Stanford Persevering with Research Providing an On-line Course Exploring the Music of the Grateful Useless

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Picture by way of Wiki­me­dia Com­mons A fast heads up: On Octo­ber third, Stan­ford Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies will kick off an 8‑week on-line course known as Did It Mat­ter? Does It Now? The Music and Cul­ture of the Grate­ful Useless. Led by David Gans (creator of Play­ing within the Band: An Oral and Visu­al Por­trait of…

When the Grateful Useless Performed on the Egyptian Pyramids, within the Shadow of the Sphinx (1978)

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In Sep­tem­ber of 1978, the Grate­ful Useless trav­eled to Egypt and performed three reveals at the Nice Pyra­mid of Giza, with the Nice Sphinx look­ing over their shoul­ders. It was­n’t the primary time a rock band performed in an historical set­ting. Pink Floyd per­fashioned songs within the mid­dle of the Amphithe­atre of Pom­peii in Octo­ber 1971. However Floyd…