Grateful Dead, Phish, Wavy Gravy: The Hippie 411
100 hours of Grateful Dead home videos released. (Insert stoner joke here.)
Check out all the lastest hippie news and information on the Grateful Dead, Phish, Further and more below.
A Phish Festival called Super Ball IX will be held July at the Watkins Glen International racetrack in the New York countryside, July 1st through July 3rd.
Further, a Grateful Dead semi-united band includes Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir along-with five other musicians including singer John Kadlecik. During a Further Fest show at Radio City Music Hall, Elvis Costello joined the band for the better half of the first set which included the songs “Tennessee Jed,” “Friend of the Devil,” “It Must Have Been the Roses,” and a 13-minute version of “Ship of Fools.” Costello’s wife, Diana Krall even joined him on stage for a duet of the Dead song “Ripple.”
Bob Weir will be starting a new band this summer, joining with Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson and singer-songwriter Jackie Greene at the Rocky Mountain Folk Festival in Colorado in August. The new band is yet to be named. Should they call themselves The Grateful Crowes?
The 75th birthday of ’60s hippie-icon Wavy Gravy will be celebrated by two parties, the first of which will be held in Richmond, California on May 14th and will feature Bob Weir (a very busy hippie) and drummer Mickey Hart. The second shindig will be held in New York at the Beacon Theatre with musicians Jackson Browne, Dr. John, Ani DiFranco, Bruce Hornsby and Buffy Sainte-Marie headlining the event. The parties will be a benefit for Gravy’s foundation, Seva, which provides eyesight-restoring surgeries in developing nations.
411: for serious hippies only. Four-years’ worth of new Grateful Dead home movies have been leaked on You Tube. The hundred-hours of film was shot by Jason Kreutzmann, son of Bill Kreutzmann between the years 1986-1990.
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Below is a video of Elvis Costello and his wife performing with Further and little preview of the hilarities of the new Dead flicks from backstage and on the road.
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