Conference rdvax::grateful

    It's the Dead's charity - they do all sorts of cool things.  One recent
    project was to help finance the recording of lots of unpublished
    symphonies by modern composers.  Their work would most likely be
    forgotten since most recording companies wouldn't take the risk.
    
    The Rex is Rex Jackson, I believe.
    
    Scott
    

The REX foundations' biggest benificiaries are bay area non-profit 
organizations which help the poor, like the Haight Asbury free medical clinic.

    Yes, it is named after Rex Jackson.  Gans went over this with Dennis
    McNally in a recent GDH.  It basically benifits those things that the
    boyz think are worthwhile.  The obscure composers note refers to 
    English classical/symphonic composers that recieved money unsolicited
    from Rex.  This was due to Phil's interest in classical composition.
    Several AIDS organizations have benifitted I believe.  In Boston, I 
    believe the Carol Stuart Dimatti Foundation was a benificiary.
    I suspect the Lithuanina Olympic basketball team (as documented in 
    the current Sports Illustrated) was another.  So they do some 
    widespread support, following their varied interests.  One interesting
    note is that it is all managed through volunteer work, with no one
    collecting salaries.  No overhead, so the money all goes where it's 
    needed.  Hmmm, I wonder if we could write off ticket prices as 
    charitable contributions?  ;-)
    
                                                PeterT
    

    Seeing as how the shows are cancelled, but two of the shows were
    supposed to be Rex Benefits, does anyone (Ger ;-) have an idea
    if it might be possible to donate the money towards Rex, rather than
    opting out for the refund?  Of course I could always use the money,
    but I don't mind donating to a worthy cause.     
    Would GDTS be able to handle this?  I'm wondering if they'll cut 
    new checks back to us, or if they haven't yet cashed the MO's 
    and we'll just get those back (which might make it harder to donate
    if you mixed the money order instead of separating it for the
    Rex show.  I did a $110 + $10 for series one, instead of 
    $55 + $65)
    
    PeterT
    

    You can dontate money to the REX Foundation but GDTS and REX are not
    one and the same. You would probably have to receive your refund first
    then mail them (REX) a check (tax deductable, BTW).

    from David Gans:
    
Ten years ago, members and friends of the Grateful Dead started the Rex
Foundation, a charitable organization named in memory of Donald "Rex"
Jackson, a GD roadie who died an untimely death in 1976.

The band plays several Rex shows a year, donating the proceeds to the
foundation.  Over the years Rex has helped hundreds of people and
organizations in the arts, in the environmental and cultural survival
movements, in communities and on the streets.

Some of the beneficiaries include:

Bay Area Blues Society
Bread and Roses
California Center for Wildlife
Children's Cancer Research Institute
Coalition on Homelessness
Earth Island Institute/Valley Keeper
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Friends of the River
Haight Ashbury Free Clinic/Rock Medicine
Heart of America Bone Marrow Donor Registry
Hospice of Petaluma
Hundredth Monkey Project
Marin Center for Independent Living
National Bone Marrow Transplant Link
Native American Health Center
Oregon Trail Special Olympics
Pacifica Foundation
Prison Bible Studies
Rainforest Action Network/The Coral Forest
St. Anthony's Dining Room, San Rafael
San Francisco Food Bank
San Francisco Mime Troupe (Ralph J. Gleason Award)
Tides Foundation/Rhythm for Life Project
Washington State Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
Wyoming Outdoor Council


As we know, there is so much more that can be done.  Starting in this
tenth-anniversary year, the Rex Foundation will be developing new
fund-raising ideas that should prove to be fun and in keeping with the
spirit of the Grateful Dead.

The first event will be a raffle.  The winner will receive four laminated
passes, VIP parking, four primo seats, dinner backstage, picture with band
members, and souvenirs.  (Grand prize will be good for one show at Shoreline
in August, or other show of the winner's choice.)  Twenty other winners will
receive signed artwork. 

Tickets are $3 each and will be sold at Shoreline May 21-23 and Cal Expo May
26-28.  Look for the Rex tables and some good folks in blue Rex t-shirts
selling tickets in the vending areas.

Help us help the world: buy some tickets!


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   Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 16:17:57 -0700
   From: David Gans <[email protected]>
   
   This is an update of information that was posted last week.
   Included are a revised date for the drawing, information on possible
   ticket sales on the Summer Tour, and information on how to make your
   donation and participate in the raffle by mail.
   
    Ten years ago, members and friends of the Grateful Dead started the Rex
    Foundation, a charitable organization named in memory of Donald "Rex"
    Jackson, a GD roadie who died an untimely death in 1976.
    
    The band plays several Rex shows a year, donating the proceeds to the
    foundation.  Over the years Rex has helped hundreds of people and
    organizations in the arts, in the environmental and cultural survival
    movements, in communities and on the streets.
    
    Some of the beneficiaries include:
    
    Bay Area Blues Society
    Bread and Roses
    California Center for Wildlife
    Children's Cancer Research Institute
    Coalition on Homelessness
    Earth Island Institute/Valley Keeper
    Families Against Mandatory Minimums
    Friends of the River
    Haight Ashbury Free Clinic/Rock Medicine
    Heart of America Bone Marrow Donor Registry
    Hospice of Petaluma
    Hundredth Monkey Project
    Marin Center for Independent Living
    National Bone Marrow Transplant Link
    Native American Health Center
    Oregon Trail Special Olympics
    Pacifica Foundation
    Prison Bible Studies
    Rainforest Action Network/The Coral Forest
    St. Anthony's Dining Room, San Rafael
    San Francisco Food Bank
    San Francisco Mime Troupe (Ralph J. Gleason Award)
    Tides Foundation/Rhythm for Life Project
    Washington State Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
    Wyoming Outdoor Council
    
    As we know, there is so much more that can be done.  Starting in this
    tenth-anniversary year, the Rex Foundation will be developing new
    fund-raising ideas that should prove to be fun and in keeping with 
    the spirit of the Grateful Dead.
    
    The first event will be a raffle.  The winner will receive four laminated
    passes, VIP parking, four primo seats, dinner backstage, picture with band
    members, and souvenirs.  (Grand prize will be good for one show at
    Shoreline in August, or other show of the winner's choice.)  Twenty 
    other winners will receive signed artwork.
    
    Tickets are $3 each and will be sold at Shoreline May 21-23, at Cal Expo
    May 26-28, and probably at some stops on the Summer Tour.  Look for the Rex
    tables and some good folks in blue Rex t-shirts selling tickets in the 
    vending areas.
    
    The drawing will be held live on the KPFA Grateful Dead Hour on Wednesday,
    June 30 between 8 and 9pm, and the results will be posted on the nets and
    on the GD hotline.
   
    To get tickets by mail:
   
    Send your donation and a SASE so they arrive before May 28:
    
           Rex Foundation
           PO Box 2204
           San Anselmo CA 94979
   
    Help us help the world: buy some tickets!

 Here are the winning numbers:


 PELLONS:
 
 14458
  5270
 17001
 16099
  5545
  1637
 19563
  4470
 18245
  6364
 

 POSTERS:
 
 17979
 15807
 16104
 18609
 15770
  5992
   030
  6355
  4620
  4977
 
 (We misread one of those numbers, so ticket # 15700 also wins a pellon)
 
 
 GRAND PRIZE:
 
                12100
 

 
 To claim your prize, please send your winning ticket via REGISTERED MAIL
to:
 
        Friends of Rex
        PO Box 2748
        San Rafael CA 94912
 
 (Registration fee will be reimbursed)
 
 Please include your name, address, and DAYTIME PHONE number (VERY
 important!).  Winning tickets must be received by July 31 or a new winner
 will be drawn.
 
 Please KEEP YOUR TICKETS in the event that there are any unclaimed prizes.
 
 To hear the winning numbers repeated, please call the Grateful Dead Hotline
 at 415-457-8457 any time after 1pm PDT Thursday, July 1.
 
 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!  The raffle raised more than $40,000, all
 of which goes directly to people who help people.


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    since we had so many Rex questions/discussions/digressions/puns/etc
    prior to the shows, i thought it would be appropriate to type in some 
    of the Rex literature that was passed out in the 10th anniversary
    annual report being distributed at the shows...  anyone else see this?
    
    a lot of the flyer was info on the various charites that the Rex
    Foundation gives money too and frankly, it's too much to type in!
    but here's some of the general info rfrom page 1...
    
    
    REX FOUNDATION  10th anniv annual report, 1992   (nb-yes, it sez '92)
    
    WHO REX IS
    
    The Rex Foundation, in memory of Donald Rex Jackson, was brought into
    being as a charitable foundation by members of the Grateful Dead and
    friends.  Rex was a roadie and later road manager until his untimely
    death in 1976.
    
    WHAT REX DOES
    
    The Foundation aims to help secure a healthy environment, promote
    individuality in the arts, provide support to critical and necessary
    social services, assist others less fortunate than ourselves, protect
    the rights of indiginous people and ensure thier cultural survival,
    build a stronger community and to educate children and adults
    everywhere.  The Rex Foundation has no paid board or staff members.
    
    HELP SUPPORT REX'S WORK
    
    Rex is a growing circle of donors.  We encourage doantions to help
    support our work.  If you wish to contribute, please send your
    tax-deductable contribution to The Rex Foundation, PO Box 2204, San
    Anselmo CA 94979.  The Rex Foundation federal ID nuimber is 68 0033257
    
    HOW REX WORKS
    
    Virtually all our grant recipients are selected through the personal
    knowledge of our decision makers-as a result, unsolicited requests are
    unlikely to be filled.  We have no application forms and no published
    guidelines.  Grants are made once a year, and our report and newsletter
    are published annually.  Our consideration of your proposal is likely
    to take up to a year, so please be patient for your response.
    
    In addition to our regualr grants, we also give the Ralph J Gleason
    Award to grousp and individuals who have made an outstanding
    contribution to culture.  These awards are in the amount of $10,000
    and were created in memory of Ralph J Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle
    columnist, who covered the Bay Area music scene in the 50's and 60's.
    Some of the past recipients include Alan Lomax, Pharoah Sanders, San
    Francisco Mime Troupe, Heiroglyphics Ensemble and David Grisman.
    
    (end transcription)
    
    there is also info on proportional distribution of funds
    	social services- 46% - $270,000
    	arts -  27% - 156,000
    	environment - 11% - 62,500
    	education - 8% - 50,000
    	other- 8% - 47,500
    
    board members are Robert H. Weir, Jerome J. Garcia, John Perry Barlow,
    Bernard S. Bildman, Carolyn A. Garcia, Michael Hart, Harold S. Kant,
    Bill Walton, and Bill Graham (1984-1991)
    
    then follows 4.5 pages of listings and explanations of organizations
    that have recieved money...
    
    any typos are mine...
    
    					da ve

    
    Well I'm glad that's cleared up.  Rex Foundation activities sound very
    worthwhile and upstanding and all that.  I was beginning to wonder
    about that Rex Trailer guy anyway
    
    carol
    

.... and....


the benifit show in boston on sat. night that past run benifitted BOSTON
charities - pine street inn, etc.  so, at least the money stayed local, and
i'm sure the charities enjoy having the dead in town!

    to pick a nit, SOME of the charities were Boston charities...
    
    according to the flyer, this years benefit shows supported:
    
    The WIldlands Project
    Very Special Arts
    Third Street Films
    Tangelwood Music Center
    Sweet Relief
    Stand Up Harlem
    south Bronx Coalition for Clean Air
    Smithsonian Institutions Office of Folklife Programs
    Slide Ranch
    Rites of Passage
    Rhedlen Centers
    The Potters House
    The Poetry Project at St Marks
    Pine Street Inn
    Petaluma Boys and Girls Clubs
    Peace Development Fund
    Oroville Hospital
    Oregon Trail Habitiat for Humanity
    Nesenkeag Cooperative Farm
    Navajo Nation Foundation
    NY Harm Reduction Educators INC
    NE Organic Farming Assoc/ MASS
    MT Graham Coalition
    Mens Resource Center of WEstern MA
    McAuley Water St Mission
    Marin Interfaith Jail Chaplaincy
    Marin Concerned Citizens/Adopt-a-Family
    Marin Ballet
    Make a Wish Foundation of NJ
    Lower East Side Needle Exchange
    The Learning Tree
    Learning Alliance
    Kid Street Theater
    Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
    Iowa Farm Safety Council
    Interfaith Council for the Homeless
    Indra's Network
    Humane Farming ASsoc
    Hell's Canyon Preservation Council
    Gargoyle Mechanique Laboratory
    Future LEaders Network
    Full Circle
    Friends of Opal Creek
    Food for Free Committee Inc
    The Farm School
    Earth Conservations Corps
    Citykids Foundation
    Citizens for Environmental Justice
    Church of St Mary of the Harbor
    Bridge Records Inc
    Bread and Roses
    Baltimore Jobs with Peace
    American Folklife Center
    AIDS Task Force of Alabama
    Action for Boston Community Development, Inc...
    
    and the Gleason Award went to Sun Ra...  since he's dead, it went to
    the surviving members of the Arkestra...
    
    						da ve

    I'm probably the only one to notice this ... that list (43.21) is
    in reverse alpha order
    
    carol

Did anyone else catch the PBS show last night about the REX Foundation.  
Very well done and good stuff that the Rex Foundation is doing.  Now we 
shouldn't have to ask who is Rex and why is he following us around:-)

Geoff

P.S. and not even one plea for money...

Yep, I saw it.  Great show.  I definitely want to check out the works
of some of those composers they featured, really interesting stuff.

The Dead ... not just a rock band ....

- dc

Missed it!  Was too busy trashing JC's tape deck ;-)
It it gonna be repeated?   Was Phil in it?  (TV guide mention's Phil Lesh.)

 - Josh

    it was very well done...Phil came across quite the intelectual
    
    rfb_non_intelectual and can't even spell it

Yeah, really good show.  Phil was definitely in it and was the major spokesman
for the group on this one.  Jerry and Bob had a bit of input, mostly about
explaining the Rex Foundation and other things that the band was interested
in helping out. But the main focus was towards the English composers, and
since it was Phil's interest that cause Rex funds to head that way, Phil
was the main Dead interviewee (though I thought the foreground of the 
Skeleton in the first part of the show when interviewing Phil was a 
bit, ah, silly?)  I must say I really like Phil's taste in music, and 
it certainly gives me cause to re-examine just what is going on during the
space segments of shows.  I think that Healy should play some of these
composers music during set breaks.  They would certainly fit in well.
My only regret is that I don't know enough music to follow what Phil
was talking about.  Though I don't read music, the few glimpses they 
showed of the sheet music (over the shoulder of the players/conducters)
looked rather intriguing.

PeterT

I do have this on tape, but I missed the first few minutes. 

>My only regret is that I don't know enough music to follow what Phil
>was talking about.  

Don't underestimate yourself.  As a former conservatory student (3 semesters 
anyway), the thing that has always attracted me to the Grateful Dead is the
"pure music" aspect of their performances.  That is, the presentation of the
music and appreciation of it as a gestalt.  Most of what he was talking about
was the imagery the music presented.  Nearly everyone can get behind that. 
The technical stuff about 12-tone scales and stuff is just that...technical
jargon.

>Though I don't read music, the few glimpses they 
>showed of the sheet music (over the shoulder of the players/conducters)
>looked rather intriguing.

20th century composers have found some interesting way to notate things.  
Sometimes it's presented pictorially in order to suggest an improvisation, etc.

This is why I *love* Drumz>Space so much.  It's about the ONLY place to hear
this kind of stuff presented in an improvisational format.

	dave

    My sister came to work today and told me about it.  I was mad she
    didn't give me a call last night.  So I called PBS.  They are showing
    it again right now, 1 p.m.
    
    They are also showing it again on Oct. 19th at 9 p.m.  It is being
    shown on channel 44, which is Bostons PBS station.  The man I spoke
    with suggested I call my cable company.  I called Warner Cable and
    Bostons channel 44 is 17 for us here in Nashua.
    
    So looks like I have to catch it on the 19th.  I did watch the first
    5 minutes.  I tried taping it, but was having trouble with my VCR.
    
    Tracy

Great show last night.  I thought the presentation of Deadheads and the concert
scene was very positive (plus British accents make every thing sound better).

Great Stagger Lee and Estimated clips from Cal Expo (last year's Rex benefit)! 
They showed almost the entire Stagger Lee, and a good part of the Estimated!  I
regret that they didn't show any footage of Rex Jackson (perhaps none exists
with him in it).  Jerry said he was "one of their favorites" (roadies that is).

I must admit the spacy stuff performed by the two young British guys in the
auditorium was a bit hard to handle.  I couldn't listen to that stuff too long. 
Too Laurie Anderson-ish.

adam

>I must admit the spacy stuff performed by the two young British guys in the
>auditorium was a bit hard to handle.  I couldn't listen to that stuff too 
>long. 
>Too Laurie Anderson-ish.

I didn't like their stuff either ... it sounded too "chaotic" or something
for me.  Nothing in it clicked for me ... I guess it depends on whose brain
is processing what's coming in.

I love Laurie Anderson's stuff, though.  If you get a chance, watch her
video "Home of the Brave" ... it might change your mind.  ;^}

- dc

>This is why I *love* Drumz>Space so much.  It's about the ONLY place to hear
>this kind of stuff presented in an improvisational format.

You mean Jer isn't improvising everytime he tries to recall the lyrics to 
Althea?

:-)

Anybody know who the bearded guy in the tie-died DeadBase shirt was?
Might be more appropriate to ask on rec.music.gdead.  Looked for NetHead/
DecHead shirts in the crowd scenes, but this was the closest I found.

PeterT