Playing Dead, Part 1
GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST
Grateful Dead
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Deadcast examines how the Grateful Dead became a genre and school of music unto themselves, tracing the history of Dead covers to New Jersey in 1969, Calcutta in 1975, & beyond, featuring special appearances by Phish’s Trey Anastasio & Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan.
Guests: Trey Anastasio, Ira Kaplan, Henry Kaiser, John Zias, Sanjay Mishra, Rebecca Adams, Jeff Mattson, David Gans, Gary Lambert, Dennis McNally
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| 0:00.0 | The Good Old Grateful Deadcast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Rich Mayhan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of The Grateful Dead |
| 0:14.6 | for the committed and the curious. |
| 0:17.8 | Hello friends, welcome back to The Good Old Grateful Deadcast. |
| 0:21.4 | This episode is part one of a two-parter that explores the phenomenon of the Grateful |
| 0:25.6 | Dead's music becoming a genre unto itself. |
| 0:29.0 | And we have many special guests here who help us put the feelings we have for this music |
| 0:33.4 | not only into words, but also help us shed some light on why this music is so much fun |
| 0:38.8 | to play and share with like-minded music fans. |
| 0:42.8 | We'll hear from Dennis McNally, Ira Kaplan, John Zias, David Gans, Rebecca Adams, Sanjay |
| 0:49.7 | Meshra, Jeff Matson, Henry Kaiser, Gary Lambert, and Tray on Estesio. |
| 0:56.1 | As always, you can get new episodes of The Good Old Grateful Deadcast right here every |
| 1:00.7 | other week. |
| 1:02.2 | Visit us at our website, dead.net slash deadcast, and check out the extra materials we have |
| 1:07.2 | for you to explore for this and every episode. |
| 1:10.4 | Also at dead.net slash deadcast, all of our past episodes, including complete seasons |
| 1:16.1 | one and two, as well as the five-part Skolan Roses series we just wrapped up. |
| 1:21.6 | You can link from there to any and all the podcasting platforms available so you can listen |
| 1:26.1 | where you'd like to listen. |
| 1:28.1 | Please help this podcast by subscribing, hitting that like button, and leave us a review. |
| 1:33.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:34.9 | Well friends, the 50th anniversary edition of the Dead's Live Double Album from 1971 |
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