LONG STRANGE TRIP is an Excellent Movie about the Grateful Dead. Four Hours Long, it Traces their History from the Very Beginning thru Jerry Garcia's Death.

https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Trip-Season-1/dp/B086HXZFL2

Made with the help of Tricia Garcia and Justin Kreutzman, it shows Many Films that I Have Not Seen Before... Being Family, They Had Access to Everything in the Vault. 

Interviews with Musicians, Roadies, Sound Techs, Girlfriends, Children, Deadheads, Record Company Executive, etc etc etc... This is a Insightful Film... I was especially Moved by the Filmed Interview With Barbara Meier... A Girlfriend of Jerry Garcia's from the Bluegrass Banjo Years of his Youth and then Again During his Scuba Diving Era in Late Life... 

The Movie Does Not Document the Post Garcia Years... My Last Concert was the "Fare Ye Well" Shows in Santa Clara, CA - and it was a Truly Epic Event! 

Long Strange Trip is a 2017 American documentary film about the Grateful Dead. 

Long Strange Trip was directed by Amir Bar-Lev, and has a running time of almost four hours. Martin Scorsese was one of the executive producers. Justin Kreutzmann, the son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, was one of the producers.

The film features newly conducted interviews with living band members and friends including Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and his wife Natascha, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, John Perry Barlow, Robert Hunter, Donna Godchaux, Dennis McNally, Barbara "Brigid" Meier, Nick Paumgarten, Steve Silberman, and Alan Trist. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Strange_Trip

Personnel

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
• Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion
• Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – organ, harmonica, percussion, vocals
• Tom Constanten – keyboards
• Keith Godchaux – keyboards
• Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
• Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
• Vince Welnick – keyboards, vocals

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Project MKULTRA: The CIA Mind Control Experiment That Escaped The Laboratory and Got Out Onto The Dance Floor! Was "The Sixties" Really a Test to Just Find Out What Would Happen IF A Million People Took LSD?

READ MORE: 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-cia

-project-mkultra-was-wildly.html

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Grateful Dead Tech History - Podcast Interviews with the Electronics Engineers that Built Their Amazing Sound... Ned Lagin: Seastones - 
John Perry Barlow: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Long Strange Tech:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/01/
grateful-dead-tech-history.html

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American History: "The Thunder Machine" 

made by Ron Boise was used by Ken Kesey at 

the Acid Tests. It was a Giant Sheet Metal 

Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like 

a Drum.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/american-history-

thunder-machine-made.html

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"A Spiral of Deadheads" Science Fiction Story 

by gvan42 - and - "Ceremony and Ritual" 

- Psychedelic Poetry

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/flying

-heart-art-mkultra-cia-mind.html

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Grateful Dead... My Story... American History... 
and Original Deadhead ART... 

My Sugar Cube Painting...

like the cover of 

"The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" 

by Tom Wolfe.

I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in 

English class at junior high school. Our teacher 

had put up posters on the wall of the classroom

and we wrote essays about them. He was 

attempting to stimulate creative WRITING 

but more importantly, creative THINKING.

One was an American flag made out of 

swastikas and another was a solarized/

negative photo of 5 hairy men 

standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES" type 

suburban tract homes... I Did Not Recognize 

them...

READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-

deadhead-art-and-mystory.html

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Grateful Deadhead Tribute Webpage. 

Pictures and Tall Tales. Many thanks to all that 

made the Grateful Dead an American Miracle... 

Just remember, if our lives together were 

written as a fiction story, everyone would 

dismiss it as being unbelievable... 

Yet it all really happened! ART, Poetry and 

MyStory... I'm Gr8ful 

READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-

deadhead-tribute-webpage.html

Grateful Dead psychedelic art files for your 

viewing pleasure...

The wonderful Winterland Arena in San 

Francisco was the home to many Grateful 

Dead Concerts... It was the ONE PLACE where 

the Wall of Sound really worked! 

They had days to set up the equipment and 

tweak it to perfection... 

The Movie with the cartoon at the 

beginning was filmed there... 

and it was a fine show! They included fire on 

stage and ladies dancing with silk scarves...

and I Went to That Concert... I Remember Many

People With Movie Cameras... 

and I Went to 39 Concerts Total... 

I remember FM Radio Quadraphonic Broadcasts of the Grateful Dead New Years Eve Concert in 1976... I was lucky enough to Get in to the Cow Palace Show in 1975... Carlos Santana played Up Until Midnight... then Festivities/Celebration... The Dead Started Playing After Midnight...

They Broadcast the stereo Front-Left and Front-Right sound on ONE Radio Station... and they Broadcast the Rear Left and Right on a Different station... If you owned Two Stereo Radios you could listen to True Quadraphonic Sound at your Home... The Reason they did this was that Tickets for New Years Eve were very difficult to get and Many people could not get in... BUT... We had a wonderful time at Home with all our Friends...

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I'm a big fan of Lyricist John Perry Barlow... He wrote "Estimated Prophet", "Throwing Stones" and "I Need a Miracle" and others... Great Meaningful Songs that Make you Think...

He also helped found the EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation... an Internet Freedom of the Press Organization...

Here is a Newspaper Article about Him and Julian Assange... Founder of Wikileaks...
Julian Assange and John Perry Barlow in joint interview on NSA Prism leaks: "Snowden is a hero" https://boingboing.net/2013/06/11/julian-assange-and-john-perry.html

An Obituary...
Tech Utopianism And Our Walled Gardens: Is It Time For A Jailbreak? 

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/02/12/585110447/tech-utopianism-and-our-walled-gardens-is-it-time-for-a-jailbreak 

John Perry Barlow, who died last Wednesday at 70, was one of those unusual figures whose obituaries find no point of common agreement. An Internet evangelist who once wrote song lyrics for the Grateful Dead, Barlow was also a poet, activist, cattle rancher and corporate consultant, whose peripatetic career defied easy summarization. Billboard wrote about his music career; Wired about his Internet activism; Wyoming's Casper Star-Tribune about his boyhood on the Bar Cross Ranch. Barlow, louche and charismatic, had an astonishing number of friends, and their testimonials suggest a man with a taste for the good life and a certain facility for bulls***. No one seemed certain of Barlow's place in history, or how to answer the tougher questions: Is Barlow's utopian futurism still relevant? Was his work as an activist defensible? Was his music any good? But as writers struggled with the complicated legacy of John Perry Barlow, most readers, I suspect, had a different question: Who? Don't worry: Unless you enjoy suing the government, or were in the tapers' pit at Fillmore in 1976, you are forgiven for not knowing who Barlow was. Born in Wyoming to a family of cattle ranchers, Barlow showed early promise as a writer, garnering a significant advance for his first novel shortly after graduating college. He never finished it, instead discovering LSD and living for a time on an Ashram. Although he retained, throughout his life, the laconic drawl of a cattle hand, Barlow's intellect and charisma permitted him access to an extraordinary range of acquaintances, including Bob Weir, the rhythm guitarist for the Grateful Dead. In the early '70s, when Weir was feuding with the Dead's primary lyricist Robert Hunter, Barlow was temporarily brought in to replace him.

A Review of his Top Ten Songs... 
 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/08/john-perry-barlow-remembering-his-10-greatest-songs/ 

“Cassidy”: The Weir-Barlow duo was never better than on this memorable tune originally released on Weir’s first solo album, 1972’s “Ace,” and then on 1981’s “Reckoning,” 1990’s “Without a Net” and other Grateful Dead live efforts. The song was reportedly named after Cassidy Law, who was the daughter of legendary Grateful crew member Rex Jackson and Weir’s close friend Eileen Law. Also check out the great version Suzanne Vega does on the Dead tribute album “Deadicated.” 

 “Mexicali Blues”: It’s believed to be the first Weir-Barlow collaboration and it’s definitely a keeper — a rambling cowboy tune that owes a debt to Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” (which the Dead often covered). 

 “Throwing Stones”: One of the standout tracks from 1987’s “In the Dark,” “Throwing Stones” is a definite nominee for the best song the Dead created during the later part of its career — a powerful rocker addressing social concerns. 

 “Estimated Prophet”: The song provides a mesmerizing start to 1977’s “Terrapin Station,” kicking up a dust of psychedelia that still sounds satisfying to this day. 

 “Hell in a Bucket”: It’s another great rocker from “In the Dark,” which formed a great one-two punch with “Touch of Grey.” 

 “We Can Run”: Barlow collaborated with Grateful Dead vocalist-keyboardist Brent Mydland on a number of songs for the band’s last studio effort, 1989’s “Built to Last.” This passionate number addressing environment concerns might be the best of the bunch. 

“Black-Throated Wind”: Another keeper from Weir’s “Ace” album, which is thought of as de-facto Dead album since the rest of the band backed Weir on it. 

 “The Music Never Stopped”: This song from the Dead’s eighth studio album, 1975’s “Blues for Allah,” became an anthem for the band and, especially, its fabled fans – the Deadheads. 

 “I Need a Miracle”: Speaking of Deadheads, the title of this song became the ultimate catchphrase for anyone needing a ticket to a show (sold out or otherwise). 

 “Weather Report Suite”: Barlow contributed to this magical musical epic that brings the Dead’s sixth album, 1973’s “Wake of the Flood,” to a satisfying conclusion. 

 “Looks Like Rain”: Our final pick from “Ace,” which was a highlight of Grateful Dead shows for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow

 

"US Blues" by Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia. Sung by Greg Vanderlaan Guitar, Vocals

https://youtu.be/k0_kSJTnWNI

This song has a lot of half step - step downs...
all through all the verses.

US BLUES:
A                      A Ab A                                 A Ab A
Red and white,               blue suede shoes
 A                     A Ab A                              A Ab A
I'm Uncle Sam,              how do you do?
D                 D Db D                        D Db D
Gimme five,              I'm still alive
 D                  D Db D                              E B E
Ain't no luck,               I learned to duck
A                         A Ab A                         A Ab A
Check my pulse,              it don't change
 A                          A Ab A                               A Ab A
Stay seventy-two               come shine or rain
D                     D Db D                     D Db D
Wave the flag,              pop the bag
D                    D Db D                      E B E
Rock the boat,             skin the goat

[CHORUS]
B7                                  E
Wave that flag, wave it wide and high
B7                                  E
Summertime done, come and gone, my oh my

 A
I'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am

Been hidin' out in a rock and roll band
 D
Shake the hand that shook the hand
                              E B E
Of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan
[CHORUS]

 A
Shine your shoes, light your fuse
 
Can you use them ol' U.S. Blues?
 D
I'll drink your health, share your wealth
                            E B E
Run your life, steal your wife
[CHORUS]

A
Back to back, chicken shack
   
Son of a gun, better change your act
D
We're all confused, what's to lose?
                                 E B E
You can call this song the United States Blues
[CHORUS]

"Grateful Dead" will perform at a Save the Redwoods League Benefit Concert. Bob Weir and Mickey Hart. Centennial Celebration Gala.

https://www.relix.com/news/detail/bob_weir_mickey_hart_and_john_mayer_to_perform_at_save_the_redwoods_benefit 

After Dead & Company close their summer tour at the Lockn’ Festival, three sixths of the band will perform at the Centennial Celebration Gala, a benefit for the Save the Redwoods League.

The event – dubbed “The Party of The Century” – will take place on Saturday, October 13 at Union Square in San Francisco. The band is billed as "Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Friends with special guest John Mayer."

CBS national correspondent Lee Cowen will be the master of ceremonies, and tickets range from $1,000 to $10,000.

This event will be the band's second benefit performance in recent memory.  In July, the full Dead & Company lineup performed at a Hollywood benefit for Oceana and raised over $1 million for ocean preservation.

For tickets and more information about the October 13 Save the Redwoods benefit click here.

https://www.savetheredwoods.org/100-years/centennial-events/centennial-celebration-gala/#joinus

Read more: https://www.relix.com/news/detail/bob_weir_mickey_hart_and_john_mayer_to_perform_at_save_the_redwoods_benefit#ixzz5N7Nc7I1J 

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