Official Tapes

Dec 05 2024 111 ep. 21 mins 3

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Psychedelic radio snapshots of music's longest & strangest trip! A radio program specializing in the official releases (tapes) from Jerry and the boys...

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Dennis McNally

Dec 05 2024 17 mins

Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s—a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of “the scene” in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia, and then to the Grateful Dead itself—with a Foreword by John Mayer, a

Wright Thompson

Nov 02 2024 20 mins

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s breath-taking score, combined with exclusive stories and insight from elite athletes, helps show the depths of the universal rhythm found in music, sports, and life. click the image to learn more

Chloe Weir

Aug 25 2024 16 mins

Sin City art gallery, Animazing Gallery, honored The Grateful Dead with a special Deadhead exhibition. Animazing Gallery is a leader in illustration, animation, contemporary and modern fine art. Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, “Visions of the Dead: A Grateful Dead Art and Photography Exhibition,” offered fans access to unique still-captures of the group, limited-edit

Steve James

Jul 30 2024 24 mins

The iconic ESPN 30 for 30 documentary series has a four-part look in the life and philosophy of hall of fame NBA star Bill Walton. “The Luckiest Guy in the World” asks: “Who is Bill Walton?” Bill Walton has made memorable marks on the sports world in many different ways throughout his life.

Andrew Luft

Jul 24 2024 12 mins

Fans will be able to immerse themselves at Dead & Company’s “Dead Forever Experience,” a centralized hub for fans to come together and celebrate, shop, view exclusive Dead & Company content and explore the Grateful Dead’s unparalleled legacy. The Dead Forever Experience will be open for the duration of Dead & Company’s

Animazing Gallery

Jun 30 2024 8 mins

Sin City art gallery, Animazing Gallery, is honoring The Grateful Dead with a special Deadhead exhibition. Animazing Gallery is a leader in illustration, animation, contemporary and modern fine art. Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, “Visions of the Dead: A Grateful Dead Art and Photography Exhibition,” offers fans access to unique still-captures of the group, l

Brian Flegel

Brian Flegel discovered an audience recording of a 2/5/70 Fillmore West show – 54 years after the show. The recording gives us 8 new songs, including a nice Dark Star and a much more accurate picture of what happened at the Fillmore West on Feb. 5th 1970. The rescued Reel was purchased on eBay and digitally transferred.

Max Ludington

A beautifully wrought novel on the aftershocks of the heady but dangerous late 1960s and the relationship between trauma and the creative impulse. Weaving the idealism and the darkness of the late 1960s, the glossy surfaces of Los Angeles celebrity today, and thrumming with the sound of the Grateful Dead, the mania of Charles Manson and other cults, and the sec

Jack Herstam

Mar 26 2024 6 mins

Jack is an airline pilot in the United States. He previously worked as a flight instructor, where he discovered a passion for teaching about every topic related to flight, as well as mentoring prospective pilots. With a degree in Political Science, Ethnic Studies, and Philosophy from Santa Clara University, Jack is delighted to share his passion through writing with Simple Fly

Owsley Stanley Foundation

Feb 12 2024 39 mins

Sing Out! features a stellar line-up of acoustic performances by Bay Area folk heroes, including Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Wolf, Rosalie Sorrels, and a percussion set by the the Rhythm Devils. The event was described by Wavy Gravy as a “mini-Woodstock,” and it is the last major show to be mixed and recorded by Bear. It is also th