Grateful Dead Get Kennedy Center Honors

What, they couldn't find a band pic that included Jerry?

Not to mention Pig.

Why wasn't John Mayer included?

Matt Kelly as Master of Ceremony.

Confirmed. 

Online high fives all around.

How many seats will be between Phil/Jill and the Drummers?

>>> Why wasn't John Mayer included? <<<
 

Could it be because he was never in Grateful Dead?

You must have missed the sarcasm in my comment Judit.

Matt Kelly as Master of Ceremony
 

let's hope that the drummers leave their bag of drum sticks at home. 

> Why wasn't John Mayer included?

It recently came out that he's not a fan of licorice.

Broadcast happens later this month.

Check out Bobby's boots! 

> Broadcast happens later this month.

Sunday, December 22nd from 8:30–11:00 PM ET/PT on CBS.

> Check out Bobby's boots! 

They're no match for Coppola's socks.

“We’re sort of like the town whore that’s finally become an institution. We’re finally becoming respectable.”

It would have been nice to have seen Donna and Bonnie sitting next to each other, IMHO

How is Donna? I feel like we haven't seen or heard from her in a while 

Trixie and Grahame representing Jerry and Phil

I'm glad that the kids are there but it should have been Phil

My wife was just telling me our snowbird neighbor called her yesterday and told her about her daughter taking her to the Kennedy Center Honors show. She didn't say who she seen, just that she went to the show. She is due back soon, I will have to ask her about it. 

jfc is that bloody blinken on the left? 

^ Unconfirmed rumors that John Mayer was spotted trying to sneak in, claiming that no one had told him he wasn't in the Grateful Dead.

>GRATEFUL DEAD (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir):
Video remarks by Nancy Pelosi, John Mayer, Norah Jones, Ben and Jerry
Remarks by David Letterman
Remarks by Miles Teller
Remarks by Chloe Sevigny
Performance by Dave Matthews, Maggie Rogers, Derek Trucks, Leon Bridges, Sturgill Simpson, Don Was, and Susan Tedeschi (including “Friend of the Devil,” “Ripple,” “Sugaree,” and “Not Fade Away”)

Who's who in LLOLLO's 10:57 AM pic, but they seem to have confused Trixie and Grahame with David Jammy, and Liz Kelly (the show's producers)?

Front row from left: Evan Ryan, Arturo Sandoval, Francis Ford Coppola, Bonnie Raitt, Bobby Weir, Mickey Hart, Deborah F. Rutter

Second row from left: Secretary of State Antony Blinken, David M. Rubenstein, Michelle Ebanks, Kamilah Forbes, Jonelle Procope, Billy Kreutzmann David Jammy, and Liz Kelly pose

https://www.wvnews.com/newsfeed/us/kennedy-center-honors/image_b4786beb-...

Why the fuck is dave mathews there?  

Introduction by Biden. Kinda surreal, actually.

https://youtu.be/soOs-I2xLC0?si=XnBZUn4cGe8px3Cm

saw snipets of the performances on TT and it was just bloody awful

>>>Why the fuck is dave mathews there<<<

Because it's a made-for-TV event.

Here's the entire award ceremony (not the show); 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w950hCElC34

Actually sounds like something Chat GPT would write. The speech writers are too busy sending out resumes. 

Joe is the Walrus 

Biden straight up embarrassing. He really shouldn't be speaking in public anymore. I had to turn off the CNN live broadcast after he referred to Grahame as Phil Lesh's grandson.

Doted  or doting is the word I believe he was speaking.  You need to translate that man sometimes. Y'know like grandson actually means son...

> The first reference to the Doo-Dah Man I know of is from Stephen Foster's Camptown Races

Camptown Races contains plenty of doo-dah, but no Doo-Dah Man. The first stanza establishes that doo-dah is a song the Camptown Ladies sing, the setting is a racetrack, and the style is African-American dialect. The speaker's clearly a gambler, but a short bus riding village idiot? I see no evidence of that.

De Camptown ladies sing dis song, Doo-dah! doo-dah!
De Camptown race-track five miles long, Oh, doo-dah day!
I come down dah wid my hat caved in, Doo-dah! doo-dah!
I go back home wid a pocket full of tin, Oh, doo-dah day!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2W1lK7P-I&pp=ygUeYmxhemluZyBzYWRkbGVzIGN...

Thanks, Bss

>The question of ‘Who is The Doo-Dah Man?’ is so prevalent that there’s a whole entry in Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheadsabout the concept. As quoted in the book (and later in the band’s official podcast, The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast), Hunter said that the origins of the character came from “that song ‘Camptown Races’ that goes ‘doo-dah, doo-dah’. I wasn’t thinking about anybody in particular – just that gambler on his way home from the game with a pocket full of tin.”

Shakedown

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1238178973944079

Thanks for the reminder. I love that one of my sisters sent a reminder focused on Bonnie Raitt.

Music saves lives.

Tonight, 8pm, CBS, can't wait! 

Not Fade Away was a nice touch (to end the show if you didn't see it)

Oh shit, you guys on West Coast haven't seen it yet --- scratch that

So who the hell is Miles Teller and why was he there in his Sears Dead shirt?

As nice as it was to see our boys and our world get the recognition they have ALWAYS deserved.......

What a ridiculous, fake, made-for-TV shit show that was.

Good lord.

I'll take a live Dead $ Co. show over that network, corporate, tuxedo foolishness every day and twice on Sundays.

Because at least that's real.

Ultimately, I guess it all comes down to.....................

LONG LIVE THE GRATEFUL DEAD!!!!!!!!

But very nice to see Graham, Chementi and Rick in the band

I don't know who he is, either, Mike.

I liked the Dead section. As noted on Facebook by an old Zoner, no mention of any lyricist other than Hunter.  There were other omissions, but I still liked it.
I liked having Grahame and Trixie there.
They did make me cry, not a hard thing to do, but I was touched by parts of the tribute.

Thanks for that perspective Judit. The Ripple with the Jerry video was super sweet.

At the end of the day it was a CBS (not CBD) show and I'm happy to have celebrated the fellas.

Having said that - no Bob songs with Bob in attendance? Truckin?

No Bob songs was odd.
I didn't like the whole GD section; whoever the woman (Maggie someone?) was who sang early in the segment caused me to leave the room. That was too bad.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I cried.

But then I'm an easy mark for that business.

>>>So who the hell is Miles Teller<<<

He's a Hollywood actor, at least for me best known from Top Gun 2 (IMO much better than the original).

It could well be that he's a next-generation dead head, as so, so many are (good for them) but he was almost certainly there because he's a Hollywood actor.

"Made for TV".

I hate to be that person who says "what Jerry would have done", but I'm pretty confident that if the Grate Gar were still in town he would have smirked at this deal, stayed in the Bay Area and had a toke.

And as always,

Long live the Grateful Dead!

Letterman's bit was pretty good, and the NFA outro had some juice to it. Lots of cringe on the way there though.

The Garcia Ripple video was sweet. At the end of the day, we got to see an honor to our fellas on CBS. Who would imagine.

>>> I didn't like the whole GD section; <<<

When I wrote that, I meant I didn't like it in its entirety, but I did like a lot of it.

I couldn't bear to watch the program due to fear of cringe.... but I peeked at a few segments on Insta, which confirmed my suspicions.

Long live the Grateful Dead!

The Gratefuls looked pretty catatonic.

Thought they'd be joking amongst themselves about the ridiculous goings--on.

But no, just the great stone(d) face.

Odd that there was zero camaraderie on display between the surviving three. Didn't even see many smiles up in their box (except for Billy and Trixie when Jerry video was up there). Bob looked distant whenever the camera was on him. (Grahame was the only one who looked like he was enjoying himself.) All the speeches seemed written by AI chatbots.

I enjoyed the Bonnie Raitt tribute.

MAGA was probably having a meltdown (not that they watched it) with a woman, an immigrant, a black institution, a "Hollywood" liberal, and hippies being celebrated. And so much Pelosi. Could be the last of these awards for a while.

> Didn't even see many smiles up in their box

There was one shot that showed Natascha and Jill (I think it was) dancing behind Billy and Bob late in the show. They looked pretty happy.

They were probably stoned.

I would hope so. I know I was.

confirmed Grateful Dead drugs at Kennedy Center:

Clogged vape pen > Dr Bronner's Toenail Fungus Cream and Hairgel > Gummie with Ginkgo Biloba extract

Poor Bonnie Raitt. Stuck between Coppola's and Weir's manspreads...

I'm glad they got honored by the DC squares, lol...   think they should have had Truckin' or another Bobby tune in the background at some point (perhaps when Dave Letterman left that smoke filled bus).  Donna should have been there, and a picture of Pig Pen would have been nice!   

What about TC? He was on an album cover.

And Hornsby was there longer than TC.

Although not much.

Pix of all deceased members?

brief comments on the GD by David Letterman at the Kennedy Center Honors...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSzuHh3010s

In a parallel universe Sunday night,  all Kennedy Center attendees drank a shot of Kool Aid upon entrance, and after two hours had passed,  Live Dead was played in its entirety with dancing encouraged in order to truly honor the Grateful Dead  :)

That was horrible. 

What was shown on TV was a version of the award ceremony edited down from 5 hours to 3, shared by all of the award winners. ~20 minutes to cover ~60 GD years. I would have done it \differently, but I was happy GD was honored and that it was filmed for commercial TV so I could see it. We all know who meant so much to us, and naming a cast of characters would only have been a list.

Actually, I thought it was as good as you could expect from commercial tv.  I also enjoyed the Raitt and Coppola portions of the show.  Thanks to the Zone for keeping my expectations down so that I could be slightly pleasantly surprised.

I'm with Mark on this. I didn't watch it until Monday night and enjoyed it. I do agree the speeches were generally weak sauce, but the rest of it was good for network TV.

I saw the Dylan movie (A Complete Unknown) yesterday and enjoyed that too. Light and entertaining.......with a great soundtrack.

To have him post this on Christmas Eve, after the broadcast, is pretty damn cool....

That one's a fake I believe 

Yes indeed, good call Fish.

Sorry for the "actual" Fake News folks.

Haha no worries. We all know he was thinking it anyway 

in other news my mother got me a fun mug for Christmas...

thanks mom

> That one's a fake I believe 

It had me fooled until I checked his Twitter feed.

It was all so cleansed for TV that you would barely know their entire ethos was built on giving a middle finger to most of the people in that room. It was a wasted opportunity to speak some truth to power. At the very least this should have been the songs they played.

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