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40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead’s last trip to the #rochester war memorial, their local home since ’73. a show for weir lovers. dude’s really on one. fall ’85, show #11.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Grateful Dead:
🎵 I Know You Rider
#GratefulDead
https://thereeveshouseband.bandcamp.com/track/i-know-you-rider

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in worcester, with the band singing happy birthday to bill walton, plus a few stage-crashers. fall ’85, show #9.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-11-05

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in worcester. bill walton (on the eve of his 33rd) spotted onstage with celtics teammates kevin mchale & larry bird. fall ’85, show #8.
big-sounding soundboard: https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Grateful Dead:
🎵 Hell in a Bucket
#GratefulDead
https://thereeveshouseband.bandcamp.com/track/hell-in-a-bucket
https://open.spotify.com/track/2T2bhluy0slS4CZIMiAvYE

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in richmond. a pretty fun evening with an obnoxious cop scene (& perhaps even police riot) & bad gatecrashing that makes it all the way to the AP news wire. fall ’85, show #7.
soundboard: h…

40 halloweens ago tonight, the #GratefulDead's only trip to #SouthCarolina, with an unusually melted 2nd set featuring a rare ‘80s quintet dead jam. fall ’85, show #5.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Grateful Dead:
🎵 Ripple
#GratefulDead
https://aurablaze.bandcamp.com/track/ripple-grateful-dead-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1OE5l6sedVcIFELMuxQOPI

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead & jefferson starship in golden gate park’s lindley meadow at the unity fair, presented by people’s ballroom, local white panthers offshoot. the dead weren’t announced until that afternoon. 4th of 4 ’75 shows & final free show in golden gate (or any) park besides ’91 bill graham memorial. last dead tape until may ’76; longest break in tape record &a…

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #atlanta, their final show at the fox. nice soundboard mix makes for a good listen. fall ’85, show #4.
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deep new project by john brackett, @…, examining documents from the #GratefulDead business archive at UC santa cruz. he's got a new scholarly book out in the spring about "touch of grey" (!!). his last was…

"Hauling items for the mob": "Independent promotion companies," payola, and "Touch of Grey" (1987)
This is a document that I examine in my forthcoming book, Touch of Grey, or, How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars (forthcoming spring 2026 from Duke University Press).

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #atlanta, opening their last stand at the fox theater, marking (almost) the permanent end of the small venue era, with a world series-themed debut. fall ’85, show #3.
soundboard:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Grateful Dead:
🎵 Terrapin Station
#GratefulDead
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/terapin-station
https://open.spotify.com/track/2gdTkM0hL9KQipAx6aUT6L
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KW4FxNKVGpVTgIJYolnNY
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead open their 20th anniversary fall tour, their 1st trip to #florida in 3 years & final visit to @thoughtsonGD@twitter.com’s beloved hollywood sportatorium.
soundboard:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow
Grateful Dead:
🎵 From the Heart of Me
#GratefulDead
https://open.spotify.com/track/2PDB5ljtT7BU9Cm7ZzUrz7

always a mofo of a mail day when the new newsletter arrives from the #GratefulDead studies association. see you in albuquerque in february! https://deadstudies.org

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, concluding their fall gigging with the last of 3 nights at the kaiser auditorium. fall ’85, show #18. excellent soundboard, now on “enjoying the ride”:

this week on the good ol’ #GratefulDead cast, we flip the side on “blues for allah” & get into “crazy fingers,” legit one of my favorite dead studio cuts, capturing a delicate place that virtually all live versions (outside 1975) miss. https://…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Grateful Dead:
🎵 Sugar Magnolia
#GratefulDead
https://mightaswell1.bandcamp.com/track/sugar-magnolia
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Jp5pt7xrG2DLkUtUtqhzl

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, opening their 3rd series of the year at the reopened kaiser auditorium, 3 show thanksgiving run billed as “dancing under the harvest moon”. fall ’85, show #16, now on “enjoying the ride.”
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40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead close their touring year in long beach. fall ’85, show #15.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-11-17.sbd.barbella.12360.s…

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead close their touring year in long beach. fall ’85, show #15.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-11-17.sbd.barbella.12360.s…

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in long beach, opening 2 nights. fall ’85, show #14.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-11-16.sbd.18374.sbeok.shnf
b…

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in long beach, opening 2 nights. fall ’85, show #14.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-11-16.sbd.18374.sbeok.shnf
b…

50 years ago today, the last known #GratefulDead session from bob weir’s ace’s studio in mill valley, for jerry garcia’s in-progress “reflections” album, a ‘70s/early ‘80s garcia standard never played live by the dead. https://

50 years ago tonight in concord, the 2nd not-#GratefulDead summit featuring the jerry garcia band, kingfish, & the keith & donna band (featuring b. kreutzmann), all getting ready to hit the road. no circulating tapes of kingfish nor keith’s solo debut in his hometown. 1st big show for the new jerry garcia band, playing in the middle slot. soundboard:

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead close their summer ’85 in chula vista, a mellow sunday afternoon on a community college football field. as close to the border as they ever played besides el paso ’73. late summer ’85, show #12.
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50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead at ace’s, ostensibly working on jerry garcia’s next solo album, but running through one of the coolest pieces of music from ’75, sometimes called a jam but actually one of the many instrumentals workshopped for “blues for allah,” only released in 2004.

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, the last of 3 nights at kaiser convention center & possibly the last dead show with liquid lights plus slides/cartoons, etc. late summer ’85, show #11.
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40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead close their east coast touring for the year in #NewJersey, the 2nd of 2 nights at the meadowlands. fall ’85, show #13.
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40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, the middle night of 3 at the kaiser convention center with a proper liquid light show. mickey hart’s 42nd. late summer ’85, show #10.
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on this week’s good ol’ #GratefulDead cast, we unpack “franklin’s tower,” including tape of garcia's 1st time singing it, a look into the multitracks, & robert hunter’s verse-by-verse lyric breakdown (in response to our buddy jürgen fauth!)

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in #oakland, opening the 2nd of 3 ’85 runs at the reopened kaiser convention center, with old school liquid light show for 1st time in years. late summer ’85, show #9.
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40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead at the meadowlands in #NewJersey. chaos onstage & off, including another mass gate crashing. many scene reports below. fall ’85, show #12.
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on this week’s #GratefulDead cast, rich & i come to “the music never stopped,” tracing from jam to song, exploring how the music almost stopped (& the band had to sell their record companies), & getting into mid-‘70s pot smuggling & “high times” with @…