Homebrew Grateful Dead karaoke?

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How many folks here know who the grateful dead are/was (ok well jerry's daughter is now singing, but it's not jerry) I went to plenty of shows between the time I was 16-25

Grateful Dead was a hippy/folk band born out of the 60's here in California. One of thier greatest contributions to thier fans was "Tapers"

While many other artists have roving hit squads of security looking to beat the crud out of anyone with a tape deck, the Dead used allow and encourage thier fans to tape the shows, provided they shared the tapes with other fans not for profit. Up came the internet age, and these public domain tapes made their way there. Just google "Grateful Dead Taper" and you'll see plenty of results pop up.

I'm curious if there would be any legal implications for releasing some dead karaoke based on these tapes. Since the Dead graced these tapes with "Public Domain" status, using a DAW one could strip or quiet Jerry Garcia's singing, add some CDG graphics, and release them for free on the net. Unless i'm missing something here... I think i'm right.

Info on Dead blessed public domain tapes and the band itself can be found below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead#Tapers
 
jokerswild said:
Would be interesting but I can't remember anyone ever singing a Greatfull Dead tune at any shows I've hosted or been too, ever.
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I've had people do "Friend Of The Devil" and "Hell In A Bucket". Don't have "Ripple", but that's the one the Dead fans would sing. Or "Franklin's Tower".

Not sure about the legality of the tapers, but I bet the public performance rather than for private use will find a way to bite you. Interesting question, though. :sqconfused:

Rick H
 
I just joined the dead.net forums, and i'm waiting for the admin to OK my account so I can start posting. On dead.net I can actually ask the band...

After all the disgusting BS i've seen with a few of the karaoke MFGR's over the last year, I feel it's time for civil discourse. I'm going to explain our case to the folks over at dead.net, and see if we can do this with thier blessings.

Funny cause me and JW were talkin about this in chat the other day. One of the other chatters subscibes to the notion that piracy is a form of protest.

In any civil discourse though, if you're going to win you have to play by the rules I.E. Civil. This was preached time and again by Ghandi and MLK.
 
I'm not advocating it in this case, but remember, even civil disobedience meant breaking laws.

"Separate but equal" was the law of the land in 1930's-1960's United States.

Gathering salt from the sea in India was only legal if you had a license from the British Government, which they weren't about to grant any to an Indian-owned company.

In both cases, people organized, protested and broke laws in order to get laws they viewed as unfair changed (and, in India's case, eventually gain independence from the British Empire). Not being argumentative, just saying.... :)

That being said, let me know the answer from the Grateful Dead site. I'm curious to see their answer.
 
toqer said:
In any civil discourse though, if you're going to win you have to play by the rules I.E. Civil. This was preached time and again by Ghandi and MLK.
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I don't think ghandi and MLK advocating playing by the rules.....what they advocated was challening laws and rules and getting the rules changed by NON VIOLENT protest to laws and practices that they thought were unfair and racist. The idea was by getting arrested over and over..many times violently...and by not fighting back...people would see the unfairness and just plain wrongness in laws that applied to people of a certain race. As MLK said, "In a country where a color of a person's skin can make it illegal to go to certain places, no one of any race can be truly free."

Right On MLK, Ghandi, and Jerry Garcia!
 
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