Grateful Dead Pt. 1: Freedom's Just Another Word for…

DISGRACELAND

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Music, True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Grateful Dead became one of the most influential bands of all time and propelled themselves with improvisation, LSD and an ethos of “freedom”. Through drug busts and CIA surveillance, they thrived and created one of the largest, most fervent and commercially consequential fan bases of all time. Freedom, LSD and improvised blues in the key of bummed the fuck out on this episode of Disgraceland. For a full list of contributors, see the show notes at ⁠⁠disgracelandpod.com⁠⁠ This episode was originally published on April 16, 2019. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠disgracelandpod.com/membership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GET THE NEWSLETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (formerly Twitter) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook Fan Group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Double Elvis.
0:06.0	When was the last time you had space to feel?
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0:17.0	Maybe you'll find connection among the stories of the past,
0:22.3	or a moment to disconnect from it all on a mountainside.
0:27.5	Whatever you're feeling, wherever you are, with the National Trust, you can make space to feel.
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1:07.9	Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.
1:20.1	Music Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about the Grateful Dead are insane.
1:23.9	Singer guitarist Jerry Garcia dosed unsuspecting film crews with LSD.
1:28.3	Drummer Bill Kurtzman reportedly slept with 13 women in one night.
1:33.3	The band was arrested in New Orleans with enough acid and assorted drugs to fuel an alternate moon landing.
1:39.3	The Grateful Dead were born out of the sonic boom of 1960s counterculture and carried the mantle
1:45.7	further and longer and with more significance than any of their 60s counterparts.
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