Grateful Music's Facebook Page has hit a milestone of a 100K fans. To celebrate we are giving away Prizes.

  Our Facebook page just surpassed 100,000 music lovers. 

 

 More importantly out of that number 98.622% of our family are actually empathetic caring people. I have met some of my best friends while discussing music on the site. Hell, I met my roommate through the magic of our community. If I would have planned this company, it would have failed years ago. The magic that The Phish and the Dead create found it's way into our sandbox.  Since 100,000 is a big even number and it's the season of What Now? We are going to show how Grateful we are for our fans. Until next year we will be giving away authentic Phish and the Dead memorabilia out of my own personal collection. You could win a pair of tickets to see The Grateful Dead or David Bowie. (Time machine not included) 

 

 

 Or the Deer Creek show that Keller Williams and myself missed. 

 

Or it my be a ticket for a Grateful Dead concert for Fall tour in 1995. 

 

Basically the gifts will be like our website; you never know what you will find. 

 

 Over the last three years our sandbox has became Grateful Music Productions. This is all because you love music as much as we do. Our clubhouse is now a business and it's just keeps getting better. Sammy and I started this with one fundamental rule. Everything is not fucking epic. We wanted a forum where we could talk about our musical community honestly as we see it. We are not for everyone and that is fine. But since we stopped writing for the big boys and concentrated on what matters music and the love we bring. We have grown without being  own by the publicists. They are some of our biggest supporters. Five your ago we had almost 6,000 fans.  

       What makes us so proud is that you that us be a part of your lives and yet you still recommend us to your family. We are an organically grown company because we have never spent one dollar to promote ourselves. Subscribe to our YouTube page, Grateful Music Productions we have great content and we are just getting started. 

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCUJelI7kf6fB8mHLYedR1vA Some contests the next few weeks will be given away on that platform only. The best is yet to come and good luck this week. Each prize will have a different contest. The only rule is if you get confused listen to the music play. Thank you for giving us something to do in between shows. We love you Kevin & Greg. P.S that ain't no monkey in the middle! 

 

Summer Camp Will Stay at Three Sisters Park in 2017

Summer Camp Will Stay at Three Sisters Park in 2017

 

    A statement addressed to the fans of Summer Camp broke the news earlier today. I was not against the idea of moving the favored music festival. But read for yourself as I included the actual letter. 

Dear Summer Camp Fam,

I am pleased to announce that we have come to an agreement with Three Sisters Park. Summer Camp Music Festival 2017 will again take place at its longstanding home in Chillicothe, Illinois.

I know the past couple weeks have been a bit unsettling, and I greatly appreciate all the support we received from you.

It was refreshing and inspiring to feel all your love. It again renewed my faith and commitment to doing what we do.

I would like to thank the great people at Kennekuk County Park, The Vermillion County Conservation District, and the community in Danville, who, knowing the uncertainty of the situation, put untold hours into helping us devise a plan to move should it have become necessary. As I stated before, I am hoping that relationship will turn into fruitful ventures in the future.

But again, most of all I must thank you, our loyal fans, for continuing to support this crazy journey we embarked on 16 years ago and for continuing to show that know matter the turns and twists, it all comes down to a love for the music and community that we have grown together.

Much Love - Can't wait to see you at Summer Camp 2017!!

Ian Goldberg

Founder and Director

Summer Camp Music Festival

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Already excited to join us this Memorial Day Weekend? Mark your calendar for our ADVANCED EARLY BIRD PRE-SALE this Wednesday, December 14th.

3-Day GA Tickets, as well as Thursday Pre-Party Passes, for Summer Camp 2017 will be ON SALE AT 12 PM CENTRAL at SummerCampFestival.com!

Tonight's 30 Days of Dead Shows is the Hurricane that Descended on the Fillmore East on 2-11-70 NY,NY

  There's a reason I waited until later to post this show. This is one of the most famous multi-player jams in Dead history. If you've read "Searching for the Sound" by Phil, he spent about three pages talking about this show. Epic doesn't begin to describe it.

After Jerry mentions to Phil that he needs to check out the ABB, they start the show like any other show. First off, there was an early show and a late show. All that exists is "The Other One" and the back half of the "Cryptical Envelopment"  and a couple of warm up tracks. Then the late show begins and the roof of the Fillmore East could barely contain what was about to happen.

2-11-70 Fillmore East NY,NY The epic late show that Phil spent three pages writing about

The opening "Not Fade Away" is a smoking version that shows the band flexing their muscles. After a quick run through a couple of the new songs off Workingman's Dead, the magic would begin to take hold. Or maybe it was the acid...

 Despite some cuts and drop outs, this show is so good I just had to post it. First off, the fireworks start at "Dark Star" when Peter Green from Fleetwood Mac starts the all-star sit-in. Duane Allman joins in on slide during the jam and Arthur Lee from Love jumps up and helps with percussion and Gregg sidles up and sits down at the organ bench. Try to keep count of the players. We are at eleven so far. Just like Arthur Lee, Butch Trucks joins in on the drums. While Mickey is terrorizing his gong, Mick Fleetwood and Danny Kirwan jump on the stage. So at this point coming to the end of "Spanish Jam" going into "Lovelight" there are five guitarists, four drummers, and an organ while Pigpen and Gregg Allman trade vocals on "Lovelight". As a measure of how much musical chaos into coherence is happening, Phil hands his bass over to Berry Oakley just so he can listen. This show, despite all the cuts and splices, is a piece of history. The show isn't even done until daylight and the crowd and the bands stumble out and it's 7:30 in the morning!

Greg Heffelfinger

“I walk outside – it’s daylight, and snow is falling gently on the streets of New York… I grab Bob and Jerry in a group embrace: This is what it’s all about.”-Phil Lesh

--Early Show--
1 //The Other One  > 
2 Cryptical Envelopment  >
3 Dire Wolf 
4 Casey Jones 

--Late Show, begin--
5 Intro and tuning 
6 Not Fade Away 
7 Cumberland Blues  
8 Cold Rain And Snow 
9 High Time 
10 Me And My Uncle 

 (4 tracks) [66:39]
--Late Show, end--
1 Dark Star [16:45] >
2 Spanish Jam [9:50] >
3 Turn On Your Lovelig//ht [34:32] 

--Encore--
4 Uncle John's Band 

 courtesy of archive.org

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