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So while I was busy searching the internet for pictures of Alton Kelley, I found this poster created by him.

If it isn't immediately apparent to you, this is nothing other than an image of Union Terminal, which houses the Cincinnati Museum Center, my place of employment for over a year, as seen in the photo bellow.

So I decided to investigate more and ran across this website called Vintage Rock, which stated this about the album/train terminal:

Not to be confused with the album of the same name by the same band, released on Arista in 1977, this three CD package is appropriately titled after the Dead's latest venture -- the creation of their own museum/showcase/concert venue that is to be erected and open by the end of the millennium. Supposedly all the proceeds will go into the construction of this grand edifice which will either reside in San Francisco -- the Dead's hometown -- or New York -- everyone's hometown.

Like just about every Dead release since Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, this live set -- from March 13, 1990 at the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland -- is complete and uncut. The packaging is also top-notch, featuring the art of Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley, the creators of the original Terrapin release -- featuring the dancing turtles at the train station, a popular Dead image -- as well as several other Dead graphics. Here they have taken liberties, and devised a beautiful and immaculate keepsake. If the actual building to be called Terrapin Station looks anything like the artists' rendering, it will become a popular attraction.

The reason this particular concert was chosen to represent the band's fund raising efforts is because of the need for a strong version of, what else, "Terrapin Station." Research among Dead scholars, archivists and band members themselves have indicated that 1990 was a banner year for the band -- the last year with keyboardist Brent Mydland, and arguably the last year the band seemed to be putting forth much effort.

HAHA!

The New York Times also ran a quick story about the plans to build this giant Grateful Dead amphitheater/museum/library back in 1998, but there was no mention of plans for the facade of the building. So, the only logical thing to do would be to make Union Terminal the home of the new Dead Museum. It is already a museum center after all, and Ohio does house the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, so why not?

This is the start of a new campaign in which I want to seriously petition the Dead and the Museum Center to join forces. It obviously won't work, but would be so much fun. I will post my campaign posters as soon as I make them and I encourage everyone to hang them up all over Cincinnati.