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04/24/24 - GarciaLive Volume 21 is a 2 CD set from 02/13/76 (with 02/15/76 filler).

04/17/24 - From the Mars Hotel: The Angel's Share is a streaming-only collection of studio outtakes.

04/10/24 - Rhino "is launching a new career-spanning archival series honoring Robert Hunter's work as a solo artist" with the Tales Of The Great Rum Runners Deluxe Edition, a 2 CD set, on 06/07/24. Also, The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead - The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter, a "novelistic origin story of the band" penned in the 1960s, will be released on 10/08/24.

03/27/24 - The From The Mars Hotel 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be released on 06/21/24. The 3 CD set "includes demos of 'China Doll' and 'Wave That Flag' – the song that became 'U.S. Blues' – as well as a previously unreleased live performance of the Grateful Dead at University of Nevada-Reno on 5/12/1974." Also, regarding the upcoming GarciaLive Volume 21, a recent clip on Jerry Garcia social media accounts teased that "The next installment within the GarciaLive series is . . . just about a moonlight mile down the road," and the clip includes 18 seconds of a JGB version of "Moonlight Mile" that seems to match the one from 02/13/76.

01/01/24 - Bear's Sonic Journals: Sing Out!, a 3 CD set including the 04/25/81 acoustic set by Garcia, Weir, Kreutzmann, Hart and Kahn, will be released on 02/23/24.

12/14/23 - Dave's Picks Vol. 50 is a 3 CD set from 05/03/77 (with 05/04/77 filler), and the 2024 Dave's Picks Bonus Disc is the second set from 05/04/77.

10/25/23 - Dave's Picks Vol. 49 is a 4 CD set from 04/27/85 and 04/28/85.

10/05/23 - Dave's Picks Vol. 48 is a CD set from 11/20/71. (10/17/23 update: on disc three "you'll find 75+ minutes of music from the Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, 10/24/70, with the rest of the show due sometime in the near future.")

09/27/23 - The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum's Jerry Garcia exhibition will launch with an opening weekend celebration on March 29-30, 2024, in Owensboro, KY.

09/19/23 - Heads & Tails: Volume 1 is a Jerry Garcia LP from 01/19/72 and 02/05/88.

09/08/23 - Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: The Documentary is now expected to premiere in September 2024.

08/18/23 - Wake of the Flood: The Angel's Share is a streaming-only collection of 38 studio outtakes. Also, "in addition to the more than two hours of tapes featured on Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share, the complete six hours plus of never-before-heard material from Wake Of The Flood sessions will drop on October 15th, exactly 50 years after the album was first released. The recordings will stream live as a YouTube Live Exclusive Event, synced up to the original tape box so viewers can experience it all in real time."

07/27/23 - The Wake Of The Flood 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be released on 09/29/23. The 2 CD set will feature "previously unreleased demo recordings of 'Eyes Of The World' and 'Here Comes Sunshine' . . . [and] a bonus disc of live material from [11/01/73]."

07/19/23 - San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time, a two-part docuseries focusing on the Bay Area music scene from 1965 to 1975, will air on MGM+ over two Sundays, August 20 and 27, at 10 p.m. ET.

07/15/23 - Dave's Picks Vol. 47 is a CD set from 12/09/79.

05/17/23 - GarciaLive Volume 20 is a 2 CD set from 06/18/82 (with 06/01/81 filler).

05/02/23 - Here Comes Sunshine 1973 is a 17 CD set from the spring of 1973.

04/12/23 - Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2023 will feature 6/22/91 from Chicago's Soldier Field.

12/14/22 - Dave's Picks Vol. 46 is a CD set from 09/09/72, and the 2023 Dave's Picks Bonus Disc is from 09/03/72 and 09/19/72.

11/01/22 - Relix: LP Giobbi to Remix Jerry Garcia's Self-Titled Debut 'Garcia'

10/25/22 - Dave's Picks Vol. 45 is a CD set from 10/01/77 and 10/02/77.

10/14/22 - According to the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, "The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum received $75,000 to implement a 'Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead bluegrass roots exhibit.'"

10/13/22 - Dave's Picks Vol. 44 is a CD set from 06/23/90.

09/15/22 - GarciaLive Volume 19 is a 2 CD set from 10/31/92.

09/15/22 - Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2022 will feature 4/17/72 from Copenhagen, Denmark.

08/15/22 - According to Relix, Justin Kreutzmann's Jerry Garcia documentary "is slated for release in 2023."

07/20/22 - Justin Kreutzmann's new documentary Let There Be Drums! will feature Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Jay Lane, Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland, Taylor Hawkins and others.

07/13/22 - Dave's Picks Vol. 43 is a 3 CD set from 11/02/69 and 12/26/69. Also, In And Out Of The Garden: Madison Square Garden '81, '82, '83 is a 17 CD set from March 1981, September 1982 and October 1983.

06/23/22 - Dead.net is now posting transcripts of some episodes of the Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast.

04/27/22 - GarciaLive Volume 18 is a 2 CD set from 11/02/74.

04/15/22 - The June 2022 issue of Mojo magazine includes a 10-track CD titled Grateful Dead: From The Bay To The Pool, Live 1971–1978, described as a "must-hear curation of classic and rare tracks to delight Deadheads and non-believers alike. Wharf Rat, Truckin’, Casey Jones and more!" (04/19/22 update: track listing)

01/08/22 - Tsunami Press will publish Cronies, A Burlesque: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead by Ken Babbs on January 11.

12/15/21 - Dave's Picks Vol. 42 is a CD set from 02/23/74, and the 2022 Dave's Picks Bonus Disc is from 02/22/74.

12/08/21 - Deadline: Jerry Garcia Documentary To Be Produced By RadicalMedia & Grateful Dead Legend’s Family; Justin Kreutzmann Directs

11/18/21 - Deadline: Jonah Hill To Play Jerry Garcia In Martin Scorsese-Directed Grateful Dead Pic For Apple

10/27/21 - Dave's Picks Vol. 41 is a CD set from 05/26/77 (with 07/19/90 "U.S. Blues" filler).

10/15/21 - Dave's Picks Vol. 40 is a 4 CD set from 07/18/90 and 07/19/90.

09/28/21 - GarciaLive Volume 17: NorCal '76 is a 3 CD set featuring highlights from 11/07/76, 11/12/76 and 11/13/76.

07/26/21 - Dave's Picks Vol. 39 is a CD set from 04/26/83.

07/21/21 - Listen To The River: St. Louis '71 '72 '73, a 20 CD set from December 1971, October 1972 and October 1973, will be released on 10/01/21.

06/17/21 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 6/23/21 will feature the debut of the previously unreleased Foxboro 7/14/90.

05/05/21 - GarciaLive Volume 16 is a 3 CD set from 11/15/91.

03/25/21 - The documentary film project formerly known as Jerry: The Movie or This is Jerry: The Movie is finally near release as Jerry Garcia, Artist:

The documentary provides a journey into Garcia's artistic world through his personal musings, drawings and insights, including unpublished rare family photos and home movies and newly discovered performances.

01/05/21 - The Front Street Outtakes EP by Jerry Garcia and Sanjay Mishra features "unreleased recordings from the Blue Incantation sessions December 1994."

12/14/20 - Dave's Picks Vol. 38 is a CD set from 09/08/73, and the 2021 Dave's Picks Bonus Disc is from 9/7/73.

10/23/20 - Dave's Picks Vol. 37 is a CD set from 04/15/78 with "bonus material from another show on this very same tour."

10/21/20 - GarciaLive Volume 15 is a 2 CD set from 05/21/71.

10/01/20 - Dave's Picks Vol. 36 is a CD set from 03/26/87 and 03/27/87.

10/01/20 - American Beauty: The Angel's Share is a streaming-only collection of 56 studio outtakes.

09/09/20 - The American Beauty 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be released on 10/30/20. The 3 CD set will include "the unreleased concert recorded on February 18, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY."

08/05/20 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 8/7/20 will feature the debut of the previously unreleased Tinley Park, IL 7/21/90, and the Pre-Show with Dave & Gary will feature Bob Weir.

07/22/20 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 7/24/20 will feature the debut of the previously unreleased Mountain View, CA 9/29/89.

07/10/20 - Dave's Picks Vol. 35 is a CD set from 04/20/84.

07/08/20 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 7/10/20 will feature the debut of the previously unreleased Raleigh, NC 7/10/90, and the Pre-Show with Dave & Gary will feature John Mayer.

07/01/20 - Workingman's Dead: The Angel's Share is a streaming-only collection of 64 studio outtakes.

06/24/20 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 6/26/20 will feature Mountain View, CA 10/2/87.

06/18/20 - GarciaLive Volume 14 will feature a Jerry Garcia & John Kahn acoustic duo performance from 1/27/86.

06/05/20 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 6/12/20 will feature the debut of the previously unreleased Mountain View, CA 5/11/91.

05/22/20 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 5/29/20 will feature the debut of the previously unreleased Orchard Park, NY 7/16/90.

05/15/20 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 5/22/20 will feature Beat Club 4/21/72.

05/14/20 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 5/15/20 will feature Giants Stadium 6/17/91, and the Pre-Show with Dave & Gary will feature Branford Marsalis.

05/06/20 - The Workingman's Dead 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be released on 07/10/20. The 3 CD set will include "an unreleased complete concert recorded on February 21, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY."

05/01/20 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 5/8/20 will feature Foxboro 7/2/89, and the Pre-Show with Dave & Gary will feature Bob Weir.

04/22/20 - The Shakedown Stream scheduled for 4/24/20 will feature the debut of the previously unreleased "Live At Buckeye Lake" 6/11/93.

04/09/20 - Rhino Media: Grateful Dead Shakedown Stream - New Weekly Live YouTube Series Starting This Friday

02/22/20 - GarciaLive Volume 13 is a 2 CD set from 09/16/89.

02/13/20 - June 1976 (a 15 CD set) will be released 03/20/20.

01/14/20 - The Allman Brothers Band box set Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection will include "Mountain Jam" from 07/28/73 with members of the Grateful Dead and The Band.

12/30/19 - Dave's Picks Vol. 34 is a CD set from 06/23/74, and the 2020 Dave's Picks Bonus Disc is from 6/22/74.

11/14/19 - Bear's Sonic Journals: Dawn of the New Riders of the Purple Sage will feature 60 tracks from 9 different nights at 4 different venues from August 1969 through June 1970.

11/13/19 - GarciaLive Volume 12 is a 3 CD set from 01/23/73.

10/31/19 - The limited deluxe hardcover edition of the Grateful Dead Origins graphic novel will include a vinyl record featuring the first four songs from Set II of 8/21/68.

10/29/19 - Dave's Picks Vol. 33 is a CD set from 10/29/77.

10/08/19 - Dave's Picks Vol. 32 is a CD set from 03/24/73.

09/25/19 - Ready Or Not, a live reconstruction of the Grateful Dead's unfinished studio album, will feature 9 tracks from 6/23/92 through 4/2/95.

09/24/19 - Robert Hunter passed away on 9/23/19 at the age of 78.

09/15/19 - In the last few minutes of Ken Burns' Country Music Episode One (at 1:47:37) there's a long and slow zoom shot on a photo of Jerry Garcia singing with his eyes closed while Marty Stuart says that "everybody that is anybody has recorded a Jimmie Rodgers song."

08/01/19 - Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991, a 14 CD set featuring audio of five shows (except the 7/12/87 Dylan set) and Blu-ray/DVD video of the complete 6/17/91 show, will be released on 09/27/19.

07/16/19 - Dave's Picks Vol. 31 is a 3 CD set from 12/03/79 and 12/04/79.

06/11/19 - Fandango.com is now showing some theater locations for the Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2019.

06/10/19 - The 5-LP set Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 2/28/69 (from the Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings boxed set) will be released on 07/09/19.

06/04/19 - GarciaLive Volume 11 is a 2 CD set from 11/11/93.

06/03/19 - Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2019 will feature 6/17/91 from Giants Stadium, and "as a special treat, this extraordinary screening will also feature a reveal of the Grateful Dead's 2019 boxed set, featuring the Dead's legacy manager, archivist and producer David Lemieux."

05/08/19 - The GD's full performance from 08/16/69 will be released as part of a new 38-CD box set Woodstock 50 — Back to the Garden — The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive.

04/18/19 - The Grateful Dead Origins graphic novel will cover "the earliest days of the Grateful Dead, from the band's founding in 1965 through to Woodstock," and a limited deluxe hardcover edition will include "a vinyl record featuring previously unreleased Grateful Dead tracks."

03/28/19 - The Aoxomoxoa 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be released on 06/07/19. The 2 CD set will feature "two versions of the album — one fully remastered from the original 1969 mix and the other remastered from the definitive 1971 band-produced mix . . . [and] a bonus disc of previously unreleased live music recorded January 24-26, 1969 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, CA."

02/28/19 - Warfield, San Francisco, Ca 10/9/80 & 10/10/80, a 2 CD set featuring two complete acoustic sets, will be released on Record Store Day 04/13/19.

01/31/19 - Electric On The Eel, a 6 CD set featuring three JGB shows from Piercy, CA, will be released on 03/15/19.

12/19/18 - Dave's Picks Vol. 30 is a CD set from 01/02/70 and 01/03/70.

10/25/18 - Dave's Picks Vol. 29 is a CD set from 02/26/77 and 02/27/77.

10/12/18 - Dave's Picks Vol. 28 is a 3 CD set from 06/17/76 with bonus tracks from 06/23/76 and 06/28/76.

10/08/18 - From Facebook.com/JerryGarciaOfficial:

Calling all Eel River attendees over the years! Did you trek to French’s Camp on the Eel River to hear the Jerry Garcia Acoustic + Electric Band in ’87, ’89, and ’91? If so, we’d love for you to share your memories + photos from the shows with us at eelrivermemories@jerrygarcia.com. We are preparing an official release of the shows and would be grateful for your recollections.

08/10/18 - According to Movie City News, some of the Grateful Dead's 9/5/82 performance is included in a new documentary The US Festival 1982: The US Generation.

08/03/18 - Jerry Garcia Music Arts have released a single of a Garcia solo acoustic version of "Ripple" from 4/10/82.

07/25/18 - The London 2017 HarperCollins Publishers Foreign Rights Guide has some basic info about the upcoming Bob Weir memoir. Amazon's fake-titled placeholder pages for the book show a release date of either September 15, 2018 (per Amazon U.S.) or November 1, 2018 (per Amazon U.K.):

Untitled Bob Weir Memoir
By Bob Weir
The first ever memoir from Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead and one of rock music's most enigmatic figures.

Imprint: William Morrow
Entertainment & Performing Arts
Page Count: 320
Pub Date: April 2018
Manuscript Embargoed
World Rights: HarperCollins
Agent: ROAR
(JLS)

For over fifty years, Bob Weir has been one of American rock's most respected statesman, someone who was a part of the San Francisco rock scene as it grew from a handful of bluegrass and blues bands into a fully-fledged music revolution. In the decades since, he has remained a bearded fixture in rock music both on the road and in studio, cementing the Grateful Dead's legacy as one of the most important bands in rock history. Now for the first time, Weir shares his full story with the world, detailing his time with the Grateful Dead and the long strange trip of his life. From meeting Jerry Garcia in a dusty music store in 1963 to the endless tours during the band's heyday to Garcia's untimely death forty years later, Weir's story spans the decades, offering a look at the personalities, creativity, and drugs that became the hallmark of the Grateful Dead and their fabled live shows. Taking readers inside the Dead's music like never before he dissects his role in the band, delving into the band's often misunderstood dynamic and discussing the delicate balance that allowed them to form their most legendary jams. More than just a portrait of a band, Weir goes inside stories that defined a generation-from Ken Kesey's acid tests to Weir's friendship with Neal Cassady to the Summer of Love to the endless vault of live shows that would become perhaps the band's greatest legacy. He also delves into his friendship with Jerry Garcia, a man he met when he was still in high school who would become his closest friend and spiritual guide until Garcia's death in 1995. Complete with photos from the Grateful Dead vault, this memoir from one of rock music's most important voices will be the must have book for any classic rock fan and the perfect memento to mark the 50th anniversary of the cultural revolution.

BOB WEIR is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. He is currently on tour with his band Dead and Company, which includes two former Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, and John Mayer.

06/12/18 - Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings, a 19 CD set from June 1973 and May 1974, will be released on 09/07/18.

05/15/18 - The anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer Wade Davis has reportedly been "helping his friend, former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, to write his memoirs." Amazon still has a placeholder page for the upcoming book with a release date of September 15, 2018.

05/12/18 - Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2018 will feature 7/7/89 from Philadelphia, PA. Also, "before the film, movie-goers will get an exclusive inside look at the shows in the 2018 Limited Edition Boxed Set."

04/24/18 - The Anthem Of The Sun 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be released on 07/13/18. The 2 CD set will feature "a double dose of the original album - one fully remastered from the original 1968 mix and the other remastered from the more well-known 1971 mix - as well as a bonus disc of a previously unreleased complete live show recorded on October 22, 1967 at Winterland in San Francisco, CA."

03/20/18 - Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times by John Perry Barlow with Robert Greenfield will be released in hardcover and Kindle formats on 06/05/18.

03/06/18 - The 4-LP set Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 2/27/69 (from the Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings boxed set) will be released on 04/21/18.

02/07/18 - From Twitter.com/AmirBarLev:

Amir Bar-Lev
@amirbarlev
Sad to report that @JohnPerryBarlow passed away last night in his sleep. Nothing to tell now/ let the words be yours/ I am done with mine.

Iam_DennisMcNally[S]

As to "Jerry Before the Dead." Yes, it got delayed for a lot of reasons, but the release date, I am now told, is in May. 5 LPs in vinyl, 4 CDs. A sampling of all of his various folk and bluegrass groups from 1961 to 1964, including songs from the only known tape of Bob & Jerry in 1961. I and a guy named Brian Miksis produced it. Some really wonderful stuff, and I urge you all to run out and buy it when you can -- keep an eye on the Jerry website and they'll tell you how.

12/21/17 - Dave's Picks Vol. 26 is a 3 CD set from 11/17/71 and 12/14/71.

10/24/17 - Dave's Picks Vol. 25 is a CD set from 11/06/77.

10/17/17 - Dave's Picks Volume 24 is a 3 CD set from 8/25/72.

08/01/17 - Before the Dead is a 4 CD set of Jerry Garcia's solo work from 1961-1964.

08/01/17 - RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C., July 12 & 13, 1989, a 6 CD set, will be released on 11/10/17.

07/24/17 - Dave's Picks Vol. 23 is a 3 CD set from 1/22/78.

07/05/17 - A Bob Weir memoir will be released in hardcover, large print paperback, and audiobook formats on 09/15/18.

06/29/17 - Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2017 will feature 7/12/89 from Washington, D.C.

06/27/17 - From a Reddit AMA with Trixie Garcia and Marc Allan [of Red Light Management]:

MarcAllan

I should first specify that our role is specifically related to Jerry's work outside of the Grateful Dead. We have a wonderful relationship with the team who represent the Dead as well, which is a huge bonus!

The vault has a good amount of material from throughout Garcia's solo work. If I had to point out "holes" we don't have as much mid 80's (think 83/84) material in the vault, but there is still a good sampling. There isn't much missing once DAT players came onto the scene, as by that point Jerry's production team was recording pretty much on a nightly basis.

Luckily, there is also a wealth of material that Jerry and Merl did together as well as a good amount of mid and late 70's material.

I can answer that we do have a copy of 8/10/91 in the vault, as well as June 1989 at Eel River...maybe we can do something with both of those shows, a French's Camp box of some sorts. Would y'all dig that?

05/09/17 - An official page for the documentary Long Strange Trip is now up and lists numerous theater locations for the 5/25/17 showing.

05/05/17 - According to the Charleston Post and Courier, the documentary Long Strange Trip will be screened in 50 theaters across the U.S. The site Showtimes.com lists a number of states showing the film on 5/25/17.

04/18/17 - A Various Artists compilation titled Iconic Performances from the Monterey International Pop Festival will be released on 6/9/17, and it will include one track from the GD, "Cold Rain And Snow."

04/12/17 - The Ardmore Music Hall near Philadelphia will screen Long Strange Trip on 6/10/17.

03/31/17 - Amazon Studios will release Long Strange Trip theatrically on May 26 in New York and Los Angeles.

03/28/17 - The Long Strange Trip Soundtrack will be released on 05/26/17.

03/23/17 - The Grateful Dead Movie 40th Anniversary Fan Meet-Up (in theaters on 04/20/17) will include "exclusive access to a special mini-documentary featuring fans reminiscing about the most famous Grateful Dead show of all time, which took place 40 years ago, on May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall at Cornell University," and according to Rolling Stone, "an exclusive excerpt from the upcoming authorized Dead documentary Long Strange Trip will also screen during the Meet-Up."

03/22/17 - The documentary Long Strange Trip will be screened in San Francisco on 4/15/17 and in Toronto on 4/30/17, 5/3/17 & 5/5/17.

03/15/17 - From JamBase:

Marc Allan: In fact, right now we’re looking at our next Merl [Saunders & Jerry Garcia] release. That kind of started from an e-mail from Justin Kreutzmann, who said, “Hey, have you guys put out anything with Jerry, Merl and Billy on it?” So we’re playing around with the concept of what we can do with that, and that’s probably going to be [GarciaLive] Vol. 9.

• • • •

JamBase: Are you sticking to a set cadence of Garcia releases?

MA: We are trying to. Post-50th anniversary, we’re kind of making sure we get out one per quarter.

02/16/17 - The Grateful Dead's May 1977: Get Shown The Light box set will contain four entire performances from 05/05->09/77. Cornell 5/8/77 (a 3 CD set) will also be issued separately.

02/14/17 - The documentary Long Strange Trip will be screened in Columbia, MO on 3/2/17 and in Austin, TX on 3/10/17 & 3/15/17.

01/19/17 - From Deadline:

Amazon paid a whopping sum in excess of $6 million for Long Strange Trip, the 4-hour documentary on The Grateful Dead by director Amir Bar-Lev and producer Martin Scorsese, before the film’s premiere. Amazon, squarely in the Oscar race for last year’s $10 million Sundance acquisition Manchester By The Sea, will shortly set a distributor for a limited theatrical window before it streams the movie on Amazon Prime, and cut it into 6-pieces for television.

01/14/17 - GarciaLive Volume 8 is a 2 CD set from 11/23/91.

01/05/17 - According to Dead.net, "with only two weeks left to get in on the subscriptions for Dave's Picks 2017, we wanted to reveal the Dave's Picks 22 show selection, [which is] the complete show from 12/7/71 at the Felt Forum in New York City. . . Because the show is relatively short at "only" two and a half hours, we have added the bulk of the second set from the previous night. . . And to make this release akin to a mini-box set, the 2017 Bonus Disc will feature the bulk of the rest of this 12/6/71 show."

12/14/16 - In January 2017 the Sundance Film Festival will present the world premiere of the Grateful Dead documentary Long Strange Trip (directed by Amir Bar-Lev and executive produced by Martin Scorsese).

11/17/16 - Dave's Picks Vol. 21 is a CD set from 04/02/73. Also, there will be "a special album reissue series that will include two-disc deluxe editions and limited edition vinyl picture disc versions of all the group’s studio and live albums," starting on 01/20/17 with The Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, which will have a bonus disc of 07/29/66 plus filler from 07/30/66.

10/25/16 - Dave's Picks Vol. 20 is a 3 CD set from 12/09/81.

10/06/16 - Folk Time, an album of Fall 1962 recordings by The Hart Valley Drifters (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, David Nelson, Ken Frankel and Norm Van Maastricht) will be released on 11/11/16.

10/05/16 - From the Louisville Eccentric Observer:

[Zakir Hussain] on his most recent collaboration with Mickey Hart and recording new pieces for an expanded 25th-anniversary edition of Planet Drum: "It’s been very busy working on a new record. Universal Music has decided to reissue it and wanted to create a buzz about it, and asked us to work up some new material. So we were doing that, and in the process, Mickey and I had the bug bite us, to start an entirely new record, so we are co-producing this new CD. Again, it’s about rhythms and the technology that exists today, and how both exist in the same world at the same time. So we are trying to find new ways to express time, as far as rhythms of the world are concerned."

08/04/16 - Bob Weir's new album Blue Mountain will be released on 09/30/16.

07/12/16 - Dave's Picks Vol. 19 is a 3 CD set from 1/23/70 and 1/24/70. Also, there are reports that GarciaLive Volume 7 is a previously uncirculated JGB show from 11/8/76.

06/08/16 - The 12/28/15 Dead & Company version of Slipknot->Franklin's Tower that was shown before and after Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2016 is included on the new Dead & Company album On The Road: Nov. - Dec. 2015.

05/12/16 - From a recent David Lemieux interview:

David Lemieux: There were some tapes that were missing from the Dead's archive from about 1976, '77, and '78, and those tapes have always existed, they've just not been in the Dead's archive, and we've now been working with the people who own these tapes and collaborated with them to have them returned to the Grateful Dead's archive, which, as an archivist and a Deadhead, is about as exciting as it gets, because it means, as an archivist, these tapes are moving back into the archive, they're going home, and that's nice to look on the shelves now and see these previously big gaps in the physical space in the archive now filling back up, and as a Deadhead, knowing how exciting this music is.

04/28/16 - From Blackbird Presents:

Blackbird Presents and Concord Bicycle Music are partnering to distribute three of Blackbird Presents’ most extraordinary concert events. The upcoming releases include “The Musical Mojo of Dr. John: A Celebration of Mac & His Music” to be released via Concord Records and “The Life & Songs Of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration” and “Dear Jerry: Celebrating the Music of Jerry Garcia,” both to be available via Rounder Records. All three will be available in a range of configurations, including CD, DVD, two-disc CD/DVD packages, and all digital formats. Blackbird is also poised to begin discussions with a range of broadcast outlets for these concert specials. Official street dates and complete tracklistings for all three releases will be announced soon.

03/24/16 - Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2016 will feature 7/2/89 from Foxboro, MA. "In addition to the full show, Dead & Co will show footage from the fall tour, behind the scenes & Interviews leading up to the summer tour."

03/19/16 - Ken Frankel's website has some new info about (and brief audio excerpts from) a potential upcoming Garcia-related release featuring The Hart Valley Drifters in Stanford, CA, Fall 1963.

03/15/16 - From Dead.net:

We’re pleased to announce JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, five incredible unreleased shows and the first official release from the long-lost “Betty Boards,” recently returned to the Grateful Dead’s vault. . . Limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies, JULY 1978: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS includes Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO (7/1/78), St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, MN (7/3/78), Omaha Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE (7/5/78), and Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison CO (7/7/78 and 7/8/78)

01/22/16 - A DVD from the September 2013 performances by Bob Weir and Blackberry Smoke will be released in the spring.

01/12/16 - Dave's Picks Vol. 18 is a 3 CD set from 07/17/76 with bonus material from 07/16/76.

01/08/16 - The 3-LP set Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 11/10/1967 (from the 30 Trips Around The Sun boxed set) will be released on 01/19/16.

12/16/15 - From today's Facebook Q&A with Trixie Garcia:

Matt Bialosuknia
What is the status of more Jerry Garcia Band/Garcia Saunders/Garcia Grisman vault audio releases?

Trixie Garcia
we have a schedule, every year there will be a few more releases from the vault. 2016 already has two great selections lined up, I cant tell!

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Dominic Jules DeVito
Another question for you, Trixie: Any chance the recordings that were released under the "Pure Jerry" imprint could see the light of day again, perhaps as official GarciaLive releases? Those old Pure Jerry CDs are pricey now!

Trixie Garcia
we are working on getting everything back out in one form or another... this is long term

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Colin Parsons
Hi Trixie, sorry my question is not about the book…. but I was wondering if the latest JGB release Broadway act one is the first in a series of releases…and if so, does this replace the Garcialive series or should we expect twice the amount of releases this coming year….(ps: I'm the Colin from the website, Marks friend…hi)

Trixie Garcia
hello colin! this guy was huge in building the jerrygarcia.com site. thank you thank you! we ARE planning to release more broadway shows! these are just different projects, dont expect 2x the releases!

11/13/15 - A new Various Artists compilation titled Gift Wrapped 3 - A Holiday Smörgåsbord is now available, and it includes one track from the GD, "Run Run Rudolph (Live at Madison Square Garden 12/7/71)."

11/04/15 - Two more excerpts from the upcoming audiobook edition of McNally's Jerry on Jerry here: 1 & 2

11/03/15 - According to the 2015 edition of the Grateful Dead Almanac, Dave's Picks Vol. 17 is from 07/19/74.

11/01/15 - Dave's Picks 2016 Subscription info is now up.

10/25/15 - On today's Tales From The Golden Road broadcast David Lemieux said, "we do have some pretty major things coming up in 2016 that I think within the next couple of weeks you're going to start hearing a lot more about."

10/06/15 - Dave's Picks Vol. 16 is a 3 CD set from 03/28/73.

08/18/15 - From Relix:

As we begin our exploration of the [Grateful Dead's] 50 year anniversary, it seemed fitting to discuss The Warlocks’ participation at the Acid Tests with [Ken] Babbs. Although Kesey never completed his own memoir of this era before he passed away in 2001, Babbs is currently working on such a tome. He explains, “It’s not a novel, and it’s not a memoir. It is what you call a ‘burlesque,’ and the definition of a burlesque is ‘a historical occurrence embellished with inventions and exaggerations.’ This is perfect for me because it’s all about the adventures with Kesey, the Pranksters and our friends.”

08/05/15 - Dead & Company (Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Jeff Chimenti, John Mayer and Oteil Burbridge) will play 10/31/15 at Madison Square Garden in NYC. I plan to post updates about the new band on my At The Festival page.

07/15/15 - Dave’s Picks Vol. 15 is a 3 CD set from 04/22/78.

07/08/15 - Download audio of all five Fare Thee Well shows (from Archive.org)

07/06/15 - There are six new This is Jerry: The Movie trailers.

07/06/15 - From p.84 of the July/August 2015 issue of Relix:

[Trixie Garcia is now] on the board of the Grateful Dead with the band's surviving members—Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart. In many ways, she has become Garcia's avatar. . . She's excited that M.G. is writing a book. She's relieved that her mother finally gets to participate. Trixie's also had a hand in planning the Dead's 50th anniversary shows; some of the proceeds will go to restoring the Jerry Garcia Ampitheater.

Bob Gassel
So is this [Fare Thee Well] mini tour technically the first "Grateful Dead" shows since the 1995 Soldier Field run?

DeadBase 50
Yes, I would say so. Unlike in the past where they have specifically used different names like "The Other Ones" or "The Dead", this configuration has no other name and is widely being referred to as "Grateful Dead".

Even though members of the Dead have had other musical projects, from the Other Ones and Ratdog to Kreutzmann’s Billy & the Kids, it took 20 years for them to feel the time was right to perform together again as the Grateful Dead.

Kreutzmann says he felt not doing so short-changed the band’s fans. As more time stretched between their last performance and this weekend, the market has been flooded with substitutes, including a sprawling subculture of Grateful Dead cover bands, many of whom fill theatres performing entire shows from the past. One player, John Kadlecik, of Dead tribute band Dark Star Orchestra, even proved he had the mettle to substitute for Garcia in Further, a band fronted by Dead founder members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh.

Even though he sees the cover bands as “a compliment” to the strength of the band’s songwriting, Kreutzmann says the Fare Three Well shows are meant as a final testament by the original band itself.

“Fans deserve to hear great music again and this is the last opportunity for them to do it, plus I still like making music with these guys,” Kreutzmann says. “We’re not a cover band. We are the band.”

06/26/15 - The book DeadBase 50: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead by Stu Nixon, Mike Dolgushkin and John W. Scott will be available in the last week of July 2015. More info from the authors:

This special commemorative edition of DeadBase celebrates the 50th anniversary of the most enduring, unique and influential American rock band in history - the Grateful Dead. Continuing the tradition of providing the most complete collection of data regarding Grateful Dead concerts, both from a statistical perspective and more personal experiential recollections, DeadBase 50 is a mixed bag of a reference book (992 pages worth!). In response to the countless requests to reprint the last complete edition, this anniversary edition contains a reprint of DeadBase XI plus updates to the master list (DeadBase) of Grateful Dead shows, updates to GarciaBase and WeirBase, and new sections for NedBase, Phil Lesh and Friends, The Dead, and Furthur. Along with new reviews, analysis and a brand new discography, this book also includes a number of new photos from Jay Blakesberg, Herb Greene, Bob Minkin, Rosie McGee, Susana Millman and others. Forewords were kindly provided by Dennis McNally, David Lemieux, Nicholas Meriwether, David Dodd, Blair Jackson, David Gans and Rob Koritz.

06/24/15 - The book Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews, edited by Dennis McNally, will be released on 11/24/15. The audiobook edition will also include "a dozen original, previously unreleased live musical recordings courtesy of the Garcia family."

06/12/15 - LIFE’s special edition The Grateful Dead: 50 Years Along the Golden Road is available on newsstands now.

06/02/15 - From Dead.net:

We are more than pleased to announce the Grateful Dead's most ambitious release ever: 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN. Available as both an 80-disc boxed set and a custom lightning-bolt USB drive, the collection includes 30 unreleased live shows, one for each year the band was together from 1966 to 1995, along with one track from their earliest recording sessions in 1965.

05/08/15 - Newsweek Official Collector's Edition: Grateful Dead is available on newsstands now, and Newsweek Special Edition: Jerry Garcia will be available on newsstands 06/30/15.

05/08/15 - There is a new Garcia CD series called "On Broadway." A 3-CD set titled On Broadway: Act One - October 28th, 1987 will be released on 6/23/15.

05/01/15 - Garcia and the GD are featured for about 20 pages in the June 2015 issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine.

04/22/15 - Rolling Stone: Grateful Dead Final Shows Will Be Available on Pay-Per-View

04/03/15 - Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2015 will feature 7/19/89 from Alpine Valley.

03/18/15 - From a Jambands.com interview with David Grisman:

Are there any other Old in the Way recordings that might come to life as a live album?

Perhaps. I have a pretty extensive archive of master recordings.

01/29/15 - The February 2015 issue of Uncut magazine (with David Bowie on the cover) includes a 1989 Melody Maker interview with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart.

01/20/15 - According to Dead.net, "Dave's Picks Vol. 14, another complete show in the series, is from the majestic (and highly sought-after!) gig on March 26, 1972 at the Academy Of Music in New York City. . . Our 2015 Dave's Picks subscribers' Bonus Disc (available for only a couple of more days if you subscribe) is drawn from a couple of other unreleased nights at the Academy Of Music during the Dead's week-long run before they left for Europe."

01/16/15 - From Dead.net:

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Grateful Dead, the four original members — Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir — will reunite at Chicago's Soldier Field, nearly 20 years to the day of the last Grateful Dead concert, which took place at the same venue. “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead" will occur over three nights on July 3, 4, and 5, 2015, marking the original members' last-ever performance together. The band will be joined by Trey Anastasio (guitar), Jeff Chimenti (keyboards), and Bruce Hornsby (piano). The group will perform two sets of music each night.

12/24/14 - From Broadway World:

The ALL NEW film [Legends of Rock & Roll, Volume 6] will include RARE live vintage performances by THE BEATLES, ROLLING STONES, CREAM, JOHNNY WINTER, GRATEFUL DEAD, and many others. . .

THE LEGENDS SERIES brings to the big screen amazing performances culled from one of the world's largest archives of music on film, the Historic Films Archive. Historic Films is dedicated to the re-discovery and preservation of all forms of American entertainment as it exists on film and video tape. Historic Films has provided film clips to everyone from The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Martin Scorsese (his Blues and Bob Dylan projects) to American Idol and The Grammy Awards.

11/30/14 - On today's Tales From The Golden Road broadcast David Gans and Gary Lambert talked about film footage that could be used for next year's Grateful Dead Documentary Film; David said Amir Bar-Lev has some unreleased B&W footage from the first European trip in 1970, and Gary contributed some of his "home movies" from 1969 (we know Lambert filmed footage of the July 1969 shows in Queens). This discussion is at about 20:30 into the broadcast.

11/09/14 - After the recent Grateful Dead Conference round table "Resurrecting Jerry Garcia for the Digital Age" Trixie Garcia was asked about upcoming plans, and she said, "more music . . . we have some really cool old-timey stuff that we're hoping to put out next year from early sixties." The quote is from today's Tales From The Golden Road broadcast, about 9:30 into the program.

11/03/14 - From MRketplace:

Trixie also notes that there have been six posthumous [Jerry Garcia] music releases from the record company this year (plus a limited edition vinyl) as well as a book due out next year.

10/27/14 - Dave's Picks 2015 Subscription info is now up, and Dave’s Picks Vol. 13 is from 02/24/74. Also, the Dead.net store is now offering a 1-CD release of the upcoming RSD Grateful Dead album Houston, Texas 11-18-1972.

10/23/14 - Deadline Hollywood: Martin Scorsese & Amir Bar-Lev Truckin’ On Grateful Dead Documentary Film

10/20/14 - 11/18/72 Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston TX (a 2 LP set) will be released on Record Store Day November 28th, 2014.

10/12/14 - On today's Tales From The Golden Road broadcast, TRI Studios CEO Chris McCutcheon confirmed that the upcoming Best of Weir Here Volume One CD release is "the first in probably five volumes that will come out over the next six months."

10/06/14 - Dave’s Picks Vol. 12 is a 3 CD set from 11/02/77 and 11/04/77.

09/19/14 - Mike Fleiss, the director of the documentary The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir, tweeted that the film will be released nationwide in Early 2015.

09/16/14 - A 2 CD set of music from Move Me Brightly (the 08/03/12 Jerry Garcia Birthday Tribute featuring Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Donna Jean Godchaux) will be released on 10/16/14. A Best of Weir Here album is also "coming soon."

09/11/14 - The entire panel discussion "Stronger Than a Séance: Resurrecting Jerry Garcia" from SXSW in March 2014 is up on YouTube. At 52:10 Trixie Garcia says, "at some point I'd love to make Jerry's entire archive available online. It's not that simple, but it's my mission. Somehow."

08/13/14 - GarciaLive Volume 5 is a 2 CD set from 12/31/75.

07/30/14 - From a Dead.net interview with Justin Kreutzmann:

What's in store for the rest of 2014?

Great things! The Weir movie will be released and there’s a major GD documentary picking up steam.

07/18/14 - Rolling Stone Special: Jerry Garcia by Wenner Media is now available.

07/17/14 - From SiriusXM.com/gratefuldead:

Grateful Dead Channel
Dave’s Picks Volume 11 Special
Wed Jul 23 3:00 pm ET
Join David Lemieux, the official archivist for the Grateful Dead, as hosts this one hour look at some of the musical highlights from the latest in his eponymous series of live releases. Another amazing example of a Dead show.

07/08/14 - Rolling Stone: Music Vault Offers More Than 13,000 Live Videos on YouTube

06/09/14 - Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2014 will feature 4/21/72 from the Berlin Beat Club. According to an email from Dead.net, "We have no plans to release this concert on DVD or home video of any kind, so don't miss out on what could be your only chance to see it!" At the end of the film's synopsis it says, "PLUS experience an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of an upcoming Grateful Dead release featuring Bob Weir & Jeffrey Norman, directed by Justin Kreutzmann."; an earlier synopsis leaked by AMC Theatres on 05/21/14 stated, "The night will also include a behind the scenes exclusive of the making of Spring 1990: The Other One featuring interviews with Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir, mastering engineer Jeffrey Norman and other Dead World luminaries." Is this a clue for an upcoming sequel box set from March-April 1990?

05/30/14 - Jambands.com: Watch Nearly Three Dozen Grateful Dead Shows on YouTube

05/29/14 - GarciaLive Volume 4 is a 2 CD set from 03/22/78.

05/19/14 - From the Chicago Sun-Times:

[Trixie Garcia says,] “I’m seeing a lot of kids wearing Grateful Dead shirts in the audience now, and I think it really shows how timeless the music is.” It’s one of the reasons she recently chose to relaunch JerryGarcia.com to help bring the music into a new era, right before the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary next year.

Plans to rerelease all of the studio albums on vinyl (Garcia’s eponymous solo album was the first reissue on Record Store Day this year) and an official documentary that follows on the heels of Bob Weir’s own film are in the works to celebrate the anniversary.

04/02/14 - The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir, a documentary directed by Mike Fleiss, will be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival and the San Francisco Film Festival in April. According to TribecaFilm.com and sffs.org, "performance footage with and without the Dead; home movies; and interviews with [Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Sammy Hagar, and Trixie Garcia] blend to form a film that is part biography, part Grateful Dead history and part portrait of a cultural moment." Also, co-producer Justin Kreutzmann talked to Jambands.com about the film last fall:

Justin Kreutzmann: It’s a Bob Weir documentary directed by Mike Fleiss who did the Ozzy film (“God Bless Ozzy Osbourne”) and is a big Deadhead and real sweet guy. He wanted to do this movie. He thought Bob was a great subject to tell Bob’s story and Bob had such an interesting life with the Grateful Dead and all the stuff that happens around Bob’s life before and after. We’re putting it together and it’s turning out really cool.

It’s interesting exploring somebody who you’ve known all your life but actually getting down into it. Before I came down to L.A. , I was sitting around Bob’s house with him and I was like, “Okay, Olompali, that was before the Haight or is that after…?” It’s all the stuff I’d always heard about but I never really…I wasn’t writing a thesis on it. So, I never really asked or put it together, and then you get all these stories and all this stuff that you may have kind of heard about it or not heard about at all. So, it’s interesting.

The film is really good and it’s gonna be really great by the time people get to see it. I’m really happy Bob will have this document so people can…and it’s a movie. It’s not gonna be a four-hour concert thing. People can get Bob’s story from Bob himself, his family and friends for 90 minutes and enjoy it.

03/16/14 - On today's Tales From The Golden Road broadcast David Gans said that he and Blair Jackson "have until December 1st to finish a book which is going to be sort of an oral history of the Dead and the Deadheads." The book's title is THIS IS ALL A DREAM WE DREAMED: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD.

03/11/14 - From Relix:

a new cache of [soundboard tapes of the Grateful Dead originally recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson] has been unearthed and a plan is underway by Dark Star Orchestra guitarist Rob Eaton, who has painstakingly restored many of the boards, to complete the job and then facilitate their return to the band. Eaton hopes that a series of official releases might follow that will also yield a small royalty to the woman who recorded the reels and then lost them due to her own financial hardship, even if Deadheads owe her a debt of gratitude.

What he learned from the “12-12-12” experience, [documentary filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev] said, was that as a director, “you have to have an idea for a story, but you can’t be intrusive and you have to be very open to what’s being presented to you — it’s improvising.”

Perhaps that is why, Mr. Bar-Lev said, he next wants to make a documentary about the Grateful Dead.

10/17/13 - Fall 1989: The Long Island Sound (a 6 CD set from 9/5/89 and 9/6/89) by the Jerry Garcia Band and Weir/Wasserman will be released 12/17/13.

10/17/13 - Family Dog at the Great Highway - San Francisco, CA 4/18/70 will be released 11/29/13.

10/07/13 - Dave’s Picks Vol. 8 is a 3 CD set from 11/30/80.

10/02/13 - Move Me Brightly (the 08/03/12 Jerry Garcia Birthday Tribute featuring Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Donna Jean Godchaux) will be released on DVD and blu-ray 10/29/13.

10/01/13 - Old and In The Way - The Complete Boarding House Shows download is now available on Acoustic Oasis.

08/31/13 - GarciaLive Volume 3 is a 3 CD set from 12/14/74 and 12/15/74.

07/24/13 - Sunshine Daydream (Veneta, Or, 8/27/72), a 3CD/ 1DVD set, will be released 09/17/13.

07/08/13 - Dave’s Picks Vol. 7 is a 3 CD set from 04/24/78.

05/04/13 - The Grateful Dead's May 1977 box set will contain five entire performances from 05/11->17/77.

05/03/13 - GarciaLive Volume 2 is a 2 CD set from 8/5/90.

04/01/13 - The first GarciaLive digital-only archival release is from June 26th, 1981.

02/13/13 - Rolling Stone Special: Grateful Dead by Wenner Media will be available on April 5, 2013.

01/08/13 - According to Dead.net, "Dave's Picks Volume 6 will feature never-before-heard material from 2/2/70 Fox Theater, St. Louis, MO and 12/20/69 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA. . . If you've been curious about the subscribers-only bonus disc, this one is the stuff of lore as well. Like Dave's Picks Volume 6, the last-ever Grateful Dead show at the Fillmore Auditorium - 12/21/69, was once missing reels, but we've acquired the elusive first reel to go with the end of the show that we've always had. This jam-packed CD, featuring almost 40 minutes of never-before-heard music, includes one of only three versions of 'Smokestack Lightning' from 1969."

11/09/12 - The makers of Jerry: The Movie now "anticipate finishing the movie by September 2013."

10/25/12 - According to David Lemieux, "if you're inclined to pick up Dave's Picks 5 and/or the 2013 subscription, you're in a for a huge treat. The first show, 11/17/73 at UCLA, is a major, heavyweight Grateful Dead show. . . We don't have much planned beyond DP 5, but I've previously hinted about a major batch of 1969 and 1970 tapes that were recently returned, and we hope/expect to get some of that out in 2013. I'm not trying to be coy or cryptic on the contents and possibilities, but we're in the midst of backing these tapes up and sorting through them. Once this is complete, we'll know what we have. What we've heard so far has shocked us in its excellence in terms of performance quality, song list, and sound quality. So, if you like peak-era Grateful Dead, with huge versions of major songs that you (and we!) have never heard before, this lost-batch of tapes is for you. Expect news on that within a few months."

10/01/12 - Dave’s Picks Vol. 4 is a 3 CD set from 09/24/76.

08/02/12 - GarciaLive Volume 1 is a 3 CD set from 3/1/80.

08/01/12 - Grateful Dead: Spring 1990 (an 18 CD set) will be released 09/01/12.

08/01/12 - From a Relix.com interview with David Grisman:

Owsley Stanley III recorded all of the Old and in the Way shows from 1973. To date, I believe only three have been released: Old and in the Way, That High Lonesome Sound and Breakdown. Who has those reels and might we hear more archival releases from that ‘73 run?

I have most, if not all, of the live master tapes, including the Boarding House shows as well as quite a few others. I hope to release the complete Boarding House recordings, in their original sequence, and have had those ready to go for quite some time. Now, with our new series of High Definition downloads at Acoustic Oasis, those tapes will sound better than ever.

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Throughout [1990-1995], you two recorded 40-plus sessions at your home studio not to mention live dates. While there’s been a healthy amount released—seven albums and a smattering of tunes on various collections—and a forthcoming album of alternative takes of Garcia/Grisman, what else is waiting in the wings?

Well, I plan to issue expanded versions of all the projects with extra takes that have never been released—all in hi-definition—starting with the first Garcia/Grisman album, with its companion alternate collection with great previously un-issued takes of every tune. There are also the live shows that we played together, but I don’t have copies of most of that. . .

08/01/12 - Keystone Companions: The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings (a 4 CD set) by Saunders & Garcia will be released 09/25/12.

06/19/12 - Dave’s Picks Vol. 3 is a 3 CD set from 10/21/71 and 10/22/71.

06/15/12 - From TerrapinCrossroads.net:

Join us at Terrapin Crossroads on Wednesday, June 20, for a Dave’s Picks Vol. 3 listening party followed by another installment of our Storytellers series! From 6:30-7:30, David Lemieux will play selections from the brand new Grateful Dead archival release CD, and from 7:30 to 8:30 he will join J.C. Juanis in conversation about music releases, the audiovisual archives, and whatever else comes up.

05/05/12 - From PigpenBlues.com:

“Pigpen…a blues Singer”

With EXTREME passion and enthusiasm we are embarking on a Feature Film about Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, co-founder of the Grateful Dead, his love for the BLUES and who HE was as a person, as a contributor to the blues, to the Grateful Dead, and to the lives of so many.

A longtime Grateful Dead fan, Fraser started seeing shows in the mid-seventies at the Winterland in San Francisco. Like many “next generation” Deadheads, he was intrigued by the folklore from the “Good Ole Grateful Dead” days with Pigpen. Fascinated by the edge and rebellion Pigpen brought to the Grateful Dead’s music, look, and spirit, the filmmaker strove to find out more about the man. What he uncovered was the story of a short but incredible life. Pigpen was a man full of heart, love, and laughter, a beautiful soul uninterested in racial or class divides, the trappings of fame, or in living anyone else’s idea of a conventional life. He always valued the chance to play for a few close friends over fame and celebrity.

Pigpen’s exposure and introduction to R&B at such an early age developed him into being a ground breaking and influential talent of the 1960's. Heavily influenced by the friends he made and their sounds: including Muddy Waters, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker,as well as Vince Guaraldi, Elvin Bishop, and countless others. He was self-taught to play the harmonica, keyboards and guitar and at a very young age he became the front man for one of the most well-known, psychedelic, controversial, and prolific bands of our era... the Grateful Dead whom he shared music, love, and life with to the end.

Pigpen died at the age of 27, making him a member of the "Forever 27 Club", all great musicians that have died at the young age of 27 including Janis Joplin, whom he had a relationship with, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and recently Amy Winehouse.

A story, movie, book, solely on the life of Ron "Pigpen" McKernan has not been done to this date. With an EXTREMELY LARGE fan base and following of the Grateful Dead, there are the fans who loved Pigpen, who love the blues, who would like to see this film made! What is the one comment we have heard over and over during our endless research about Pigpen from those who were close to him is "It's about time". Well, the time is here, and this is your Film!

It is very clear Ron McKernan was a very much loved man, contributed his talents in a manner that has truly touched the souls of many. Through this film, it is our desire to show those who did not know him who Ron was, and to let those who did reflect on him once again.

The project concept was developed and is coming to life… A timeline has been set, interviews, contacts and conversations with people surrounding his life have been done, discussions about licensure and copyright have begun, and with your help, we can make this happen and honor a man that deserves nothing but.

"Pigpen was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead"

The Film:

“Pigpen…a blues singer” is a special interest bio-pic about the life of Grateful Dead co-founder and member, Ronald Charles “Pigpen” McKernan.

Set in 1973 during the last week of his life at his home in Corte Madera, California. Pigpen, recovering from his illness, lonely and calling for visitor to just hang out with him to play music or chess and at the time not touring with the band, takes us on a journey reflecting back on his own commitment to his life as a blues-man, as the heart and soul of the Grateful Dead, and remembering moments in his life through photographs, writings and music that developed his desire for the blues, his love for his friends and family and the continued inspiration he gives to others.

As we take this dreamy non-linear journey of Pigpen’s life; one thing becomes very apparent, Pigpen had an extraordinary musical experience in his short life of 27 years. Having raided a bank vault of books, quotes, folklore, and personal stories; we find that not only was Pigpen bringing traditional blues (psychedelic soaked as it may have been) to a new, mostly white audience, but he was also becoming the Spirit of the Times themselves.

His exposure and introduction at an early age to R&B and the Blues not only came from his father, an electrical engineer at Stanford who during the late 1940’s and early 1950 was the only white Disc Jockey using the name of “Cool Breeze” to spin the blues at an all-black radio station in the Bay area; but at age 12 during a time in this country, before desegregation, Pigpen, known as “Rims” then was crossing over literally to the “wrong side of the tracks” to learn the blues, drink Thunderbird wine, write lyrics and poetry, and learned to play the harmonica and the guitar with an older black blues enthusiast, Tawny Jones who with Lester Hellum, a saxophonist, took Ron to see T Bone Walker.

In the end, “Pigpen…A Blues Singer” is the story of a young man who chose to be “a victim of the whole blues trip”, live the life of a blues singer, who captured the attention of his audiences through his ability to entertain, to sing from deep within his powerful soul, and to touch the hearts of those who knew him.

No story of redemption, no big comeback, no farewell concert. Just Ron “Pigpen” McKernan hoping for a few folks to sing for, to come by, to keep him company, but settles for a neighborhood stray dog, recording the Apartment Solos, searching for that one last great blues tune he knows he has inside himself, and reflecting on the memories and moments in his life.

After a lengthy pursuit of the rights, renowned documentary filmmaker, Malcolm Leo and veteran personal manager John Hartmann have secured an agreement to produce a feature length documentary on music icon Jerry Garcia. Leo, whose previous works include films on Elvis Presley, Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Beach Boys will direct. Hartmann, the former manager of Peter, Paul & Mary, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Eagles, America, Poco and others, will produce with Leo.

The movie will be built around a three hour conversation Mr. Leo conducted with Garcia in 1987. The historic interview was shot on negative film with studio quality sound and lighting.  The footage presents a compelling portrait of America’s guitar hero at the height of his legendary charm, brilliance and success. The movie will blend an unprecedented amount of never before seen performances, documentary footage and rare home movies.

Leo/Hartmann Productions provided a short film clip to the San Francisco Giants for Jerry Garcia Day last summer. Forty two thousand fans were enchanted to see Jerry speaking to them about San Francisco, the city he loved. The producers were given full access to film Annabelle Garcia, Jerry’s eldest daughter, throwing out the first pitch. The Giants went on to win the World Series.

Members of Grateful Dead legacy band, Furthur, sang the national anthem and a Guinness World Record was set as thousands of fans played “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” on kazoos. The entire celebration was caught on film by co-producer Justin Kreutzmann and will be included in the movie.

Leo and Hartmann are currently in discussions with representatives of various financial and distribution entities regarding the funding and exploitation of this historically significant motion picture. Jeff Silbermann of Century City law firm King, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner is handling the legalities.

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The film is scheduled for release during the Days Between [August 1st through August 9th, 2012]. TBD

05/03/11 - Bob Weir Solo Acoustic Tour dates are up.

04/11/11 - Road Trips Volume 4, Number 3 is a 3 CD set from 11/20/73 and 11/21/73.

01/19/11 - Dead.net: Holy S#%*! It’s the COMPLETE Europe ’72 Box! On Over 60 Discs!

01/10/11 - Road Trips Volume 4, Number 2 is a 3 CD set from 3/31/88 and 4/1/88. Also available is a Road Trips 2011 Subscription: "Order all four of the upcoming 2011 Road Trips releases now, and you'll get FREE SHIPPING on all four sets plus an exclusive Bonus Disc, featuring previously unreleased highlights from 12/6/73 in Cleveland, Ohio. This is top-notch Dead, mastered in HDCD, and will ONLY be available to subscribers of the Road Trips Series! Offer ends 01/31/11 so move fast."

10/27/10 - A 2010 edition of the Grateful Dead Almanac is now available.

10/18/10 - The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band CD Ragged But Right will be released 11/16/10. Also, Road Trips Volume 4, Number 1 is a 3 CD set from 5/23/69 and 5/24/69.

08/26/10 - The Formerly The Warlocks box will be released 09/07/10. Also, Road Trips Volume 3, Number 4 is a 3 CD set from 5/6/80 and 5/7/80.

06/14/10 - Road Trips Volume 3, Number 3 is a 3 CD set from May 15, 1970.

04/09/10 - Some more Rhythm Devils July dates are up.

03/19/10 - The Rhythm Devils featuring Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Keller Williams, Sikiru Adepoju, Davy Knowles & Andy Hess will play Gathering of the Vibes 2010.

02/26/10 - Furthur Summer Tour dates are up.

02/24/10 - Road Trips Volume 3, Number 2 is a 2 CD set from Austin 11/15/71.

02/19/10 - Crimson, White and Indigo, a DVD/3-CD set from the Grateful Dead’s July 7, 1989 concert in Philadelphia, will be released 04/20/10.

11/20/09 - Furthur Winter Tour dates are up.

11/03/09 - A new edition of the Grateful Dead Almanac is now circulating.

10/22/09 - Road Trips Volume 3, Number 1 is a 2 CD set from Oakland 12/28/79. Also, The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 2: Jerry Garcia Band, Keystone Berkeley '75 is now available for pre-order from Dead.net.

09/25/09 - Some new Furthur show dates are up.

December 8 & 9 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, NY
December 11 Chevrolet Theater @ Oakdale, Wallingford, CT
December 12 & 13 Asbury Park Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ

09/13/09 - Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings can now be ordered.

08/13/09 - Furthur, featuring Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Jeff Chimenti, John Kadlecik, Jay Lane, and Joe Russo will play the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA on September 18, 19, and 20.

08/01/09 - Road Trips Volume 2, Number 4 is a 2 CD set from Cal Expo May 1993. Also, San Francisco Bay Area 1978 is the ninth installment in the "Pure Jerry" series of live recordings.

07/11/09 - Some RatDog October Tour dates are up at RatDog.org.

07/05/09 - From Billboard.com:

The Dead finished its marathon with Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away," something the 30,000-plus tye-died fans in front of the Odeum stage Saturday certainly hope won't happen to the group's renewed association. Bassist Phil Lesh previously told Billboard.com that he has no plans to tour again this year with any of his groups, while drummer Bill Kreutzmann said Friday that the four principal members hadn't spoken about future plans yet. But as Lesh brought the band back for its encore on Saturday (technically early Sunday morning), he offered some hope by telling the crowd "We hope you're having as much fun as we are...We hope to come back again."

The singer/songwriter [Sara Wasserman] will join RatDog, the band fronted by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead at four of the band's upcoming east coast tour stops. These include an appearance on July 11 at Atlantic City's Mark G. Etess Arena, followed by two dates at The Casino Ballrooom in Hampton Beach, NH on July 23 and 24. Wasserman will also be featured with RatDog at The Gathering of the Vibes Festival in Bridgeport, CT on July 25. . .

06/08/09 - From Dead.net:

If you’re kicking yourself because you didn’t get to see The Dead on their red-hot spring tour, you have one last chance to see them—at the Rothbury Festival in beautiful rural Michigan, on July 4. After that, it’s highly unlikely the group will perform together again in 2009. . .

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Contrary to any rumor you might have heard, this really is going to be the only Dead appearance for the foreseeable future. . .

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With The Dead back on the shelf following Rothbury, Bob Weir and Jeff Chimenti will be going back to their mates in RatDog for what’s shaping up to be a really strong tour.

03/27/09 - The Dead will play three free shows March 30th in NYC. I am posting Spring Tour updates on my At The Festival page.

03/27/09 - Some tour dates are up for "Heroes of Woodstock" with Tom Constanten and other artists.

03/21/09 - From Billboard.com:

On June 9, meanwhile, Warner Home Video will release a four-hour director’s cut of the “Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music” film featuring 18 new performances – including some from five groups (Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead, Johnny Winter, Mountain and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) that did not appear in the original film. Rhino Recods will roll out a six-CD box set of Woodstock performances.

03/13/09 - On the Heroes of Woodstock tour this year, Tom Constanten will perform music the Grateful Dead played at Woodstock (“St. Stephen,” “Turn On Your Lovelight”). Other artists on the 40th anniversary tour will include Jefferson Starship, Canned Heat, Big Brother & the Holding Co., Ten Years After, and Country Joe McDonald.

02/23/09 - To Terrapin: Hartford, May 28, 1977 will be released 04/07/09.

02/13/09 - 3 additional Spring Tour Dates are up.

5/4 Chicago, IL All State Arena
5/14 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheater
5/16 Quincy, CA The Gorge

01/14/09 - From the Hamptons Independent:

Following the [swearing-in ceremony] the new President will host no fewer than 10 official balls being held in his honor, with luminaries from all walks of life attending and/or performing. In a sign that life as we know it has dramatically been altered forever, the Grateful Dead have been asked to play at one of the events by Obama's team – Tie-dye tuxedos are optional.

April 12 Greensboro NC Greensboro Coliseum
April 14 Washington DC Verizon Center
April 15 Charlottesville VA John Paul Jones Arena
April 17 Albany NY Times Union Center
April 18 Worcester MA DCU Center
April 19 Worcester MA DCU Center
April 21 Buffalo NY HSBC Arena
April 22 Wilkes-Barre PA Wachovia Arena @ Casey Plaza
April 24 Uniondale NY Nassau Coliseum
April 25 New York NY Madison Square Garden
April 26 Hartford CT XL Center
April 28 E. Rutherford NJ IZOD Center
April 29 E. Rutherford NJ IZOD Center
May 1 Philadelphia PA Wachovia Spectrum
May 2 Philadelphia PA Wachovia Spectrum
May 5 Chicago IL All State Arena
May 7 Denver CO Pepsi Center
May 9 Los Angeles CA The Forum
May 10 Mountain View CA Shoreline Amphitheater

11/06/08 - From the New York Daily News:

Rock 'n' rollers like Bruce Springsteen and surviving members of the Grateful Dead, who helped raise money for Obama's campaign, are expected to perform at inaugural events. . . "We've been told to keep the date free," Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir told The News.

10/13/08 - According to Dead.net, RatDog and Phil Lesh & Friends will co-headline on December 30 & 31, 2008 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

09/29/08 - From Rolling Stone Issue 1062:

The Dead, minus Kreutzmann, headlined an Obama fundraiser in February. . . "We were able to leave our past behind to engage in something we really believe in," says Dead drummer Hart, who adds that the group is considering a tour in 2009.

September 20 - Cary, NC/ Koka Amphithr. – Rock Hall of Fame Gala w/ T. CONSTANTEN
September 27 - Tarrytown, NY/ Tarrytown Music Hall w/ MARTY BALIN, TOM CONSTANTEN
September 28 - Falls Church, VA/ State Thr. w/ MARTY BALIN, TOM CONSTANTEN

09/11/08 - The Philadelphia Spectrum 11/5/79 & 11/6/79 shows are now available as Road Trips Full-Show Downloads.

08/29/08 - From Dead.net:

Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart announced today that they will join together again on October 13th to perform a benefit concert for the Presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama, with the city, venue, special guests and other details to be determined pending further discussions with the Obama campaign. . .

Stay tuned to dead.net for further details, ticket information, etc.

07/11/08 - The 2-CD/1-DVD collection Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978 can be pre-ordered starting August 1st.

06/05/08 - Road Trips Volume 1, Number 3 is a 2 CD set from Summer 1971.

03/14/08 - Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings can now be ordered.

02/04/08 - Road Trips Volume 1, Number 2 is a 2 CD set from October 1977.

02/01/08 - From Dead.net:

Members of the Grateful Dead will host a get out the vote concert in support of Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday, February 4th at The Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.

Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, joined by Jackie Greene, John Molo, and Steve Molitz, will play show together in support of Barack Obama.

10/27/07 - Road Trips Volume 1, Number 1 is a 2 CD set from Fall 1979.

09/06/07 - According to Jambands.com, Mark Karan "took the stage wearing a cowboy hat to help the New Riders of the Purple Sage through drummer John Markowski’s 'Higher' at California’s Sausalito Art Festival on Labor Day. . . Though Karan will sit out RatDog’s fall tour, he will likely rejoin the group this December or in early 2008." Also, according to GDTSTOO, Steve Kimock will again join RatDog for their Fall Tour.

07/06/07 - Michael Grais will direct the film version of Steve Parish's book Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road With the Grateful Dead.

06/28/07 - A Message From Ratdog

05/22/07 - SIRIUS Satellite Radio and the Grateful Dead expect to launch Grateful Dead Radio on SIRIUS this summer.

05/14/07 - Allman Brothers Band and RatDog August 2007 Tour dates are up.

05/03/07 - Three From the Vault will be released 06/26/07.

03/31/07 - Ratdog and Keller Williams Summer 2007 Tour dates are up.

02/12/07 - RatDog Spring Tour dates are up.

12/20/06 - From Jambands.com:

The House Democratic Leadership and The House Democratic Caucus are hosting a concert event in honor of Speaker Nancy Pelosi on January 4. Tony Bennett, Carole King, Wyclef Jean are scheduled to perform with a house band that features four Grateful Dead alumni (Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bruce Hornsby) along with Warren Haynes and Mike Gordon. Richard Gere and Amy Brenneman are also scheduled to appear at the big ticket fundraiser ($1,000+) which will take place at the National Building Museum on January 4.

11/28/06 - A bonus CD, Spirit of '76, will be included for those who pre-order Live At The Cow Palace from GDStore.com.

11/04/06 - According to this GDForum Postcard the next Grateful Dead Vault release will be:

Live At The Cow Palace: New Years Eve 1976 [3 CD]
Release Date January 9, 2007, list price $31.97

10/26/06 - Phil Lesh posted an important message about his health on his website.

10/26/06 - On 12/01/06 there will be a Rex Foundation benefit performance at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco featuring The Rhythm Devils with Special Guests including Bob Weir.

10/20/06 - According to the latest issue of Relix the next Vault release (due in early 2007) will be a "historic New Years Eve show."

10/12/06 - Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show DVD includes four live performances by the Grateful Dead.

09/14/06 - Rhythm Devils Fall Tour dates are up.

08/30/06 - 2 additional discs of bonus material will be included for those who pre-order The Very Best of Jerry Garcia from jerrygarciastore.com.

08/09/06 - RatDog Fall Tour dates are up.

08/01/06 - Some more August dates for The Rhythm Devils are up at Mickey Hart's MySpace website. Also, a site called RhythmDevils.net is supposedly forthcoming.

07/19/06 - Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia, November 9, 1991 (JGB with special guest Bruce Hornsby), the seventh installment in the "Pure Jerry" series of live recordings, is now available from jerrygarcia.com. Also, Hornsby's upcoming box set Intersections 1985-2005 will include a collaboration with The Grateful Dead (a live version of "The Valley Road" from 1990).

06/10/06 - RatDog played the Welnick/Hunter/Bralove composition "Way to Go Home" at Sonoma County Fairgrounds on 6/9/06.

06/03/06 - Grateful Dead keyboard player Vince Welnick died June 2, 2006.

05/01/06 - Robert Hunter's 5/01/06 Journal update includes thoughts on the future of DeadNet, DNC, The Dead, and the marketing of Grateful Dead music.

03/23/06 - From the Boone Mountain Times:

[Radioio is] one of the top five independent internet radio services, according to webcastMetrics.com. . . Shortly, [RadioioDEAD] will become available. RadioioDEAD will be hosted by the official archivist of the Grateful Dead organization, David Lemieux. . .

01/05/06 - From the Message From Phil at Philzone.org:

Phil: JC tells me that everyone wants to know about the Dead and Archive.org.

The Dead - The Dead is a big rusty machine that takes awhile to crank up. I am completely open to doing a Terrapin Station weekend and hopefully we will get it together for this summer.

This is the first official performance of "SerialPod"

10/24/05 - Download Series Volume 7 (9/3/80 and the second set from 9/4/80) will be available 11/01/05 at GDStore.com.

10/05/05 - Dick's Picks 36 is a 4 CD set featuring the complete 9/21/72 and highlights from 9/3/72.

10/04/05 - Download Series Volume 6 (3/17/68) is now available at GDStore.com.

09/06/05 - Download Series Volume 5 (3/27/88) is now available at GDStore.com.

09/01/05 - Ladder to the Stars: Garcia Plays Dylan will be released 10/11/05.

08/17/05 - The Dead Ahead DVD (due 11/01/05) will include "more than 50 minutes of never-before-released footage from October 30, 1980."

08/11/05 - On 09/24/05, Mickey Hart, Bruce Hornsby, Bill Kreutzmann, Donna Jean McKay, Bob Weir, and many others will participate in "Comes a Time" - A Celebration of the Music and Spirit of Jerry Garcia, at the Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA.

08/02/05 - Download Series Volume 4 (6/18/76) is now available at GDStore.com.

08/01/05 - The Fillmore West 1969 - The Complete Recordings 10 CD box set is now available for pre-order from GDStore.com; a bonus CD containing previously unreleased performances recorded at the Carousel Ballroom and Fillmore West between 1968-1970 will be included for those who pre-order before 11/15/05. Also, the August 2005 issue of Relix magazine celebrates the Grateful Dead's 40th anniversary; check out the web-only extras.

08/01/05 - Warner Theatre, March 18, 1978, the sixth installment in the "Pure Jerry" series of live recordings, is now available from jerrygarcia.com. Also, Pure Jerry Digital Downloads are now available from jerrygarciastore.com; a free sampler of tracks from each of the six Pure Jerry releases can be downloaded directly from jerrygarciastore.com or Nugs.net.

07/08/05 - Jerry Garcia Band: Live at Shoreline DVD and The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1: Legion of Mary are now available for pre-order from jerrygarcia.com. Also, according to GD Almanac 12-3, the Grateful Dead's The Complete Fillmore West "Live/Dead" Shows February 27 - March 2, 1969 will be available for pre-order in August.

06/07/05 - The first two volumes of the Grateful Dead Download Series (4/30/77 at The Palladium in New York City and 1/18/70 at Springer's Inn in Portland, Oregon) are now available at either GDStore.com or iTunes. New downloads will be available on the first Tuesday of each month (Rochester 10/26/71 will be the July release).

06/06/05 - According to this GDForum Postcard, "Dick's Pick #35 will be four CDs [from Summer 1971]: the complete San Diego (8/7/71) show, all that was salvageable of the 8/24 Chicago show, and an hour-plus from the Hollywood Bowl (8/6). It will be available at dead.net Friday, June 17th." Also, in mid-October "there will be a 10-CD package, limited to 10,000 copies, and available only from dead.net, that will contain every single note from the entire [Fillmore West 2/27->3/2/69] run."

05/19/05 - RatDog Summer Tour dates are up, including shows with Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers.

05/17/05 - The Night at the Family Dog DVD (featuring Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and Santana from September, 1970) will be released 06/28/05.

04/21/05 - The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1: Legion of Mary will be released 06/28/05. On DeadNetCentral Blair Jackson posted, "All I'll say about the LOM is that it's a two-disc compilation, from stereo SBDs (not multitrack) mostly not in circulation, selected by DL2. Liner notes by yours truly." And "my impression is that Rhino is after something a bit more, dare I say, commercial than the typical Pure Jerry release, so they will showcase the different JG band lineups in anthology-style releases that will perhaps be somewhat more palatable to the masses while not overlapping with the PJ releases."

04/20/05 - The new Grateful Dead DVD Truckin' Up To Buffalo (from Rich Stadium 07/04/89) will be released 07/05/05.

04/01/05 - According to Powell's Books, "While supplies last, purchase a copy of Searching for the Sound directly from Powells.com and receive an exclusive new CD produced by Phil that includes four previously unreleased Grateful Dead tracks."

03/27/05 - From the Wisconsin State Journal:

Weir said there are no set plans yet for a Dead amphitheater tour this summer, but they will be on the road, possibly towards fall.

03/02/05 - Due 04/05/05, the Bonnaroo 2004 2 CD set will include "Self Defense" by The Dead.

03/01/05 - According to an email from Grateful Dead Interactive, "in the near future, certain new, previously unreleased shows will be digitally available exclusively through the iTunes Music Store and GDStore.com."

02/22/05 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, September 1 & 2, 1989, the fifth installment in the "Pure Jerry" series of live recordings, is now available for pre-order from jerrygarcia.com.

02/19/05 - According to the KPFA Grateful Dead marathon playlist, the Grateful Dead's Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966 (featuring Standin' on the Corner, Walkin' the Dog, and Good Lovin') will be released in March.

02/09/05 - From Dead.net:

The Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart and Particle, a pioneering electronic/jam-rock band, have come together to form HYDRA. The new group will launch a 14-date tour, debuting their new sound nationwide, beginning April 7 in Santa Cruz, Calif. and ending on April 24 in Washington, DC
Visit hydra-music.com for all the info.

02/03/05 - From the Arizona State University Web Devil:

Weir says if the surviving Dead members are to tour again this year, it will be a "modest summer run."

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