#30: Faith has conquered fear...on my way here!

[Penny]

I would just like to know if anybody's planning a CD launch party in Maryland near DC, or VA near DC, or DC? I'd love to go to one....thanks....

[annabear]

I left work early today as my cold seems to blooming, along with the trees & flowers. *sniffle achoo cough cough sniffle*

Taking some Benedryl, kicking (not literally!) the kitties off the bed & taking a nap!

[cha cha trusty]

eta:

muski - let me know if you need a different format (i.e. not widescreen) for your laptop

Ummmm.....I could use a widescreen format if you have time. I'm using the other one now and it doesn't fill the screen but it's still beeoooooteeeeeful and I thank you for it!!!

Iseeme - there is a limit as to how big will work on that image, since the resolution is not very high and it starts out as a small picture - do you know the pixel dimensions of your monitor screen? and

Penny - there is a CD Release party in Rockville, but I don't have any info on it at this time!

:F_05BL17blowkiss:

[Iseeme]

I have no clue about pixels......but, you know, I'm okay with what I have. I saw on another board where they had made that picture bigger and it gets all blurry. I love this one.....

Saw where OMWH is now #11 on Amazon. WOO HOO.

[pkmiller]

Holy Mother of Gah!!!!!! Pics...Banner....Pics...Banner....Pics! I am incoherant!

So who lives near a KMart? They left Texas! Pretty please and thank you!!!!

I do!

No, seriously, would you like me to try to get one for you?

[cha cha trusty]

can someone help me clue a fellow Canadian in on how to preorder on itunes and any other preorders that are hard for Canadians to do?

:F_05BL17blowkiss:

[Iseeme]

What IS the special offer with the KMart CD? I missed that little tidbit whilst I was slaving away in the quilt shop on Monday and Tuesday.

[ldyjocelyn]

Iseeme, according to this beauty from Clay's MySpace page (which I just wanted to post the link again, because I love all the banners in it), KMart is offering a special poster with purchase.

cha cha, I think a Canadian can pre-order OMWH using Canadian iTunes. They cannot, however, pre-order the special edition of OMWH from WalMart -- they need to have a friend in the states get one for them.

ETA: I also have plenty of KMart's around me -- one 5 minutes from my house. I've got merrieeee covered.

[playbiller]

Well, count me as your K-mart connection. I just about bought out their store last time, so they should have lots of stock again this time.

[cha cha trusty]

Well, count me as your K-mart connection. I just about bought out their store last time, so they should have lots of stock again this time.

We have a KMart nearby - I had a hard time finding the CD there last time tho.. I hope it's different this time around.

[muskifest]

So the KMart 'exclusive' is a poster, not a song, right?

The Walmart exclusive is a bonus track, right?

The iTunes exclusive is a different bonus track, right?

The QVC exclusive is 3 old MOAM songs, WINY and a video, right? But we don't know what the video is, right? It could be old TITN, right? Or it could be a new video, like a live concert video, right? When will we know that, right?

[ldyjocelyn]

Like...I think you're right...but like, we're not totally sure...like, maybe it might be TITN...like, it might not be too.

*g*

[cha cha trusty]

Is anybody thinking it might be a montage like he did on the NAT????

Just thinkin.........

[luckiest1]

can someone help me clue a fellow Canadian in on how to preorder on itunes and any other preorders that are hard for Canadians to do?

Nothing different for iTunes for Canadians, except when you go their store it automatically takes you to the Canadian site. The pre-order works just fine.

[jmh123]

OT, but please indulge me:

California University Gets 'Grateful Dead' Archive

By DON CLARK

April 24, 2008; Page A4 (Wall Street Journal)

Surviving members of the Grateful Dead have decided to give the group's

archives to a university library in Santa Cruz, Calif., which some

Silicon Valley executives hope to help turn into a mecca for scholars

and the band's "Deadhead" fans.

The trove, to be transferred to the University of California at Santa

Cruz, includes photos, artwork, press clippings, posters, letters,

backstage passes and other documents assembled by the band over 30

years, as well as memorabilia sent to the group by fans. It doesn't

include the Dead's huge vault of live recordings, which still spawn new

releases and generate revenue.

Rock artifacts typically are collected by institutions such as the Rock

and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Such collections in a university

setting are unusual. But the Dead, which helped define the San Francisco

psychedelic sound, gathered a large amount of material that reflects the

1960s.

"The Dead's sense of history means that they just have more stuff than

most people," said Roger McNamee, a Silicon Valley investor and musician

who has served as an adviser to the group. UC Santa Cruz could use the

collection "to develop a whole study of American culture using music as

a centerpiece that is really different," he said.

Mr. McNamee and Bill Watkins, chief executive of Seagate Technology and

a longtime Deadhead, are expected to join a committee to oversee the

project, which is likely to require considerable fund-raising, said Tim

Jorstad, general manager and chief financial officer of Grateful Dead

Productions.

The band played as the Grateful Dead from 1965 to 1995, the year that

guitarist Jerry Garcia died. Since then, surviving members have

sometimes reunited, calling themselves the Dead.

Sales of recordings and merchandise are managed by Rhino Records, a unit

of Warner Music Group Corp. Some material from the Dead's archives

already can be viewed on the site dead.net. Mr. Jorstad said that is a

fraction of Dead material now stored in a warehouse.

Band members considered giving the artifacts to Stanford University and

the University of California at Berkeley, Mr. Jorstad said. But they

settled on Santa Cruz, a beach city south of San Francisco.

Rhino needs continued access to the archives for such purposes as

finding material that could be distributed with CDs. UC Santa Cruz was

most "flexible in understanding our contractual needs," Mr. Jorstad

said.

Gotta think of a project so I can go there and do some research in a few years. YAY!!

A Deadhead’s Dream for a Campus Archive

By JESSE McKINLEY

Published: April 24, 2008 (NY Times)

SAN FRANCISCO — It may be the ultimate collection of paraphernalia of a band known for its fondness of paraphernalia, legal and otherwise.

The Grateful Dead, whose songs celebrated personal freedom, American idealism and mind-altering drugs, will donate a cache of their papers, posters and props on Thursday to the University of California, Santa Cruz, which plans to use the musical miscellany as part of a research center to be known as Dead Central.

What exactly is to be donated, of course, is something of a mystery even to band insiders.

“It’s kind of a surprise box to us as well,” said John Perry Barlow, one of the group’s lyricists. “We’ll get to find out what’s in there as well.”

University archivists say the collection was drawn from the band’s various studios and business offices and dates back to the Dead’s founding in 1965. Among the items are rare photographs, press clippings, stage props, vintage posters, backstage passes and set and guest lists for some of the band’s innumerable concerts, which were famed for their lengthy jams and die-hard tape-swapping followers, the Deadheads.

The head of special collections and archives at the university, Christine Bunting, said much of the material to be unveiled Thursday at the Fillmore, the San Francisco rock club, was in fact sent to the band from Deadheads, including band-inspired artwork and personal letters. “And lots of, you know, poems,” Ms. Bunting added.

Unfortunately for fans, the collection includes no new music from the group, which formally disbanded after the death of the guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia in 1995, though some members have continued to play together occasionally. Ms. Bunting said much of the material, which covers about 2,000 square feet, had been in a warehouse at an undisclosed location in Northern California, but would be open to the public in a renovated room at the university’s library.

While the band inspired no end of drug paraphernalia, Ms. Bunting said none was in the collection.

The university, located in a hippie-friendly city 75 miles south of San Francisco, already teaches a popular undergraduate course about the Grateful Dead’s music, and is known as “a hotbed of current Deadhead culture,” said Bob Weir, the group’s rhythm guitarist.

Mr. Weir said the band had decided to donate the memorabilia in part to keep it from getting lost as years went by.

“It seemed to all of us that the stuff really belongs to the community that supported us for all those years,” he said. “And Santa Cruz seemed the coziest possible home for it.”

Regarding the bolded lines, do you think Clay has a warehouse somewhere for gifts? Have to laugh at the poems part. Keep future possibilities in mind when you're writing Clay little love notes.

[Iseeme]

Has anybody tried to get in to Clayversity lately? I just tried and it said I'm forbidden to access the forums through that server. Since I haven't posted there in weeks it's not likely I got banned! I wonder if their server is down or what....

[Cotton]

Has anybody tried to get in to Clayversity lately? I just tried and it said I'm forbidden to access the forums through that server. Since I haven't posted there in weeks it's not likely I got banned! I wonder if their server is down or what....

Everybody is apparently banned right now!

Went to the emergency yahoo site and it is definitely down!

Not just you, Honey!

ETA:

from dancermom

I am trying to get a hold of jpellet...I think she just went to

dinner. I am getting an Apache error now.

[Iseeme]

Thanks Cotton. Boy howdy - if I was going to get banned I would want to go out in style!!!

[Cotton]

Guess I'll go back to reading my Michael Connelly book.

Though I'm not loving it because it's not a Harry Bosch one. pffft!

[cha cha trusty]

I have an itunes question........... I hope someone knows the answer to this!!

I have an m4a (itunes format) file and I right-click on it in the itunes library window and choose "convert to mp3".

It converts.

NOW WHAT?? where is it?? Besides being in the library list with exactly the same name as the m4a file - and btw - how do you tell the difference?

Where is it located on my hard drive??

verra verra much

BTW - check out the cool slide shows I made with photobucket!!!

[annabear]

Very pretty, cha cha! Sorry, I don't know the answer to your mp4/mp3 question - I'd be lost, too!

A friend just sent me this from RHT:

I had some time on my hands:

To the tune of Camelot:

A law was made a distant moon ago here:

A Broadway show does not require a plot.

And there’s no legal limit to the laughter

At Spamalot.

All cameras are forbidden ‘til the stage door

Where the barriers go up (but sometimes not)

The fans all stay in hopes of seeing Clay there

After Spamalot.

Spamalot! Spamalot!

I know it sounds a bit bizarre

But in Spamalot, Spamalot

Clay Aiken is a star

Each night his Robin screams and soils his armor

When the Knights Who Say Ni suddenly appear

In short, he is distraught

But the fans still think he’s hot

When he sings and dances at the same time here

In Spamalot

Spamalot! Spamalot!

I know it gives non-Clay fans pause

But in Spamalot, Spamalot,

They soon break into applause.

He makes his first appearance in a tower

As an expert whose disdain is oh so clear

A 5-ounce bird simply cannot

Carry a one-pound coconut

But his other guard’s a dimwit and gets killed

By Lancelot.

* * * *

Each evening, until concerts in December,

Before you drift to sleep upon your cot

Think back on all the recaps you remember

Of Spamalot.

Ask ev’ry stranger if she’s heard the story

And tell it strong and clear if she has not,

That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory

Clay’s Spamalot.

Spamalot! Spamalot!

Where once we laughed until the curtain went down

And gasped when we saw Clay upon his knees

Don’t let it be forgot

All the tickets that were bought.

For one brief shining moment when Clay starred

In Spamalot.

[Iseeme]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - verra verra niiiiice!!!!!

[luckiest1]

I have an itunes question........... I hope someone knows the answer to this!!

I have an m4a (itunes format) file and I right-click on it in the itunes library window and choose "convert to mp3".

It converts.

NOW WHAT?? where is it?? Besides being in the library list with exactly the same name as the m4a file - and btw - how do you tell the difference?

Where is it located on my hard drive??

I have never tried converting a m4a to mp3 in iTunes (hope it works for you!) but to find any of your files on your hard drive, just right click the song in iTunes and choose "show in Windows Explorer" and it should pop up the folder for you.

[Marilyon98]

BTW - check out the cool slide shows I made with photobucket!!!

Dang!! That sure is mesmerizing!! especially that last little "Clay jumps at me" bit................I need a cigarette..........

[Cotton]

Hey, the Insider poll is "Are you tuning in to see Clay on QVC?

ETA:

Insider poll

Text 55888

Question: Will you tune in to buy a copy?

Lara said, "Clay Aiken is taking a unique approach to selling his new CD . . .

They played a little of The Way video and you could hear him singing

in the background. They gave the QVC info, the name of the new CD and the release date!

Yay!

In the message put:

In

follow with your name, state and comments.