Deadology

Introducing a new author's series on books about legendary Musicians...Our first guest is Randy Schmidt, author of Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter....This will be a bi-monthly writer's series...More deep dives into the Grateful Dead next week

Last show of an awesome tour! Phil's Raven Space pays tribute to Edgar Allen Poe. Killer set two with perhaps the best Estimated ever.

GD tapers Doug and Larry join the podcast to discuss the band's outstanding show in April 12, 1982. It's another gem from a tour that gave us a plethora of pristine, succinct, and super-hot performances.

Doug Schmell joins us to rave about another epic 1973 Grateful Dead masterpiece

Jerry in all his Soulful glory. Inspired by the songs of Smokey's Soul Town, Sirius/XM

Smokin' early on in Althea...you construct the set list....Music Never Stopped with Jerry's improbable leads....Rider shredding...post He's gone improv...Album of the Week: A Song for You

An era comes to an end...Garcia shreds Greatest Story opener....Looks Like Rain tears....Supplication sizzles...Exceptional Terrapin...Wheel into Shakedown inside a Playin' loop...One of the top shows of 1979

Doug Schmell joins us to discuss the opening night of the Grateful Dead's final run in the Fillmore East....Outstanding performances of Hard to Handle and Morning Dew highlight this underrated gem...a consistent and seamless performance featuring several new additions to the band's repertoire...

Bob Weir's journey from youngest member of the Grateful Dead to American Musical Master...Featured show on Weir's 34th Birthday, 10-16-81 Amsterdam...The Grateful Dead's last acoustic set...Breakout versions of Hully Gully, Gloria, and Love Light...RIP Bobby, thanks for sixty years of loving inspiration.

Doug Schmell joins us to discuss the best show of 1971...Freddy King tribute...Tennessee Jed hand grenade....A Bobby McGee gem...The Other One!!!...A marathon of Robert Hunter classics....

RIP Donna Jean and Jack DeJohnette...Highlights of greatest Jack Straws ever, History and analysis of the all mighty Jack Straw. Mind-blowing Sraws galore, all in one in podcast. 3=

Playin/Fingers disorientation for NYC followed by an Uncle River hoedown...What a four-song opener...Looks Like Rain gold....The Eyes tease....a glorious night for Jerry ballads

Happy Birthday Mickey...9/11 Love and Theft NYC reflections...Doug Schmell joins the podcast...Feelin Groovy...Horns or no horns...The big three to close D Star/Morning Dew/ Sugar Magnolia

Blazing opening set, the band is as fired up as the raucous crowd...Dead excel during a typical set. and then they blow the roof of the joint and stop time in its tracks during set two with a sensational pre-Drums...Exceptional versions of Sail0r/Saint and Comes a Time/Truckin

Thirty years later, the legacy of Jerry and the Dead grows exponentially...Five immortal instrumentals jams from Madison Square Garden, Alpine Valley, Hartford, Giants Stadium, and Brendan Byrne Arena...Slipknot! Let it Grow...Morning Dew...etc.

A day before Jerry Garcia's 32nd birthday, the Grateful Dead perform three epic sets--four hours in length...Doug Schmell joins me to discuss the brilliance behind this magnificent show.

The day before Jerry's 32nd birthday, the Dead deliver four epic hours of music...Doug Schmell is back to rave about this performance....Brilliant Half Step...China Cat boils...The Wall of Sound!

The year 1977 is complete. This is the only show I didn't write about in my book,Grateful Dead 1977. The recording is now available. Thank you Charlie Miller!...Cool Jed and Straw...The embodiment if 1977 power, a wild Music Never Stopped to close the set....Garcia is playing possum again during Eyes...Legendary FOTD for the Sun Devils of Arizona State.,,UJB gold in the encore slot

One More Saturday Night/ Fire Opener, That's a show! The genius of Garcia, three well-crafted peaks in one instrumental....Desirable selections all night...Comes a Time stops time in its tracks...This was also the 40th anniversary of Live Aid...Thoughts on performances by Dire Straits, Clapton, and Dylan.

Mik Bondy joins us to discuss The Garcia Project's upcoming Days Between Tour, and the evolution of the band through the years...On July 4, 1975 Jerry Garcia rocks the Great American Music Hall with astounding performances---Audio highlights from this legendary show.

Discussion with Mik Bondy about the Garcia Project's upcoming Days Between Tour, and the history of the band...There were fireworks galore as Jerry Garcia had a performance for the ages on July 4, 1975 in the Great American Music Hall...The greatest Dylan cover ever...Audio highlights

Doug Schmell joins us to discuss this four-hour spectacular from Vancouver...A smoking China Cat highlights a Never Ending opening set...A massive, distinctive, Truckin' Other One explores all possibilities...Sugar Magnolia is a creative master blaster to end set two...1973 Gold!

RIP Sly and Brian...Jamfest kicks off 4-22: Stranger Bird Song...C.C. Madness...Help on the Way and Slipknot for all...The Fire Puke scare....Grateful Dead give it their all in New Haven, no short cuts, just extra effort....

A tribute to an all-time Garcia acoustic show...This recording was mislabeled as 5-5-82 for decades...Prime Garcia vocals and guitar picking...Brilliant performances of three major Garcia/ Hunter classics: Friend of the Devil, Ripple. and Reuben and Cerise...

Alabama > Straw brilliance for starters...Debut of She Belongs to Me....Awesome LSD to end the set, Jerry rips Saint and Deal...First Crazy Fingers in 18 months...A hyper runaway version of GDTRFB...Jerry in Beast Mode all night....

Betty Boards,,,Let my inspiration flow...the debut of Terrapin and Estimated...First set dominated by second set tunes...Help/ Slipknot!/ Franklin's = insanity....A grand opening show for a magnificent year....

A Sugaree Master Class for openers...Jerry's Soul Town...The hottest Valerie ever...Scorching Tangled Up in Blue...Weir and friends join JGB for a memorable double encore

A JGB show for the ages...The Melvin Seals factor in Mississippi Moon and Harder They Come...Awesome versions of Mission in the Rain, Deal, Sugaree, and Simple Twist of Fate...Jerry's guitar weeps Prudence tears for John Lennon....Jerry gives it his all for New York City

Doug Schmell joins the podcast to explore this iconic performance...Ripping renditions of T Jed, J Straw, and Music Never Stopped...The infamous Close Encounters jam is tucked between The Other One and St. Stephen...This is a show for the ages

A Complete Unknown, review of the marvelous Dylan movie...Branford joins the Dead for Birdsong...Immaculate improvisation in the first instrumental of Eyes...38 minutes of Dark Star magic...Knockin' on Heaven's Door just like so many times before

Dawn of the Golden Era for the Jerry Garcia Band...Three epic masterpieces: Sugaree, After Midnight, Positively 4th Street...Album of the Week: Countdown to Ecstasy

Doug Schmell joins the podcast to relish the Dead's awesome New Year's '81 show. A huge night for Jerry commences with a monster Shakedown...This celebration has it all: Cold Rain, Terrapin, Dew, Dark Star, etc....Happy New Year!

David Davis joins me to discuss his new book, The Economic History of the Grateful Dead....A massive fan crush getting into the 11-10-85 show...The Dead take Cassidy and Feel Like a Stranger to levels unimaginable...A strong 1985 vocal night for Jerry, especially on Stagger Lee, Comes a Time, and It's All Over Now, Baby Blue...Awesome audio highlights!

43 years ago the Dead rock Market Square Arena....C.C. Rider madness...The house lights shine on a legendary Let it Grow...Well-balanced sets with blazing yet concise improvisations...The art of enjoying a smoking Stella outro.

Doug Schmell joins us to discuss this short, yet, outrageous 1972 gem. Stay in there for the audio highlights at the end. The Grateful Dead rocked Dallas to the very marrow. Several contenders for all-time great versions here.

Early and late shows...Audio highlights and first-hand commentary from a time I remember oh so well...From Dylan to The Beatles to Smokey's Soul Town, its the JGB in NYC!

A bomb-bastic tribute to Phil including many of his iconic signature bass licks...Featured highlights include Truckin, Spanish Jam, The Raven, The Other One, Passenger, and Box of Rain... RIP Phil Lesh

Final show in the Carrier Dome...Take a Step Back...The Rowdiest Jack Straw ever to end the opening set...Shakedown sizzle...a scintillating Love Light to close...The Yankees are going to the World Series!

What are the ingredients of a masterful live Shakedown? Lets head Into the Deadology laboratory to dissect the awesome '85 Merriweather Shakedown... Ranking the best of the rest from Oakland to Philly to Egypt

Featured show September 23, 1987 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, with special guest, Phil Hyman...A Blood on the Tracks car ride that changed my life...High Times in New Paltz...Unbridled optimism after the 9-18-87 Madison Square Garden Dew...Thoughts on the early years of Dylan's Never Ending Tour

Welcome to the weirdness in Landover...three Playin jams in the opening set. Tiger in a trance deja vu...Please welcome back to New York: THE GRATEFUL DEAD!!!

Perhaps the most underrated Dead show ever...Doug Schmell joins the podcast as we explore the music of 9-10-74...The Grandest Morning Dew of them all...

A show beyond description...Eyewitness accounts from Jim Daley and Doc Rich Weiss...Audio Highlights of perhaps, the most important show in Grateful Dead history

Audio highlights and examination from an underrated show.. Four hours of epic Grateful Dead in Boulder...32 songs, three sets...The awesome combos: He's Gone/ Other One/ Wharf Rat and Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu/ NFA/ GDTRFB/ NFA...

Doug Schmell Joins the podcast to discuss the 50th anniversary pf an iconic Grateful Dead performance,..First set masterpieces: Eyes of the World and Playin/ Scaelet/ Playin...A ratoroys Sugar Magnolia kicks of a second set jam with a stunning Spanish jam...The pride and joy of 1974

Happy Birthday Jerry! 11-song opening set concludes with an insane 14-minute Let it Grow...Scarlet/ Fire--Garcia en fuego as the music plays the band...The best Saint of Circumstance ever followed by a Garcia guitar soliloquy....A Sugar Mag thrashing to end the set

Jerry Garcia Band's first performance in the Bushnell Auditorium July 24, 1980...Please rise for the state song of Connecticut, Sugaree...Blood in the Tracks reversed....audio highlights of Simple Twist of Fate, Tangled Up in Blue...Mission in the Rain and Dear Prudence...Thoughts on the 7-24-87 Dylan/ Dead show.

David Davis joins the podcast with his recollections of this epic show to end the summer tour on Lewiston's State Fairgrounds..Dave shares gripping stories of meeting Phil Lesh that day, and gives us a behind the scenes look at the dirty business of rock and roll economics...The epic Sugaree is a microcosm of the overwhelming show.

A legendary six-song segment to launch set two...Ominous weather conditions lead to a Cold Rain & Snow Fire on the Mountain combo...The Dead kill it for Farm Aid TV...Bob Dylan then and now

City Island memories....A consistently smoking show with a blazing Music, and an Estimated Eyes segue of dreams...Off to the races in Saratoga...Heavy downpours and good intentions...The China Doll...Yeyo and Psycho I and 2