Deadology

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