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. __ "We used to play for silver, now we play for life..." Seth Jackson dec-curium!jackson