W E I R Back

The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir is back in action.  Nearly two months after collapsing during a concert in New York, RollingStone.com says the 65-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer made his comeback Wednesday night, hosting a show at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, California as he resumed his "Weir Here" weekly web series. 
He also fielded questions from the crowd, but nobody asked about his recent health scare.  And Weir wasn't exactly forthcoming with information or an update, aside from saying he's "doing just fine."  Complete Article

Panic the Dead

"Every jam band worth its hemp has covered the Dead at some point. Phish, moe., Umphrey's McGee and others all admit to plucking away Grateful Dead songs in their early days. Even mainstream acts like Sublime and Counting Crowes have laid down studio versions of their favorite tie-dyed tunes.

But this undated jam has to be one of the most earnest Grateful Dead covers I've ever heard. Widespread Panic does it right." Click for Video and Article 

Widespread Panic Fire On The Mountain

Sunshine Daydream

On August 27, 1972 the Grateful Dead played a benefit for the The Springfield Creamery in Veneta, OR that became an instant classic in Deadlore. A film dubbed Sunshine Daydream was shot that day using four 16mm cameras and while the movie was never released, it has circulated in fan circles and been shown at film festivals. This summer, Sunshine Daydream will finally hit theaters nationwide.

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The Grateful Dead is back for the third annual Grateful Dead Meet Up at the Movies 2013 on Thursday, August 1 at 7:30 pm (local time).  This year’s Meet Up features “Sunshine Daydream,” the most requested release of the band’s entire career. Originally shot on 16mm film on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Oregon, in 1972—and painstakingly restored to HD resolution—“Sunshine Daydream” captures the band at the height of their powers.  With the Dead lending their services to the Kesey family to help keep their Springfield Creamery afloat, this colorful counterculture time capsule features special appearances by key members of the Grateful Dead community and a cavalcade of Merry Pranksters. - See more at: http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/3rd-annual-grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-2013-to-hit-theaters-august-1/151835#sthash.DuaRnAbX.dpufThe Grateful Dead is back for the third annual Grateful Dead Meet Up at the Movies 2013 on Thursday, August 1 at 7:30 pm (local time).  This year’s Meet Up features “Sunshine Daydream,” the most requested release of the band’s entire career. Originally shot on 16mm film on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Oregon, in 1972—and painstakingly restored to HD resolution—“Sunshine Daydream” captures the band at the height of their powers.  With the Dead lending their services to the Kesey family to help keep their Springfield Creamery afloat, this colorful counterculture time capsule features special appearances by key members of the Grateful Dead community and a cavalcade of Merry Pranksters. - See more at: http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/3rd-annual-grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-2013-to-hit-theaters-august-1/151835#sthash.DuaRnAbX.dpuf

The Grateful Dead is back for the third annual Grateful Dead Meet Up at the Movies 2013 on Thursday, August 1 at 7:30 pm (local time).  This year’s Meet Up features “Sunshine Daydream,” the most requested release of the band’s entire career. Originally shot on 16mm film on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Oregon, in 1972—and painstakingly restored to HD resolution—“Sunshine Daydream” captures the band at the height of their powers.  With the Dead lending their services to the Kesey family to help keep their Springfield Creamery afloat, this colorful counterculture time capsule features special appearances by key members of the Grateful Dead community and a cavalcade of Merry Pranksters. - See more at: http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/3rd-annual-grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-2013-to-hit-theaters-august-1/151835#sthash.DuaRnAbX.dpuf

The Grateful Dead is back for the third annual Grateful Dead Meet Up at the Movies 2013 on Thursday, August 1 at 7:30 pm (local time).  This year’s Meet Up features “Sunshine Daydream,” the most requested release of the band’s entire career. Originally shot on 16mm film on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Oregon, in 1972—and painstakingly restored to HD resolution—“Sunshine Daydream” captures the band at the height of their powers.  With the Dead lending their services to the Kesey family to help keep their Springfield Creamery afloat, this colorful counterculture time capsule features special appearances by key members of the Grateful Dead community and a cavalcade of Merry Pranksters. - See more at: http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/3rd-annual-grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-2013-to-hit-theaters-august-1/151835#sthash.DuaRnAbX.dpufThe Grateful Dead is back for the third annual Grateful Dead Meet Up at the Movies 2013 on Thursday, August 1 at 7:30 pm (local time).  This year’s Meet Up features “Sunshine Daydream,” the most requested release of the band’s entire career. Originally shot on 16mm film on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Oregon, in 1972—and painstakingly restored to HD resolution—“Sunshine Daydream” captures the band at the height of their powers.  With the Dead lending their services to the Kesey family to help keep their Springfield Creamery afloat, this colorful counterculture time capsule features special appearances by key members of the Grateful Dead community and a cavalcade of Merry Pranksters. - See more at: http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/3rd-annual-grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-2013-to-hit-theaters-august-1/151835#sthash.DuaRnAbX.dpuf

The Grateful Dead is back for the third annual Grateful Dead Meet Up at the Movies 2013 on Thursday, August 1 at 7:30 pm (local time).  This year’s Meet Up features “Sunshine Daydream,” the most requested release of the band’s entire career. Originally shot on 16mm film on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Oregon, in 1972—and painstakingly restored to HD resolution—“Sunshine Daydream” captures the band at the height of their powers.  With the Dead lending their services to the Kesey family to help keep their Springfield Creamery afloat, this colorful counterculture time capsule features special appearances by key members of the Grateful Dead community and a cavalcade of Merry Pranksters - See more at: http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/3rd-annual-grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-2013-to-hit-theaters-august-1/151835#sthash.DuaRnAbX.dpuf

The Grateful Dead is back for the third annual Grateful Dead Meet Up at the Movies 2013 on Thursday, August 1 at 7:30 pm (local time).  This year’s Meet Up features “Sunshine Daydream,” the most requested release of the band’s entire career. Originally shot on 16mm film on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Oregon, in 1972—and painstakingly restored to HD resolution—“Sunshine Daydream” captures the band at the height of their powers.  With the Dead lending their services to the Kesey family to help keep their Springfield Creamery afloat, this colorful counterculture time capsule features special appearances by key members of the Grateful Dead community and a cavalcade of Merry Pranksters - See more at: http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/3rd-annual-grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-2013-to-hit-theaters-august-1/151835#sthash.DuaRnAbX.dpufThe Grateful Dead is back for the third annual Grateful Dead Meet Up at the Movies 2013 on Thursday, August 1 at 7:30 pm (local time).  This year’s Meet Up features “Sunshine Daydream,” the most requested release of the band’s entire career. Originally shot on 16mm film on the grounds of the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Oregon, in 1972—and painstakingly restored to HD resolution—“Sunshine Daydream” captures the band at the height of their powers.  With the Dead lending their services to the Kesey family to help keep their Springfield Creamery afloat, this colorful counterculture time capsule features special appearances by key members of the Grateful Dead community and a cavalcade of Merry Pranksters - See more at: http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/3rd-annual-grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-2013-to-hit-theaters-august-1/151835#sthash.DuaRnAbX.dpuf

Family Streaming

Jer Bear,
 
My family loves the Stream. Living in Washington state gives us many opportunities to spend endless hours driving in the car with our two young children. The Stream makes hours of driving go by like a dream. We love the shows, vignettes, the tidbits of trivia and most of all the euphemisms. It is the consciousness that flows from the Stream that keeps us truckin'. Thanks for the many good times, good tunes, and good laughs and for injecting "right on" into our families lexicon!
 

The Korn Family

May 1977 BoxSet

"If you're a Dead Head, chances are you've spent many an hour expounding upon the distinction of May 8, 1977, Cornell University, Barton Hall. Well, at the risk of preaching to the choir, we'd like to reintroduce you to a series of shows that matches said greatness from that same gloriously fertile season. While Barton Hall is well known, the astounding tour that surrounded it has occasionally flown under the radar due to the uneven quality of tapes in circulation. May 1977 is set to change all of that with a boxed set that zeroes in on this high-water mark in the Grateful Dead's long strange trip." (Complete Article)

Drummer Mickey Hart is Touring

Mickey Hart doesn't want to talk about the Grateful Dead.

Though he will forever be thankful for the band that earned him a berth in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and solidified his status as a music legend, he's more interested in discussing what he's up to these days.

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McNally - the Scribe

"For most authors, holding the attention of an audience of jam-band fans who want to rock out might be a formidable challenge. But McNally comes armed with enough fascinating, real-life stories (and a rare gift of gab) that quieting a nightclub audience shouldn’t be a problem for the man Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia fondly called “Scribe.”" Read Complete Article

Lost Tapes

Inside last week's Shakedown Stream, we got a taste of the newest Dave's Picks release. We heard one of the earliest versions of Direwolf and Mason's Children from 1969.  This release is being considered the "Lost Tapes." Read this article and find out why:

Grateful Dead

"Dave's Picks Volume 6"

David Lemieux, the Grateful Dead archivist and the Dave behind "Dave's Picks 6," calls this three-CD set "the lost tapes." That's because they were missing for more than 40 years, surfacing in July when the ex-wife of a former Dead roadie found them when she was packing up her house in North Carolina. Complete article

Jerry was my Teacher

"It was March 1962 when I invested in a hundred-dollar banjo and began lessons on Tuesday nights at Dana Morgan Studio Music Shop in downtown Palo Alto. A young guy with a shock of black hair, a goatee, and black horn-rimmed glasses on his nose came out to meet me when I checked in for my first lesson.
"Are you my seven o'clock?"
"Yeah."
"What's your name?"
"Andy Bernstein"
"I'm Jerry Garcia. Follow me."
©California Slim: The Music, the Magic, and the Madness

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Furthur Cancelled

"Furthur have canceled their headline appearance at the inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley on May 9th, news that comes less than a week after singer and guitarist Bob Weir fell down mid-song onstage while the Grateful Dead offshoot performed April 25th at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York."
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Bobby's Back !!

WE all certainly had a little scare the other night seeing Bobby Weir fall down, but, no worries, because he's BACK!! Like I said, he is a bright light in the Dead world, burning that big ole candle for all of US. Furthur played in Atlantic City, NJ this Saturday night - everything looks good. Check out Relix's brief report and video footage of Bobby and the boys. "Make good money $5 a day."

"Bob Weir returned to the stage with Furthur last night in Atlantic City, NJ and by all accounts he was in fine form. Following Thursday night’s show at the Capitol Theatre when he was forced to leave the stage late in the second set, reportedly due to complications associated with medicating a sore shoulder, Weir appeared to the resounding cheers of the audience at Boardwalk Hall. He then took a an active role from start as the show opened with “Jack Straw,” in which he shared vocals. He remained an active presence throughout the night, as if to demonstrate his health and vitality." (Relix Article)