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Announcing Dogfish Head Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale. Collaborating for over a decade now, Dogfish Head and Grateful Dead have crafted a light-bodied pale ale brewed with sustainable kerns of grains, granola, and heaps of good karma for a refreshing brew that's music to your taste buds. Check out dogfish.com for more details and to find some Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale in your neck of the woods. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is located in Milton, Delaware. Please drink responsibly.

The Good Ol Grateful Deadcast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead. I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarnow, exploring the music and legacy of The Grateful Dead for The Committed And The Curious.

Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Deadheads, welcome to the first episode of season 12 of The Good Ol Grateful Deadcast. I'm your co-host Rich Mahan. Thank you so very much for tuning in. In this episode of The Good Ol Grateful Deadcast, we kick off season 12 with a very special guest. None other than Grateful Dead sound wizard Dan Healy.

Announcing the Grateful Dead blues for all of 50th anniversary deluxe edition. Arriving September 12th, this three CD set features the newly remastered album with unreleased sound check and concert recordings. Check this out. The set features almost two hours of unreleased recordings. Among the highlights are rehearsals from the band's August 12th, 1975 sound check at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall, including the album tracks Sage and Spirit, Help On The Way, Slipknot, and Franklin's Tower. The collection continues with performances from the June 21st, 1976 show at the Tower Theatre in Pennsylvania, spotlighting five blues for all the songs alongside favorites like Eyes Of The World, and rounding out the set are selections from Bill Graham's Snack Benefit at Keysar Stadium on March 23rd, 1975 There are also vinyl variants of the original album available, including a picture disc, a Midnight Fire Red vinyl edition, and 180 gram black vinyl edition. Very cool looking blues for all of 50th anniversary merch is also now available, and all of these great offerings are over at dead.net. You can pre-order the music now. You can buy merch now. And over at rhino.com, you can pre-order the Dolby Atmos mixes of blues for all on Blu-Ray Disc. They were mixed by Stephen Wilson, and they are ready to blow your mind. All of these fine releases will be out on September 12th via dead.net and rhino.com. Head on over to dead.net/deadcast. Check out all of our past episodes. Catch up on the ones you missed. Re-listen to favorites. We've got the complete seasons one through 11, and you can link there from your favorite podcasting platform so you can listen how, when, and where you like to listen. Please help this podcast by subscribing, sharing us with your friends on social media, hitting that like button, leaving a review. Thank you very much. We appreciate the help. Do you have a great story about any of the songs from Blues For All? Were you lucky enough to catch the band at one of their two shows in San Francisco in 1975? Then we need to hear from you. Head over to stories.dead.net and record yourself telling us all about it. You just may hear yourself on a future episode of The Deadcast. Well, we know you like to listen to the podcast, but if you are an avid reader, we have transcripts for many of your favorite Deadcast episodes available for your reading pleasure. Head on over to dead.net/deadcastdashindex and check them out. The 2025 Meet Up At The Movies featuring The Grateful Dead Movie is happening this August 14th in theaters across the country. And this time around, it's been remastered in 4K and will be available at IMAX theaters for the very first time. Make sure to grab your friends and grab tickets at meetupatthemovies.com. Make sure to stay until the very end. And catch a special performance from those Winterland shows that didn't make the movie originally. And in celebration of the band's 60th anniversary, Grateful Dead has partnered with Apple Maps to create a new guide highlighting pivotal locations in the band's history in San Francisco. The guide features 11 key locations across San Francisco, including venues like the Fillmore West, the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park, and local San Francisco landmarks like the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, where the band lived in the mid-60s, and the recording studios where the band's legendary albums such as American Beauty and Working Man's Dead were recorded. Head over to dead.net and link from there to start your Apple Maps tour now. If you're like me, you remember Dan Healy as the man behind the soundboard at Grateful Dead shows we attended in the 80s and early 90s. But his history with the band goes back a lot further than that. And Dan's role in the San Francisco music scene is a story that needs to be told. And you've come to the right place to hear it. Ladies and gentlemen, here's my co-host and our friend, Jesse Jarnow.