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1,754 wordsWhat a long strange trip it has been was the theme from my graduation last year. The only reason that I am telling you that is because that is a classic quote from the leader of the band, Grateful Dead. And if you stop and think about it, it makes complete sense. Life seems to be this strange trip and we are all on this same boat. Jerry Garcia was a great musician, and also a poet. Everything that he said either in his music or through his guitar, which some people would argue that its the great...
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1,248 wordsCase Analysis: The Grateful Dead Creating Deadheads by Providing Drop-Dead Customer Service List of Facts The career of popular rock-band, The Grateful Dead, started in 1965. The band enjoyed popularity until 1995, when the lead guitarist Jerry Garcia died. The band started its career playing in a pizza parlor (Palo Alto, California) for $ 50 per night concert. Already in 1973 The Grateful Dead gave concert to a crowd of 600, 000 people at Watkins Glen, New York. It was the largest crowd in Amer...
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2,015 wordsGrateful Dead I wanna tell you how it's gonna be, you " re gonna give your love to me, I wanna love you night and day, you know my love not fade away. You know my love not fade away, not fade away! -- Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead (Skull-Fuck and Roses), 1971 In the summer of 1995, following the death of Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead stopped touring. For thirty years, their concerts served as a gathering place for a diverse group of followers, nicknamed Deadheads. Coming from all walks of life,...
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2,056 words... of "being there, " the traditions and shared experiences are sent pulsing along the wires. But I'll still sing you love songs, written in the letters of your name. And brave the storm to come, for it surely looks like rain. -- Bob Weir, Ace, 1972 The end of the tour and dispersion of the group has elicited a variety of responses from within the Deadheads community. They are an artistic, articulate group and have much to say on what the "end of the era" has meant. This response sums it up bes...
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6,020 wordsBOUNDARIES OF OWNERSHIP Nobody owns this essay. It is important that I make this very clear and that I do so at the earliest possible moment. I must do this because the essay that you are reading is about intellectual property, and that means that this essay must be self-referential. When one writes or speaks or communicates in any way about intellectual property, one is dealing with some of the most basic rules of the very medium in which one is operating. There is no neutral ground here, no po...
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1,723 wordsJerome John Garcia was born in 1942, in San Francisco's Mission District. His father, a spanish immigrant named Jose Joe Garcia, had been a jazz clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties, and he named his new son after his favorite Broadway composer, Jerome Kern. In the spring of 1948, while on a fishing trip, Garcia saw his father swept to his death by a California river. After his fathers death, Garcia spent a few years living with his mothers parents, in one of San Francisco's work...
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3,413 wordsThe Making Woodstock Joel Rosenman woke up on Friday, August 15, 1969, at 6: 00 A. M. This was the first day of what is now known as the most famous rock festival in history, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Joel, along with John Roberts, Artie Kornfeld, and Michael Lang, created Woodstock. Joel woke to one of the biggest traffic jams in history located outside The Pines, the hotel where Woodstock s staff was staying. Route 17 B lead right to the site of the festival, Max Yasgur s Farm. It took...
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2,579 words&# 9; Robert Hunter had his poetic beginnings in the Palo Alto, CA coffeehouse scene in the mid-sixties. It was there that he began writing poetry and found his future song writing partner Jerry Garcia. &# 9; Although Hunter had been writing poetry for several years, his career did not begin in earnest until 1967, when he mailed the lyrics to St. Stephen, Alligator, and China Cat Sunflower to his friend Garcia and the Grateful Dead. He was almost immediately taken on as the primary lyricist for ...
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