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Grateful Dead truck up for auction in Alameda

3678 days ago

Mercury News, California — Owsley Stanley, the Grateful Dead's first sound man and an underground chemist who specialized in LSD, purchased the truck in 1966, the same year the Black Panthers were formed and Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. more info

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Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band released a new album, touring (dates & streams)

3679 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band put out their new 5-song LP, Intensity Ghost, this week via No Quarter records. Pulling equally from The Grateful Dead's jams and Television's guitar workouts on Marquee Moon, Chris and... more info

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Book Talk: Black music, white culture and a legendary U.S. highway

3679 days ago

Reuters — BOSTON (Reuters) - Author Dennis McNally accompanied the Grateful Dead as a publicist and historian on the band's “long strange trip,” and he chronicled Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation author of “On the Road.” more info

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Grateful Dead academic conference set for San Jose State University

3681 days ago

Mercury News, California — 'So Many Road: The World in the Grateful Dead' opens Nov. 5 at SJSU. more info

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Martin Scorsese Signs On as Executive Producer of Grateful Dead Documentary

3685 days ago

Time — The documentary is set to be released next year, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of band's founding more info

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The Grateful Dead Announce 50th Anniversary Documentary Prod. By Martin Scorsese

3686 days ago

Stereogum — The Grateful Dead turn 50 next year and to celebrate the occasion, they’ll release a career-spanning documentary directed by Amir Bar-Lev, who also had a hand in 2010′s The Tillman Story and 2007′s My Kid Could Paint That. Most notably, the fil... more info

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Catching Up With Steve Gunn :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

3703 days ago

Aquarium Drunkard — With 2013’s Time Off, guitarist Steve Gunn took a leap that often proves disastrous for guitar soli performers: he started singing. His albums had featured vocals before, but Time Off was different. On it, Gunn embraced proper songcraft, echoing th... more info

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Berkeley Hawaiian Music Festival set for Freight & Salvage

3710 days ago

Mercury News, California — Also, longtime Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally releases new book, 'On Highway 61.' more info

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Today's Music Picks: Grateful Dead biographer now explores 'Highway 61'

3712 days ago

Mercury News, California — Dennis McNally, the Grateful Dead's former publicist, will read from 'On Highway 61' Oct. 7 at Diesel bookstore in Oakland. more info

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John Oswald on Plunderphonics, "Grayfolded" and audio collage

3729 days ago

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Last weekend The Times published a profile of the sound artist John Oswald, who has just released an LP version of "Grayfolded." The recording, which is a nearly two-hour sound collage of dozens of live versions of the Grateful Dead's "Dark Star," wa... more info

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