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Contents 1 JGB (band) 2 jerrygarcia.com 3 Cover song categories 4 Grateful Dead song titles

[edit] JGB (band)

A discussion about the notability of JGB — a band, led by Melvin Seals, which is a spin-off of the Jerry Garcia Band — has been moved from here to the discussion page for that article at Talk:JGB (band).

[edit] jerrygarcia.com

Thanks for fixing my formatting problems on the Garcia entry - I'm a newbie, couldn't figure it out... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sevenstring (talk • contribs) 02:43, 10 February 2007 (UTC).

Sure thing. There's a lot going on here, I'm still figuring it out myself. There are a number of different infoboxes, and the way the markup works is not consistent between them, which makes things a bit more complicated. Anyway, welcome to Wikipedia. -- Mudwater 03:09, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cover song categories

Re: Johnny B. Goode and your Changed category "Grateful Dead songs" to category "Songs covered by Grateful Dead" edit

There has been some considerable discussion (forget where now, but I found it via "categories for deletion"), and the "cover song" categories are being deleted in favor of "artist songs" categories. You should probably look there before you bother changing more songs... John Cardinal 14:03, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note.

Here is an archived discussion about "Cover songs and subcategories". Is that the discussion you're referring to? "Songs covered by Grateful Dead" is not currently listed in "Categories for Deletion", but that archived discussion does make it sound like "covered by" categories are out of favor. The discussion also seems to imply that it is appropriate to put songs into categories for bands that covered those songs. If so, that would mean that "Grateful Dead songs" is an appropriate category for Johnny B. Goode, even though the Dead didn't write that song.

If you have any more thoughts on this subject, please reply here. For now I won't put any more songs into the "Songs covered by Grateful Dead" category. For the record, the songs that I moved there from "Grateful Dead songs" are: Johnny B. Goode, Me and Bobby McGee, Me and My Uncle, Morning Dew, and Stealin'. I also added the "Songs covered by Grateful Dead" category to the following songs that were not in the "Grateful Dead songs" category: Promised Land (song), Around and Around, El Paso (song), Iko Iko, and It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. -- Mudwater 23:41, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that discussion and a more recent one. If I were you, I'd just put them in the Category:Grateful Dead songs. John Cardinal 06:13, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the link to the second discussion. I wonder if anyone is going to formally suggest that "Songs covered by Grateful Dead" be merged into "Grateful Dead songs". -- Mudwater 23:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grateful Dead song titles

Great heads up on the Peggy-o. The funny thing is someone could spend weeks on end trying to figure out all of the Dead songs and their correct titles. Sounds like a challange to me. Moorematthews 13:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I've found one other obscure one so far. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is another name for "In the Pines", which DeadBase lists as having been played on 07/17/66. I wonder if that's the performance that's on Birth of the Dead. -- Mudwater 23:26, 13 March 2007 (UTC)