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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Grateful Dead vs Jay Z:
🎵 Dirt Off Your Shoulder x China Cat Sunflower
#GratefulDeadvsJayZ

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:

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

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Grateful Cat:
🎵 Hey, food delivery guy
#NowPlaying #GratefulCat
https://gratefulcat.bandcamp.com/track/hey-food-delivery-guy-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/47k9nLj5ugnZsYmD23UoCL

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.
soundboard:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Grateful Dead:
🎵 Crazy Fingers
#GratefulDead

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Grateful Cat:
🎵 Summer's gone, it's over
#NowPlaying #GratefulCat
https://gratefulcat.bandcamp.com/track/summers-gone-its-over
https://open.spotify.com/track/6DaJlLLmGxPSbCXzjHT2sV

today, at last, the good ol’ #GratefulDead cast takes up residence at ace’s to begin going song by song through “blues for allah” (& more loosely, month by month through 1975) with session tapes, multitracks, lyric drafts, & a 3-ring circus of guests, starting with “help on the way”!

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in #SanFrancisco, an all-time classic. perhaps the tightest, most well-rehearsed show in the band’s history, played to a room full of #radio execs/programmers sittin…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Grateful Cat:
🎵 Hey, Food Delivery Guy
#NowPlaying #GratefulCat
https://gratefulcat.bandcamp.com/track/hey-food-delivery-guy-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/47k9nLj5ugnZsYmD23UoCL

🇺🇦 #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, 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 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.
soundboard:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #90TEEN
Grateful Dead:
🎵 China Cat Sunflower
#GratefulDead
https://genetictrance.bandcamp.com/track/and-finlay-2003-grateful-dead-china-cat-sunflower-guitar-pro-best-hair-in-a-jar-best-free-svg-editor-programs-lewisburg-penitentiary-death-row
https://open.spotify.com/track/65lco7HdqqgIVVDmEgX6G9
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20Rz1l3z2ghKiLzcxe3HpQ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

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.
soundboard:

🇺🇦 #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 conclude their 3 afternoon shows at red rocks in colorful #colorado, goofy fun with very present garcia. late summer ’85, show #8.
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40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead at red rocks, the middle of 3 afternoon gigs. one of the shortest 2-set dead gigs, barely 2 hours of music. late summer ’85, show #7.
soundboard: https://archive.org/…

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead open 3 days at red rocks, playing afternoon shows in an attempt to avoid the usual evening rain. fun daylight photos/videos. late summer ’85, show #6.
soundboard: https://

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead in kansas city, MO. late summer ’85, show #5.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1985-09-03.sbd.miller.34772.flac16

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead celebrate labor day ’85 in #oklahoma city. good party jams. late summer ’85, show #4.
soundboard: ht…

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead’s last ever show in #austin. their final appearance at manor downs, established by dead family members frances carr & sam cutler, though only carr was probably still there in ’85. late summer ’85, show #3. audience tapes only:

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).

on this week’s "blues for allah" #GratefulDead cast, rich & i attempt to untie “slipknot!” & pin down the grateful dead’s harmonic & personal ambiguity in early 1975. were they even a band anymore or a “more or less permanent musical association” as jerry garcia put it?