Phil 85, Part 1

Rich Mahan (0:00)

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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 11 of The Good Ol Grateful Deadcast. I'm your co-host, Rich Mahan. Thank you very much for tuning in. In this episode of The Good Ol Grateful Deadcast, we pay tribute to all things Phil, as we commemorate last year's passing of the Grandmaster of Low End Deployment, Phil Lesh. We were wrapping up season 10 of The Deadcast when Phil left us, and there's so much to discuss regarding Phil that we knew we wanted to take our time and do it right, and as such, this episode is part of a two-part deep dive and a fitting way to begin season 11

Hot off the announcement presses are two new Grateful Dead releases headed your way. First up is a massive new Grateful Dead box set, Enjoying The Ride, a limited edition 60 CD box set celebrating the Grateful Dead's 60th anniversary with unreleased performances from 20 legendary venues. With the exception of a few tracks from earlier releases, virtually all of the music on Enjoying The Ride is previously unreleased, spanning more than 450 tracks and over 60 hours of music. Of the 20 shows in this collection, 17 are presented in full with some featuring additional material from the same venue. The remaining three, Filmore West, Filmore East and Boston Music Hall, are curated from multiple performances at each venue, capturing key moments on those legendary stages. This 60 CD box set is limited to 6,000 individually numbered copies. Alac and High Res Flac downloads will also be available on release day. Enjoying The Ride is available exclusively from dead.net on May 30th, and you can pre-order your copy now at dead.net. Also available on May 30th, The Music Never Stopped, which distills enjoying The Ride into a shorter route through the band's Diamond Anniversary celebration. Featuring at least one song from every venue in the deluxe set, it offers a briefer, but no less illuminating journey through the music that shaped the Grateful Dead's live legacy. It will be available on May 30th from rhino.com, on three CDs, six LPs and digitally. Make sure to visit dead.net for more info on both of these not-to-be-missed releases. Head on over to dead.net/deadcast and check out all of our past episodes, including the complete seasons one through ten, and you can link from there to your favorite podcasting platform so you can listen how you like to listen. Please help this podcast by subscribing, sharing us with your friends on social media, hitting that like button, and if the spirit moves you, leave us a review. Thank you very much for your help. Hey, do you have a great tour story you'd like to share with us? Well, you can do it at stories.dead.net. Head over there and record yourself telling that epic road trip story about the best show you ever saw. You just may hear yourself on a future episode of the Deadcast. We have transcripts for many of your favorite Deadcast episodes available for your reading pleasure. Head over to dead.net/deadcastdashindex and check them out. Well we all know there's nothing like a Grateful Dead concert. And one reason that statement is fact is that no one else in the history of recorded music has ever played bass the way Phil Lesh did. Phil famously said never play the same thing once. And this approach guided the Grateful Dead through 30 years of exploratory music that has become the soundtrack of our lives. It's only fitting that we kick off this new season of The Deadcast with two episodes that shine a light on what made Phil Lesh so special. Friends, please welcome back your friend and mine, Jesse Jarnow.

Jesse Jarnow (5:04)

With Phil Lesh's departure last October, we at The Deadcast weren't prepared to say goodbye on a few different levels, and really we're still not. But with some months to process, we're at the very least ready to celebrate the 85th anniversary of, in Sun Ra's term, Phil Lesh's arrival day. Grateful Dead Archivist and Legacy Manager, David Lemieux.