#grateful dead covers

[deadheadland]

Standing On The Moon |Andrea Whitt's Steel Your Face Sunday, feat. Alex Koford

Andrea Whitt’s Steel Your Face Sunday feat. Alex Koford Standing On The Moon The latest in multi-instrumentalist Andrea Whitt’s series of Grateful Dead songs performed on pedal steel. Alex Koford is Andrea Whitt’s special guest for this performance of Standing On The Moon

[silverhalla]

Back at it again with another theory: What if Lucanis’ betrayal wasn’t a betrayal at all?

(obviously, spoilers below the cut)

During The Wigmaker Job, we have some dialogue between Illario and Lucanis about their position within both the Crows and the Dellamorte family. Illario wants Caterina to step down so he can take the coveted First Talon spot. Lucanis reassures him that his time is coming, to which Illario makes a snide comment about whether his cousin would ever go against their grandmother’s wishes. When they continue the conversation after the job, Illario states that Lucanis is the potential heir, that he’s her favorite, and that he’s unlikely to say no to her. Lucanis doesn’t argue, only insists that he doesn’t want to be First Talon, and that he hopes she’ll see reason before that. It’s mentioned again in Eight Little Talons - Caterina favors Lucanis. It’s well-known enough among the Crows that Viago and Teia discuss it in front of her (not on purpose, but she doesn’t deny it). He’s her prodigy through and through.

In the opening scene for the Lucanis quest in Veilguard, Caterina is poised, as you’d expect of the First Talon. She’s certain that the body they buried wasn’t her grandson, that it had been altered with blood magic. She doesn’t pose it as a theory, though: she poses it as a fact. It could, of course, merely be her confidence, but there’s another very unusual aspect to the scene – everyone else discusses how Lucanis was clearly betrayed, that someone must have sold him out in order for the Venatori to capture him. Caterina is the only one in that room who never speaks on it. She doesn’t ask for justice, doesn’t mention vengeance, never acknowledges that her grandson was sold out by someone he trusted – perhaps because he wasn’t. 

What if, when Caterina comes to him with a plan, with an impossible request, he’s still her favorite prodigal grandchild, and he still does whatever she asks? She’s had him tortured before as a child, has tortured and starved and beaten him herself before, because it makes him stronger and more resistant to it in the future. He says in The Wigmaker Job that he used to hate her for it, but now he understands. He justifies it. All Crows justify it, because they have to - if they don’t, then the cruelty wasn’t for survival’s sake, and their suffering meant nothing. Perhaps he doesn’t even question it. When Caterina tells him that she has a job for him, he takes it. 

What if the contract has a caveat? Sure, Calivan must die by his hand by the end of it, a little treat for a job well done, but what if his primary mission is reconnaissance, is discovery? The Venatori are using blood magic to torture and corrupt prisoners. It would behoove the Crows to find out what it entails and how to resist it, before it’s turned back on them. It would have to be someone so deeply, unabashedly loyal to her that when she asked them to infiltrate a Venatori prison, expecting torture at best, their own death at worst, they’d take the job anyway, no questions asked - someone Caterina can trust, certainly, but also someone who has never once said no to her.

And Lucanis has always been a loyal grandson. 

[kyouka-supremacy]

Well.

[the-uncanny-dag]

Bestie Hunter posted about the Grateful Dead's debut album & it's obvious that the band's real passion at the time was graphic design

[the-cricket-chirps]

Yuko Shimizu

Artwork For: Grateful Dead Singles Collection (Let Me Sing Your Blues Away & Here Comes Sunshine)

ca. 2018

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... cover of a magazine ...

Rolling Stone Magazine No 101 February 3 1972

[selfportrait27]

Minstrel featuring Aaron Freeman, a.k.a. Gene Ween

Stella Blue (Grateful Dead)

August 1, 2015

This is the only video of this performance that I know of. It does have a lot of background noise, though Papa’s vocals cut through it surprisingly well. A clearer audio recording is available here: [x]

[salsa-ishida]

you're back!! it's been so long!! I missed you <3 <3

ahhhh I missed you too!! Life has been insistent on grinding me to a paste but we perservere

[baycitystygian]

guys. I'm freaking out I just had an Experience

[fossore]

The Penguins organist is Tim DeBacco, and has been with the Penguins since 2010!

Apparently he was also the PA announcer for the Pirates from 1988 to 2022 as well, and occasionally filled in on the organ for them too

[werewolfclaws]

sometimes i remember the chaser dude who tried his hardest to date me. shudders

[myimaginaryradio]

Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead - 1989

[dailyjimmybuffett]

Cover Friday: Scarlet Begonias

Scarlet Begonias was originally recorded by the Grateful Dead in 1974 and covered by Jimmy Buffett in 2004.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE INDIGENOUS-AMERICANA STYLINGS OF THE DEAD -- A CULT STATE OF MIND.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1280x1648 -- Spotlight on the roots imagery of an American cultural institution -- Cover art to "Grateful Dead Comix" Vol. 1? #3, c. 1991. Published by Kitchen Sink Press. Artwork by Tim Truman.

"Leaving Texas, Fourth day of July, Sun so hot, clouds so low, The eagles filled the sky.

Catch the Detroit Lightning out of Santa Fe, Great Northern out of Cheyenne, From sea to shining sea."

-- "Jack Straw" (1972) by GRATEFUL DEAD

Source: www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/1w1nf0.

[girlghiaccio]

kicking my legs. soon ill have volumes 4-7 of vento aureo :)