Category: Blog
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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…
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The Days Between
Read more: The Days BetweenThe days between is a fitting name for the holy week between Jerry’s birthday on August 1st and the anniversary of his passing on the 9th, referencing, as it does, one of the last collaborations between Robert Hunter and Garcia. Read our reflection on the tune and listen to some lovely versions of this emotional…
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Videos on Grateful Dead of the Day
Read more: Videos on Grateful Dead of the DayEagle-eye visitors to the site might have already seen that we have re-introduced videos to the website. Up to this point, we have over 400 videos on the site and are adding more daily. You can see a complete list of all the videos on Grateful Dead of the Day, which is now accessible via…
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It’s A Far Gone Lullaby, Sung Many Years Ago
Read more: It’s A Far Gone Lullaby, Sung Many Years AgoDear Grateful Dead of the Day community, Normally today, Margaret and I would be putting together the show notes for our latest episode of the Heads’ Tales podcast. Unfortunately, we are instead both caring for parents – Margaret’s father and my mother – who have fallen gravely ill the last two weeks. As anyone who…
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Dead Guests: Another New Feature
Read more: Dead Guests: Another New FeatureToday, we are unveiling another new feature at Grateful Dead of the Day: information about all the many guests that the Dead welcomed to the stage. It is all part of our effort, aided by our Patreons, to make Grateful Dead of the Day the definitive guide to the band beyond description. You can access…
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Cue Up the Recording of Your Choice!
Read more: Cue Up the Recording of Your Choice!Today, we have added an exciting new feature to Grateful Dead of the Day that allows you to choose the recording you would like to listen to. For each show, we have selected a recording to feature in the player, idiosyncratically mixing audience, soundboard, and matrix recordings. For the most part, this is all you…
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The Star Rating System Explained
Read more: The Star Rating System ExplainedThe star rating on every show is a feature that we carried over from the earlier version of the Grateful Dead of the Day website. These ratings do not represent our assessment of the show. Instead, they are a compilation of user ratings. You can add your rating to the conversation by clicking on whatever…
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Heads’ Tales Tease
Read more: Heads’ Tales TeaseThe Dead loved their teases: the infamous Cosmic Charlie from 1994 or the sweet Stephen in the midst of GSET in 1972. This is ours: we have a new podcast called Heads’ Tales that will drop Thursday.Heads’ Tales aims to capture stories about people’s experiences with the Grateful Dead. From going on tour to trading…
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Reflections on the New Website
Read more: Reflections on the New WebsiteMaking the new Grateful Dead of the Day site live and responding to all the feedback we have received over the last few days has been a whirlwind. It has been amazing to hear from so many of you about how much you have enjoyed Grateful Dead of the Day over the years. And the…
