Join author, Howard Weiner, as he explores the diverse musical universe of the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia. Howard draws upon his many years of touring with the Grateful Dead to analyze their best shows and jams, as well as sharing his personal tales from the road, Deadology will also provide a touch of Dylan, and other artists influential to the Dead.
Alabama > Straw brilliance for starters...Debut of She Belongs to Me....Awesome LSD to end the set, Jerry rips Saint and Deal...First Crazy Fingers in 18 months...A hyper runaway version of GDTRFB...Jerry in Beast Mode all night....
Betty Boards,,,Let my inspiration flow...the debut of Terrapin and Estimated...First set dominated by second set tunes...Help/ Slipknot!/ Franklin's = insanity....A grand opening show for a magnificent year....
A Sugaree Master Class for openers...Jerry's Soul Town...The hottest Valerie ever...Scorching Tangled Up in Blue...Weir and friends join JGB for a memorable double encore
A JGB show for the ages...The Melvin Seals factor in Mississippi Moon and Harder They Come...Awesome versions of Mission in the Rain, Deal, Sugaree, and Simple Twist of Fate...Jerry's guitar weeps Prudence tears for John Lennon....Jerry gives it his all for New York City
Doug Schmell joins the podcast to explore this iconic performance...Ripping renditions of T Jed, J Straw, and Music Never Stopped...The infamous Close Encounters jam is tucked between The Other One and St. Stephen...This is a show for the ages
A Complete Unknown, review of the marvelous Dylan movie...Branford joins the Dead for Birdsong...Immaculate improvisation in the first instrumental of Eyes...38 minutes of Dark Star magic...Knockin' on Heaven's Door just like so many times before
Dawn of the Golden Era for the Jerry Garcia Band...Three epic masterpieces: Sugaree, After Midnight, Positively 4th Street...Album of the Week: Countdown to Ecstasy
Doug Schmell joins the podcast to relish the Dead's awesome New Year's '81 show. A huge night for Jerry commences with a monster Shakedown...This celebration has it all: Cold Rain, Terrapin, Dew, Dark Star, etc....Happy New Year!
David Davis joins me to discuss his new book, The Economic History of the Grateful Dead....A massive fan crush getting into the 11-10-85 show...The Dead take Cassidy and Feel Like a Stranger to levels unimaginable...A strong 1985 vocal night for Jerry, especially on Stagger Lee, Comes a Time, and It's All Over Now, Baby Blue...Awesome audio highlights!
43 years ago the Dead rock Market Square Arena....C.C. Rider madness...The house lights shine on a legendary Let it Grow...Well-balanced sets with blazing yet concise improvisations...The art of enjoying a smoking Stella outro.
Doug Schmell joins us to discuss this short, yet, outrageous 1972 gem. Stay in there for the audio highlights at the end. The Grateful Dead rocked Dallas to the very marrow. Several contenders for all-time great versions here.
Early and late shows...Audio highlights and first-hand commentary from a time I remember oh so well...From Dylan to The Beatles to Smokey's Soul Town, its the JGB in NYC!
A bomb-bastic tribute to Phil including many of his iconic signature bass licks...Featured highlights include Truckin, Spanish Jam, The Raven, The Other One, Passenger, and Box of Rain... RIP Phil Lesh
Final show in the Carrier Dome...Take a Step Back...The Rowdiest Jack Straw ever to end the opening set...Shakedown sizzle...a scintillating Love Light to close...The Yankees are going to the World Series!
What are the ingredients of a masterful live Shakedown? Lets head Into the Deadology laboratory to dissect the awesome '85 Merriweather Shakedown... Ranking the best of the rest from Oakland to Philly to Egypt
Featured show September 23, 1987 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, with special guest, Phil Hyman...A Blood on the Tracks car ride that changed my life...High Times in New Paltz...Unbridled optimism after the 9-18-87 Madison Square Garden Dew...Thoughts on the early years of Dylan's Never Ending Tour
Welcome to the weirdness in Landover...three Playin jams in the opening set. Tiger in a trance deja vu...Please welcome back to New York: THE GRATEFUL DEAD!!!
Perhaps the most underrated Dead show ever...Doug Schmell joins the podcast as we explore the music of 9-10-74...The Grandest Morning Dew of them all...
A show beyond description...Eyewitness accounts from Jim Daley and Doc Rich Weiss...Audio Highlights of perhaps, the most important show in Grateful Dead history
Audio highlights and examination from an underrated show.. Four hours of epic Grateful Dead in Boulder...32 songs, three sets...The awesome combos: He's Gone/ Other One/ Wharf Rat and Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu/ NFA/ GDTRFB/ NFA...
Doug Schmell Joins the podcast to discuss the 50th anniversary pf an iconic Grateful Dead performance,..First set masterpieces: Eyes of the World and Playin/ Scaelet/ Playin...A ratoroys Sugar Magnolia kicks of a second set jam with a stunning Spanish jam...The pride and joy of 1974
Happy Birthday Jerry! 11-song opening set concludes with an insane 14-minute Let it Grow...Scarlet/ Fire--Garcia en fuego as the music plays the band...The best Saint of Circumstance ever followed by a Garcia guitar soliloquy....A Sugar Mag thrashing to end the set
Jerry Garcia Band's first performance in the Bushnell Auditorium July 24, 1980...Please rise for the state song of Connecticut, Sugaree...Blood in the Tracks reversed....audio highlights of Simple Twist of Fate, Tangled Up in Blue...Mission in the Rain and Dear Prudence...Thoughts on the 7-24-87 Dylan/ Dead show.
David Davis joins the podcast with his recollections of this epic show to end the summer tour on Lewiston's State Fairgrounds..Dave shares gripping stories of meeting Phil Lesh that day, and gives us a behind the scenes look at the dirty business of rock and roll economics...The epic Sugaree is a microcosm of the overwhelming show.
A legendary six-song segment to launch set two...Ominous weather conditions lead to a Cold Rain & Snow Fire on the Mountain combo...The Dead kill it for Farm Aid TV...Bob Dylan then and now
City Island memories....A consistently smoking show with a blazing Music, and an Estimated Eyes segue of dreams...Off to the races in Saratoga...Heavy downpours and good intentions...The China Doll...Yeyo and Psycho I and 2
Doug Schmell joins us to discuss this epic three-set extravaganza...The Wall of Sound comes to Iowa...The King of all China Cats...The awesome Eyes into Big River, and the sensational post Truckin' jam
A lively discussion of an immortal JGB show with Perry Paletta, and we reminisce about returning to the Music Mountain stage on the 40th anniversary of the show. Garcia was en fuegp! Prime Garcia on guitar and vocals...And the came the torrential rains and a hot set from Bobby and the Midnights. Relive the majesty of Music Mountain!
In addition to discussing an immortal Jerry show with Perry Paletta, we reminisce about our pilgrimage to find the Music Mountain stage on the 40th anniversary of the performance...Jerry was en fuego! Peak Garcia on vocals and guitar...Two well balanced sets...And them came the torrential rains and a hot performance from Bobby & the Midnights. Relive the majesty of Music Mountain!
The shocking news...Walton, Wooden, UCLA, and the Grateful Dead...NCAA Championships... Foot injuries...An NBA Championship for Portland...More foot issues...From Wooden's Pyramid to the Egyptian Pyramids with the Dead...Clippers Blues....A Last Hurrah with Bird and Boston...Broadcaster's Paradise...Fare You Well Bill
A Grateful tribute to Bob Dylan on his 83rd birthday. These are the ten greatest performances of Dylan songs featuring Jerry Garcia. Audio highlights from all ten selections.
Epic 77 shows...St. Louis, all-time great Dancin' in the Street and the first Estimated Eyes...The Dead storm into Alabama for their first show there and play a two hour opening set that concludes with a major presentation of Scarlet > Fire, and my god, that masterful Sugar Magnolia encore! Enjoy
A Playin' in the Band mind-melt opens this epic show...Doug Schmell joins us again for some enthusiastic commentary. A huge night for Pig Pen, and possibly the greatest Dark Star of them all followed by a blockbuster Sugar Mag...After we run through the monster second set, Doug and I rank the five best shows of Europe 72...Enjoy!
A legendary four night run with Miles Davis opening up for the Grateful Dead in the Fillmore West. Thank you Bill Graham. The Miles show on 4-10-70 was recorded and released as a double album, Black Beauty. The April 12 Dead show features a batch of new tunes as well as monster versions of Dancin in the Street, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, and Viola Lee Blues.
High times with the Dead on April 20 1983 in Providence, and April 20 1984 in Philadelphia. Two of the best shows of the decade. Awesome performances of Let it Grow, Scarlet Fire, Estimated Eyes, Morning Dews, etc....
A pair of tremendous April 14 shows separated by ten years. Doug Schmell is back on the podcast to recall memories of being tenth row in Glenn's Falls, and to heap praise on the Dead's awesome 1972 performance for Copenhagen. Awesome musical highlights and spirited discussion. Enjoy!
Live from Beale Street, Memphis,,,A life changing show in Philly....Cold Rain & Snow for those traveling through treacherous weather,...The only time the Grateful Dead played Shakedown, Terrapin, Morning Dew, and Sugar Mag in the same show.
All-time great Straw--Sugaree opener...Garcia's Theory of Relativity...Grant Green...blazing first set...strange synthesized noises...dancing, singing, and celebration in the streets of Springfield.
The completed Wall of Sound debut, as well as debut versions of Scarlet Begonias and Cassidy. Final performance of Playin' UJB Morning Dew UJB Playin....Unique version of a 77 Sugaree, first Scarlet Fire, and first excess Terrapin Station jamming....two historic shows
My first Dead show, 3-9-81...Sensational versions of Stranger, Althea, Ramble on Rose, Cat > Rider and more. These nights in Madison Square Garden feature some of the most unique playing of teh Grateful dead's career.
A conversation with GD taper Doug Schmell about the majesty of Bickershaw...Overcoming adversity to deliver a 4-hour show for the ages...Audio highlights: smoking jams from Greatest Story, The Other One, Love Light, and GDTRFB
The JGB performs a first set for the ages in Caldwell College on 8-11-84, and then a fan runs into the drum kit and blows up set two...Audio highlights from the awesome first set, and a feel for the shows before and after Caldwell.
Jerry on top of the world off Broadway....night one 5-31-83, best-ever versions of They Love Each Other, That;s What Love Will Make You Do, Harder They Come and Mississippi Moon....Night two 6-1-83 features hyper-extended renditions of Rhapsody in Red, Don't Let it Grow, Russian Lullaby, and Deal...Jerry conquers New York City.
Epic month for the Jerry Garcia Band and U.S. Hockey...awesome audio snippets from 2-17-80...Garcia's wisdom on Positively 4th Street...Jer drops the steel jack hammer during Let it Rock...Ozzie Ahlers on Eleanor Rigby...a double encore for Oswego...more JGB next week
The greatest Jerry show kicks off Jerry Garcia Band month in February. In Pacific High, Garcia pays tribute to Dylan, Lennon, Wonder, Ray Charles, Doc Pomus, Jimmie Rodgers and Jesse Winchester. Audio highlights of some of the greatest improvisation you will ever hear,..And, an interview with former JGB member, Ozzie Ahlers.
The Grateful Dead perform a landmark show on the heels of their Europe 72 triumph. Howard interviews Barry Aquilino, a Deadhead in attendance for this three-set Roosevelt Stadium affair. Audio highlights include Black-Throated Wind, Truckin, and Dark Star.
Tour prep and set list psychology...Beyond imagination in Worcester...Elvis in Augusta...the pros and cons of set list design...Final On the Road Again...Seems like 1973, the grand masterpiece UJB > Drums > Space > Playin > UJB > Morning Dew...Album of the Week: Otis Rush Live at the Wise Fools Pub
This episode features audio highlights of three astounding performances from the Dead's 1-11-78 show in the Shrine Auditorium. While visiting the Shrine, Howard time travels back to a super gig in the Shrine 15 months earlier on 10-15-76. Album of the week: So Near, So Far, Musings for Miles by Joe HendersonBooks by Howard F. Weiner
Awesome interview with Doug, taper extraordinaire and Grateful Dead enthusiast... We explore his Deadhead evolution, how he became a taper, and reminisce about those memorable road trips. And then he shares his love of the Europe 72 box set...Satisfaction guaranteedBooks by Howard F, Weiner @ https://www.tangledupintunes.com/
Happy New Year! Enjoy the top ten finest GD New Year's performances in a timeless countdown. Celebrate the holiest day of Deadology. Featured versions include, The Eleven, Dark Star, Morning Dew, Eyes of the World, and much more.Books by Howard F. WEINER @ https://www.tangledupintunes.com
A tribute to Dick's Picks Vol 5 on its 44th anniversary….Phil''s rumbling thunder…First Uncle John's in two years….Wild improv….Shakedown > UJB reprise completes the loop….Album of the week: Neil Young & the Bluesnotes Books by Howard F, Weiner @ https://www.tangledupintunes.com
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