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04-12-2003 02:43 PM |
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Originally posted by Herb Kornfield
Been hearing Ads on the radio for "the Dead" basically, the remaining members of the grateful dead with some new guest musicians sitting in (Joan Osbourne, Jai Johanny, etc)
Not that I am a huge dead fan, but, Jerry Garcia isnt here anymore. The Dead ceased to exist with the passage of him, just as the beatles did when John was shot, Zeppelin when Bonzo died.
Maybe another name would have been a better idea than using the dead.....what do you think?
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From The Dead...
Seven years ago, when Jerry passed, we made a conscious decision to retire the name Grateful Dead. We did so after some deep soul searching and out of our love and respect for what we had created together. After we played our first shows together at Alpine Valley last year, we were all profoundly affected by a sense of awe and connection that none of us had felt since we played with Jerry.
It was a magical occurrence that no one could have anticipated, yet one we all want to embrace. To us, this was the Grateful Dead- without Jerry. We had stopped being the "Other Ones" and were on our way to becoming something new but at the same time very familiar.
Grateful Dead conjures up many different emotions and feelings for all of us; it was a BAND, it continues to be a community, an approach to life, a electrical current, a dream, the list goes on. Whenever and wherever we played this past year, we all knew that we were experiencing Grateful Dead in its multiplicity of forms. We also know that this would not have been possible without all of you joining to support us. Therefore, with the greatest possible respect to our collective history, we have decided to keep the name "Grateful Dead" retired in honor of Jerry's memory, and call ourselves: "The Dead." |
