickey...
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Jerry Garcia can rest assured knowing that this is a match made in heaven. The late Grateful Dead rocker's former bandmates, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, announced Thursday...
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Dancing bears, meet the Banana Slugs. The surviving members of the Grateful Dead are turning over the rock band's archives to the University of California at Santa Cruz. ...
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As primary and caucus voters go to the polls in 24 states on Super Tuesday (February 5), a wave of artists as disparate as the Grateful Dead, Will.I.Am, OK Go and members of...
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Saying Barack Obama embodies
political hope absent since Robert Kennedy was slain 40 years
ago, three surviving members of the Grateful Dead rock band
reunited on Monday for...
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Supported by dozens of musical acts,
including the Dave Matthews Band, Santana and Maroon 5, the
nonpartisan group HeadCount plans to register up to 200,000 new
voters via...
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Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart says he and other members of the band never really understood the forces that turned them into a 30-year cultural phenomenon.
"It was an...
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HeadCount--a nonpartisan voter registration group that works with Dave Matthews, the Allman Brothers Band, and members of Phish and the Grateful Dead--announced that it has...
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We always knew the Grateful Dead were a spacey bunch.
Gathering the good vibes of Deadheads everywhere, Sirius Satellite Radio is launching a new station devoted to the...
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Get ready for Dead air.
A new channel devoted entirely to the Grateful Dead debuts Sept. 7 on Sirius Satellite Radio, beginning with the broadcast of a rare 1974...
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The man who bought Jerry Garcia's house 10 years ago is selling everything, including the kitchen sink.
Henry Koltys — who sold the deceased Grateful Dead guitarist's...
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An auction of Grateful Dead memorabilia Tuesday brought in more than $1.1 million for items collected by the band's longtime road manager.
The collection of Lawrence "Ram...
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A former manager for the Grateful Dead has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for tax evasion, prosecutors said.
Ronald Leon Rakow, 69, was ordered to begin...
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The Doors, the Grateful Dead and Joan Baez are among the recording artists who will receive lifetime achievement Grammy Awards next year.
Other honorees include Maria...
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The quintessential jam band. Opera's most renowned diva. An L.A. quartet whose flame still burns bright 25 years after the death of their frontman. The first lady of folk...
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The Grateful Dead's longtime spokesman doesn't believe in
curses. But even he can't explain the matter of the band's keyboard
players.
Vince Welnick, who played...
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Vince Welnick, the Grateful Dead's last keyboard player and a veteran of other bands, including the Tubes and Missing Man Formation, has died, the Grateful Dead's longtime...
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The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia's toilet. Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets...
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The surviving members of the Grateful Dead give their fans a Valentine's Day present on Friday (February 14) when they perform under their new moniker, the Dead. The four...
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Never at a loss for archival material to offer fans, the Grateful Dead releases two new vintage performances this week, highlighting concerts from 1980 and 1969.
The...
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The reunion of the surviving Grateful Dead members is back on. The Walworth County (Wisconsin) board voted last week to allow Terrapin Station - A Grateful Dead Family...
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(6/12/02, 5 p.m. ET) Terrapin Station - A Grateful Dead Family Reunion, slated for August 3 and 4 in East Troy, Wisconsin, is on hold. The Walworth County Highway Committee...
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The surviving members of the Grateful Dead will come together for a two-day festival this summer. Terrapin Station - A Grateful Dead Family Reunion is set for August 3 and 4...
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Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh will hit the road in May with his current outfit, Phil Lesh & Friends, for an extensive tour that stretches through the beginning of August....
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The latest product from the Grateful Dead vaults is a tribute to the group's good pal, Bob Dylan. Postcards Of The Hanging: Grateful Dead Performs The Songs Of Bob Dylan is...
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The legal fight for four guitars owned by the late Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia is not over yet. Doug Irwin, the San Francisco Bay Area guitar maker who made the...
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Like their previous owner, the late Jerry Garcia's guitars might now be able to rest in peace. Grateful Dead Productions has reached a tentative settlement with Doug Irwin,...
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Saying that "working for the [Grateful] Dead wasn't just a job, it was an adventure," the Dead camp has decided to institute a special Hall Of Honor to recognize...
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The Grateful Dead's vaults have opened again for Dick's Picks, Volume 20, a somewhat different release in the continuing series of archival recordings in that it covers two...
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(7/7/00, 12 p.m. ET) -The Grateful Dead has released the 18th volume in its Dick's Picks series, this time combining two shows from 1978--February 3 at Dane County Coliseum...
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The Other Ones, the Furthur Fest band comprised primarily of ex-Grateful Dead members, has had a small change in its lineup. Drummer John Molo has backed out of the project...
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More details have been revealed about Stolen Roses/Songs Of The Grateful Dead, a new tribute album that will be released on August 8 by Grateful Dead Productions.
The...
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The 2000 edition of the Furthur Festival is coming to a town near you. Beginning August 23 at the Coors Amphitheatre in San Diego, the continuation of the **Grateful...
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Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and Elvis Costello are the best-known artists featured on a new Grateful Dead tribute album due out this summer.
Stolen Roses, which is slated for...
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The shoe manufacturer Birkenstock has distributed limited-edition Jerry Garcia sandals to more than 100 Birkenstock retail stores nationwide.
The "J. Garcia" name and...
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Toy Fair is the place to be in New York as cartoon, baseball, and rock action figure mogul Todd McFarlane debuted his current line of rocker toys. He also announced that...
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Some members of the Grateful Dead camp are "Throwing Stones" at each other in a disagreement over a proposed deal to license the group's unreleased music.
The Internet...
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Dick Latvala, the former postal employee who turned his love of the Grateful Dead into a career as the band's recording archivist, died at his home in Petaluma, Calif. on...
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This Sunday (Aug. 1) would have been the 57th birthday of the late Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia.
While he was undoubtedly the leader of the Grateful Dead, Garcia...
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Grateful Dead fans disappointed by the cancellation of what would have been the fourth annual Furthur Festival later this year might find some solace in another traveling...
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Details are continuing to emerge about the soundtrack to Detroit Rock City, the upcoming film about four teenagers in 1978 who lose their Kiss concert tickets for a show at...
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Taking a long-standing policy on live recordings into the next century, a statement released today by the Grateful Dead announced that the band will allow the free exchange...
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Items from the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, Carlos Santana, B.B. King, and the Rolling Stones are just a few of the goodies set to go on the auction block in...
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Fans of the Grateful Dead and the peripheral projects of its surviving members will want to circle a few dates on their calendars this April.
First, bassist Phil Lesh will...
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In one of the strangest pairings in recent history, teen pop trio Hanson made a special guest appearance at Bob Weir's show Saturday night at the Wetlands in New York.
The...
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Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh was reported to be in stable condition this morning, after undergoing a liver transplant Thursday in Florida.
"[The doctors] are totally...
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Beginning Oct. 27, the first six volumes of the Grateful Dead live recordings known as Dick's Picks will be available at traditional retail outlets for a limited 90-day...
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The Wild Colonials have been asked to record a cover of the Grateful Dead ballad "Brokedown Palace" for an upcoming Claire Danes film of the same name.
"None of us knew the...
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Cumberland Blues, a new musical written by Michael Norman Mann, opens tomorrow at San Francisco's Stage Door Theater. And while Mann, who has authored such notable works as...
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Three years after the death of legendary Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia, the long, strange trip resumes.
For band members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart, and for...
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The Other Ones, who longtime Grateful Dead fans will recognize as the Dead minus late guitarist Jerry Garcia, kicked off their Summer series of shows last Thursday in San...
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It looks like 1999 will be a very, very good year for grieving Deadheads. According to Wired News, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead are planning a reunion concert...
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To mark the 30th anniversary of the "Summer Of Love" and raise funds for various charities in San Francisco, where the famous counterculture movement originated with...
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