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🗓️ 4 July 2024
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The Grateful Deadcast welcomes back Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay for the season finale, digs into “Ship of Fools,” and visits the set for the Grateful Dead Movie, aka the Dead’s five “retirement” shows at Winterland in 1974, with heads who attended.
Guests: Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Ron Rakow, Ned Lagin, David Grisman, Elvis Costello, Steve Brown, Richie Pechner, Jerry Pompili, Jim Sullivan, John Perry, Gary Lambert, Geoff Gould, Joan Brown, Michael Parrish, Corry Arnold, Strider Brown, Jay Kerley, Rita Fiedler, Rene Tinner, Lee Ranaldo, Gregory Barette, Ron Long, David Lemieux, Brian Anderson, Shaugn O’Donnell, Brian Kehew
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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. |
0:19.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, fellow deadheads, welcome to season 9 of the Good Old Grateful Deadcast. |
0:25.0 | I'm your co-host Rich Mayanne, thank you very much for tuning in. |
0:29.0 | In this episode of The good old Grateful Dead cast, |
0:32.7 | our final episode of season nine, |
0:35.2 | we wrap up our exploration of the Grateful Dead's |
0:38.2 | wonderful 1974 studio album from the Mars Hotel. There's only one track left at the |
0:45.4 | end of side two to dive into and it's the absolute classic ship of fools. |
0:53.0 | It is the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Deads from the Mars Hotel and to celebrate this |
0:57.9 | Rhino has released the 50th anniversary edition of from the Mars Hotel, including the original album |
1:04.6 | remastered, some really cool early demos of songs from the album, and a |
1:09.0 | previously unreleased live show you need to Hear to Believe. |
1:13.6 | The Grateful Dead played the University of Nevada Reno on May 12, 1974. |
1:19.2 | And this was the first road show for the infamous Wall of Sound which debuted weeks earlier at the |
1:24.2 | Cow Palace in San Francisco. This was a notoriously windy show. So the audio |
1:31.0 | was cleaned up and remastered by Grammy Award winning engineer David Glasser |
1:35.6 | with Plangent Processes, tape restoration and speed correction and was produced for release |
1:40.9 | by David Lemieux. |
1:43.2 | All of the aforementioned is available as a three CD set as well as digitally. |
1:48.2 | There is also a black vinyl version available. |
1:51.1 | More info and orders are happening now at dead.net. |
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