Category: Blog
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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…
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Introducing the New Website!
Read more: Introducing the New Website!Today we are excited to reveal a new Grateful Dead of the Day website. The new build provides a better user experience – with a brand new audio player – and enables us to add features and content going forward. We are also unveiling a Grateful Dead of the Day Patreon community. Becoming a member…
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Bicycle Day
Read more: Bicycle DayCelebrated every April 19th, Bicycle Day commemorates the first time that Albert Hofmann intentionally ingested LSD. Working for Sandoz Laboratories, the Swiss-born chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized LSD on November 16, 1938. His intention was to create a respiratory and circulatory stimulant. Five years later, on April 16, 1943, Hofmann revisited the synthesis, absorbing a…
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Jerry Garcia’s 1973 New Jersey Arrest
Read more: Jerry Garcia’s 1973 New Jersey ArrestOn March 27, 1973, the Dead had a day off between gigs at the Baltimore Civic Center and the Springfield Civic Center in Massachusetts. Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter decided to make the trip together by car. With Jerry behind the wheel of a rented late model Chevrolet, New Jersey State Trooper Richard Procahino pulled…
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Introducing Hunter’s Trix Reseed Project
Read more: Introducing Hunter’s Trix Reseed ProjectDeadicated collectors and careful listeners are already familiar with Hunter’s Trix matrixes, but even those Deadheads who do not know what this type of mix is have probably enjoyed the incredible sound of one of his 100+ releases. Mixing together soundboards and audience recordings, the matrixes Hunter creates put the listeners in the sweetest seat…