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🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 131 minutes
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We time travel to one of the Grateful Dead’s most legendary shows, the 1972 benefit that saved the Springfield Creamery, featuring eyewitness accounts of heads freaking freely in the scorching heat amid some of the most incandescent jams of the band’s career.
Guests: David Lemieux, Johnny Dwork, Justin Kreutzmann, Chuck Kesey, Sue Kesey, Mike Sherwood, Dave tharp, Joshua Clark Davis, Nancy Hamren, Richard Sutton, Larry Roberts, Jay Kerley, David Koranda, Strider Brown, Sam field, Adrian Marin, Camille Cole, Al Strobel, Dano Hikinin, Michele Lefowith, Don Witten, and Mango Man
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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. |
0:18.8 | Ladies and gentlemen, fellow deadheads, welcome to season six of The Good Old Grateful |
0:22.8 | Deadcast. |
0:23.8 | I'm your co-host Rich Mayhan, thanks for taking this trip along with us into the world |
0:29.0 | of The Grateful Dead. |
0:30.9 | In this episode, as in the season six opener last week, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary |
0:36.6 | of what many deadheads consider to be one of the best shows the band ever played. |
0:41.9 | August 27, 1972 found the band onstage at a benefit for the Springfield Creamery in |
0:48.0 | Vanita, Oregon. |
0:49.6 | Well documented in the film Sunshine Daydream, this show sports vintage 1972 Grateful Dead, |
0:56.6 | paying their hearts out for an enthusiastic crowd in scorching temperatures. |
1:01.7 | Our website, dead.net slash deadcast has extra materials for you to explore from this |
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