From Dead to Dog
Bob Weir receives a crash course in freak-folk.
By Justin F. Farrar
Published: July 11, 2007Next time you're out drinking, tell your friends that the Grateful Dead rocks. Most of them will shape-shift into rabid Dobermans and tear into your musical taste, frothing rebukes that include the words dirty, fuckin', and hippie.
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Grateful Dead's biography all set for biopic
Washington, July 7: The life of legendary rockers 'Grateful Dead' will be reflected in an upcoming biopic, based on the biography of the band written by a well-known roadie. Director Michael Garais will adapt Steve Parish's 2004 book 'Home Before Daylight' into a film, which will trace the Truckin' band's beginnings in 1960s San Francisco, California, through to frontman Jerry Garcia's death in 1995. >READ MORE
New combo: Grateful Dead, classical music
By JOHN ROGERS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES - It may be the longest, strangest trip the Grateful Dead’s music has endured - a performance by a symphony orchestra under the baton of a classical composer.
But to Lee Johnson, the guy with the baton, the real surprise is that his world of high culture took as long as it did to embrace the world of counterculture for which the Grateful Dead provided so much of the soundtrack.
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