[net.music.gdead] Dead music books

jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson) (05/28/85)

>I don't want to dive into the question of copyrights TOO deeply, BUT the
>lyrics to the Dead music we know are copyrighted, all rights reserved and
>all that.  It will only take you a little effort to get good published
>copies, you'll probably appreciate having them correct from the source,
>some of you might like to look at the music as well, and you can even lay
>some coin on the people who wrote the songs (a nice touch!)
>
>The "publisher" of the Dead music is Ice Nine Publishing Co.  To the best
>of my knowledge, there are four books available.  You can probably find
>two or three of them in a large music or record store; they were all
>available mail-order from Relix the last I looked.  [Who's Relix?  Yeah, I
>should have posted that first...but soon enough.]
>
>The books are as follows:  
>
>    <etc., etc.>
>
>SOOO, if you really want to see a bunch of lyrics, go forth and buy these
>books and get them back into circulation.

I've tried to buy the "Wake of the Flood"/"Mars Hotel" book (officially
entitled "Grateful Dead - Vol. 2") in music stores, and have been told
that it is out of print and can't be ordered. If there is a way to order
this book, I would like to know how.
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"We used to play for silver, now we play for life..."

				Seth Jackson
				dec-curium!jackson