The WELL: Topics in the deadsongs.vue Conference

deadsongs.vue.233: David Dodd, Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:52:00 PST

Turning to an important part of America's musical heritage (and certainly a part of the soul of the Well) we welcome David Dodd, author of "The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics".

David Dodd is the City Librarian of San Rafael, California. He has published two previous books about the band (The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography, 1997; and The Grateful Dead Reader, 2000). He lives in Petaluma, California, with his wife Diana Spaulding and his two children.

Our interviewer is David Gans. David is a musician, author, radio producer, and one of the hosts of inkwell.vue. He's contributed three volumes to the groaning shelf of Grateful Dead books, and various granules of his scholarship appear in David Dodd's book. [Read entire topic]

deadsongs.vue.232: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics BOOK

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:52:00 PST

Reposted from the "announcements" topic:

4, 5 of 5: David Dodd (ddodd) Fri 7 Oct 05 10:00 6 Announcement: Just in case you somehow escaped hearing about it, the book version of the Annotated Lyrics website, which is much more than just a book version of a website, entitled The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, is now available from Simon and Schuster. Foreword by Robert Hunter, Afterword by John Barlow, illustrations by Jim Carpenter. http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/cagdl.html [Read entire topic]

deadsongs.vue.231: The Grateful Dead Canon

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:52:00 PST

This idea arose in a discussion elsewhere in the WELL.

Given the massive availablility of Grateful Dead music online, and the everincreasing wealth of official releases, this seems like a good time to start a discussion of the Grateful Dead canon with a look toward making a list of the most important, definitive performances.

People who have never heard the Grateful Dead and wonder what the fuss is about would have a hard time knowing where to start listening, given the un- differentiated heap of shows on archive.org and in the GD Store.

The Deadheads' Taping Compendium offers reviews of a vast number of shows, but that's not a document that is going to be too helpful to the novice.

Elsewhere, <mz> proposed the creation of a canonical three-show run of three-set shows that would demonstrate the range of GD music through their styles and over time. That seems like one of several good approaches; work- ing from that structure, we could eventually derive a list of peak perfor- mances of individual songs, jams that represent the unique improvisational spirit of the band, and sequences that demonstrate the idea of the set as composition. [Read entire topic]

deadsongs.vue.229: Down the Road

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:52:00 PST

Down the Road Lyrics: Robert Hunter Music: Hart, Jenkins, Welnick, Hidalgo LASF: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/DOWNTHER.HTM [Read entire topic]

deadsongs.vue.228: Notes and queries

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:52:00 PST

We need a topic for notes and queries! [Read entire topic]

deadsongs.vue.227: General comments

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:52:00 PST

We forgot to make a place for general comments! [Read entire topic]

deadsongs.vue.226: You Win Again

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:52:00 PST

You Win Again w&m: Williams LASF: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/YOU1WIN.HTM [Read entire topic]

deadsongs.vue.225: You Don't Have To Ask

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:52:00 PST

You Don't Have To Ask w&m: Grateful Dead LASF: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/YOU1DONH.HTM [Read entire topic]

deadsongs.vue.224: When Push Comes To Shove

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:52:00 PST

When Push Comes To Shove w: Hunter m: Garcia AGDL: http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/push.html LASF: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/WHENPUSH.HTM [Read entire topic]

deadsongs.vue.223: The Wheel

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:52:00 PST

The Wheel w: Hunter m: Garcia AGDL: http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/wheel.html LASF: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/WHEEL.HTM [Read entire topic]