Grateful Dead 365

The availability of Holly George-Warren's Grateful Dead 365 has just been announced by publisher Abrams. In 744 pages George-Warren covers five decades of "intimate portraits, candid backstage shots, and colorful performance images." Holly George-Warren was an editor at Rolling Stone from 1993-2001. She co-edited The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, and she received a Grammy nomination for Best Historical Recording in 2001 for co-producing Rhino's 5 box CD set R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Century of Women in Music.

Hip hip for hip hop

Congratulations go out to Cornell University's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections for its new acquisition of a major archive on the history of hip hop and rap music. You can read a lot more about this great gift of Americana music at:
http://communications.library.cornell.edu/com/news/spotlight/Hip-Hop-Collection.cfm

It's only rock and roll but the V&A likes it

Here's another auction high for a rock and roll artifact. London's Victoria and Albert Museum has just purchased John Pasche's tongue and lips original art work used on the Rolling Stone's Sticky Fingers album. Read more about a pop culture logo making it into a big league museum in Sunday's Sept. 2nd, 2008 New York Times article by Julie Bloom. (Or if you subscribe online to the Times here's the reference:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/arts/music/02arts-VICTORIAANDA_BRF.html

Of Lucifer's tail and Fender stratocasters

Yes, Jimi's guitar just went for 280,000 (pounds sterling) at auction. Here's a fun article on it and more "Pop Memorabilla Are The Holy Relics Of Our Time" by Craig Brown:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/06/do0606.xml

McNamee talks about bands and business

Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners (and of the band Moonalice) spent three years advising the Grateful Dead on their business. Avram Davis interviews him in the August 1st issue of Mergers and Acquisitions Journal. McNamee explains how music shapes his work in “Inspired: It’s no secret Elevation Partners’ Roger McNamee is into his music…” He talks about the similarities between launching a band and building a company.

Summer exhibit of Altman photos

Robert Altman, chief photographer of Rolling Stone during the 1960s has a retrospective of his work now showing at London’s Idea Generation Gallery. Altman is known for his photos of Dead concerts, antiwar demonstrations, and writers, musicians, and cultural figures of the time such as Ken Kesey, Carlos Santana, and Timothy Leary --memorable events and iconic figures from an important historic American period.

Musicophilia

Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Knopf, 2007) “investigates the power of music to move us, to heal and to haunt us.” As Emma Williams notes in her review of this work in The Lancet (vol.371, March 22-28, 2008) Sacks leads the reader through summer camps, concert halls, hospital wards, and a Grateful Dead concert in search of illumination. With its “meditations on self and will, memory and creativity, illness and healing” he provides insight on what it means to be human.