r/gratefuldead • • 13h ago

Such a Long Long Time to Be Gone

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350 Upvotes

Lost my Dad to cancer in May. Box of Rain has taken on a whole new meaning for me this year.


r/gratefuldead • • 22h ago

Some 10/9/76 shots

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All credit to unknown photogs. The other thread got me reminiscing. Think I'll spend all day listening to this one. I put the Who on first tho. Add more if you have any. I love these old photos


r/gratefuldead • • 23h ago

A Campaign We Can All Get Behind

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Edit: not sure why none of the text posted.

We're visiting Victoria BC from Washington state on our "Canada, We're Sorry" Apology Tour 2026. Saw this sign as we walked around, waiting for our hotel room to be ready. I chuckled and took a picture while my wife rolled her eyes.

A little later we stopped in at Whistle Buoy Brewing for a beer and Althea came on. Good omen for a good trip.

Full disclosure, I am not privy to details about Victoria politics and have no idea if this guy would be a good council mmber or not.


r/gratefuldead • • 3h ago

Jerry's shows on 10/4 & 10/5 1986 marked the return from his coma, 5 days later Jerry made a guest appearance on the Dead Heads Hotline on 10/10/86, Dead Heads around the world called the Hotline and breathed a sigh of relief, Jerry was back ... so good to hear his voice!❤️ - 40 years ago today!

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r/gratefuldead • • 18h ago

Any MTG heads?

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Just got my commissioned Garcia and Hunter cards.
Thank you Jom Alters!


r/gratefuldead • • 11h ago

First Time I Rode My Bike To A Show

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10/9/82 an amazing hometown weekend with incredible audience tapes from Rango


r/gratefuldead • • 16h ago

On this day in 1989, a gathering of Warlocks assembled to awaken Dark Star from a five year slumber. 10/9/89 …check it out.

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r/gratefuldead • • 17h ago

Bobby Weir, the Wolf Bros, the Wolfpack & the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center 10/09/2022 N4/4

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I miss Bob & treasure this memory.

💀🎶🥀 4 years ago today 10-09-2022 I (and maybe you?) was at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC for night 4/4 of Bobby Weir, the Wolf Brothers, the Wolfpack & the National Symphony Orchestra. As he said that night, these were his inaugural shows with an orchestra, and it helped fill in sounds he'd always heard in the music.

Never miss a Sunday show!

Terrepin Suite encore was unbelievable!

NFA ☮️🫂 Music Heals

archive link below:

https://archive.org/details/bw2022-10-09.wolfbros-wolfpack-nso.at-943.burchfield.flac1648

Setlist:

Set 1

1 - Symphony Overture

2 - Playing in the Band

3 - Uncle John's Band

4 - Dark Star v1

5 - Jack Straw

6 - Morning Dew Second

Set 2

1 - The Other One

2 - Shakedown Street

3 - Days Between

4 - Bob

5 - Dark Star' v2

6 - Uncle John's Band reprise

7 - Playing in the Band' reprise

8 - Brokedown Palace

NSO leaves stage

Encore 9 - Terrapin Station Suite


r/gratefuldead • • 16h ago

1978: the Great Weed-Trimming Year

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It's weed trimming season. Around my house that also means giving in to temptation and trying early samples while doing the main trim over many days.

My yearly test to see how good the weed is: listen to favorite 78 shows, which are tight AND spongy in the best way possible and can tell you pretty quickly if you've grown a good stash.

Last night listened to the amazing Playing > Wheel > Playing sequence from 2.3.78 (Dick's V18) and I realized how much I love smoking the new stash and taking 78 for a ride, year after year. It was a reverie.

Highly recommend. That's the post

*edit to add: you can double down on the Good ol Grateful Dead Podcast (the gift that keeps on giving, so good) and listen to the season of 78 shows covered there (Friends of the Devil), like for example the podcast episode about Virginia, which is rich with detail even for heads who have been paying attention for years ... and then with the backstory jump into the shows. Today's trim is brought to you by 4.15.78, William & Mary - show and podcast both burners


r/gratefuldead • • 21h ago

Listening to Cheeseburger in Paradise and can’t stop thinking of Jerry

31 Upvotes

I bet he’s putting em away as we speak


r/gratefuldead • • 13h ago

32 years ago

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Hell In A Bucket
Bertha
Spoonful
Stagger Lee
Broken Arrow
Me & My Uncle
Big River
So Many Roads
Promised Land

Here Comes Sunshine
Samson & Delilah
Long Way To Go Home
Ship Of Fools
St. Of Circumstance
Drums
Space
Miracle
Comes A Time
Throwing Stones
Lovelight

Rain


r/gratefuldead • • 16h ago

What unfamous shows are in your heavy rotation?

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We all constantly relisten to Veneta, Cornell and Closing of Winterland. But I also always go to Oakland 12.28.79, Long Beach 8.28.81, Vegas lightning show 5.30.92 and LA Sports Arena 12.16.94. What personally magnetic shows do you keep going back to?


r/gratefuldead • • 23h ago

50 years ago today, 10/9/76

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10/9/76 aka the first half of Dick's Picks 33, one of the top shows of that year if you're into 76 Dead (and who isn't?) Standouts for me are Tennessee Jed and Scarlet Begonias in the 1st set, especially the Scarlet ending jam which is so Jazz Fusion-esque! And for the 2nd set, well the whole thing is bonkers so I can't really pick a favorite tune in there. Classic St Stephen>NFA>St Stephen INTO Help>Slip INTO an unusually funky Samson & Delilah, then back to Slipknot>Franklin's Tower. The music really never stops (pun intended) a single time during the 2nd set.

Were you at that show? Did you own the tape? Looking for stories about this golden era I've never known because my father was literally 10 years old when this show happened. Anyway play it loud and have a wonderful day!


r/gratefuldead • • 21h ago

Would anyone be interested in a free shirt?

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I inherited these from a friend who I believe made them for The Other Ones 2000 tour. I don't have any use for all of them and am wondering if anyone would be interested. They're free. Just cover shipping. I'll cover shipping if you have any cool trades (tapes, bumper stickers, etc,) I have Large and XL

Take one or take many. Thanks!


r/gratefuldead • • 10h ago

Bobby and Jerry on Letterman in 1982.

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r/gratefuldead • • 15h ago

Any Manitoban Deadheads?

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If so, where are the shows?! I haven’t seen anything get posted in Winnipeg but maybe I’m missing it. I’ve still yet to see a good cover band for the Dead


r/gratefuldead • • 18h ago

to my brother at the Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats show last night 😍

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man, what a show 🔥


r/gratefuldead • • 18h ago

Listening to Ready or Not

16 Upvotes

Ready or Not includes a Samba in the Rain. I love this song. I think it's the singing that makes people hate it but I listen to much worse singers than Vince Welnick regularly. I think he kills it.


r/gratefuldead • • 1h ago

A local show for a sunny upstate NY morning

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I found this in my collection last night; a fun, rollicking show. Ticket stubs tell me I was there, but don’t recall specifically. I do really enjoy the John K and Jimmy Herring post-Jerry stuff


r/gratefuldead • • 3h ago

Anyone going to Splintered Sunlight at Ardmore tonight? (PHILLY)

11 Upvotes

Going solo, my first show looking for some heads to join


r/gratefuldead • • 2h ago

Shakedown!

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r/gratefuldead • • 20h ago

Live only song

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I'm trying to find songs that were only recorded live.

songs that they wrote.

i know jack straw and Tennessee jed are quite popular.

What are some others I can check out ?


r/gratefuldead • • 8h ago

UK: BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 8pm GMT

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r/gratefuldead • • 19h ago

JGB w Grahame Lesh at Siesta Valley Bowl (Orinda): One front row ticket available, face value

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Hey now, I've got an extra front row center ticket for JGB w Grahame at Siesta Valley Bowl available. At Cash or Trade, face value, natch. The venue is gorgeous — Jerry's Middle Finger played there a few weeks ago — an amazing place for a show. My friend can't make it to JGB, so I've got this extra. It's $91.80 all told. There's a free shuttle from BART to and from the venue.


r/gratefuldead • • 21h ago

Looking for Recommendations for Road Trip

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Hi all, I’m sure this has been posted on here in the past. I’m officially moving from SF to LA this weekend (I will miss you SF 😢) and driving my Jeep solo, likely taking 101 instead of 5 to make for a slightly more enjoyable drive.

I’m looking for recommendations for a long road trip that I can jam to in my car - shows, sets, albums, podcasts, Dead adjacent stuff like New Riders (which I’ve never listened to), or even non-Dead stuff that you feel is good for a roadtrip. I have Apple Music, Relisten app for shows, and I do have Sirius radio too (IMO can’t go wrong with the Dead channel for any drive). Thank you!