All things Grateful Dead.

[sharon_loves_fats]

Just saw that upcoming on April 19th, several hundred movie theaters around the country will be simultaneously screening the Grateful Dead's July 19th, 1989 show from Alpine Valley in it's entirety.

Thanks for the heads up, Matthew. Gonna try to catch this.

[goodabouthood]

Thanks for the heads up, Matthew. Gonna try to catch this.

as well I.

[NOLA]

Yes, thanks for the head's up - we may attend as well.

[McGregor]

The "Deal" to close the first set from that 7/19/89 show is soooo money. Watching Jerry/Brent knock it out of the park with smiles on their faces and not all lit up is a joy!

[Jim]

Here's a knock-out performance from that run — prolly the same show — but this is the Boys on. The best Not Fade Away ever caught on film.

http://www.rockpeaks.com/video/g/Gra.../Not-Fade-Away

So good I had to review the Six Men in a Pocket.

This is from the "Downhill From Here" dvd. The dvd also has a pretty nice "China Cat/I Know You Rider" to open the second set. And, thankfully, the dvd doesn't have any cheesy graphics which almost ruin some of the other dvd's that have been released.

[bennyboy]

Bob Weir talks about TRI studio, the new deal with yahoo etc on CNN money: http://www.cnbc.com/id/47021592

[groovy1967]

It's a smart deal for the studio, and I'm glad they realize that Pay-Per-View isn't really going to work right now.

But man, Bob Weir's acid-drenched ramblings, filled with straining pauses so large you could run a Mack truck through them, must be every reporter's worst nightmare.

[Jim]

It's a smart deal for the studio, and I'm glad they realize that Pay-Per-View isn't really going to work right now.

But man, Bob Weir's acid-drenched ramblings, filled with straining pauses so large you could run a Mack truck through them, must be every reporter's worst nightmare.

Actually, I've read that Bob didn't indulge in acid for very long. I think he's just naturally spacey.

[bennyboy]

It's a smart deal for the studio, and I'm glad they realize that Pay-Per-View isn't really going to work right now.

But man, Bob Weir's acid-drenched ramblings, filled with straining pauses so large you could run a Mack truck through them, must be every reporter's worst nightmare.

groovy, Bob Weir has long been a stutterer and he has always spoken in measure. ALWAYS.

[Jim]

groovy, Bob Weir has long been a stutterer and he has always spoken in measure. ALWAYS.

He's also dyslexic.

[bennyboy]

Grateful Dead: "Long strange Trip" opens at the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame... http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?in...4707&int_sec=2

[groovy1967]

groovy, Bob Weir has long been a stutterer and he has always spoken in measure. ALWAYS.

I didn't think anything I saw in that video sounded like stuttering.

I thought he was very funny, but his long, drawn-out answers must drive reporters from the straight world nuts.

[Jim]

groovy, Bob Weir has long been a stutterer and he has always spoken in measure. ALWAYS.

I've never heard or read anywhere that Weir had a stutter problem. He's always spoken in a long drawn out measure.

[Lit]

I heard a long time ago that Weir once auditioned for a soap opera. Anyone else ever hear that?

I've never been a huge Bobby fan, so I was all-too inclined to believe it and add it to the things I didn't like about him.

[Runaround Al]

From a media industry newsletter today:



By Carl Marcucci on Apr, 13 2012

Yahoo!Bob Weir’s Tri Studios (TRI: Tamalpais Research Institute) announced on CNBC a deal with Yahoo that could help bring high quality music and videos into homes around the world and change the music streaming business model.

TRI Studios, a state-of-the-art music studio Weir built near San Francisco, entered into a third-party revenue-sharing deal with Yahoo’s music website, providing it with HD-quality streaming content. Yahoo Music, previously dubbed Yahoo Broadcast after the deal with Marc Cuban, has 34 million viewers monthly.

Under the TRI/Yahoo deal, TRI will split pay-per-view online concert revenue with Yahoo. The CNBC story said Weir said he sees the advertising linked to the live music as a move away from traditional corporate sponsorship of performances and toward “patronage for rock and roll” the way companies underwrite classical music.

“Bobby and TRI Studios are interested in bringing the highest-quality sound to the audience when they want and where they want on it and on any device they want it on, and we’re enabling them to interact,” TRI President and CEO Chris McCutcheon said.

TRI online shows, which so far have featured the likes of Weir, Sammy Hagar and Carlos Santana, allow viewers to watch on their home theater systems and interact using Facebook and Twitter.

Weir, former rhythm guitarist with the Grateful Dead now touring with Furthur, built TRI-Studios with state-of-the-art cameras and sound equipment, allowing, for example, artists to program the type of concert hall they want the room to sound like, such as a stadium or a cathedral. One key was providing sufficient data connections to stream massive amounts of high-quality audio and video. The price tag for the studio came in around $5 million.

From the TRI website: “Tamalpais Research Institute is the vision of Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead. Weir and his team have built a state-of-the-art performance studio for broadcasting live HD video and audio streams directly to the Internet.

TRI is a virtual venue where fans can gather and enjoy the performances in the comfort of their own homes, or anywhere they have Internet access.

The main performance space at TRI houses a Meyer Sound Constellation System – a revolutionary acoustic modeling technology which has the ability to dramatically change the acoustical properties of the room. With the touch of a button, an artist can instantly change the sonic environment from that of a small intimate club to sounding like a theater, an arena or even a cathedral.

Each show will be directed, filmed, and mixed live in real time. Every care will be taken to provide the highest possible upstream bandwidth to transmit high quality HD video and audio to the end user. The live stream will be accessible by and tailored to a variety of viewing equipment such as mobile devices, streaming players, game consoles, computers, Internet ready HDTV’s as well as home theaters.”

See the full CNBC story here.

RBR-TVBR observation: We’re pretty sure Weir has some high quality Grateful Dead Shows that he could put up on the menu to stream. That would be a big draw—hearing them and seeing them in high quality, vs. a bootleg video or youtube clip.