Grateful Dead Cinema

According to Variety former roadie Steve Parish's book "Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead" will be made into a movie that we can all count down until 2009 for. According to Rolling Stone, "[t]he story, which has already been endorsed by Dead guitarist Bob Weir, will chart the history of the band, focusing on those times they chilled with Ken Kesey and Jefferson Airplane in the Haight-Ashbury days." Can't wait for 2009? Maybe Gus Van Sant's take on "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" will hold you over. Otherwise, wrapping up this week...

-John Lennon and Paul McCartney met 50 years ago today

-the Rock Radio previews Live Earth; Live Earth D.C. officially added

-Billboard claims that it's a "sure bet that Pearl Jam fans will have a new live DVD via Rhino to play on repeat before the holidays"

-Velvet Revolver will tour with Alice In Chains - here are their tour dates

-David Gilmour will release his 2006 performance at London's Royal Albert Hall on DVD - "Remember That Night" will be available September 18

WeTube Wednesdays: Independence Edition

Happy 4th of July everybody! Here's a special WeTube Wednesday tribute to independence: the Roots interpreting Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" at Bonnaroo 2007.



And just for fun, a little String Cheese: Desert Dawn > Black Clouds > Desert Dawn from this year's Winter Carnival.



In other news...

-the Weight gives us more video clips of the Levon Helm Band live @ Central Park

-Velvet Revolver releases "Libertad"

-nostalgic for a little Creem Magazine? So are the folks at stylus

-Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds' "Live at Radio City Music Hall" will be released on DVD

-Eddie Vedder will contribute a bunch of original music to Sean Penn's "Into the Wild"