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sharon_loves_fats
10-19-2009, 06:14 PM
Tonight 10/19! This sounds cool. I just this morning booked a November trip to NYC, so I got all excited thinking the Historical Society exhibit would start this week, but it's not until March. Still cool tho!!
http://www.dead.net/features/news/general-news/empire-state-building-get-tie-dye-lighting-honor-grateful-dead
ABITAGIRL1
10-19-2009, 06:17 PM
wow that is so cool! It's been yellow for the past few days to celebrate a museum (del barrios?) reopening. Tye die is much cooler.
MormonMatthew
10-19-2009, 06:40 PM
Fifteen years ago tonight I was in Madison Square Garden for what turned out to be the Grateful Dead's final show in New York City...........
October 19th (today) is my mom's birthday, and I remember calling her from the Garden to wish her a happy day.
Today, I took her and dad out to lunch to celebrate (she is 82 years young) and in a couple of hours, I will be at the Bob Dylan show here in Salt Lake.
Some great memories, and I am sure that tonight will be a nice addition to the good times our family has enjoyed on 10/19!!!
Orleansnj
10-19-2009, 07:06 PM
Tonight 10/19! This sounds cool. I just this morning booked a November trip to NYC, so I got all excited thinking the Historical Society exhibit would start this week, but it's not until March. Still cool tho!!
http://www.dead.net/features/news/general-news/empire-state-building-get-tie-dye-lighting-honor-grateful-dead
hey girl = when you going to be in town? Let us know....
tangledupinblue
10-19-2009, 07:08 PM
Fifteen years ago tonight I was in Madison Square Garden for what turned out to be the Grateful Dead's final show in New York City...........
October 19th (today) is my mom's birthday, and I remember calling her from the Garden to wish her a happy day.
Today, I took her and dad out to lunch to celebrate (she is 82 years young) and in a couple of hours, I will be at the Bob Dylan show here in Salt Lake.
Some great memories, and I am sure that tonight will be a nice addition to the good times our family has enjoyed on 10/19!!!
I was there as well Matthew. NICE and looking back broke my heart.
denideadhead
10-19-2009, 09:56 PM
Fifteen years ago tonight I was in Madison Square Garden for what turned out to be the Grateful Dead's final show in New York City...........
October 19th (today) is my mom's birthday, and I remember calling her from the Garden to wish her a happy day.
Today, I took her and dad out to lunch to celebrate (she is 82 years young) and in a couple of hours, I will be at the Bob Dylan show here in Salt Lake.
Some great memories, and I am sure that tonight will be a nice addition to the good times our family has enjoyed on 10/19!!!
NICE MM really nice ..I didn;t give it a thought til you mentioned it but I too was at that show.... The only show I ever saw from a skybox ...well that is till I couldn't stand being that far away and snuck onto the floor ....I considered going to RatDog tonite but couldn;t rally ..maybe tommorrow! Thanks for sharing your family memory :) and for jogging mine bittersweet but good!!
ABITAGIRL1
10-20-2009, 09:30 AM
Fifteen years ago tonight I was in Madison Square Garden for what turned out to be the Grateful Dead's final show in New York City...........
October 19th (today) is my mom's birthday, and I remember calling her from the Garden to wish her a happy day.
Today, I took her and dad out to lunch to celebrate (she is 82 years young) and in a couple of hours, I will be at the Bob Dylan show here in Salt Lake.
Some great memories, and I am sure that tonight will be a nice addition to the good times our family has enjoyed on 10/19!!!
I was there too! Who knew we'd all meet one day!
innertube
10-20-2009, 09:30 AM
cool pic
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42177008@N06/4027544047/
ABITAGIRL1
10-20-2009, 09:33 AM
cool pic
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42177008@N06/4027544047/
LOVE it!
Thanks innertube. That's a keeper.
I never kept a list of my shows; I only know the rough numbers, which seem staggering to me now (even moreso when I see the reactions of those unaccustomed when they hear them). The ones in rarer locations are easier for me to remember, but MSG shows are tough because there were so many that I attended. I know I was at at least one of the shows during that five-night stand, but I don't know if it was 10/19/94. I do know that my last show was in June of the following year in Albany, which turned out to be one of their last shows ever.
sharon_loves_fats
10-20-2009, 05:08 PM
:cool:
http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af234/zydecogal/posting/empirestate.jpg
sharon_loves_fats
10-20-2009, 05:09 PM
Matthew, 10/19 is sure a special day for you! Hope you enjoyed the Dylan show!!
sharon_loves_fats
10-20-2009, 05:10 PM
hey girl = when you going to be in town? Let us know....
Hey Michele! I'm in Sat 11/15 to Mon 11/17. You gonna be around?
freebo
10-29-2009, 02:31 PM
Here's another shot of the ESB in dye.
I found this one on Jambase while looking for a way to print a Bear Creek schedule... NICE.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3525/4027827862_539c4915c6.jpg
Hmmm...
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Bear Creek.
Denbear.
Grateful Dead bears... http://buyblotterart.com/images/dancing-bears-9-panel.jpg
The Bear.
Coincidence?
I think NOT...
denbear
03-05-2010, 05:29 PM
Denbear.
Grateful Dead bears... http://buyblotterart.com/images/dancing-bears-9-panel.jpg
The Bear.
Coincidence?
I think NOT...[/QUOTE]
YYR, breaux, I think NOT ;^)
Denbear.
Grateful Dead bears... http://buyblotterart.com/images/dancing-bears-9-panel.jpg
The Bear.
Coincidence?
I think NOT...
I bearly understand these small squares of bears, mon freres
sharon_loves_fats
03-05-2010, 11:47 PM
Glad you brought this thread back, Den, 'cause I needed the reminder about the exhibit...
The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New York Historical Society
The sidewalks of New York take a historic turn, as the New York Historical Society launches The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society. The exhibition, on view from March 5 to July 4, 2010, represents the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive, housed at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Through a wealth of original materials, the exhibition will explore the musical creativity and influence of the Grateful Dead from 1965 to 1995, the sociological phenomenon of the Deadheads and the enduring impact of the Dead’s pioneering approach to the music business. Among the objects in the exhibition will be documents, instruments, audio and video recordings, album art, photographs, platinum records, posters, programs, newsletters, tickets, and t-shirts and other merchandise. Highlights will include the band’s first record contract, tour itineraries, backstage guest lists, decorated fan mail, rare LP test pressings, drawings for the fabled Wall of Sound amplifier array, scripts for the Grateful Dead ticket hotline, notebooks of Dead archivist Dick Latvala, life-size skeleton props used in the band’s “Touch of Grey” video and large-scale marionettes and other stage props.
“Despite the Grateful Dead’s close association with California, the band and New York have been an important part of each other’s history from the first time the Dead played here in 1967 to the band’s year-on-year performances in New York from the late 1970s through 1995,” commented Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society. “This exhibition not only celebrates the band’s relationship with New York but its tremendous impact on American culture.”
"The Grateful Dead Archive is one of the most significant popular cultural collections of the 20th century," said Christine Bunting, the head of Special Collections and Archives at the University Library at UC Santa Cruz. "We are delighted that the Historical Society is presenting this unprecedented exhibition, providing the public and the thousands of fans with such an exciting overview of the band’s musical journey.”
The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society provides unique glimpses into the political and social upheavals and artistic awakenings of the 1960s and 1970s, a tumultuous and transformative period that shaped our current cultural and political landscape, and examines how the Grateful Dead’s origin in northern California in the mid-1960s was informed by the ideology and spirit of both the Beat Generation and the burgeoning Hippie scene, including the now-legendary Acid Tests. The exhibition also explores how the band’s refusal to follow the established rules of the record industry revealed an unexpected business savvy that led to innovations in a rapidly changing music industry, and also to a host of consumer-driven marketing enrichments that kept fans in frequent contact with the band.
Co-curated by Debra Schmidt Bach, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts, and Nina Nazionale, Director of Library Operations at the New-York Historical Society, the exhibition will be organized thematically, beginning with an examination of the Grateful Dead’s early days in the Bay Area and its first performance in New York City. Other major exhibition themes include the band’s musical artistry, the business of the Grateful Dead, and the band’s special relationship with its fans.
Materials in the exhibition will be drawn almost exclusively from the extraordinary holdings of the Grateful Dead Archive, established in 2008, along with a small number of objects on loan from Grateful Dead Productions and private collectors. A series of public programs will complement the exhibition.
For more information, go to visit nyhistory.org.