Join Deadheads Alex and Dave talkin' all things 4/27 and 4/28 1985 from Stanford! We break down the Dave's Picks Volume 49 release and go head-to-head in a 6-song Song Draft. Get on the bus with Workingman's Pod!

Note: only songs from Night 1, 4/27/1985, were able to be included as samples in this episode.

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Join Deadheads Alex and Dave - except this time, just Dave - for the last WP episode of 2023! For this end-of-year extravaganza, we're looking at the 4 shows from December 26th 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982, all from the Oakland Auditorium Arena in Oakland, CA. From those 4 shows, we'll build a "mega set" for the ultimate 12/26 imaginary playlist!

Link to Grateful Seconds' article on New Year's Eve runs for the Grateful Dead: http://www.gratefulseconds.com/2017/12/bay-area-1976-1991-16-years-57-new.html

Also, first-hand accounts of the 1980 and 1981 shows from who else, Grateful Seconds! http://www.gratefulseconds.com/2015/01/east-to-west-grateful-dead-live-at.html

http://www.gratefulseconds.com/2017/11/return-of-big-boss-man-day-at-dentist.html

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We'll see you in February 2024!

The second in our WP from the Vault series! Alex and Dave give a quick intro and then it's a re-release from April 26, 2022:

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss the Grateful Dead's rockin', rollin', envelopin' show from June 24, 1985 at Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Topics include: phenomenal set-openers, a Cryptical Envelopment revival, mid-80s Dead setlists, the rise of amphitheaters in America, and the worst review in Grateful Dead history? Get on the bus and buckle up for a bumpy but worthwhile ride through an absolutely killer show!

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Links:

The show: https://archive.org/details/gd85-06-24.sbd.miller.25315.sbeok.shnf

Grateful Seconds: http://www.gratefulseconds.com/

The second in our WP from the Vault series! Alex and Dave give a quick intro and then it's a re-release from November 8, 2022:

Dead Heads Dave and Alex discuss Justin Kreutzmann's great new documentary, Let There Be Drums! with the man himself, Justin Kreutzmann!

Justin is a great storyteller, which is surely part of what makes him such a talented filmmaker. During our conversation, he shares some great insights about the making of this movie, and tells us a bunch of great stories.Let There Be Drums! is available to rent and buy now and it is FULL of amazing interviews (plus some tremendous archival Grateful Dead content.)

Ain't no time to wait: hit the link below and go support Justin's excellent work.

Links:

Let There Be Drums! on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B6V5ZF5T/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

Let There Be Drums! on Apple - https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/let-there-be-drums/umc.cmc.3cchyowhgpbp87fu7jumdqc9w

Justin's interview with Relix - https://relix.com/articles/detail/justin-kreutzmann-from-apocalypse-now-to-let-there-be-drums/

Justin on the Dean Delray's Let There be Talk podcast, talking about the film and lots of other stuff - https://podtail.com/podcast/dean-delray-s-let-there-be-talk/-602-justin-kreutzmann-director-of-let-there-be-dr/

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss the Grateful Dead's latest archival release, Dave’s Picks Vol. 47, recorded December 9, 1979, at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, MO. Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!

Timestamps:

2:00 - Days Between

7:00 - Background on 1979 in Grateful Dead and Music History

26:45 - The Show

1:24:00 - Favorite CD, Imaginary Playlist Draft, and Alex's hottest take of the episode

The first in our WP from the Vault series! Alex and Dave give a quick intro and then it's a re-release from March 22, 2022:

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss the Grateful Dead's spooky, spacey, psychedelic show from July 12, 1990 at RFK Stadium in DC. Topics include: our first Brent Mydland show(!); Bob Bralove and MIDI; our first Drums>Space; Box of Rain; Victim or the Crime; late-period Dark Star; and Touch of Grey.

If you're enjoying the show, send us a note on Twitter, @workingmanspod, or Instagram, @workingmans_pod!

Links:

Video of the Second Set: https://youtu.be/ZZ2JUjYcroc?t=9960

Grateful Seconds: http://www.gratefulseconds.com/

Garrett Graham on "Victim": http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/votc.html

Jerry Garcia on "Victim": https://www.dead.net/features/greatest-stories-ever-told/greatest-stories-ever-told-victim-or-crime

Lost Live Dead: https://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/

Workingman’s Pod discusses Dead & Company’s finals shows, Saturday and Sunday, July 14th and 15th, 2023 at Oracle Park in San Francisco! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!

Links:

To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_pod

Vote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Samples courtesy of the great Eric Lugassy - https://archive.org/details/deadco2023-07-15.EJL95/Deadco2023-07-15t23.flac & https://archive.org/details/deadco2023-07-16.EJL95

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss the Grateful Dead's longest ever show, featuring sit ins from the Allman Brothers band, from 6/10/73 at RFK Stadium!

This is the band's newest official release, now available wherever you stream music. To celebrate the occasion, Zach Cropper--host of Rock Talk with Dr. Cropper--joined us to draft our favorite songs from this super-sized show, which Rolling Stone described at the time as, "far less a concert than an event." Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!

Links:

Follow Rock Talk with Dr. Cropper wherever you listen to podcasts!

Deadessays monumental piece on The Dead and The Allmans - https://deadessays.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-dead-and-allmans.html

Deadessays on “The Proto-Solomon Jam” - http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-proto-solomon-jazz-jam.html

Grateful Seconds talkin’ 6/10/73 - http://www.gratefulseconds.com/2017/04/rfk-1973-certified-killer.html

All samples come from Monte Barry's excellent AUD, available at https://archive.org/details/gd1973-06-10.fob.barry.90351.flac16/gd73-06-10d2t03.flac

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Workingman's Pod discusses Dead & Company’s show from July 8th, 2023 at The Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!

Links:

To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_pod

Vote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Workingman's Pod discusses Dead & Company’s show from July 7th, 2023 at The Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!

Links:

To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_pod

Vote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Join Deadheads Alex and Dave - except this time, just Dave - in WP's analysis of Dave's Picks Volume 48 Disc 3 from the Kiel Opera House on October 24th 1970!

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The essay on the Dead's early thematic jams: http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2010/01/deads-early-thematic-jams.html

P.S. Thanks again to Zac for joining us in part 1! Make sure to check out Zac's show Rock Talk with Dr. Cropper!

Workingman's Pod discusses Dead & Company’s show from July 1, 2023 in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!

Links:

To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_pod

Vote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Sample credit to Eric Lugassy's AUD! Follow @dose_everybody on Twitter to keep up with Rick's taping - https://archive.org/details/deadco2023-07-01.EJL95/Deadco2023-07-01/deadco2023-07-01t11.flac

Lo Semple's column, "One Last Saturday Night" - https://www.aspendailynews.com/arts_and_entertainment/semple-one-last-saturday-night/article_f59be812-17f3-11ee-a2f2-7fc80ada207b.html

Workingman’s Pod discusses Dead & Company’s show from Thursday, June 22nd at Citi Field in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!

Links:

To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_pod

Vote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Workingman’s Pod discusses Dead & Company’s show from Saturday, June 17th at SPAC in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!Links:To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_podVote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Join Deadheads Alex and Dave - except this time, just Dave - in WP's analysis of Dave's Picks Volume 48 from the Pauley Pavilion on November 20th 1971! Certified PodHead Zac Cropper from Rock Talk with Dr. Cropper guest stars to talk about the first two discs of Dave's Picks Vol. 48. We talk everything from Keith's arrival in the band to our favorite Dave's Picks artwork to Taylor Swift and Bryan Adams!

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Also, check out Zac's show Rock Talk with Dr. Cropper!

Workingman’s Pod discusses Dead & Company’s show from Thursday, June 15th at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!Links:To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_podVote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss Dead & Company’s show from Saturday, June 10th at Wrigley Field, Chicago in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod! Links: To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_pod. Vote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss Dead & Company’s show from Wednesday, June 7th at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!Links:To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_podVote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discussing Dead & Company’s show from June 1, 2023 at Raleigh's Walnut Creek Amphitheater in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!

Links:

To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_pod

Vote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Join Deadheads Alex and Dave - except this time, just Dave - talkin' all things 10/31/1971 from the Ohio Theatre in Columbus, Ohio. The second set of this show was officially released as Dick's Picks Volume 2.

Essay on early thematic jams: http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2010/01/deads-early-thematic-jams.html

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Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss Dead & Company’s show from May 26, 2023 at Dallas’s Dos Equis Pavillion in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!Links:To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_podVote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss Dead & Company’s show from May 20 at the LA Forum in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!

Links: To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_pod

Vote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com

Official poster for 5/20 at The Forum, by Dave Kloc - https://www.instagram.com/DaveKloc/

Dead Air Interview with Otiel Burbridge (from 5/20) - https://www.youtube.com/live/2LgoS26D1Xo?feature=share&t=583

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss Dead & Company’s show from May 19 at the LA Forum in 23 minutes or less! Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod!Links:To play Estimated Prophets with us this summer, hit us on social media or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com; Twitter - @workingmanspod; Instagram - @workingman’s_podVote on your favorite Dead & Co performances - www.deadyversion.com Official poster for 5/19 at The Forum, by Zeb Love - https://www.instagram.com/Zeb_Love/ Dead Air Interview with John Mayer (from 5/19) - https://www.youtube.com/live/g6qjwt6Y_w4?feature=share&t=617

WP discusses Dead & Company’s show from 5/8/23 at Cornell’s Barton Hall with special guest Howard Weiner! Dead & Co trucked on up to Ithaca to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s legendary show at Barton Hall on 5/8/77. My oh my was this a great show!

Howard was in Ithaca for the show and tells us about his experience on lot, his various trips to Barton Hall over the years, and about his new book, The Grateful Pilgrimage: Time Travel With the Dead, available now through the link below!

Howard also plays Estimated Prophet with us, guessing Dead & Co will play The Music Never Stopped and an 80s Dead bust out (tune in to find out which!) when they open their summer tour next week in LA.

Links:

To play the D&C Fantasy Draft, hit us on any of our social media channels or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com

Buy Howard’s new book! - https://a.co/d/hoHkiFX

Dead Heads Alex and Dave introduce a new type of episode, D&C in 23... with WP!

This summer, we'll be with you for every stop of Dead & Company's final tour. The day after each show, we'll be posting an episode recapping the previous night's show and previewing the next stop on the Golden Road.

This episode, we introduce the concept and discuss Dead & Company’s show from the New Orleans Jazz Fest on May 6, 2023! Where are Dead & Co as a group heading into this summer’s tour? What songs do we think the band will play at their tour-opening show in LA? Get on the bus with Workingman’s Pod to find out!

Links:

To play #EstimatedProphets with us this summer, hit us on any of our social media channels or via email at workingmanspod@gmail.com

Bruce Sunpie Barnes biography - https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/bruce-sunpie-barnes-8139/

Join Deadheads Alex and Dave - except this time, just Dave - in WP's first dive into 1988! Johnathan of @BrokedownPodcast guest stars to talk all things 4/30/1988 from the Frost Amphitheater at University of Stanford. Come for the debut of Let the Good Times Roll, stay for the band's only China > Rider Encore (ever!) 35 years later.

Follow us @workingmanspod, @workingmans_pod on Instagram, or email us at workingmanspod@gmail.com. Also, check out Johnathan's show Brokedown Podcast!

Johnathan's music can be found at: https://jmhart.bandcamp.com/album/slips-trips-falls or https://rowjimmy.net/.

Dead Head TV episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-30-O30Y3Y

Brett Mydland solo show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw8yywEj_pY

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss the Grateful Dead's unique and--dare we say--legendary show from the Greek Theatre on 7/13/84. Scarlet>Touch>Fire? Dark Star encore?! Treats everywhere you look in this excellent show from an underlooked year in Grateful Dead history. Get on the bus and buckle up to ride, ride, ride!

Links:

Show excerpts come from a great AUD, recorded by Jim Quirk and David Perez - https://archive.org/details/gd1984-07-13.beyerm160.quirk.perez.31989.sbeok.flac16/gd1984-07-13d3t05.flac

Grateful Seconds on missing this show - http://www.gratefulseconds.com/search/label/1984-07-13

Dead Heads Alex and Dave discuss the Grateful Dead's all-killer no-filler show from 2/28/73 in Salt Lake City to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. Officially released as Dick's Picks Vol. 28, this is a truly wonderful show with highlights in both sets. Our only regret is that we tried to cover it in just 30 minutes! Also available on youtube at https://youtu.be/TIaXmxb3b4E

Dead Heads Alex and Dave break down the latest Dave's Picks release, Vol. 45: two complete Grateful Dead concerts from October 1977! in their legendary Spring '77 tour of the East Coast. After discussing the state of music, generally, and the Dead, specifically, in October '77, the Heads break down all three-plus hours of Good Ol' Grateful Dead music. Get on the bus with Workingman's Pod!

Links:

The original, ornate design of the Paramount Theater - https://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2012/08/paramount-theatre-paramount-northwest.html

2023 Artist-in-Residence John Vogt's 2018 Dead & Co VIP Poster - https://imgur.com/Y9gzVem

Discussing the Grateful Dead's primal, debut-filled show from January 17, 1968, at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco. This show marked the debut of Dark Star, China Cat Sunflower, The Eleven, and Spanish Jam! Plus, some early rarities, including New Potato Caboose and Born Cross Eyed.

If you're enjoying the show, send us a note on Twitter, @workingmanspod, or Instagram, @workingmans_pod, and tell a friend about the show!

Links:

Show info, including concert poster

Our first episode about 1968 - https://rss.com/podcasts/workingmans-pod/394562/