Ep 821 : Amelia Davis curator of a new book The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall 1966-1977

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

My guest today on Let There Be Talk is Amelia Davis, the guardian of legendary photographer Jim Marshall’s archive.

Amelia joins me to talk about the brand new coffee table book The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall—a stunning collection of never-before-seen photos capturing one of the greatest bands of all time. From the early days in San Francisco to iconic shows that defined a generation, Jim’s lens documented it all, and Amelia is here to share the stories behind the images and what makes this book a true treasure for Deadheads and music fans alike.

Amelia has been on the show before a few years back when she was promoting the Jim Marshall Documentary

"Show Me The Picture" which is streaming right now on HULU.

The Coffee Table book is available everywhere right now so get out there and support Art.

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0:00.0	All right, thanks for tuning in to another episode of Let To Be Talk.
0:05.6	I got some tour dates tonight.
0:07.2	I will be at Flappers headlining, running a long show.
0:11.2	Thursday night, you can catch me at the Irvine Improv, September 18th.
0:15.9	The 20th, this Saturday, I will be at the Fox Theater with Bill Burr.
0:20.3	And next week, I will be at the Fox Theater with Bill Burr. And next week, I will be at the
0:23.1	Reno Laugh Factory, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, first time up there in Reno at the
0:28.9	Laugh Factory. So come on out. Tour dates at Dean Delray.com. Today we have a fantastic guest who is returning to the show.
0:40.0	I had her on, I think a few years ago.
0:43.5	Amelia Davis is here, and she is the owner and curator of the Jim Marshall catalog of photography, rock photography,
0:56.4	which by the way, I still tripped that Jim had the same birthday as mine,
1:01.3	and I love rock photography, and he loves rock and roll on photography, rest in peace.
1:07.8	But they have put together a fantastic new book called The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall.
1:17.0	And this thing is a masterpiece of dead history from the beginning to 77.
1:25.1	It is a must if you are a fan of the dead and if you love rock photography and if you're a
1:31.0	fan of San Francisco like me, you'll just be blown away. How are you? Good. Thank you, Dean. Yeah.
1:40.0	Yeah, it's a great, great book. It took us about three years to put this book together.
1:46.0	And David Gans curated it with me.
1:49.0	And we just put our heart and soul into this because Jim, you know, had a three by five card on every single person he photographed.
1:58.0	And on that three by five card were the corresponding
2:01.6	proof and neg numbers. So you could look at them really quickly on a job. If somebody said,
2:08.1	hey, what do you have of Jimmy Hendricks? He could just do it really quickly. So he had a card
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