General discussion

Robert Hunter’s online archive, which includes his occasional journal posts, has moved to www.hunterarchive.com

David Lemieux is posting a weekly essay with audio in the “Taper’s Section” of the new Dead Net. It’s a “This week in Dead history” format. Here’s an excerpt from the December 4-10 edition: One of the most intriguing short tours in Grateful Dead history took place in the first two weeks of December, 1971, … Read more

Jerry Garcia 12/31/76. See also Bob Weir 12/31/76 The impending release of the Dead’s 12/31/76 show at the Cow Palace inspired me to dig out my photos from that night. Extra big thanks to John Rottet for scanning my negatives. I also finally got around to organizing all the GD shots among my flickr images.

I sat in with the New Riders of the Purple Sage on the radio last night, quite unexpectedly. They were playing on my show, and although I have sat in with them a couple of times recently, I didn’t have so much as a guitar pick with me when I got to the station. The … Read more

Take a look at DeadNet. Pardon our mess… We apologize for the inconvenience, but Dead.net is transitioning to a new hosting environment. For you, that means that some sections of the site will be temporarily offline, including Archives, Fan Photos, and GD Radio. The store will remain open. We’ve also launched the new “Tapers Section” … Read more

From Paul Ingles in New Mexico: Five years ago today, I was laying in bed in the early morning hours when the clock radio clicked on with the news that George Harrison had died.  I can remember feeling this huge vibration rattle down my spine and a mixture of sadness and appreciation swept through me at … Read more

“It Was Twenty Years Ago Today”, photo by Stu Levy. A print of this image is up for auction: https://www.sfcamerawork.org/auction2006/auction5.html See lot 65 SF CAMERAWORK’S 2006 Auction Benefit Saturday, December 2, 2006 Live Auction begins at 1:00 pm Works by Richard Misrach, Dinh Q. Lê, Larry Fink, Holly Roberts, Michael Kenna, William Wegman, Lori Nix, … Read more

Rita and I drove to southern California for Thanksgiving gatherings with her family and mine. The weather was perfect, and the feasts and family fun were splendid. Here are some photos from our trip. How was your Thanksgiving?

Drea Stein writes from St. Louis: Just wanted to let you know that Jake’s Leg celebrated their 30th anniversary last night (Friday, November 24). They sold out an 1,800 seat venue. That was the first time that a local band ever sold out this venue. Our local paper ran a really nice article on them … Read more