Deadology

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

Doug Schmell joins us to discuss this epic three-set extravaganza...The Wall of Sound comes to Iowa...The King of all China Cats...The awesome Eyes into Big River, and the sensational post Truckin' jam

A lively discussion of an immortal JGB show with Perry Paletta, and we reminisce about returning to the Music Mountain stage on the 40th anniversary of the show. Garcia was en fuegp! Prime Garcia on guitar and vocals...And the came the torrential rains and a hot set from Bobby and the Midnights. Relive the majesty of Music Mountain!

In addition to discussing an immortal Jerry show with Perry Paletta, we reminisce about our pilgrimage to find the Music Mountain stage on the 40th anniversary of the performance...Jerry was en fuego! Peak Garcia on vocals and guitar...Two well balanced sets...And them came the torrential rains and a hot performance from Bobby & the Midnights. Relive the majesty of Music Mountain!

The shocking news...Walton, Wooden, UCLA, and the Grateful Dead...NCAA Championships... Foot injuries...An NBA Championship for Portland...More foot issues...From Wooden's Pyramid to the Egyptian Pyramids with the Dead...Clippers Blues....A Last Hurrah with Bird and Boston...Broadcaster's Paradise...Fare You Well Bill

A Grateful tribute to Bob Dylan on his 83rd birthday. These are the ten greatest performances of Dylan songs featuring Jerry Garcia. Audio highlights from all ten selections.

Epic 77 shows...St. Louis, all-time great Dancin' in the Street and the first Estimated Eyes...The Dead storm into Alabama for their first show there and play a two hour opening set that concludes with a major presentation of Scarlet > Fire, and my god, that masterful Sugar Magnolia encore! Enjoy

A Playin' in the Band mind-melt opens this epic show...Doug Schmell joins us again for some enthusiastic commentary. A huge night for Pig Pen, and possibly the greatest Dark Star of them all followed by a blockbuster Sugar Mag...After we run through the monster second set, Doug and I rank the five best shows of Europe 72...Enjoy!

A legendary four night run with Miles Davis opening up for the Grateful Dead in the Fillmore West. Thank you Bill Graham. The Miles show on 4-10-70 was recorded and released as a double album, Black Beauty. The April 12 Dead show features a batch of new tunes as well as monster versions of Dancin in the Street, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, and Viola Lee Blues.

High times with the Dead on April 20 1983 in Providence, and April 20 1984 in Philadelphia. Two of the best shows of the decade. Awesome performances of Let it Grow, Scarlet Fire, Estimated Eyes, Morning Dews, etc....

A pair of tremendous April 14 shows separated by ten years. Doug Schmell is back on the podcast to recall memories of being tenth row in Glenn's Falls, and to heap praise on the Dead's awesome 1972 performance for Copenhagen. Awesome musical highlights and spirited discussion. Enjoy!

Live from Beale Street, Memphis,,,A life changing show in Philly....Cold Rain & Snow for those traveling through treacherous weather,...The only time the Grateful Dead played Shakedown, Terrapin, Morning Dew, and Sugar Mag in the same show.

All-time great Straw--Sugaree opener...Garcia's Theory of Relativity...Grant Green...blazing first set...strange synthesized noises...dancing, singing, and celebration in the streets of Springfield.

The completed Wall of Sound debut, as well as debut versions of Scarlet Begonias and Cassidy. Final performance of Playin' UJB Morning Dew UJB Playin....Unique version of a 77 Sugaree, first Scarlet Fire, and first excess Terrapin Station jamming....two historic shows

My first Dead show, 3-9-81...Sensational versions of Stranger, Althea, Ramble on Rose, Cat > Rider and more. These nights in Madison Square Garden feature some of the most unique playing of teh Grateful dead's career.