The Dead Covers Project
What a wonderful month it's been, sharing our love of the Grateful Dead through song and video! We applaud all the hard work and effort that you, the fans, put into the DEAD COVERS PROJECT, and we hope you'll continue to watch and support all the amazing participant videos on YouTube until we fire up the DEAD COVERS PROJECT again next February.
Throughout the month of April, we'll be shining our lovelight on a handful of artists that really made the grade. You'll get to know each of these five artists and find out just what made them connect with the Dead in our exclusive DEAD COVERS PROJECT profiles, but for now we'd simply like to congratulate the following participants (in no particular order)...
Now Playing In The Band...
The project may be over for 2012, but you can continue to check out some of the "Top Rated" videos that were submitted and "Like" them here.
So that's why I never wear a watch!
This was a really cool event/project/thingie and I didn't really see it as a beauty pageant in the traditional sense. More like a mass celebration. I had intended to post a submission myself but limited access to requisite technology proved to be too much to overcome. Well, that and actually getting a take that I was prepared to have hung out in perpetuity. May still post one up if I can just for the halibut...
Great project, thanks to organizers and all the wonderful players. Gives me faith that the music really will never stop.
Tallmarc
Great project, thanks to organizers and all the wonderful players. Gives me faith that the music really will never stop.
Tallmarc
Great project, thanks to organizers and all the wonderful players. Gives me faith that the music really will never stop.
Tallmarc
Great project, thanks to organizers and all the wonderful players. Gives me faith that the music really will never stop.
Tallmarc
Great project, thanks to organizers and all the wonderful players.
Tallmarc
Hi all,
I enjoyed this project. It motivated me to at least try a version of mountains of the moon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaN-rGHe8DE&feature=plcp&context=C35e788cUDOEgsToPDskKjY5e7J6enQcCabJ9wj-iS
I also enjoyed so much, seeing a lot of others videos, and the ways they had adapted the songs, whilst remaining within the spirit of the Grateful Dead. It's a little lonely being an Aussie deadhead, so it was nice to see how there is a community of diverse people in the states, who, despite having different musical backgrounds and stylings, reference the Grateful Dead, and their great but under recognised song catalog.
Finally, a couple of other Dead Cover covers from me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgAEjlvUAyQ&feature=plcp&context=C344ce00UDOEgsToPDskIvtsk-dMiu2z97KLNyw_RA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Gbvi95I34&feature=plcp&context=C37008aeUDOEgsToPDskI1CAh8MqvlDL_QKssGEW33
Sorry the URLs are so long.
Keep the trip going.
Mike Webster.
I agree with some or your points (and I am not a person who had a vote in selecting videos--I was always recommending stuff on my own), but I think maybe you're overstating the competition side. Yes, there was a certain ranking and choices made in that regard, but it was never really presented as being a "contest" or suggested there was some grand prize at the end. At least I never read it that way. It's more like on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" where winning and points are really an afterthought and the game itself is the fun. Yes, I would have liked to see videos I championed get even more exposure., but for me, as a fan first, the joy of the whole thing was going in every couple of days and digging through the new pile and discovering gems on my own.
Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is don't take any of this too seriously. It was always meant to be a fun exercise and I think it definitely succeeded on that level. And I think it's safe to say it FAR exceeded anyone's expectations. I'm sure there will be tweaks along the way. And there's always room for improvement!
I salute anyone who posted a video and anyone who watched one!
THANK YOU to All Staff & Coordinators who coordinated
DEAD COVERS PROJECT...!
It was Sooooo MUCH FUN!
I made so many new friends & family.... in my heart everyone who had the
inspiration to actually learn & perform these songs made this the best...
I loved listening to everyone's version of all my favorite songs....!
We are such a blessed community / Nation of people bonded by the greatest
everloving vibes & music created in our lifetime.....MUCHOS GARCIAS.....!!!!!!
http://youtu.be/hRFbT5LxZs4
There is a statistic in youtube's stat's that would be ideal for ranking entries. You can access it from the video's page just below the video on the right The button is a bar graph. It shows a timeline and lists events on that timeline including in this case "the first referral from dead.net" and indicates the total number of views that came from here. This would be a very difficult system to game and there are many ways your website could access that number from youtube. You could also generate that number yourself by tracking outgoing links but you'd have to make sure you separate repeat viewers from new although repeat viewers is an important stat and needs to be measured with same day repeats thrown out. I have a degree in biostatistics (don't ask me why) and there are a million reasons why views is a better measure than likes and why views thru your portal are better than total views for your purposes.
Just another 2 cents in my campaign to drop the annual contest and make this site an ongoing, highly functional project. For deadheads who are musicians, sound engineers, and videographers this site is a gift from Jerry himself (a jerrysend) but the annual beauty pagent is the anti-jerry to overuse a metaphor. The site brings us together, provides a platform and an audience, and if modified to a continuous rather than annual timeframe, doesn't make us have to wear watches. Have you ever seen those studies where they take deadheads and make them wear watches. One of the cruelest experiments conducted in our lifetimes - very disturbing as you can well imagine.
ziph