Category: Music

Dead at Archive.Org

Earlier this week, Grateful Dead’s management asked Archive.org to stop making the Grateful Dead shows they have, available for download. The Dead have always been kind to tapers, having tapers section for audience recording at their shows and encouraging tape trading amongst their fans. So this came as a big surprise, and resulted in an outcry amongst fans. Apparently a compromise has been reached and the audience recordings will be back at archive.org. There is a statement now at their site. Another nice article at the NY times site that sums up the events. David Gans is making some interesting comments on his blog.

Phil Lesh responded on his site with this statement:
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Days Between

This is one of the most moving Grateful Dead songs, they started playing this by the end of ’93 till ’95. Jerry’s voice make it so chilling, hard to explain. Why am I writing this now ? Well I started listening to some Dead songs again, and remembered this one again, hadnt heard it in a while, looked up the lyrics and found this interesting link :).
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New torrents on Btree.org

Just a few picks of the ones, that I’ll soon check out, amazing how fast you can listen to recent shows these days. I remember the days where it would take weeks before a crappy cassette came in the mail…

Dave Mattews Band, Sept. 3rd 2005
Gov’t Mule, Sept. 1st 2005 Antwerp, Belgium
Gov’t Mule – 31st August 2005 – Paradiso, Amsterdam

And last but not least Los Lobos. Wonderful life band, you should definately check this out: Los Lobos 2005-07-31b Orange Court, Naeba, JPN .