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Movie About A Young Jerry In The Works

Jay — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:51:30 +0000

musicradar.com (yeah, me neither) is reporting that a few guys have bought the rights to make a movie about the young Jerry Garcia before the Grateful Dead. No word on timelines and they have no screenwriter attached to the project but I’d be most interested in seeing who will play Garcia. My guess is that this won’t have a real budget for anyone famous but you never know, maybe some rich actor/deadhead will do it as a labor of love.

What do you think? Is a young Jerry Garcia an interesting enough character to make a movie about? I mean, we all love Jerry but please give some high-tension, in-fighting, drug-crazed, mid-70′s Grateful Dead action on the big screen! I hear that’s in the works too and I believe the band is actually involved with that one.

Mickey writing score for new Mirage Vegas Volcano

Jay — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:51:30 +0000

When you reach a certain point in your career, they ask you to do cool stuff like write the score to a volcano eruption; even if that volcano erupts once an hour, every hour, on the Vegas Strip. Such is the life for Mickey Hart and his brother-in-percussion, Zakir Hussain.

The Mirage is currently overhauling their world-famous volcano and part of the upgrades will include a new score written exclusively for the Mirage by Mickey and Zakir. Expect to see the upgrades and new score later this year.

I’m not really sure how much score work Mickey has done, last i recall him and Billy did the Apocolypse Now soundtrack under their Rhythm Devils moniker and the Dead did the theme for one of the numerous Twilight Zone incarnations.

Bertha Video from Egypt 1978

Jay — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:30:55 +0000

In preparation for the release of “Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978″ DVD of the Dead’s performance at the Great Pyramid in Egypt, dead.net is hosting a great video of “Bertha” from the September 16th show.

The DVD goes on sale September 30 and features 13 songs. They have CDs and shirts and whatnot as package deals. More info is on dead.net.

I have been quite impressed with the packaging that Rhino has done with the Dead releases for the last few years and they really seem to have outdone themselves with this one. Looks pretty slick.