Just Gotta Poke Around

Shakedown Stream™ devotes the entire month of April to the entire year of 1987. It is time to poke around and see what we can discover with the music of Grateful Dead. We have 5 weeks to explore 5 different Live Dead shows from '87, a year yet to be fully featured on Shakedown Stream. Here it comes, get ready and stream on in.

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"Just Gotta Poke Around"

All You Need

"Just a Touch, that's all you gotta have." The second half of our doubleheader this week on Shakedown Stream™ finishes up with the Grateful Dead in London, England. We'll get treated to a serious, grown-up version of Dark Star (not for the faint of heart). This kind of Grateful Dead jamming is for deadheads who enjoy a long, hearty cup of organic dark roast, freshly ground, cradled ina  properly warmed ceramic filter holder before the just-bel ow-boiling temperature water poured over it. Perfection!

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Tuesday @ 5pm EST

"All You Need

All You Gotta Have"

Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, founding members of the Dead, announced on Friday that their band, Furthur, will do a series of eight concerts at the theater starting on April 16.



In the early 1970s, the Capitol Theater, which at the time was a crumbling movie house, was one of the the Dead’s favorite concert halls because of its unusually good acoustics. The group played 18 concerts there in 1970 and 1971

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Netanyahu & Jerry Garcia

"Scholars of Middle East politics and students of the San Francisco–centered psychedelic-rock movement of the 1960s have for years asked the same vexing question: Just how many degrees of separation exist between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia?"

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Weir Walks off Stage

"In a move the Sweetwater Music Hall's manager called "heartbreaking," Grateful Dead legend and Mill Valley resident Bob Weir walked off the stage at the venue Monday night in the face of unrelenting crowd chatter.

Weir, who was playing a solo acoustic set prior to a performance by his new Ratdog Quartet, walked off angrily in the middle of a rendition of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.” The walk-off was preceded by a number of indications that Weir was growing irritated with the chatter, and he asked those engaged in extended conversation if he was interrupting them (5:20 in the video above)."  Read More and See Video

To Lay Me Down

"You are bringing a lot of joy to the ears of my family and me. I'm a longtime fan of the Dead and appreciate Shakedown Stream. My wife and kids love it too. Started going to shows a year after you. I'm emailing because I had never heard the great to lay me down from the New Haven show you recently streamed. I've searched for good versions of that song and they are hard to come by. I'm listening to it now as I work through the late night. I had thought Lake Placid 1983 was the best post-Jai-alai (and post Reckoning) TLMD, but New Haven rivals it. Thank you! "    John and family

Bob Weir

Bob Weir just finished a solo acoustic tour accompanied by Jonathan Wilson. Together they played Santa Fe, Tuscon, Vegas and Ventura, CA. His new friend Jonathan Wilson is awesome - really fun to watch with Bobby. Probably because he is a new face to me, but he just has the phrasing down, especially on "Mission in the Rain". Check out Bobby  Weir and Jonathan Wilson joined by their other friend on violin on a Dead classic.

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Mickey on iPad

"The Grateful Dead Expansion Pack is broken into three categories: ensemble, percussion and vocal sounds. In each case the timbres were extracted from individual vocal performances, percussion hits or instrument riffs performed during the Grateful Dead’s concert at the Carousel Ballroom 44 years ago. The pack allows musicians today to create dynamic soundscapes from the Dead’s rare and complex source harmonic content originally performed decades ago."

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Coming Together

On Wednesday, the studio hosted an all-star collaboration featuring Weir, Sammy Hagar, Lukas Nelson (Willie’s son) and the Talking Heads/Modern Lovers' Jerry Harrison running through songs such as the Dead's "Friend of the Devil" and "Loose Lucy," as well as the Beatles' "Come Together," Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime" and Nelson's "Boner" – in front of an audience of invited suits.

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"If you missed the Grateful Dead in their heyday at the Capitol Theatre, where they performed 18 times in 1970-71 alone, The Cap is giving you another chance to experience an all-out Dead dance party. On Saturday Feb 16, the rock palace will present a complete, unreleased concert recorded live at the theatre in 1971, played in its entirety through the Cap’s state-of-the-art D&B sound system at full-concert-volume and accompanied by visual effects from the theatre’s concert lighting rig." 

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Once You Go Dead ...

How true it is. Whenever any musician plays with the Dead, they should not be surprised to find deadheads following them around and entering their world. For example, ...

"Two of the many musicians who impressed Deadheads during August’s Move Me Brightly webcast were psych-folk artist Jonathan Wilson and rocker Lukas Nelson. The pair learned that once you enter the Dead’s world you stay in the Dead World as they both performed with Bob Weir and Phil Lesh’s Furthur outfit on Friday night at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles." 

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