Workingman’s Dead 50, Episode 4: New Speedway Boogie

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🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We explore “New Speedway Boogie,” the last song on Side 1 of the Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead, examining how the song grew from the disastrous 1969 free festival at Altamont headlined by the Rolling Stones, and listen to never-heard session outtakes from “Mason’s Children.”

GUESTS: Bob Matthews, Sam Cutler, Gary Lambert, David Lemieux, Buzz Poole, Mike Johnson, Brian Kehew

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0:00.0	The Good Old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead.
0:09.9	I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious.
0:17.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the good old Grateful Dead cast, where we unraveled the mysteries of the Grateful Dead and shine a light on topics we know you'll dig.
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0:30.0	It helps spread the show to those who haven't turned on to it yet and we
0:34.4	truly appreciate your help. 2020 finds us celebrating the 50th anniversary of
0:39.9	Working Man's Dead and we are deep diving into this classic Grateful Dead studio album,
0:44.7	taking it track by track, getting down to the real nitty gritty.
0:48.6	Be sure to treat yourself to the expertly remastered re-release of the album, which out now and also includes an epic show from February 21st 1971 at the Capitol Theater in Portchester mixed by Jeffrey Norman from the original 16 track analog reel-to-reel tapes
1:06.2	over at Bob Weirs, TRI studios, and Marin County.
1:09.9	Dead.net has all the info on this release and its various configurations.
1:15.0	Well, in this episode, we sink our teeth into the final track on side one.
1:20.0	New Speedway Boogie.
1:22.0	I can't believe we're already halfway through Working Man's Dead after this episode.
1:26.0	I've always dug Jerry's killer tone on this song. It cuts like a hot knife through Baker's Field Butter.
1:32.0	All right folks, let's get this party started.
1:34.4	We're gonna hand it off to my co-host,
1:36.2	Jesse Jarno. Closing Side One of Working Man's Dead was yet another song unlike the others.
1:50.6	To go along with a vibratory Calypso of Uncle John's band, the tenderness of high time, and the doomed fable of the dire wolf,
1:58.0	now there came the dark slink of new Speedway boogie.
2:01.0	It was the album's hardest hitting song yet. The Great Wild Dead were notorious
2:06.7	for having two drummers, but this Boogie didn't have drums at all, and it was hot off the press. Please don't dominate the rap jack if you got nothing new to say.
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