American Beauty 50, Episode 4: Operator

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🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate “Operator,” the fourth song on American Beauty and the first Grateful Dead song written solely by Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, we examine his life and offer an extremely rare look into the Pigpen archives, a collection of journals, letters, and more inherited by an old family friend.

Bob Weir, Jim Sullivan, Brain Kehew, Michael Parrish, David Lemieux, Gary Lambert

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0:00.0	The Good Old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead.
0:09.9	I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious.
0:17.0	Welcome back to the good old Grateful Dead cast.
0:21.0	This episode continues our celebration of the music on American Beauty as we dive in a track for on side one operator
0:28.0	You would be correct to assume we are going to talk about pig pen quite a bit in this episode and we'll be taking a very rare dive into the Pigpin Archives to illustrate our story.
0:39.0	If this is your first time joining us, we invite you to also check out the 10 episodes from
0:44.1	season one which dove head first into the eight songs on Working Man's Dead and
0:48.4	also serves up two fun bonus episodes. Both albums are celebrating their 50th
0:53.6	anniversaries this year and each episode offers something special we
0:57.2	hope you enjoy. You can always get the latest episodes and link to your
1:01.0	favorite listening platforms at our website dead.net slash deadcast.
1:06.0	Here we also feature companion materials for each episode so you can fall down ever deeper into the rabbit hole and this pig pen operator episode offers some
1:15.3	especially gander worthy specimens. Please help this podcast by subscribing
1:21.1	getting that like button and if the spirit moves you, leave us a review, very kind of you, thank you very much.
1:28.0	It is the 50th anniversary of American Beauty, and the Grateful Dead have prepared a three-cedy set
1:34.9	reissue of this classic album which includes a pristine remastering of the album's
1:39.4	ten tracks as well as an unreleased live show from February 18th 1971 at the Capitol Theater.
1:47.0	Along with this impeccably remastered three CDs set,
1:51.0	we also offer you a new batch of Angel Share Audio out now not only are the full band
1:58.0	acoustic demos for American Beauty, but also the rest of the studio outtakes from the American Beauty recording sessions.
2:05.1	Be sure to check out the Angel Share American Beauty audio at your favorite streaming service
2:10.0	or download provider. That's right, you can buy it, download it
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