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The Grateful Dead's career will be the focus of an upcoming tribute exhibition at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. The show will feature memorabilia including guitars...
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The Grateful Dead star Jerry Garcia is to be the subject of a new musical documentary. Filmmaker Malcolm Leo and veteran manager John Hartmann have secured the music rights to the band's extensiv...
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Happy Birthday to: Grateful Dead guitarist/singer Jerry Garcia (1942; d. 1995) Puerto Rican actress Valery Ortiz (1984) O-Town singer Ashley Parker Angel (1981) Conan the Barbarian star Jason ...
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Grateful Dead’s monumental boxed set EUROPE ’72: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS has sold out of the 7200 individually numbered, limited edition version just weeks after it was first announced. The dead....
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The last home Grateful Dead star Jerry Garcia lived in before he died is on the market for $4 million. The musician served as lead guitarist and vocalist of the group before his tragic death in 1...
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A movie based on the life of Grateful Dead star Jerry Garcia has been thrown into jeopardy after the late rocker's estate refused producers permission to feature the rocker's music. The guitarist...
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Happy Birthday to: Grateful Dead guitarist/singer Jerry Garcia (1942; d. 1995) O-Town singer Ashley Parker Angel (1981) Avenged Sevenfold singer M. Shadows (1981) "The Cosby Show" actress Te...
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Heart attacks. Plane crashes. Car crashes. Drug overdoses. Murder. Over the years, these have become some of the most common causes of the often shocking deaths in the music industry. On a lighter ...
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Pinpointing the creative zenith of the Grateful Dead's career would be a challenge fit for even Sisyphus. That said, one could do a lot worse than looking to the fabled spring tour of 1977, long co...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 Greensboro...
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Late musician Jerry Garcia will be remembered in a forthcoming film about his rise to fame before becoming the legendary frontman of the Grateful Dead. Garcia - who formed the psychedelic ro...
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The biopic is a longstanding Hollywood tradition. There are the big budget epics like the now infamous Elizabeth Taylor vehicle "Cleopatra," David Lean's masterpiece, "Lawrence of Arabia," or Richa...
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Happy Birthday to MTV! (1981); O-Town singer Ashley Parker Angel (1981), Avenged Sevenfold musician M. Shadows (1981), "The Cosby Show" actress Tempestt Bledsoe (1973), film director Sam Mendes (19...
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With labels such as Fantasy, Specialty, Prestige and Stax, the scope of the Concord Music Group catalog is as deep and eclectic as your beloved public radio station left of the dial and as vast as ...
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With labels such as Fantasy, Specialty, Prestige and Stax, the scope of the Concord Music Group catalog is as deep and eclectic as your beloved public radio station left of the dial and as vast as ...
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Veteran band Grateful Dead have reunited for a benefit concert to support U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. The legendary rockers split in 1995 after the death of frontman Jerry Garcia. ...
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Here's part two of the best songs about girls with every letter of the alphabet, regardless of whether or not the subject of the song is the same as the title. There were two considerations in maki...
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As the front man of Primus, Les Claypool's sense of humor has always been on display, and it takes center stage in National Lampoon Presents Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo. Written, directed,...
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Over three decades as the innovative percussion engine of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart's ear for global sounds brought numerous unpredictable guests to the Dead's stage performances. Hart's ...
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Happy Birthday to MTV! (1981); O-Town singer Ashley Parker Angel (1981), Avenged Sevenfold musician M. Shadows (1981), Arizona Cardinals running back Edgerrin James (1978), "The Cosby Show" actress...
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Grateful Dead fans have been given the chance to buy items once belonging to Jerry Garcia; everything including the kitchen sink - literally. Californian Henry Koltys is giving fans of the late gu...
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If you want to understand why people obsess over live Grateful Dead recordings, the historic From The Vault series of releases holds the answer. The story begins in 1991 when the band quietly and u...
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Jerry Garcia's widow has launched a legal action in an attempt to regain control of unpublished recordings of the Grateful Dead star's performances. Deborah Koons Garcia filed her lawsuit ag...
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Legendary Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia is the latest dead rocker to be brought back from the grave for a new biopic. With Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon all set to be recreated on ...
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Habital listeners of the Grateful Dead's live recordings are known for their ability to identify the year of a performance by listening to just a few notes. But for even the most "dead"icated liste...
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Relix, the magazine for music, and Concert.TV, the only television network dedicated to live music performances and documentaries, kick off the new year by kicking out the jams. Re-christening Janu...
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Recipients of the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award and Technical Grammy Award were announced today. Joan Baez, Booker T. & The MG's, Maria Callas, Ornette Coleman, The Doors, the Gra...
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Former Malcolm In The Middle star Justin Berfield bought pal Jessica Simpson's former matrimonial home, and now he's producing her new film. The ambitious 21-year-old has set up his own production ...
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Recorded in Nashville and produced by Grammy winner, Steve Buckingham, "Pretty Little Stranger" highlights the soulful sound of Joan Osborne with elements of country blues and Americana. This 12 s...
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Acoustic or electric, solo or side project; Jerry Garcia was prolific during his breaks from the Grateful Dead. Between 1972 and 1982, Garcia recorded five historic studio albums and jammed with a ...
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