Dead Shows

from archive.org

NOTICE: On 5 May 2018 I received a letter from the legal department of Warner Music Group asserting that they own the copyright to Grateful Dead songs and demanding that I remove Dead Shows from the Roku Channel Store. As a result, Dead Shows is no longer available.

Warner Music Group can be reached at

Warner Music Group

U.S. Shared Service - Legal Department

511 Union Street, suite 1200

Nashville, TN 37219

Dead Shows is a Roku channel which streams shows from the Grateful Dead collection at archive.org.

The story of Dead Shows

I met my wife Gloria in 1992 and we were married in 1993. Until Jerry died in 1995, we attended about 30 shows together. After that we enjoyed listening to recorded shows, first on the cassettes I had traded, and later on archive.org. However Gloria had trouble navigating the archive.org website, so I usually had to set it up when we wanted to hear a show.

In 2014, Gloria was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. During her chemotherapy, she liked to listen to shows, so I wanted to find a way for her to play shows herself without needing to call me to come do it for her. Since we had a Roku, I wrote Dead Shows mainly to make it easier for her to play shows from archive.org. She suggested I also publish the channel so that other Roku users could use it, so I published it in late 2014.

Tragically, Gloria passed away in December 2014. I will always think of Dead Shows as a tribute to a wonderful woman.

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