Grateful Dead to reunite for Obama concert

[WilliamPitt]

I have no preferred candidate (seriously, I still haven't decided who I'm voting for in the 2/5 MA primary), but the Dead was/remains my all-time favorite band. So...

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Grateful Dead to reunite for Obama concert
Sat Feb 2, 2008 1:26am EST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Life!) - The Grateful Dead, the San Francisco cult rock band that has played at political events since the 1960s, will reunite on Monday for the first time in four years to rally support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a spokesman said on Friday.

Band leader Jerry Garcia died in 1995. Surviving members have played together occasionally since then, most recently in 2004. On Monday, original members Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir will play at a San Francisco theater a day before California's primary.

"They have agreed to reunite for this one-time-only event in order to lend support to Senator Obama leading into the crucial 'Super-Tuesday' series of primaries held on Tuesday, February 5th," the band said in a statement.

More: http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN0147632420080202?rpc=92

[wndycty]

1. The man can literally bring the "Dead" back to life!

Will, how can you not know whether or not to vote for this guy? He brought the "Dead" back to life!

[neutron]

29. You TOO will be Dead after 4 years of Obama

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon.html?em&ex=1202101200&en=f2853a7f59384438&ei=5087%0A

[bigtree]

2. It's always facinating what these elections spark

I don't think this should affect Hillary's support in SF, although I'll admit, this is pretty big stuff for Dead fans (like myself . . . Bob Weir still has the magic)

[zulchzulu]

3. Full of hope, full of grace is the human face

THROWING STONES

Bm          A                    E                 A    Bm     G       A
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free,Dizzy with eternity
Em7                                       A         Em7
Painted with a skin of sky brush in some clouds and sea
Bm                      A
Call it home to you and me
Bm          A              E           A
A peaceful place or so it looks from space.
Bm              G                 A
A closer look reveals the human race
Em7                                A     Em7
Full of hope full of grace is the human face
Bm                                 A
But afraid we may lay our home to waste
           E                 D      A      E            D         A
There's a fear down hear we can't forget.  Hasn't got a name just yet
E               D     A               E           D       A
Always awake always around, singing' ashes ashes all fall down

Bm              A                   E          A
Now watch the ball revolves as the nighttime falls
Bm             G                 A
And again the hunt begins, and again the blood wind calls
Em7                     A               Em7
By and by again, the morning sun will rise.
        Bm                                  A
But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes
Bm                A              E           A
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
Bm            G          A
Staking turf dividing up meat
Em7              A       Em7   Bm                A
Nightmare spook peace of heat, you and me, you and me
E                          D       A      E              D      A
Flash switch blade in the ghetto night.  Rudies looking for a fight
E             D         A      E                 D         A
Ratcat alley roll them bones, need that cash to feed that jones
E                     D         A
And the politicians throwing stones
E                    D        A     E
Singing ashes ashes all fall down.  Ashes ashes all fall down

C#m             A                E
Commissars and pinstripe bosses roll the dice.
Bm                 A               E             E  A  E
Anyway they fall guess who gets to pay the price?
E           A               E             Bm                   A   G A
Money green or proletarian grey, selling guns instead of food today

        E                   D            A
So the kids they dance and shake their bones

        E            D        A
And the politicians throwing stones
          E          D        A     E
Singing ashes ashes all fall down.  Ashes Ashes all fall down.

Bm                A              E         A
Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
Bm               G                          A
If the spirit's sleeping then the flesh is ink
Em7                      A               Em7
History's page will be neatly carved in stone
Bm                                   A
The future's here, we are it, we are on our own.     A D A JAM

C#m             A                E
If the game is lost, then we're all the same.
Bm                A      E               A
No one left to place or take the blame
E                    A              E
We will leave this place an empty stone
      F#m            Bm           A
Or a shining ball of blue we can call our home
        E                   D          A
So the kids they dance and shake their bones
         E            D        A
And the politicians throwing stones.
         E            D       A      E
Singing ashes ashes all fall down.  Ashes ashes all fall down

Shipping powders back and forth.
Singing black goes south and white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars.
Singing I got mine and you got yours
While the latest fashions set the pace.
Lose your step fall out of grace
The radical he rant and rage.
Singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home.
Singing just leave well enough alone.
But his pants are down, his covers blown.
And the politicians throwing stones
So the kids they dance and shake their bones
Cause it's all too clear we're on our own
Singing ashes ashes all fall down, Ashes ashes all fall down

Bm        A                       E                A
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free.
Bm           G                A
It's dizzying, the possibilities.   Ashes ashes all fall down ....

[Prefer]

8. DId you know that song is about Dick Cheney?

[enid602]

4. cost

That must have cost Oprah a penny.

[LandOLincoln]

5. Well that tears it--

the most overrated, self-important and boring band of all time.

The Doors and X wipe the floor with those posers.

L.A. RULZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :hippie:

:rofl:

[the other one]

7. The Dead are posers, but the Doors are not? Stay in LA.

What kind of rock band doesn't have a bass player? Keyboard-driven crap.

And who is X?

[LandOLincoln]

12. ;-) Asshole... n/t

[Prefer]

10. Grateful Dead without Jerry is like

an ice cream sundae without ice cream,

At least Bob Weir's sister Wendy channels the spirit of Jerry's oversoul, so he is still communicating from beyond the dead.

[WilliamPitt]

13. Catch a Phil Lesh show if you can

Damned good stuff.

[Prefer]

15. dupe

oops

[Prefer]

16. I did once stand in front of Jimmy Herring

while Aquarium Rescue Unit played a show in the attic of Skull House at Penn State. Is Jimmy Herring the guitar player for Phil's Dead?

Also some of my friends have a band in San Francisco called "New Monsoon". Does anyone know if they are involved?

I plan to watch the streamed event on the web.

[Itchinjim]

21. Overrated? Self-Important? Posers? Boring?

You're either on the bus or off the bus son.
Further.

[Jack Bone]

6. I wonder if Nancy Pelosi will attend?

[jedr]

9. what a mistake...KKK Karl will be all over this in the election.

You all rednecks, Obama is just a drug doin' hippie. Don't flame me as to the truth of the matter....when did the truth ever get in the way of the repub's? What were they thinking?

[OmahaBlueDog]

20. Well Karl, let's talk...

...about Larry Craig, Bob Allen, David Vitter, and Mark Foley and how they reflect redneck values.

OK, maybe Vitter doesn't fit on that list ;-)

[Prefer]

11. What's Phish doing for Obama?

Aren't they going to reunite to try to out do the Dead?

[otohara]

30. String Cheese Incident

is all the rage now and if they hadn't just broke up, I think they would get back together for Obama.

[cobalt1999]

14. Garcia was the Grateful Dead

Unless Obama can bring him back to life, who would care to watch.

[Prefer]

17. As great as the post mortim shows are

I saw some stuff on Youtube with Jimmy Herring playing Music Never stopped - and he is technically wonderful to watch. Still it is missing the soul of Jerry , an undeniable missing ingredient.

With Jerry gone, I am probably one of the closest players left who pays tribute to his improv style. I have a zen approach where I play with no expectations or pre-conceptions and let the music play me. I enjoy seeing what formulates out of the unknown as much as the next guy. If anyone wants to hear a couple tracks PM me.

[msedano]

18. WWJD?

no, not "what would Jerry do?" but think of the alarming parallels.

Jesus reputedly raises Lazarus from the dead. He doesn't win an election, instead, the Romans hang the guy on a wooden cross.

Obama raises the Dead from the dead. Will Obama win an election, or get hung out to dry?

Now, if The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, and Richie Valens were to rise and do a concert... I'd run the other way. Fast.

[OmahaBlueDog]

19. Now if Obama could get Led Zep, I'd be impressed.

[Prefer]

23. This should be seriously considered

The whole thing seems to be turning in to a battle of generations...

[ShortnFiery]

25. Robert Plant put on his knee-pads for "Cadillac" a long time ago.

:evilgrin:

[radfringe]

22. don't care for the grateful dead

does that influence my vote one way or the other... no

[ShortnFiery]

24. Hey Now! What a long strange trip it's been?!?

Go Obama! :-) :hi:

[Coexist]

26. awesome graphic:

[CorpGovActivist]

27. Have a spoonful, Will. They even do this well.

[sandnsea]

28. Oh for pete's sake Will

what the hell do you mean you haven't decided.

October 2002

"What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne."

He didn't just oppose the war, he called out the neocon ideology and was one of the first to do it.

There is no question on who to vote for - none whatsoever.

[WilliamPitt]

34. Well duh

I mean which (D).

Yeesh. What, you think I'm gonna pull the lever for Ron fucking Paul or something?

:)

[mzmolly]

31. I'm happy for "Dead" fans, can't say I'm one of them but ...

:toast: to those who are.

[Indenturedebtor]

32. Sweet :D

If nothing else this will get him more coverage, and a free campaign rally.

The young they dance and shake their bones... :bounce:

[Bluerthanblue]

33. would love to hear Ripple-

that's one of my all time favorite songs.


peace~

[JPZenger]

35. Dead to Quit Their Jobs and Follow Obama Around the Country?

Wouldn't it be ironic if the members of the Dead would quit their jobs and follow Obama around the country?