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GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST

“The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast,” the official Grateful Dead podcast, is a series devoted to exploring the music and mythology behind one of the most enduring, progressive, and influential bands in the history of recorded music. The podcast’s tagline is “For The Committed And The Curious,” as episodes will invite new fans to explore the band’s enormous mythology in digestible chunks and enlighten life-long Dead Heads about corners of the band’s history they never knew existed. No topic will

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01:37:08

Blues For Allah 50: King Solomon’s Marbles/Stronger...

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/09/25

The Deadcast unpacks the two-part extra-heady “King Solomon’s Marbles”/’Stronger Than Dirt or Milkin’ the Turkey,” using the instrumental to get into the Dead’s 1975 dalliances with holography, as well as Phil Lesh’s other unfinished pieces from Blues For Allah.

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01:20:33

Blues For Allah 50: Franklin’s Tower

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2025/09/11

The Deadcast examines how Franklin’s Tower bucked every trend on Blues For Allah to become one of the Dead’s all-time classics, including a tape of its studio creation, a look into the multi-tracks, & a rare line-by-line breakdown by lyricist Robert Hunter himself.

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01:49:55

Blues For Allah 50: Slipknot!

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/08/28

The Deadcast uses Blues For Allah’s complicated instrumental Slipknot! to explore the musical and creative ambiguity the Grateful Dead pursued in early 1975, when there both was and wasn’t a Grateful Dead, & their public reemergence at Bill Graham’s S.N.A.C.K. benefit that March.

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01:30:49

Blues For Allah 50: Help On the Way

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2025/08/14

The Grateful Deadcast points itself towards 1975 to begin a song-by-song celebration of Blues For Allah’s 50th anniversary, loaded with raw session tapes, early lyric drafts, & the story of how the Dead built a new studio, musical language, batch of songs, & LP from the ground up. Guests: David Lemieux, Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Ron Rakow, Stephen Barncard, Ned Lagin, Steve Brown, Gary Lambert, Keith Eaton, Shaugn O’Donnell, Chadwick Jenkins, Matt Campbell See Privacy Policy at

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01:41:35

Bonus Rerun: From the Mars Hotel 50: Ship of Fools

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/08/07

The Grateful Deadcast visits the set for the Grateful Dead Movie, aka the Dead’s five “retirement” shows at Winterland in 1974, with heads who attended. This bonus episode is a re-run of the 2nd half of Deadcast Season 9, episode 8.

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01:27:01

Dan Healy 80

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/07/31

The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast is thrilled beyond all audible frequencies to begin its 12th season by welcoming Dan Healy, the Grateful Dead’s in-house sound wizard for most of their career, for tales from three decades in pursuit of high and higher fidelity.

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01:33:20

Enjoying the Ride: On Tour

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/06/05

The Deadcast season finale hits shows at 3 legendary venues, exploring Dick Latvala’s transformative experience at Red Rocks ‘79, Hollie Rose’s tour journal, the wonders of the Alpine Valley parking lot, & when Shakedown Street got its name.

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01:41:59

Enjoying the Ride: East Coast, Part 2

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/05/22

The Deadcast cruises down the eastern seaboard, including stops in Hartford, Hampton, Philadelphia, and Landover, featuring touring tips, another police chase, & a visit to the White House.

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01:59:39

Enjoying the Ride: East Coast, Part 1

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/05/08

The Deadcast makes a beeline for the northeast, focusing on shows from legendary venues in the Manhattan and Boston areas included on the new Enjoying the Ride box, including ESP experiments, weed smuggling, free jazz titans, multiple police chases, and more.

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01:34:05

Enjoying the Ride: Bay Area, Part 2

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/04/24

The Deadcast’s tour of Enjoying the Ride trucks all the way to the East Bay, exploring beloved venues including the Greek Theater & Kaiser Auditorium, with tales of the Hog Farm’s Skeleton Crew & vintage field recordings from Oakland Coliseum Arena’s parking lot.

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01:22:51

Enjoying the Ride: Bay Area, Part 1

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/04/10

The Deadcast begins our virtual tour of the new Enjoying the Ride box, visiting the cradle of the Dead in Palo Alto/Menlo Park (with a detour to visit the Warlocks’ earliest shows) before heading to San Francisco with stops at the Fillmore West and Winterland.

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01:05:17

BONUS: Tiger Rose 50

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/04/03

For the 50th anniversary reissue of Tiger Rose, we explore the lost story of Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia’s only full-length studio collaboration, the Dead lyricist’s 2nd solo album, produced by Garcia & performed by an all-star cast including Garcia, Mickey Hart, & Donna Jean Godchaux.

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01:44:30

Phil 85, Part 2

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/03/27

In the 2nd part of the Deadcast’s Phil Lesh tribute, we get deep into his singular bass playing with Phil’s son & bandmate Grahame, Phish’s Mike Gordon, & musicologist Rob Collier, while touring Phil’s high adventures with Ned Lagin, radio co-host Gary Lambert, & other friends.

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01:11:31

Phil 85, Part 1

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2025/03/13

The Deadcast begins its 11th season with a celebration of the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh, drawing on archival interviews to explore his unusual trajectory from jazz trumpet to avant-garde composition to rock and roll bass, and welcoming special guest Mike Gordon of Phish.

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01:07:31

Robert Hunter’s The Silver Snarling Trumpet, part 2

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2024/12/05

The Deadcast concludes its dive into Robert Hunter’s 1962 book, The Silver Snarling Trumpet (and its 10th season), exploring teenage Jerry Garcia’s adventures with his friends Alan Trist and Brigid Meier in Palo Alto, and how this early scene gave way to the Grateful Dead.

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01:11:48

Robert Hunter’s The Silver Snarling Trumpet, part 1

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2024/11/21

To celebrate the Deadcast’s 100th episode, we begin a 2-part special joined by the co-stars of Robert Hunter’s newly-published 1962 book, the Silver Snarling Trumpet, a startling in-the-moment account of his and Jerry Garcia’s formative years in Palo Alto.

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01:28:17

The Dead and the Sufi Choir, 3/71

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2024/11/07

The Deadcast uncovers the long-lost tape of the Dead & San Francisco’s Sufi Choir at Winterland in 1971, telling its untold story with composer Allaudin Mathieu, finding hidden connections to big band jazz, longform improv comedy, & spirituality, plus an appearance by Wavy Gravy.

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01:22:36

Friend Of the Devils: West Virginia, 4/78

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2024/10/24

The Deadcast crosses the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Dead’s only show in Huntington, West Virginia, including close looks at the innovative fashion and LSD scenes then emerging in Dead parking lots, and the conclusion of a rare 1978 interview with Jerry Garcia.

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01:37:27

Friend Of the Devils: Virginia, 4/78

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2024/10/10

The Deadcast cruises into two April ‘78 shows on Virginia college campuses alongside a pair of chartered buses from New York filled with seething Dead freaks and gets into Jerry Garcia’s favorite music and guitar tips from rare interviews.

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01:26:03

Friend Of the Devils: Duke University, 4/78

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2024/09/26

The Deadcast tells the story of the legendary Duke ‘78 show, the unexplored history of the Dead in North Carolina, the first campout at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the mysterious guest percussionist, & the student-run cable station that filmed it.

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