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Conference rdvax::grateful

Title:Take my advice, you'd be better off DEAD
Notice:It's just a Box of Rain
Moderator:RDVAX::LEVY::DEBESS
Created:Thu Jan 03 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:580
Total number of notes:60238

499.0. "shall we call IT by a name" by STAR::ECOMAN::DEBESS (if my words did glow...) Tue Nov 14 1995 12:39

	Last night I was driving to a movie with a friend.
	We talked about many things but at one point she asked me
	"so what are the other band members doing now?"
	and I told her about all the rumors floating around now
	that they will be touring again next year.  She said,
		
	"oh, I hope they don't call themselves the Dead"
	
	I had a conversation like this with Michael T. in the bar
	last week.  We had different views on this.  Even though
	the decision is entirely out of our hands, what do you think?
	Should they keep the name GRATEFUL DEAD?

	Debess

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499.1CXDOCS::BARNESTue Nov 14 1995 12:458
    of course.....they've been the dead since they discovered there was
    already a Warlocks... thru Pig, thru Bill Grahm hating the name, 
    thru Constantin, thru Keith and Donna, thru 
    Brent, and now thru Jerry....."and the music never stopped..."
    
    just my opinion....
    
    rfb
499.2& the name is on the earth that takes it inSTAR::ECOMAN::DEBESSif my words did glow...Tue Nov 14 1995 12:4816
	the first days and weeks after Jerry died, I felt it was over.
	There was no way that the Dead could go on without him.

	As the weeks turned into months now, I'm feeling differently.
	I see that the phenomenon called the Grateful Dead was/is/&always
	will be more than the individual musicians.  We know how the
	"music plays the band" and how much a part -we- are too.
	
	Although, it goes without saying, they will NEVER be the same
	without Jerry, if they play together, to me they will be the
	Grateful Dead - just a new form of it.

	There's a lot of power in that name and I hope they do keep it.

	Debess
499.3PHONE::DUGGANBornInTheDesert,RaisedInTheLion'sDenTue Nov 14 1995 12:5822
    
    How about the Grateful Live?
    
    I still think that the music died on Aug. 10. More importantly, I
    *think* (the logical reasoning side of me, which generates the income)
    the scene died as well. but I *hope* (the illogical side which has been
    such a large part of my life for far longer and deeper than the
    logical) and more and more, fueled in no small part by talking and
    noting with YOU (whichever individual YOU is reading this note at this
    very second) and my non-Net 'Head friends that maybe we can still varry
    it on.
    
    I will go & listen to whatever comes along... the RatDogs, the Diga
    Rhythms, whatever Phil wants to call his bunch... and actually will
    possibly get to see them more&closer to home... since Jerry was the one
    who (according to the stories I've heard) didn't want to play in New
    Mexico.
    
    ...mike
    PS thanks, Debess, for this note.
    
    
499.4MKOTS3::JOLLIMOREI'm drowning in youTue Nov 14 1995 13:314
	there is an *official* Grateful Dead web page! :-)
	it shows the band members.
	i assume they'll continue as the Grateful Dead.
	
499.5DELNI::DSMITHand they keep on dancinTue Nov 14 1995 13:523
    
    Yeah, but it also shows a picture of Jerry.  Perhaps he'll be present
    in spirit!
499.6no question about it!STAR::ECOMAN::DEBESSif my words did glow...Tue Nov 14 1995 13:562
	Perhaps???
499.7It seems the most apt name.QUARRY::petertrigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertaintyTue Nov 14 1995 14:474
The Grateful Dead should live on in name and music.  The
Garcia Band, well....

PeterT
499.8Vince who?BINKLY::CEPARSKIWere They Ever Here At All?Tue Nov 14 1995 15:006
    >>The Garcia Band, well....
    
    Actually I'm gonna miss hearing Melvin Seals tear up those keys!!!
    
    He had my vote for stepping in as Brent's successor.
                                                                 
499.9TEPTAE::WESTERVELTTue Nov 14 1995 17:065
>    very second) and my non-Net 'Head friends that maybe we can still varry
>    it on.

    varry, good typo combination of "carry" and "vary", it makes sense!
499.10Dead on the road again?FABSIX::D_TODDSun Nov 19 1995 11:3313
      As far as the Dead going back on tour next year as "The Dead", I Don't 
    think so.
      I would have to say that being 50+ and having been on the 
    road for thirty years, they no longer find it necessary to go back on
    the road especially after the loss of their friend.  In addition, the 
    way the crowds have been acting over the past few years (riots...),
    the dead have already threatened to stop touring, now this is the 
    catalyst, I believe, that will allow them to step back and lead more
    private lives. 
      Perhaps they'll work on some new studio stuff for love of music, but
    It's my opinion that we won't be seeing much of the boys on the road...
    at least any time soon.
      				speak w/ you soon...Dave Todd