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Updated Grateful Dead music and performance reference books. New book - On This Day In Grateful Dead History: A Daily Listening Journal 2nd Ed. out now: https://www.gratefuldeadbook.com/
Listen To The Music PlayFeb 23, 2025

This Week In Grateful Dead History (Week of 2/24)!
On this week in Grateful Dead history, we have some notable events:
- Jerry plays his new MIDI-enabled guitar Rosebud for the first time
- First Terrapin Station, Estimated Prophet
- Final Mason’s Children
- The band makes history as the first to record a live concert on 16-track recording technology

Read my full write up for all the details!
https://www.gratefuldeadbook.com/post/this-week-in-grateful-dead-history-8-week-of-2-24

This Week In Grateful Dead History #8 (Week of 2/24)

For the week of 2/24 – 3/2 we’ve got some notable events to cover. Jerry busts out Rosebud for the first time, his brand-new MIDI-enabled guitar. We also get the first performances of some classic songs: Terrapin Station and Estimated Prophet, and the final performance of Mason’s Children. Lastly, the boys make rock and roll history by being the first band to ever make a 16-track live recording. I’ve got detailed listening guides for 12 incredible shows to cover all that and more:2/24/1968 King'

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Listen To The Music PlaySep 14, 2024
Institute Jerry Garcia StudiesSep 14, 2024
Yet another *completely essential* piece of research about #gratefuldead performances from Light Into Ashes.   
https://deadessays.blogspot.com/2024/09/1970-show-list.html
1970 Show List

By request, I'm continuing my series of Grateful Dead show lists into 1970:  http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2018/05/1966-show-list.html http...

Listen To The Music PlayFeb 18, 2024
Institute Jerry Garcia StudiesFeb 18, 2024

We have taken a crack at cataloging common "Spurious Dates". These dates turned out to just be mislabeled tapes or other errors.

Full disclosure, this is primarily created so I do not have to keep asking @FateMusic "hey, should we add this show!?"

Not meant to be completely exhaustive, but I like to have all the common ones on here.

Additions and corrections welcome.

#gratefuldead

https://jerrybase.com/spurious_events

Spurious Events

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Listen To The Music PlayFeb 18, 2024
Corry342Feb 16, 2024

Chesley Millikin isn't a big name for Grateful Dead fans, but he he should be. Millikin (1934-2001) was the link for some of the most important moments in Dead history. I sketch out his only-in-the-60s story.

Millikin was pals with Rock Scully and Sam Cutler. He was the key to Altamont, hiring Hal Kant, running Out Of Town tours and numerous other adventures.

#RockHistory
https://hooterollin.blogspot.com/2024/02/chesley-millikin-1934-2001.html

Chesley Millikin (1934-2001)

  Jerry Garcia and Chesley Millikin, date and location unknown. I don't know the source of the photograph, nor even if Jerry was photoshoppe...

Listen To The Music PlayJan 29, 2024
David LefkowitzJan 26, 2024
Started a blog just for Dead-related writings — the next few weeks will be devoted to a show by show breakdown of the February’73 tour (spoiler alert, one of my favorites). Read it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/tortugatapes/p/coming-soon?r=ccqk6&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Welcome Aboard

First stop, Midwest '73

Tortuga Tapes
Listen To The Music PlayJan 29, 2024
This week in Grateful Dead history: Busted down on Bourbon St., Bust Fund Benefit show w/ Fleetwood Mac, Tom Constanten’s last show w/ GD, Sam Cutler's first official gig as the Grateful Dead tour manager, and more! Check out my full write up https://listentothemusicplay.gumroad.com/p/this-week-in-grateful-dead-history-week-of-1-29
This Week in Grateful Dead History (Week of 1/29)

Welcome to the new weekly newsletter that brings you the most important facts and figures from Grateful Dead History for the week ahead! I'm going to

Listen To The Music PlayDec 19, 2023
Don’t think of me poorly, but… I wish Steely Dan would reinvent themselves as a jam band lol. Just listening to Kid Charlemagne (one of my fav songs by them) and that solo towards the end has such a Trey Anastasio feel to it. So now I’m trying to imagine them that way lol
Listen To The Music PlayDec 17, 2023
Institute Jerry Garcia StudiesDec 17, 2023

Our "Kick out the Jams" campaign continues over at #jerrybase Today I converted Dark Star.

So everything that used to be called "Dark Star Jam" is now just "Dark Star", but with a footnote. You can also search for these if you'd like, or exclude them from a search.

If you are horrified, we love you  #gratefuldead

Listen To The Music PlayNov 18, 2023
Institute Jerry Garcia StudiesNov 18, 2023

jerrybase.com what have you done for me lately?

JERRY-655 More useful columns on "Every Time Played" page

JERRY-621 On “Every Time Played” page list official releases

JERRY-611 Add Events tab to "Garcia as Guest" view

#gratefuldead @bourgwick @mrcompletely

Listen To The Music PlaySep 29, 2023
Institute Jerry Garcia StudiesSep 28, 2023
You are probably already hip to this, but here's the latest by Christopher Hazard. This show is an absolute cooker. #jerrygarcia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWaueVaudns
Jerry Garcia Band [1080P HD REMASTER] Civic Center - Hartford, CT - September 5, 1989 [SBD]

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