Skull & Roses 50: Side A
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🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Skull & Roses 50: Side A
We begin our 50th anniversary celebration of 1971’s live album Skull & Roses with co-producer Bob Matthews, lighting director Candace Brightman, tour manager Sam Cutler, David Crosby, & David Freiberg, plus lost sessions, a 6-night false start, dream telepathy, song origins & more.
GUESTS: Bob Matthews, Candace Brightman, David Crosby, David Frieberg, David Nelson, Sam Cutler, Stanley Krippner, Stephen Barncard, David Lemieux, Gary Lambert, Blair Jackson
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to The Good Old Grateful Deadcast, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:22.4 | We are pleased as punched to be back in Kicking Off Season 3 with this episode which begins |
| 0:27.6 | our deep dive into The Grateful Dead's 1971 live release, Skull and Roses. |
| 0:34.0 | If you didn't catch it, we dropped an April Fool's Day bonus episode centered around the pranksters |
| 0:39.1 | and the film or acid test entitled, Hug the Heat or the Story of the First Tape. |
| 0:44.9 | Please do check it out because it features new interviews with two of the original pranksters, |
| 0:50.2 | Denise Kaufman and Ken Babs. Highly recommended, pun intended. |
| 0:55.9 | As always, don't forget to drop by our website dead.net slash deadcast and check out the |
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| 1:22.0 | and if the spirit moves you, please leave a review. Very kind to you. Thanks very much. We |
| 1:27.2 | appreciate you sharing this with your friends. In Season 3, we do have another golden anniversary |
| 1:33.5 | we're celebrating. It's the 50th trip around the Sun for the Dead's live double album from 1971, |
| 1:39.8 | Skull and Roses. Recorded by the dynamic duo Bob Matthews and Betty Cantor Jackson, |
| 1:46.3 | this set faithfully captures what many consider to be The Grateful Dead as we all have come to |
| 1:52.0 | know and love them. Jerry Garcia felt that this release was the best representation of the band |
| 1:57.6 | to date and we couldn't agree more. There is a 50th anniversary expanded edition of Skull and |
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