Last Dead Show

Correction appended, May 6, 1025You’re gonna have to trust me on this, kids.Once upon a time, Rock ‘n’ Roll was exciting. Not Mumford and Sons-tries-to-sound-like-Coldplay exciting. Not new-U2-tries-to-sound-like-the-old-U2 exciting.

Not some-Swedish-producer-found-a-way-to-get-better-sonics-from-an-acoustic-strum exciting. But really, shockingly, I have-no-idea-what-happens-next, can-you-really-do-that-with-an-electric-guitar exciting.

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Buddy Holly exciting. Velvet Underground exciting. Grateful Dead exciting. Exciting like a new Kanye track is today.Those days are gone. Holly is history.

Lou Reed passed to the wild side. And the Dead have been dead for years, though the surviving members, some now in their 70s, plan a resurrection this summer in Soldier Field, a final set of shows for an act that ended, depending on your point of view, when Jerry Garcia died in 1995 or at some point before, when he fell into his heroin addiction, or relapsed back into it, over a blur of tours, triumphs and burnouts during the preceding two decades.But as the Dead hit their 50th anniversary, it is worth remembering them nonetheless. The band—which first played together on May 5, 1965, under the name The Warlocks—developed a strand of rock that will never be matched, because the ground cannot be broken again. By grafting the discipline of backwoods American roots music to the improvisation of Charlie Parker, Art Tatum and Django Reinhardt, they tied together two great eras of 20th-century American white-kid rebellion—the Beats and the Hippies—and then took it as far as their minds could stretch, with the early help of wide-eyed, West Coast LSD. This was a band that suffered writing songs, struggled in the studio, but shot the moon on the stage. On any given night, they could be terrible or terrific, or both, and no single member of the band controlled the outcome. For at its core, it was an improv band, with each member of the group playing around his part in each song, stretching for something he had not achieved before.

For years, they went on stage without set lists. For decades, they surprised even themselves.So as a service to those who will never see a show, and who may now mistake the Grateful Dead for a parking lot scene of dread-locked dullards huffing nitrous balloons and seeking other chemical escapes from suburban malaise, here are a few of their better shows over the years, which are now archived online and available to stream for free.at the Olde Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Ore.

The 1960s and ’70s heartthrob known for his work on and TV’s Wonder Woman and later founded the set trailer business Star Waggons, has died peacefully Tuesday at his home after battling an illness, according to TMZ, which was first to report his death. Carol Burnett and Lyle Waggoner Punkin/Whacko Inc/Kobal/ShutterstockIn 1965, Waggoner tested for the title role in the 20th Century Fox/ABC series Batman but lost the job to Adam West. Instead, he landed a guest role on the Western series Gunsmoke in 1966.A year later, he began a seven-year stint on The Carol Burnett Show, first as an announcer.

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Producers later began to incorporate him into the show as a comedy sketch partner along with regulars Vicki Lawrence and Harvey Korman, as the gorgeous straight-man foil to the ogling Burnett. He left the show in 1974, in hopes of advancing his career as a lead actor. He was replaced on the show by frequent guest star Tim Conway, and his role as announcer by Ernie Anderson. Related StoryLyle Waggoner in ‘Wonder Woman’ Warner Bros TV/Dc Comics/Kobal/ShutterstockWaggoner became Playgirl‘s first male seminude centerfold in 1973, and a year after leaving Carol Burnett, he booked the role of Steve Trevor opposite star Lynda Carter on ABC series Wonder Woman. Initially set during World War II, he played the role of Army Maj. Steve Trevor, who crash-landed on Wonder Woman’s island and brought her back to the United States — unaware of her powers.When the series moved to CBS for Season 2 in the fall of 1977, the timeline jumped to the present day, and Waggoner played the original character’s son, Col. Steve Trevor Jr.

The show was retitled The New Adventures of Wonder Woman and ran until 1979, airing 60 episodes in all.Waggoner continued to work steadily during the 1980s, landing guest roles on such popular series as Happy Days, Fantasy Island, Simon & Simon and Murder, She Wrote. He appeared mostly in films during the early ’90s then guested later in the decade on such shows as Burke’s Law, Ellen and That 70’s Show. His final acting credit was a 2005 episode of The War at Home.While still working as an actor in 1979, Waggoner founded Star Waggons, which leases location trailers for the showbiz industry. He built the company into a powerhouse, with a fleet of more than 800 trailers that are ubiquitous on sets. The company maintains a 10-acre facility in Sylmar. His sons Jason and Beau Waggoner run the company.