Watkins Glen Summer Jam, 7/73, part 1

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Watkins Glen Summer Jam ‘73, Part 1

Musicians, organizers, & fans tell the epic story of how the Watkins Glen Summer Jam started as a giant rock show & turned into history when more than a half-million came to see the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, & The Band.

GUESTS: Sam Cutler, Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Bunky Odom, Chuck Leavell, Jim Koplik, Buddy Thornton, Susan Wickersham, Janet Furman, Sepp Donahower, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Silberman, John Ramsey, Tim Meehan, Michael Simmons, Dan Henklein, Erik Nelson, Bob Student, Jim Cooper, Todd Ellenberg, Ihor Slabicky, Jay Kerley, Joe Gauthier, Eric Alden, David Lemieux, Alan Paul

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0:00.0	The Good Old Grateful Dead Cast
0:07.7	The official podcast of The Grateful Dead.
0:10.2	I'm Rich Mayhan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of The Grateful Dead for
0:15.1	the committed and the curious.
0:18.6	Ladies and gentlemen, fellow deadheads, welcome to Season 8 of The Good Old Grateful Dead
0:23.8	Cast.
0:24.8	I'm your co-host Rich Mayhan.
0:26.7	Thank you very much for tuning in.
0:29.2	So we wrapped up Season 7 talking about the RFK shows with the Almond Brothers.
0:34.4	That are a part of the Here Comes Sunshine 1973 box set, and we're kicking off Season 8
0:40.1	by diving into another Almond Brothers related event.
0:44.0	You are about to embark on a two-parter, covering the famous summer jam show at Watkins
0:49.3	Glen in 1973, which also included The Band.
0:55.4	Just being the 50th anniversary of this historic concert event, it is also the 50th anniversary
1:01.3	of The Grateful Dead's monumental 1973 studio album, Wake of the Flood.
1:07.8	To celebrate this, Rhino has a grand 50th anniversary Wake of the Flood release, which includes
1:13.4	the original album Remastered, some really cool early demos of songs from the album, and
1:19.8	six songs from a live show at McGaw Memorial Hall at Northwestern University, and Evanston
1:26.0	Illinois on November 1st, 1973.
1:30.5	There will be special vinyl as well as standard black vinyl, CDs, and digital versions available.
1:36.9	More info and pre-orders are happening now over at dead.net.
1:43.4	Head on over to dead.net slash deadcast and check out all of our past episodes of The
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