A Long Strange Podcast

Pantheon has been proud to present this mini-series of shows 'Deadicated' to discussing Amazon Studios 'Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead' documentary.

Over six weeks we have been recapping each Act with guest host Tim Lynch of KPFA's 'Dead to the World' radio program. Tim will be joined by Christian & Peter as well as very special guests that are part of the film, Dead scholars, academics or had another important role in the 50+ year story.

The other weekly guest on roundtable has been..'The UnDeaducated'. This guest will know little to nothing of the band and be exposed to them mostly the first time through this film. Be sure to head over to Amazon to watch up to Act V of the documentary before joining us! The film is directed by Amir Bar-Lev and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.

Joining as as our final Deadicated guest this week is none other the Director of Long Strange Trip himself, Amir Bar-Lev. His credits include Fighter from 2000, My Kid Can Paint that”, which the London Telegraph called one of the top 100 films of all time. He has also directed The Tillman Story, Regeneration, Happy Valley an account of the Jerry Sandusky/Penn State child abuse scandal. Get more on Amir and his films here http://axisfilms.net

This week's UnDeaducated is Andy King, the host of a brand new show here at RNRAP - Reel Rock! He loves Rock and Roll history, mostly 70's punk and early 60's british rock. Andy is a dive punk band veteran and failed stand-up comic.

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Pantheon is proud to present a mini-series of shows 'Deadicated' to discussing Amazon Studios 'Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead' documentary.

Over six weeks we will be recapping each Act with guest host Tim Lynch of KPFA's 'Dead to the World' radio program. Tim will be joined by Christian & Peter as well as very special guests that are part of the film, Dead scholars, academics or had another important role in the 50+ year story.

The other weekly guest on roundtable will be...'The UnDeaducated'. This guest will know little to nothing of the band and be exposed to them mostly the first time through this film.

Our special Deadicated guest this week is none other than Grateful Dead publicist and historian Dennis McNally. Dennis began officially as the Grateful Dead's publicist in 1984, and has since worked with many different musicians and bands, record companies, and promoters, including Zakir Hussain, Steve Kimock, Little Feat, Bill Payne (solo career), Boris Garcia, Bob Weir & RatDog to name a few. He published his third book, "On Highway 61," October of 2014 and we invite everyone to visit his website, www.dennismcnally.com to see a sample and get further information. His latest book is, "Jerry on Jerry," published in November, 2015. It is an edited transcript of interviews done with Jerry Garcia in the 1970s and 1980s. He is also curator for the California Historical Society's Summer of Love 50th Anniversary photo show.

This week's UnDeaducated is Dr. Charles L. Hughes -  the Director of the Memphis Center at Rhodes College, where he designs courses & programs. His recent course offerings include The History of Memphis; Beale Street: The Past, Present and Future; Elvis Presley and America; and The Music of the American South. His acclaimed first bookCountry Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South, was named one of the Best Music Books of 2015 by Rolling Stone. He is a voter for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a participant in the Nashville Scene’s Year-End Country Music Poll. Prof. Hughes was featured in an episode of Deeper Digs in Rock.

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Pantheon is proud to present a mini-series of shows 'Deadicated' to discussing Amazon Studios 'Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead' documentary.

Over the next six weeks we will be recapping each Act with guest host Tim Lynch of KPFA's 'Dead to the World' radio program. Tim will be joined by Christian & Peter as well as very special guests that are part of the film, Dead scholars, academics or had another important role in the 50+ year story.

The other weekly guest on roundtable will be...'The UnDeaducated'. This guest will know little to nothing of the band and be exposed to them mostly the first time through this film.

Be sure to head over to Amazon to watch up to Act IV of the documentary before joining us! The film is directed by Amir Bar-Lev and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.

This week we have an extra special episode with 2 Deadicated guests! The first is photographer and author Rosie McGee, who lived, worked and traveled with the Grateful Dead during their first decade as a band, after first meeting them late in 1965.  Her intimate portraits of the band, onstage and behind the scenes, have been widely seen in books, magazines, online and in documentaries; and 200 of those photos illustrate her book, “Dancing with the Dead—A Photographic Memoir: My Good Old Days with the Grateful Dead & the San Francisco Music Scene 1964-1974.” For more on Rosie and to buy photos head to www.rosiemcgee.com.

The other guest is Bob Bralove. Bob was part of the Grateful Dead party for the last eight years of the band's existence. Brought into the fold from his work with Stevie Wonder, he brought the then new digital synthesizer technology to the Grateful Dead.  Bringing new sounds and approaches to the music, first heard on "In the Dark", Bralove's relationship with band grew rapidly. He began writing songs, (Way to go Home, Easy Answers, Picasso Moon) producing records and eventually playing in that section of the show between Drums and Space, when no one was on stage; the section Dick Latvalla dubbed the "MIDI Jam". Since the end of the Grateful Dead, Bralove has been focusing on his own music and art , including his duo with Grateful Dead Keyboardist Tom Constanten called Dose Hermanos. Find all about Bobs works here http://www.bobbralove.com

This week's UnDeaducated is Tracy Simmons Bulla, Booking And Business Manager for Bulla Promotions and award winning Bluegrass band Fireball Mail. Tracy and her husband Brad Bulla are avid house concert hosts having featured Buddy Greene, Jason Eskridge,  Adam Wakefield, Grammy winners Forrest and Kate O'Connor, among others in their Nashville, TN home. Check out Fireball Mail’s music at https://www.fireballmailband.com/

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Pantheon is proud to present a mini-series of shows 'Deadicated' to discussing Amazon Studios 'Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead' documentary.

Over the next six weeks we will be recapping each Act with guest host Tim Lynch of KPFA's 'Dead to the World' radio program. Tim will be joined by Christian & Peter as well as very special guests that are part of the film, Dead scholars, academics or had another important role in the 50+ year story.

The other weekly guest on roundtable will be...'The UnDeaducated'. This guest will know little to nothing of the band and be exposed to them mostly the first time through this film.

Be sure to head over to Amazon to watch up to Act III of the documentary before joining us! The film is directed by Amir Bar-Lev and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.

This week's special Deadicated guest is Susana Millman, who was a ubiquitous presence at Grateful Dead shows from 1985 until Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995. Susana’s work can be seen in Long Strange Trip. Head to her website. Mamarazi.com to get a copy of “Alive With the Dead or A Fly on the Wall with a Camera” - a very nice hardcover photographic memoir of the Grateful Dead filled with band images, unpublished pics + stories, from the ’80s on. 

This week's UnDeaducated is Prof. Ron Purser. Ron is the host of The Mindful Cranks podcast, a professor of mgmt at SFSU, author, editorial board member of the Mindfulness journal, as well as the executive board of the Consciousness, Mindfulness and Compassion International Association. A student and Buddhist practitioner since 1981. 

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Pantheon is proud to present a mini-series of shows 'Deadicated' to discussing Amazon Studios 'Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead' documentary.

Over the next six weeks we will be recapping each Act with guest host Tim Lynch of KPFA's 'Dead to the World' radio program. Tim will be joined by Christian & Peter as well as very special guests that are part of the film, Dead scholars, academics or had another important role in the 50+ year story.

The other weekly guest on roundtable will be...'The UnDeaducated'. This guest will know little to nothing of the band and be exposed to them mostly the first time through this film.

Be sure to head over to Amazon to watch Act II of the documentary before joining us! The film is directed by Amir Bar-Lev and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.

This week's special guest is Steve Silberman, who not only is a Deadhead that has written on the band and has co- produced the Grateful Dead’s career-spanning box set So Many Roads (1965-1995), and Steve appears in Long Strange Trip. He is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in Wired, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and many other publications. He is the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity ) published in 2015, it won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, and was named one of the best books of 2015 by the New York Times, the Economist, and the Guardian.

This week's Undeaducated is Erika Brett. Erika is the vocalist and keyboardist of indie Americana band, The Empty Pockets, from Chicago. She has been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine and her band's latest record, 'The Ten Cent Tour', recently charted on Billboard. Since her pockets are always empty anyway, she's giving away 2 songs from the album to our Listeners. Text Pockets to 444999.

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Pantheon is proud to present a mini-series of shows 'Deadicated' to discussing Amazon Films' 'Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead' documentary.

Over the next six weeks we will be recapping each Act with guest host Tim Lynch of KPFA's 'Dead to the World' radio program. Tim will be joined by Christian & Peter as well as very special guests that are part of the film, Dead scholars, academics or had another important role in the 50+ year story.

The other weekly guest on roundtable will be...'The UnDeaducated'. This guest will know little to nothing of the band and be exposed to them mostly the first time through this film.

Be sure to head over to Amazon to watch Act  1 of the documentary before joining us! The film is directed by Amir Bar-Lev and executive produced by Martin Scorsese.

This week's special guest is Dr. Rebecca Adams, whom John Perry Barlow once called the 'Margaret Mead of tie-dye', a sociologist, professor and director of Gerontology at UNC at Greensboro. Rebecca has been one of the foremost scholars on the Grateful Dead fans – known as Deadheads – since the 1980s. She is the co-author and co-editor of numerous books and papers on Deadheads.

This week's Undeaducated is friend of the show Tom Rizzuto. Teacher Tom is a professor of music at Molloy College on Long Island, New York where he teaches guitar, world music and the history of Rock and Roll. His writing has appeared in History Magazine, Discover Magazine, and on earlier episodes of Rock Talk. You can see him speak on the topic of music and controversy at his TEDx talk here, Understanding The Music That Divides Us.

Have a listen to our Deeper Digs in Rock interview with Director Amir Bar-Lev here.

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