`99 NEWS BULLETIN

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11/19/99 Lesh Dylan review from Cornell (Excite News)

11/10/99 Hart, Weir continue their after-Dead experiences (Boston Globe)

11/10/99 The Dead in Afterlife, And a Dynamic Dylan (Washington Post)

11/5/99 Mickey Hart on national book tour (GDF NetNews)

Just A Guy Who Plays Drums: An Interview with Bill Kreutzmann
(JamBands.Com)

Did They Spike FBI Agents' Drinks With LSD? Feds Release Files on Grateful Dead  
(APBnews.com)

What a Difference a Year Makes First, let me respond to "The Post". It’s true that in the late 70’s and early 80’s I drank and partied to excess; I’m sure that my higher self was buried deep back then. I met Jill in ‘82 (no, not on the road) and am proud to say that I have been a loving and faithful husband and a fully participating father. My wife and sons have always been top priority and have always traveled with me. My marriage and family are my greatest achievements. I am sorry to disappoint those of you who were counting on New Years with the surviving members, but I will not be performing. I am blessed to be able to look forward to my 60th birthday soon after very nearly dying a couple of times last year. I toured for 30 years; I toured even when sometimes I would have rather been home. The band usually toured because we loved it, but there were times when we toured because of the demand; fan demand, promoter demand, overhead demand. I promised myself then that when the Grateful Dead ceased to be that I would only perform for musical adventure and personal joy; I am keeping that promise made to myself so long ago. My love for the GD community persists even in the presence of the puerile driveling that’s been posted here recently. God bless you all, Phil

Reddy Kilowatt was allegedly the name that Phil used to use to book Hotel Rooms with during the Dead's touring days.

click here to see surrounding conversation

Phil, Bobby & Donna Jean sang the National Anthem at the last game ever at Candlestick Park on 9/30 (Giants vs. Dodgers). According to The San Francisco Chronicle's Ron Kroichick, these former members of "the Grateful Dead performed the anthem with dispatch, taking 1 minute and 27 seconds. Jerry Garcia would have been proud." Bobby & Donna walked off arm-in-arm as Shakedown Street was played over the PA system.
Also see The San Francisco Examiner Article here.

Bobby sat in at the Hornsby/Raitt/Brown/Colvin show last night at Shoreline. He covered the high parts during Stay, and sang on the final encore Black Muddy River.

From the San Francisco Chronicle 9/18:
"[Al] Gore later attended a $1,000-per- plate fund-raiser at the sprawling Los Gatos estate of real estate businessman George Marcus. About 200 people dined on grilled shrimp, chicken and stuffed mushrooms and were entertained by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart." Tipper Gore joined the two along with Giles McNamee (guitar) for this 1st reunion since April's fundraiser. The so-called Flying Other Brothers Band provided the music, with Tipper drumming with Mickey for Women Are Smarter. Among other GD tunes played was Sugar Magnolia.

Phil jammed out with Phish on 9/17!
You Enjoy Myself>
Wolfman's Brother (Phil JUMPING on TRAMPOLINES!!)>
Dual Phil & Mike Bass Jam>
Cold Rain & Snow (Phil on vocals)
E: VIOLA LEE BLUES (Phil on vocals, with Warren!)
REALAUDIO IS HERE !
See Sonicnet.com Article
See San Franciso Chronicle Article
See SF Gate Article 

DEAD.NET LAUNCHES OFFICIAL
PHIL ZONE PLANET

NEW BOOK! GARCIA: An American Life by Blair Jackson
9/10 7pm reading/signing The Booksmith San Francisco 1644 Haight Street
check out a review here / another 

No. 1 fan--Remembering Dick Latvala, chronicler of the Dead
(Chicago Metromix)

Ken Kesey & the Pranksters search for Merlin in the UK

Dick Latvala Memorial Tribute 8-12-99
Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, CA
Thanks to Jeremy Baldwin for the heads up on this & for culling this from Blair Jackson
Check out Geoff G's page w/ photos & write-up HERE
See Steve Silberman's write-up HERE

(photo copyright Geoff Gould 1999)
David Nelson and Sandy Rothman + Pat Campbell
Short set of acoustic music Bob Weir, Henry Kaiser, Bobby Vega, Jeff Chimenti,
Bob Bralove, Mickey Hart and Greg Anton (Zero Drummer)
Not Fade Away Jam>
Playing in the Band>
St.Stephen>
The Eleven>
Playing in the Band Reprise
-Set break-
-Jay Lane replaces Mickey on Drums-
West L.A. Fadeaway
Birdsong>
Spanish Jam>
Dark Star Jam>
Jam>
Birdsong

   Grateful Dead So Many Roads

   A long awaited live retrospective of the band's entire career....from their very early years as an electric band in 1965 to their very last years through 1995 featuring the songs that never made it to record before.....This 5 CD box set will feature all previously unreleased material.......primarily live performances along with some rehearsals and unreleased studio performances including outtakes from American Beauty and Workingman's Dead. The box set will have very elegant and deluxe packaging....including a special hardbound slipcase in hemp fabric, a full hardcover book with never-before-published photos, and featured essays from many prominent writers....plus an additional hardcover book that holds each of the CDs with detailed track listings. This first-rate set promises to be a true collectors item.

                                   Grateful Dead Records/Arista Announce the Release of "So Many Roads"

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1999--Given the Grateful Dead's vast release of material from their vault (14 and soon to be 15 "Dick's Picks" two-track shows, as well as 5 CD's of multitrack live material), it comes as a bit of a surprise that they have not yet released a full-bore boxed set of rarities and obscuriana.

Your wait is over. "So Many Roads (1965-1995)," out November 9,1999 (price ~$49.98 to $69.98) on Grateful Dead Records/Arista, will be a 5-CD package full of all the goodies Dead Heads have been awaiting, including studio out-takes, inspired moments, and you-name-it.

"So Many Roads (1965-1995)" was compiled by a committee that included the late Dick Latvala, Grateful Dead Hour host David Gans, Wired editor Steve Silberman, co-author of Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads,, and Blair Jackson, editor of the best fan magazine of all time, The Golden Road, and the new Garcia: An American Life. It will feature archival packaging, with unpublished photos and essays by prominent writers.

That sound you hear is the sound of Dead Heads, arguing about whatever got left out, and cheering what they know they'll find.

Grateful Dead So Many Roads (1965-1995)

Disc 1

1. Can't Come Down-Warlocks Demo 11/3/65
2. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)-Warlocks Demo 11/3/65
3. You Don't Have To Ask-Fillmore, SF 7/16/66
4. On The Road Again-Unlabeled 1966 reel
5. Cream Puff War-Fillmore, SF 7/16/66
6. I Know You Rider-SF 1966
7. The Same Thing-Winterland, SF 3/18/67
8. Dark Star>China Cat Sunflower>The Eleven-Carousel Ballroom, SF 3/16/68
9. Clementine-Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR 2/2/68
10. Mason's Children-1970 Workingman's Dead outtake
11. To Lay Me Down-1970 American Beauty outtake

Disc 2

1. That's It For The Other One-Fillmore West, SF 2/27/69
2. Beautiful Jam-Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY. The jam between Wharf Rat and Dark Star, 2/18/71.
3. Chinatown Shuffle-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 5/11/72
4. Sing Me Back Home-Veneta, OR 8/27/72
5. Watkins Glen Soundcheck Jam-Watkins Glen, NY 7/27/73.
6. Dark Star Jam excerpt >Spanish Jam>U.S. Blues-Jai-Alai Fronton, Miami, FL 6/23/74

Disc 3

1. Eyes Of The World-Winterland, SF 10/19/74
2. The Wheel-Auditorium Theater, Chicago, IL 6/29/76
3. Stella Blue-Rupp Arena, Lexington, KY 4/21/78
4. Estimated Prophet-Red Rocks, Morrison, CO 8/12/79
5. The Music Never Stopped-Warfield Theater, SF 10/14/80
6. Shakedown Street-SF Civic Auditorium, SF 12/31/84

Disc 4

1. Cassidy-Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ 11/10/85
2. Hey Pocky Way-Greensboro Coliseum, Greesboro, NC 3/31/89
3. Believe It Or Not-1988 Built To Last outtake
4. Playing In The Band-Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA 7/29/88
5. Gentlemen, Start Your Engines-1988 Built To Last outtake
6. Death Don't Have No Mercy-Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA 9/29/89
7. Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain-Copps Coliseum, Ontario, Canada 3/22/90
8. Bird Song-Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (with Branford Marsalis) 3/29/90.
9. Jam Out Of Terrapin-Richfield, OH 9/8/90

Disc 5

1. Terrapin Station-MSG, NY 9/12/91
2. Jam Out Of Foolish Heart-MSG, NY 9/18/90
3. Way To Go Home-The Palace, Auburn Hills, MI 7/31/94
4. Liberty-The Omni, Atlanta, GA 3/30/94
5. Lazy River Road-Rehearsal 2/18/93
6. Eternity-Rehearsal 2/18/93
7. Jam Into Days Between-Rehearsal 2/9/93
8. Days Between-Rehearsal 2/16/93
9. Whiskey In A Jar-Rehearsal 2/16/93
10. So Many Roads-Soldier Field, Chicago, IL 7/9/95

NOTES: ICE magazine incorrectly listed "Passenger" on disc 3. We wanted to use the track, but it made the CD too long. (The CD timings are already maxed out over the standard limit for CDs.) Also, the Dark Star jam from '74 fades in a few minutes into the jam. It would have been better to include the whole thing, but again, we bumped our heads against the 78-or-so-minute limit for CDs, and it's a fantastic passage of music in this context.

According to Geoff Gould, a sampler CD is being released to radio stations and reviewers soon.  As a
special treat to GDF list members, here is the info I've received on it:

Cream Puff War   5:57
You Don't Have to Ask   3:55
Mason's Children  3:00
Passenger   3:20
Estimated Prophet   10:00
The Music Never Stopped   7:44
Shakedown Street   16:33
JOOT (Jam out of Terrapin)   5:08
Liberty  5:00
Eternity  7:46

Total time 70:46

Also look for the Two Volume Saturday Night Live: The Musical Performances
The GD's Casey Jones from 1978 is included along with many other artists.
See more details & track listing here.   

Phil Lesh and Friends - Summer Session  Pictures

Denver Post 8/11 Phil Article HERE 

8/6/99 Dick Latvala Passes on at Age 56 (GDF NetNews)

7/29/99 Dick Latvala in coma, due to heart attack (GDF NetNews)

NEW MICKEY SHOW & Book Signing Coming in October!

Mickey @ Woodstock 7/24/99 SonicNet Article here

See This Awesome Phil Article
"There's a box set planned for the fall...It's gonna be a spectrum of stuff, some already released, some not. It's a retrospective in a sense. We're talking about four CDs now."
"...there's a possibility I'll be touring this fall; I'm not sure really when or where, but back East, probably..."

SEE OTHER PHIL ARTICLE LINKS HERE 

Get the new Relix magazine!
There's a wonderful Phil Lesh interview/article with some exclusive info & intimate details from Phil himself.
As usual, there's plenty of other GRATE info including a review of the Dead's 5 years in Vegas.
Find it at kind newsstands everywhere 

BOBBY GOT MARRIED!DETAILS HERE / PHOTO 

From David Gans:
There have been many GD BOXED SET ideas kicked around.  The one we're working on seems to be the one that's gonna happen, and it seems to be a four-disc set covering the 30 years of GD history with a fifth disc of all the "new" material. 

Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola present
in dedication to Jerry Garcia
The Saragossa Manuscript:
re-release of a classic 60's movie, one of Jerry's all-time favorites.
"Coming to a theatre near you" - check the website and schedule. 

Warner Brothers are planning a "deluxe" 2 CD set featuring the studio Anthem along with a live disk mirroring this. There is apparently an October release date but if Phil's schedule won't allow for this it'll be out in the early part of next year. 

A sequel to the Live at the Keystone CDs will be coming out from Merl Saunders from some of the same original tapes. GDM might be prepping us by adding the original CDs to their catalog.

FURTHUR IS CANCELLED (AGAIN)
(from GDHotline June 15, 1999)
Dear Dead Heads:
With regret, we have to announce that there will be no Furthur Festival this year. We apologize for the confusion, but it was generated by our honest attempt to respond to a whole lot of requests for us to keep trying even when it was really too late.
Unfortunately, you can't put together a whole tour at the last second.
Planet Drum and Ratdog will be at Woodstock, and will be playing more gigs around that time.
We promise to try again next year.
Hang in there -- and stay in touch.
Best, Dennis McNally for Bobby, Mickey, and Hunter 

Congressional Record: May 26, 1999 (Senate)
[Page S6153]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:cr26my99-199]

[[Page S6153]]

APPOINTMENTS

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair, on behalf of the President pro
tempore, pursuant to Public Law 94-201, as amended by Public Law 105-
275, appoints the following individuals as members of the Board of
Trustees of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress:
Janet L. Brown, of South Dakota, and Mickey Hart, of California.

____________________

MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE

A message from the Senate by Mr. Lundregan, one of its clerks,
announced that the Senate had passed without amendment bills of the
House of the following titles:

H.R. 1034. An act to declare a portion of the James River
and Kanawha Canal in Richmond, Virginia, to be nonnavigable
waters of the United States for purposes of title 46, United
States Code, and the other maritime laws of the United
States.
H.R. 1121. An act to designate the Federal building and
United States courthouse located at 18 Greenville Street in
Newman, Georgia, as the ``Lewis R. Morgan Federal Building
and United States Courthouse''.

The message also announced that pursuant to Public Law 94-201, as
amended by Public Law 105-275, the Chair, on behalf of the President
pro tempore, appoints the following individuals as members of the Board
of Trustees of the American Folklife Center of the Library of
Congress--
Janet L. Brown, of South Dakota; and
Mickey Hart, of California.

No Furthur For Phil
Phil Lesh - 2/27/99 10:40pm PDT (DeadNet Central #18 of 33) I prefer to let the music speak for me but I will respond to this because of my great respect and love for all Deadheads... I agreed in January '98 to join Bobby, Mickey and Bruce to form a band for one Furthur Festival. The Furthur Festival is owned by Metropolitan Entertainment in New York and is completely separate from Grateful Dead Productions. I enjoyed playing with each and every musician in The Other Ones last year, but the tour was extremely stressful due to business and creative differences. I honored my commitment and made no promises for future shows. After my surgery I was approached about doing another tour but it became clear that the same unresolved issues were still haunting us. Rather than try to make music in an atmosphere rife with disagreement, I decided to spend some time in nature with my family this summer, and will try to do a few Phil and Friends gigs at some of my favorite places along the way. For those who are concerned about the "spirit" of the Grateful Dead, let me point out that the decision-making process of the Grateful Dead was that if any one member of the band didn't want to do something it was not done; our decisions were made by putting the music first, which is what I am always striving to do.

Phil Lesh Had a Liver Transplant - he's OK tho!
From Phil Lesh personally on Dead.net - 08:52pm Dec 25, 1998 PDT
Dear Friends; I'd like you all to know that my surgery was a success
and that I was able to leave the hospital after six days, so that I
could be at home with my family for Christmas. I must say that today
was the most joyous and wonderful Christmas of my entire life,
probably because I feel completely reborn through the miracle of this
transplant and the love of so many people that has been granted to me
over the past few months. It seems to me that through the prayers and
healing light that you've sent me, that you yourselves have come
closer together, and that's the other part of the miracle. I feel so
blessed by your love and prayers, and I'm hoping to recover quickly so
that I can continue to contribute to the building of our community of
love. I'd like to ask that you send your prayers out also to the
family of the donor, whose grief must be very great at this time, and
to bless the spirit of the donor as his soul continues its journey.

Read a Donna Jean Chat Interview From 12/10

Terrapin Station Project Delayed
click here for the article

6/7/99 Dead Film, 60's Photos Featured at McCartney Exhibition (Live Daily)

5/31/99 Chatting with Garcia -- not so 'dead'? (DeseretNews.com) 

5/20/99 Grateful Dead Music Museum's Groundbreaking Planned For 2000 (SonicNet)

5/15/99 Phil Lesh on the Unbroken Chain Foundation and His New Phriends
             (JamBands.com)

5/14/99 A Conversation with Phil Lesh (Rolling Stone) [includes RealAudio content!]

5/11/99 Grateful Dead Issues Rules For MP3 Distribution
             (Live Daily)

5/11/99 Lawyers for GD issue MP3 Statement (PRNewswire)

5/6/99 Furthur 1999--The Power of Rumor (GDF NetNews)

4/29/99 Official GDP Statement to MP3 Site Operators (GDF NetNews)

4/13/99 Phil's New Zone (SF Chronicle)

4/8/99 Grateful Dead Support Tipper Gore (Yahoo/AP)

4/1/99 Furthur 1999--To be or not to be? (GDF NetNews)

3/29/99 Furthur Festival May Go Further (Billboard)

3/17/99 Ex Dead Members Shelve Furthur Festival for '99 (SonicNet)

3/15/99 You spammed a Deadhead list? Oh, brother! (Bergen Record)

2/8/99 The 'Dead' Grateful for MP3 (Wired News)