Cool Grateful Dead links
Only the very tip of the iceberg – but a great tip, nonetheless!

The official home page of the Grateful Dead: www.dead.net
Nowadays it's a shadow of it's former self, but new features may turn up eventually. It should still be possible to find links to Chat forums (DeadNetCentral), Online-shop, CD reviews, abd the band members’ own home pages. David Lemieux' new "Tapers' Section" is great.

DeadBase Home:
www.deadbase.com
DeadBase is, of course, the invaluable book that helps us keep track of which songs were played at which show, where and how. The publishers have put together a great interactive site with many fine features, including a section of searcheable setlists.

The Bear:
www.thebear.org
Owsley Stanley is Bear, LSD-manufacturer, soundman, record producer, graphics designer, and much, much more. Learn more about this living legend at his own website.

GD Lyric and Song Finder: www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/intro.htm
Didn’t catch the mumbled lyrics? Can’t recall which song has the line ’Wake of the flood’ in it? How many cover songs were sung by Pigpen? Find the answer to these questions and more at the nifty Song Finder site. Interesting fact: Alex Allan, the deadhead who developed this site, is IT-advisor to Tony Blair and former British High Commisioner in Australia!

Grateful Dead Songlists:
www.rukind.com
This is the place to find chords and guitar tab notations to all original songs by the Grateful Dead, the Jerry Garcia Band and other spin-off bands. Used to have all the cover songs too, but they were removed at some point to avoid copyright problems.

Blair Jackson:
www.blairjackson.com
Blair Jackson is the author of several books about Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead and co-producer of 'So Many Roads'. His site contains a large volume of text snippets that were left out of his great book "Jerry Garcia: An American Life". Also his personal reviews and ranking of Grateful Dead albums and videos.

The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, by David Dodd: arts.ucsc.edu/GDead/AGDL/
Another great site of a somewhat academic nature. David Dodd is a professor of English litterature at UCSC, and the core of his site is a thorough analysis of metaphors and textual references in (eventually) all songs written and recorded by the Grateful Dead. There is also a fascinating collection of essays (some more obtuse than others), about specific songs and various aspects of GD imagery.

Eurodead:

http://www.karma.dk and http://www.hippieshop.dk
TømrerClaus, Danish guitar player in numerous sixties' bands, sells (mainly) psychedelic and other sixties' music on his site. Also hippie-type clothing, beads, smoking paraphernalia, etc. etc.

http://eurodead.net/pages/
A large site of links, FAQs etc. with focus on the European deadhead scene.

http://www.dead-heads.com
Another European site, based i Schwitzerland.

The background story
about the beatnik and hippie cultures in and around San Francisco in the fifties and sixties, which were the breeding ground for The Grateful Dead and countless other bands. A very good resume - there is even an English version if you can find it - the webmaster is a bit of a jester!