From bs810@cleveland.Freenet.Edu Wed Mar 30 07:36:20 PST 1994 From: bs810@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (E. Nay) Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead Subject: rec.music.gdead FAQ, pt. 2 of 2 Date: 30 Mar 1994 06:21:26 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 758 Message-ID: <2nb5p6$lbs@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Reply-To: bs810@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (E. Nay) NNTP-Posting-Host: kanga.ins.cwru.edu Grateful Dead Frequently Asked Questions, pt.2 [Last update: March 29, 1994] [Updates denoted by * in TOC, briefly described below TOC.] *********************************************************************** Disclaimer: The information found in this document is for informational purposes only, and should only be distributed freely and in it's entirety. Nothing in this document is officially sanctioned by or affiliated with the Grateful Dead, GDP, GDM, etc. Their *is* some info on the GDH, GDTS, DeadBase etc., but it's all information that is freely available. Please do not use or apply this information for commercial gain, political repression, drug enforcement, or other unkind schemes. Thank ye. *********************************************************************** ***Please note that this FAQ is split into two sections This article includes answers to: 13) What does BIODTL mean (and other abbreviations or FQA's)? 14) Is there a GD discography? *15) What radio stations carry the Grateful Dead Hour, and when? 16) Is there an archive of stuff from the net? 17) Whatever happened to Owsley? 18) What are mailing lists, and how do I subscribe to them? *19) Upcoming confirmed tour dates. 20) Is it OK to post rumors? 21) What are some topics that have caused "flame wars" in the past? 22) What should I do if I see a post from Jerry or Bob or Phil, etc.? 23) What is Stak-O-Dead and where can I get one? 24) How can I spot a fake ticket? 25) Where can I find the Dancin' Bear ScreenSaver? 26) When's Mail Order for New Year's? 27) Where can I find Useless DeadStats? *28) Has Unbroken Chain ever been performed Live? *29) Who are the Grateful Dead? *30) What is the Wheel? If you're looking for the answer to, say, question 14, and want to skip everything else, you can search ahead for the regular expression "^14)". If you have suggestions or corrections for any of these answers, please send them to bs810@cleveland.freenet.edu * Updates: 15) Updated GDH list. 19) Updated shows. 28) Added. 29) Added. 30) Added. 13) What does BIODTL mean (and other common abbreviations or FQA's)? ------------------------------------------------------- Here are a few: AKA: Also Known As (sometimes written "a/k/a") AWBYGN: And We Bid You Good Night BCT: Berkeley Community Theatre BG: Bill Graham Boston Garden BGP: Bill Graham Presents BIODTL: Beat It On Down The Line BTW: Black Throated Wind By The Way DDN: Dupree's Diamond News FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions FOAF: Friend Of A Friend FOTD: Friend of the Devil FQA: Frequently Questioned Acronyms FTR: For The Record FTP: File Transfer Protocol FWIW: For What It's Worth FYI: For Your Information GD: Grateful Dead (of course;-) GDH: Grateful Dead Hour GDM: Grateful Dead Merchandising GDTRFB: Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad GDTS: Grateful Dead Ticket Sales IJWTS: I Just Want To Say IKYR: I Know You Rider ITALTLITATTC: It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry IMHO: In My H{umble, onest} Opinion IMNSHM: In My Not So Humble Opinion IMO: In My Opinion JAPD: Just Another Picky Deadhead JBG: Johnny B. Goode JGAB: Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band JGB: Jerry Garcia Band LDR: Long Distance Relationship LJBF: Let's Just Be Friends LLR: Looks Like Rain LSD: LySergic acid Diethylamide LTGTR: Let The Good Times Roll MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface MO: Mail Order MSG: Madison Square Garden MonoSodium Glutamate MSWS: Man Smart, Woman Smarter NFA: Not Fade Away NSB: New Speedway Boogie NYE: New Year's Eve ODC: Obligatory Dead Content OFTV: One From The Vault OMSN: One More Saturday Night OTOH: On The Other Hand PITB: Playing In The Band PPPS: Peace RSVP: Repondez, S'il Vous Plait (French for "please reply") SASE: Self Addressed Stamped Envelope SIOMWTMBA: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again SO: Significant Other SOTM: Standing On The Moon SPAC: Saratoga Performing Arts Center SSAE: Stamped, Self-Addressed Envelope SYF: Steal Your Face, Space Your Face TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TLEO: They Love Each Other TOC: Table of Contents :) TWLWMYD: That's What Love Will Make Ya Do TWYDTTYD: The Way Ya Do The Things Ya Do UJB: Uncle John's Band VLDR: Very Long Distance Relationship VOTC: Victim Or The Crime WALSTIB: What A Long Strange Trip It's Been WELL: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link WRT: With Regard To (sometimes written "w/r/t") YATG: Yet Another Ticket Grovel 14) Is there a GD discography? -------------------------- Yes. Compiled by Ihor W. Slabicky (iws@ssmic.ssd.ray.com), it is an attempt to summarize the Grateful Dead's history on vinyl, film, and paper. It currently contains information on at least 282 albums, 95 singles, 87 movies/tv shows/videos/ads, 44 books, and 12 song books where the band and/or members of the band appear. It should be available through the gdead archive. Ihor posts updated versions of the discography to rec.music.gdead/dead-flames once or twice a year. 15) What radio stations carry the Grateful Dead Hour, and when? ----------------------------------------------------------- GRATEFUL DEAD HOUR National broadcast schedule as of March 9, 1994 KBRW-FM Barrow AK Friday 10pm KYUK-AM 580 Bethel AK KRBD-FM 105.9 Ketchikan AK Saturday 9pm WQPR-FM 88.7 Muscle Shoals AL Friday 11pm - NEW TIME WUAL-FM 91.5 Tuscaloosa/Bham AL Friday 11pm - NEW TIME KZON-FM 101.5 Phoenix AZ Monday 11pm KHSU-FM 90.5 Arcata CA Tuesday 10pm KPFA-FM 94.1 Berkeley CA Wednesday 8pm KFCF-FM 88.1 Fresno CA Wednesday 8pm KLSX-FM 97.1 Los Angeles CA Sunday midnight KNSQ-FM 88.1 Mt. Shasta CA Saturday 8pm KAZU-FM 90.3 Pacific Grove CA Saturday 6pm - NEW DAY/TIME KNCA-FM 89.7 Redding CA Saturday 8pm KRFD-FM 99.9 Sacramento CA Sunday 6pm KCLX-FM 102.9 San Diego CA Sunday 11pm KRQR-FM 97.3 San Francisco CA Sunday 10:30pm - NEW DAY/TIME KGNU-FM 88.5 Boulder CO Saturday 8pm KDNK-FM 90.5 Carbondale CO Monday 10pm KSUT-FM 91.3 Ignacio CO Saturday 11pm WHCN-FM 105.9 Hartford CT Saturday 11pm WRUF-FM 103.7 Gainesville FL Sunday 10pm - STARTING 3/6 WJCT-FM 89.9 Jacksonville FL Friday 11pm WZTA-FM 94.9 Miami FL Sunday 11pm KFMG-FM 103.3 Des Moines IA KRUI-FM 89.7 Iowa City IA Sunday 4:30pm KBSU-FM 90.3 Boise ID Friday 11pm KUOI-FM 89.3 Moscow ID Thursday 9pm - NEW TIME WEFT-FM 90.1 Champaign IL Friday 7pm WXRT-FM 93.1 Chicago IL Sunday 9pm WFHB-FM 91.3 Bloomington IN Saturday 7pm WIIZ-FM 98.7 Lafayette IN Sunday 9pm KMKF-FM 101.5 Manhattan KS Sunday 11pm WKHS-FM 90.5 Baltimore MD Saturday 7pm WWDX-FM 92.1 East Lansing MI Monday 11pm KUMD-FM 103.3 Duluth MN Saturday 4pm KTCZ-FM 97.1 Minneapolis MN Sunday 10pm KOPN-FM 89.5 Columbia MO Friday 9pm KKFI-FM 90.1 Kansas City MO Friday 10pm KMNR-FM 89.7 Rolla MO Saturday midnight KZUM-FM 89.3 Lincoln NE Wednesday 10pm KZRR-FM 94.1 Albuquerque NM Wednesday 9pm KTHX-FM 101.7 Reno NV Sunday 8pm WQBK-FM 103.9 Albany NY Tuesday 10pm WGR-FM 96.9 Buffalo NY Sunday midnight WNEW-FM 102.7 New York NY Monday midnight WMAX-FM 106.7 Rochester NY Sunday 10pm WRPI-FM 91.5 Troy NY Thursday 11pm - NEW TIME WWCD-FM 101.1 Columbus OH Wednesday 11pm - NEW DAY/TIME KMUN-FM 91.9 Astoria OR Thursday 3:30pm KSBA-FM 88.5 Coos Bay OR Saturday 8pm KPUR-FM 94.5 Forest Grove OR Friday noon KSKF-FM 90.9 Klamath Falls OR Saturday 8pm KSMF-FM 89.1 Medford OR Saturday 8pm WXPN-FM 88.5 Philadelphia PA Saturday 7pm WDUQ-FM 90.5 Pittsburgh PA Sunday 8pm WQSU-FM 88.9 Selinsgrove PA Saturday 7pm KGSR-FM 107.1 Austin TX Saturday midnight KZFX-FM 107.5 Houston TX Thursday 11pm KLZX-FM 93.3 Salt Lake City UT Sunday 10pm - STARTS 3/20 WCVE-FM 88.9 Richmond VA Saturday 11:30pm WROV-FM 96.3 Roanoke VA Sunday 7pm WKOC-FM 93.7 Virginia Beach VA Monday 11pm WIZN-FM 106.7 Burlington VT Sunday 10pm KBCS-FM 91.3 Seattle WA Tuesday 10pm KHSS-FM 100.9 Walla Walla WA Sunday 8pm WOJB-FM 88.9 Hayward WI Friday 11:30pm KUWR-FM 91.9 Laramie WY Saturday 11pm submitted to rec.music.gdead by: David Gans tnf@well.sf.ca.us {apple,pacbell,hplabs,ucbvax}!well!tnf Eternal thanx to David for the kind sounds of the Dead Hour. 16) Is there an archive of material from the net? --------------------------------------------- Yes. New archive site is gdead.berkeley.edu (128.32.213.24) FTP and access to the site is detailed below. gdead.berkeley.edu also has a gopher server. People with gopher clients can connect with: gopher gdead.berkeley.edu Gopher is a distributed document delivery service allowing access to various types of data residing on multiple hosts by presenting a hierarchical arrangement of documents using a client-server com- munications model. Your guess is as good as mine..:) If you have access to the World-Wide Web (e.g. via Mosaic), there's a pretty impressive setup done by Mark Leone that incorporates alot of the stuff from the berkeley site. Just open the following URL and follow the menus: http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/dead.html The material contained at the various ftp sites is freely available to anyone with ftp access, and should not be distributed for commercial gain without the explicit permission of the authors of said material, unless otherwise noted. The gdead site at berkeley has all sorts of goodies, including ibm/mac/Next stuff, discography, gdhours, setlists, stats, tape-label programs, tye-dye info, sounds, site-layouts, etc. There is also some stuff at ftp.apple.com (130.43.2.3) in pub/gdeadstuff Additionally, some guitar tabulations can be found at ftp.nevada.edu (131.216.1.11) in pub/guitar/Grateful_Dead and at cs.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4) in pub/music/guitar/g Finally, Mike Wagner (mjwagner@bsu-cs.bsu.edu) has a ftp site set up at 147.226.112.94 with gdead stuff in pub/reni/music/gdead All of these sites accept anonymous as the user name, as detailed below with relation to gdead: For those who don't know, gdead.berkeley.edu is an anonymous ftp site for Dead-related stuff. Just "ftp gdead.berkeley.edu" and use "anonymous" as a user name. Help is avalible with the "help" command. no ftp access: email ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com, help as message body. There are a few things you should know if you have never anonymous ftp(ed) before. First, in order for you to access the ftp site you must be on the internet; I assume you are. Second, your site must be using the name server (which comes with the internet feed). Third, you must be familiar with anonymous ftp procedures. I'll address each of these concerns. Note: This session was done ftp'ing the old archive site. I've kept it in and changed the appropriate addresses because it's an example of a FTP session done with UNIX-based equipment. I additionally added a session I had with the new site from a VAX below. As always, email any corrections or suggestions, bs810@cleveland.freenet.edu Assuming you are on the internet you should not have any problems getting through to gdead.berkeley.edu. I am not sure of the situation of people with pc-modem packages, that is to say I don't know where they get the dead_flames feed from or how they do connect into the internet (so I can't really help these people.) However being on a ...com (or .edu) address you should be "dialed in dude" :) Anyway if your site is not running the name server you will have to give the literal IP address for gdead.berkeley.edu. A name server is a bit of software that automagically looks up the IP address associated with the name of the computer you are trying to send mail to, or connect to. The other thing to keep in mind is the type of equipment both sites are using. Ideally both computers will be UNIX machines. ftp is a UNIX thing, and who knows what to do if you aren't on a UNIX box. [It all works about the same on VAX/VMS, though you may have to type in >user< to get the Name prompt:] The following insert is a file transfer protcol (ftp) session I had with gdead.berkeley.edu where I logged in and sent a file back to my own machine. Note everything inside the >< is what I typed in response to the prompts. Don't actually type in the >< when you use this as an example. Anything inside the () are comments to help you understand. Hope this helps. Also I'm assuming most people reading this far are complete novices at this, so this is why I'm explaining in such detail. (session begins.) (If this does not work you will have to try the IP address number for the machine.) (try typing >ftp 128.32.213.24<) Connected to gdead.berkeley.EDU. 220 ??? FTP server (Version 4.1 Tue Apr 10 05:15:32 PDT 1990) ready. Name (gdead.berkeley.edu:mpg): >anonymous< 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password:>(type in your login name here e.g. mpg Your typing will not appear on screen)< 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> >ls< 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes). bin etc init lost+found pub shlib 226 Transfer complete. 47 bytes received in 8e-06 seconds (5.7e+03 Kbytes/s) ftp> >cd pub< 250 CWD command successful. ftp> >cd gdead< 250 CWD command successful. ftp> >ls< 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes). ps stakodead tape-lists tape-lists-drop-box 226 Transfer complete. 48 bytes received in 5e-06 seconds (9.4e+03 Kbytes/s) ftp> >cd ps< (you can cd to any of the four directories listed above.) 250 CWD command successful. ftp> >ls< 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes). AirJerry.ps Jerry-Magic-full-page.ps Jerry-Magic-quarter-page.ps Jerry-Magic-sixteenth-page.ps Jerry-and-Bob-characature.ps Young-Jerry-full-page.ps Young-Jerry-tenth-page.ps club.ps misc-dead-graphic.ps nethead.90.ps 226 Transfer complete. 228 bytes received in 1.1e-05 seconds (2e+04 Kbytes/s) ftp> >binary< (binary transfer mode should be used for sending files.) 200 Type set to I. ftp> >get misc-dead-graphic.ps< 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for misc-dead-graphic.ps (53540 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: misc-dead-graphic.ps remote: misc-dead-graphic.ps 53540 bytes received in 22 seconds (2.4 Kbytes/s) ftp> >quit< 221 Goodbye. (end session) To submit something for installation on gdead.berkeley.edu: 1. cd /pub/gdead/drop-box 2. put "file-name" (where "file-name" is the name of the file on your system containing what you want to submit) Thanx to Richard Langston for keepin' the archives for awhile and, I believe, creating this sample session. Well, that's the way it was, and it should all pretty much work the same way at gdead.berkeley.edu I've left that all in because it's an example of a UNIX-based machine talking to the site. Here's a session I had with the berkeley site using a VAX, all the conventions are the same, xcept stuff inside [] is stuff you should type without the [] and then hit a carriage return, anything inside () are notes...and i used dir instead of ls to get the listing of files/directories...they are usu. interchangeable.. Additionally, it's been mentioned to me that when FTP'ing from some VAXen, it's necessary to put double quotes around the commands you give to the ftp site. So if the below doesn't work for ya, try that, for example ["dir"] instead of [dir] [ftp gdead.berkeley.edu] xxx.xxx.xxx Multinet FTP user process 3.1 3.1(105) Connection opened (Assuming 8-bit connections) [user] (type in user to get the username prompt) Foreign username: [anonymous] [dir] [cd pub] [dir] [cd gdead] [dir] [get README] To local file: [readme.txt] [quit] prompt before downloading most if not all files...hope this helps...email me if i've messed anything up here, and the README file says: Questions and comments may be directed to: kraitch@Berkeley.EDU P.S. typing cd.. at the prompt will get you back up a directory level. Also, incoming submissions to gdead.Berkeley.EDU may be left in /pub/incoming or /pub/gdead/drop-box 17) Whatever happened to Owsley? ---------------------------- He can often be found backstage selling interesting, expensive jewelry. If you meet him outside you could always talk to him and ask him yourself. An interview with Bear appears in David Gans' book, CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD. 18) What are mailing lists and how do I subscribe to them? ------------------------------------------------------ Mailing lists are for people who do not have regular net access, or wish to concentrate on a specific topic. The mailings on each topic are collected in groups and then mailed to you, usually containing anywhere from 10-20 messages each. The difference is that mailing lists are not interactive as the newsboards. If you have only email access and not news access, the mailing list is the only way to receive rec.music.gdead. Dead-Flames is a digestified version of rec.music.gdead, and Dead-Heads is a low-volume "important-info-only" list (tickets/setlists/ GDH schedule mainly). If you'd like to subscribe to any of the lists, here are their addresses. For each list choose only ONE address: Internet: Dead-Flames-Request@Virginia.EDU Dead-Flames-Request@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU BITNET: DF-Req@VIRGINIA UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!dead-flames-request Internet: Dead-Heads-Request@Virginia.EDU Dead-Heads-Request@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU BITNET: DH-Req@VIRGINIA UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!dead-heads-request Internet: DAT-Heads-Request@Virginia.EDU DAT-Heads-Request@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU BITNET: DATH-Req@VIRGINIA UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!dat-heads-request Internet: Tape-Heads-Request@Virginia.EDU Tape-Heads-Request@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU BITNET: TH-Req@VIRGINIA UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!tape-heads-request Internet: Hot-Tuna-Request@Virginia.EDU Hot-Tuna-Request@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU BITNET: HT-Req@VIRGINIA UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!hot-tuna-request Internet: Boston-Music-Request@Virginia.EDU Boston-Music-Request@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU BITNET: BM-Req@VIRGINIA UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!boston-music-request 19) Upcoming confirmed tour dates. ------------------------------ For the most accurate and uptodate Tour Dates, and a list of viable rumoured dates, check the newsgroup regularly for Jeff Lester's posting with Subject: Confirmed and Rumoured Tour Dates. March: 30,31,Apr01: The Omni, Atlanta, GA; $28; TM: 02/26 April: 3,4: Orlando, FLA; $27.50; TM: 03/05 6,7,8: Miami,FLA; $27.50; TM: 03/05 June 8, 9, 10 Cal Expo Mail Order: 03/30 BASS: May 07 20) Is it OK to post rumors? ------------------------ It depends who you ask. If you do post rumors, they should be clearly labelled as such. Be prepared to take some flack, especially if you attempt to say things about the bandmembers' personal lives. 21) What are some topics that have caused "flame wars" in the past? --------------------------------------------------------------- Seat-scamming at shows. People yelling and acting obnoxious during songs. "Miracle ticket" seekers. Gate crashing at shows. Personal rumors about GD band members. Sexism in Dead lyrics. Violence at Dead shows. Security at given venues. Vendors who are there to vend, and *not* to attend shows. Police brutality and their anti-Deadhead prejudices. Articles that unfairly bash the Dead and Deadheads. Don't call us CHICKS! We are women. Old Heads vs. Young Heads. Donna. Deader Than Thou. Using "Touchhead" as a demeaning term. Quoting X lines to say "me too" where X > 20. Debates on the splitting of rec.music.gdead. Telling Dead-Flames digest readers to just hit "n". Anything that challenges the "Politically Correct Deadhead Thinking" as espoused on rec.music.gdead. Forged postings. Religion. For all the general randomness on the Net, one of the more consistent things you see if you watch long enough is the annual Posting of the FlameBait. The way it usu. works is that somewhere around the time a new college semester starts, an inflammatory posting will appear on the net. It is usually (but not always) a hateful attack on one branch of the human race or another, and/or based on linking some undesirable trait or behavior with some outward appearance. It could simply be a statement designed to attack the icons of a given subculture. Or it can accuse the members of a subculture of a multitude of heinous acts. It is usually (but not always) cross posted to many different newsgroups. The posting can be recognized easily enough, but it generally engenders three types of response. The first is a plea to ignore the original posting. The second type is an outraged counter attack. The third an outraged counter argument. Usually each response quotes most of the text of the initial post. In the course of a couple weeks the original post will have been repeated dozens of times, wasting alot of time, energy and material. Uncountable thousands of dollars worth of hardware and software and net.bandwidth are sucked up and consumed. THE WAY TO HANDLE FLAMEBAIT: Ignore it! If for some reason the FlameBait is too horrible to stand, then use private Email. If you have to spend your time attacking or rebutting some fool, it is best done (like many things) in private. Email to postmaster@hostname and tell her about this horrible person abusing the tender ears in cyberspace. Some sys-admins are actually pretty good about these matters, and can get to the source of the problem efficiently. EXERCISE SOME CARE : Also remember, there are a large number of techno- freaks out there who spend hours figuring out how to crack accounts, and some percentage of them will then post some screed to a network from the cracked account. You may be spending hours of your life responding to these horrible mad ravings, to a person who *didn't* *do* *it* in the first place. Ask yourself if it is a worthwhile way to spend your time and energy. [contributed by Frank Caherty: caherty@wizard.nrl.navy.mil edited by John J. Wood: jojw@uhura.cc.rochester.edu] 22) What should I do if I see a post from Jerry, Bob, Phil, etc.? ------------------------------------------------------------- Ignore it. There have been bogus postings in the past purporting to be from members of the band, but none of the band members post here. The only people who validly post to rec.music.gdead that are directly related to the band are David Gans and John Perry Barlow. Other luminaries :-) post here occaisonally as well, such as Frederic Lieberman, who received co-author credit on both _Drumming at the Edge of Magic_ and _Planet Drum_. 23) What is Stak-O-Dead and where can I get one? -------------------------------------------- It's a Hypercard database, with setlists, lyrics, etc. from '74 to about '90. It also has some good graphics, tape label makin' capabilities and some great sound-bites. Allen Baum's been away for a while, and the author (John Gilbert) seems to be off the net, so it hasn't been updated for a while. Allen promises to update it when he gets back to the US permanently, but until then we're on our own with where it is now. (Updates for '91 and '92 are now located at the ftp site in pub/gdead/set-lists). You can update it on your own by importing ASCII text in the form of: mm/dd/yy venuename, city, ST songname songname With each song listed on its own line, and each set/encore seperated by a blank line. Its a grate little utility if ya got the hardware and software, most handy for when Deadbase isn't around or ya need to paste on a skeleton here or there, among other things. It's available via anonymous ftp from ftp.apple.com in pub/gdeadstuff/stakodead and is also on the dead archive at gdead.berkeley.edu in pub/gdead/mac. 24) How Can I Spot A Fake Ticket? ---------------------------- For starters, there's no reason you should ever have to, as buying tickets from scalpers or in the lot is frowned upon strongly, but lectures aside, your best bet is to take it to the ticket-takers and ask them if its legit. For GDTS tix, you can make a small tear at the edge of the ticket, and if it's good it will have what appears to be red paper in the center of the ticket (between the front and back). You can also do the old comparison to others GDTS tix. For TixMaster (and assumedly Bass) tix, you can give 'em the cigarette burn test, which is basically ya touch the lit end of a cig to the ticket, and a) it doesn't burn all the way through b) leaves a purplish mark on the tix. This, however, is not a failsafe method either, as all it confirms is that the tix were printed on thermal paper, and are most likely TicketMaster stock. The problem being, that TM stock occaisonally has a funny way o dissapearin', so fake tix could be printed on legit paper, and ya won't know 'til ya get to the door. The best way to know is to buy them yourself :-), and the next best is to take 'em to the door and have a venue- person take a look. 25) Where can I find the Dancin' Bear Screen Saver? First off, the only readily available screen saver with any sorto dancin' bear is for PC's and clones, working in the Windows environment. To get it runnin' ya need two files, dbear.zip and vbrun200.zip. Once you get them, you need to unzip both , then put the dbear files and vbrun200.dll into your Windows directory. If you then open Windows and click on the desktop icon in the Control Panel folder in the Main Folder of Windows, Dancin' Bear should be one of the screen saver options. Now, to get the files, ya gotta grab 'em off a ftp site. Remember that they are both binary, so set your file type to binary before transferring them. The location of the files are as follows: site dir file nic.funet.fi /pub/msdos/windows/desktop dbear.zip gatekeeper.dec.com /.f/micro/msdos/win3/desktop dbear.zip winftp.cica.indiana.edu /pub/pc/win3/desktop dbear.zip wuarchive.wustl.edu /systems/ibmpc/win3/util vbrun200.zip or vbrun300.exe or gatekeeper.dec.com /.f/micro/msdos/win3/util (same vbrun files) Among other places, no doubt. (if ya need another site, mail me) Good luck, and enjoy. There may soon be a screensaver with dancin' bears for the Mac, not quite as original as this one, but...one exists that runs on After Dark 2.0+ in the form of the dbears on an orbiting globe, with the potential for multi-color satori runnin' in the background usin' AD's multimodule function, but it's not currently located anywhere accessible. (mail playin@netcom.com for a copy) 26) When's Mail Order for New Year's? Due to the death of Bill Graham, there probably won't be anymore New Year's showz in the foreseeable future. The New Year's shows were pretty much parties thrown by Bill, and the band hasn't done any since the one shortly after his passing. 27) Where can I find Useless DeadStats? Eric J. Simon and our friends at gdead.berkeley.edu have setup a server for Simon's Useless DeadStats. To obtain information about how to use the server, send mail to "stats@gdead.berkeley.edu" with a Subject: line of "help" (case insensitive). This will return a 3-page help file to you with furthur information. 28) Has Unbroken Chain ever been performed Live? No. Apparently, there is a version of Unbroken Chain from the Mars Hotel Studio sessions circulating on copies of 12-12-73 from the Omni, but it is not a soundcheck, rather from the above- mentioned sessions in 1974. Other tunes never performed live include Antwerp's Placebo, France, Pride of Cucamonga, Rosemary, Serengetti, Walk in the Sunshine, and What's Become of the Baby? 29) Who are the Grateful Dead? Jerry Garcia, Lead Guitar, Vocals Former Members Phil Lesh, Bass Guitar, Vocals Ron "Pigpen" Mckernan, Front Man Bob Weir, Rhythm Guitar, Vocals ('65-8/26/71, 12/01/71-6/17/72) Bill Krutzman, Rhythm Devils Tom "TC" Constanten, Keyboards Mickey Hart, Rhythm Devils (Just my 'magination???) Vince Welnick, Keyboards, Vocals Keith Godchaux, Keyboards, Vocals Donna Godchaux, Vocals Kinda Members: (???-2/17/79) Brent Mydland, Keyboards, Vocals Robert Hunter, Lyricist (4/22/79-7/23/90) John Perry Barlow, Lyricist Bruce Hornsby, Keyboards, Accordion Candace Brightman, Visuals (9/15/90-sometime in 92? - a few) Bob Bralove, does somethin' Former Kinda Members: John Cutler, SoundEngineer And a host of others. Dan Healy, SoundWizard Betty Cantor, SoundEngineer Owsley aka Bear And a host of others. 30) What is the Wheel? Aside from being a really cool invention, and a tune that the Dead do, the Wheel is also the name of a private mailing list composed of a few netheads who wanted to get on with socializing in a less cluttered space. [Thanx to the mysterious individual who created this FAQ, and John J. Wood for keeping it going. Additional editing by Eric Nay: bs810@cleveland.freenet.edu] End of Part 2 of 2, rec.music.gdead FAQ -- "Damn. In a fit of disgust I put *myself* in my kill file." -bongo on r.m.gd This message will be infinitely reproduced.