Category: Blog
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Baba O’Reilly> Tomorrow Never Knows
Read more: Baba O’Reilly> Tomorrow Never KnowsGetting ready for tomorrow, December 17th, I realized we have a Baba O’Reilly> Tomorrow Never Knows encore from the December 17, 1992 show at the Oakland Coliseum. I have been listening to a lot of these recently. And I just love this pairing, bringing together all-time songs from The Who and The Beatles. The coupling…
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The 2005 Thanksgiving Day Massacre: Archive Removes the Dead
Read more: The 2005 Thanksgiving Day Massacre: Archive Removes the DeadIn what quickly became billed as the Thanksgiving Day Massacre, on November 22, 2005, Archive.org, at the Grateful Dead’s request, stopped all streaming and downloading of Dead shows on Archive. Outcry from Deadheads against what they saw as a money grab contrary to the band’s ethics came quick and furious, and a petition to make…
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Join Our New Facebook Group
Read more: Join Our New Facebook GroupWe invite you to become a member of our new Grateful Dead of the Day Facebook group. And also click through to read about how our old 27,000 Deadhead-strong Facebook page ended up in Zuckerberg’s jail.
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Steve Brown
Read more: Steve BrownAfter working at KSFO Radio, managing the band Friendly Stranger, and promoting records, Steve Brown – Bones to friends – served in the US Navy Reserve from 1966 to 1971 and on active duty from June 1967 to December 1968. During that time, Brown created the music tapes for the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet, which…
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Definitive Setlists
Read more: Definitive SetlistsHere at Grateful Dead, we are putting a definitive list of setlists together. Eventually, this will allow you to search for music and shows in all sorts of different ways. I started in 1977 and went forward. Compiling the setlists from the 70s, 80s, and 90s were a relative breeze. But as I returned to…
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The First Dead Sandwich
Read more: The First Dead SandwichAs part of our definitive setlists project, I have been working on a snippet from 1966 today. The recording has Good Morning Little Schoolgirl going into You Don’t Love Me and back into Schoolgirl, the earliest Dead sandwich of any kind before 1969, as The Grateful Dead Guide points out. A friend (who is working…
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Chelsea Clinton Backstage with the Grateful Dead
Read more: Chelsea Clinton Backstage with the Grateful DeadA thirteen-year-old Chelsea Clinton, together with some teenybopper friends and a phalanx of Secret Service agents, attended the June 26, 1993 show at RFK. Backstage at the show, Chelsea ended up hanging with Jerry and Bobby, but not before she was accosted by Bear. Read all about Chelsea’s Dead experience…
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Dancin’ In The Streets
Read more: Dancin’ In The StreetsWhenever the Dead turned to Dancin’ In The Streets, often to open a set, you knew things were about to get hot and funky. But there were some different flavors to this funk because the Dead trotted out Dancin’ during three distinct periods, first, from its debut on July 3, 1966 until late 1970, then…
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Cracking Open The Year
Read more: Cracking Open The YearThe Grateful Dead often took their time getting going in any given year. Sure, through 1972, they started each new year sometime in January. But in the years after that, they were far more likely to start in February or even March than early in the year. Check out our breakdown of how the boys…
