UCSC to get Grateful Dead Archives

[thatguy]

UCSC to get Grateful Dead archives
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | 2:53 PM
AP

SAN FRANCISCO -- The surviving members of the Grateful Dead are turning over the rock band's archives to the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Dennis McNally, a spokesman for ex-Dead guitarist Bob Weir, says the Weir and bassist Phil Lesh are going to announce a partnership with the university Thursday. The announcement will take place at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, where the Grateful Dead played many of its legendary shows.

McNally says the archive will hold the band's correspondence and other memorabilia, but not its recordings.

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April 23, 2008

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Grateful Dead to announce special partnership with UC Santa Cruz at Thursday press conference set for San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium


PRESS CONFERENCE—APRIL 24, 2008 11 a.m.

Who: Grateful Dead bandmembers:
-Bob Weir
-Mickey Hart

UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal
plus assorted guests

Where: Fillmore Auditorium (Poster Room)
(1805 Geary Boulevard, SF--Parking available in the Kabuki Cinema lot at the intersection of Geary and Fillmore)

--Can't attend? Watch the press conference streamed live at Dead.net--courtesy of iclips.net.

and more:
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[Drunk Monk]

We went to the last SC Shakespeare performance early to check this out. It's really impressive. The current display is on GD books. I consider myself a literate deadhead having read all of the autobiographies ('cept Billy's cuz it's new), most of the biographies and histories and a lot of the associated works and references. It was only about a 1/4 of what was on display at the Archive. It's really impressive as it covers so many bases. For deadheads, its a very loving tribute that honors the band in a scholarly way, a beautiful altar. Non-deadheads might just get an inkling of what it was all about - just the very notion that the Dead has such an archive in an accredited university like this is curiouser and curiouser.

They rotate the displays every year. The next one is going to be photos and it flips in January or February. I'm planning to make the opening of this now.