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grateful dead: 30 days of FREE Grateful Dead Downloads - 11/23/11 07:32 PM
Anybody interested probably already knows about this and has been enjoying and downloading these tunes all month. But there may be a couple of you that don't. This is the 2nd time this year that the Grateful Dead net has released a song a day from the vault for our listening and downloading pleasure.
Why are they giving away music for free, you ask? Well, again most of you know but a couple of you may not be aware that the Dead always encouraged taping of their live music shows. Unlike most bands that aggressively endeavor to stop any taping … (2 comments)

grateful dead: Thanks For The Memories - Record Album Time Machine - 12/29/09 06:20 PM
My wife got me an ION Vinyl Archiving Turntable for Christmas this year. My last turntable crapped out about 15 years ago and I just never replaced it in spite of the 2 boxes of records I still lug around. (Note: if you're under 30, a record is a 12" round black plastic disc. It's a little thicker than a CD and it has lots of tiny grooves cut into it on both sides. The grooves are where the music is and you have to flip it over to hear the other side. They could hold about 10 or 15 songs. You … (6 comments)

grateful dead: There's 'Dead People' Everywhere. - 05/14/09 10:38 PM
Last night I attended a very swanky reception at the Smithsonian Postal Museum. That's the big building down on Massachusetts Ave right across the street from Union Station (and just coincidentally right upstairs from one of my all-time favorite breweries, the Capitol City Brewpub). Great food and plenty off free liquor - nothing to sneeze at - plus it's a very historic site with all kinds of fun things to do that are post office related (no, we didn't play Post Office). 
On the way home we had a two car police escort down Massachusetts, up Pennsylvania past the White House … (4 comments)

grateful dead: From Sinatra to Garcia - Merle Saunders played them all. - 10/29/08 07:31 PM
10-29 saunders My AR friend and fellow Deadhead Craig Rutman sent me a message this morning letting me know that keyboardist Merl Saunders had passed away last Friday. Headlines on Saunder's passing were as varied as the man himself. One headline announced 'Sinatras Keyboardist dies at 74'. Another claimed that death of the 'Famed New Age Keyboardist' while many simply pointed out that longtime Garcia associate and Dead keyboardist was, finally, dead. From Sinatra to the Grateful Dead to New Age legend - that's a pretty broad stroke to cut through the music world. Merl Saunders is probably best known for … (4 comments)

grateful dead: The Greatest Story Ever Told - Real Estate Branding. - 10/09/08 06:03 PM
10/9 brand dead Marc Davison of 1000WattConsulting has posted an article over at Inman News that's a must-read. Entitled 'The Greatest Story Ever Told', Davison provides great advice to Realtors on successful brand building using lessons taught by none other than The Grateful Dead. Yep, that's right. Using song titles for paragraph headings, Davison steps through a series of valuable lessons on Brand Dead meant to illustrate that every decision the band made was driven by an attention to the customer that is increasingly rare in this, or any other industry. Years ago, in another life, I worked for a Fortune … (12 comments)

grateful dead: Just A Box Of Rain - Not For DeadHeads Only - 04/08/08 05:07 PM
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and we got to reminiscing, as Old Dudes sometimes do, and we soon settled on a topic of mutual interest - The Grateful Dead. Now my friend is about as button-down looking as you get, a suit-and-tie kind of Realtor, brush-cut hair, well respected in his community, active in his Association, very successful but with a crazy gleam in his eyes - if you look closely. 
Well, he gets to telling me about the first Dead show he went to in '68 and the copious amount of pharmaceuticals that were present … (11 comments)