Official Tapes
Psychedelic radio snapshots of music's longest & strangest trip! A radio program specializing in the official releases (tapes) from Jerry and the boys...
- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 117
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Len Dell’Amico
The inside story of Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead from one of the few non-band members allowed in the band’s inner circle: filmmaker, Len Dell’Amico. From 1980 to 1995, he witnessed brilliance, lov…
00:16:54 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
Brian Anderson
Loud and Clear is the first book to tell the full story of the Grateful Dead’s “Wall of Sound,” an unprecedented and since unparalleled speaker system that was as tall as a school bus is…
00:34:20 |
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Bob Bralove
Drawing from their influences in jazz, classical, and free improvisation, Bob Bralove and Patti Weiss have created a tapestry of music that is as natural to them as a conversatio…
00:11:08 |
Sun 09 Mar 2025
Josh Pachter
In Friend of the Devil: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Grateful Dead, editor Josh Pachter presents an anthology of stories inspired by lyrics from the Dead’s thirteen studio …
00:17:11 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
Owlsey Stanley Foundation
Presenting the 11th chapter of Bear’s Sonic Journals, John Hammond, You’re Doin’ Fine — Blues at the Boarding House, June 2 & 3, 1973. This 3 CD set showcases John Hammond in his prime i…
00:39:00 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
Dennis McNally
Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s—a wry, richly observed, and enlightening reme…
00:17:27 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
Wright Thompson
Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s breath-taking score, combined with exclusive stories and insight from elite athletes, helps show the depths of the universal rhythm found in music, sp…
00:20:01 |
Sat 02 Nov 2024
Chloe Weir
Sin City art gallery, Animazing Gallery, honored The Grateful Dead with a special Deadhead exhibition. Animazing Gallery is a leader in illustration, animation, contemporary and modern f…
00:16:09 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
Steve James
The iconic ESPN 30 for 30 documentary series has a four-part look in the life and philosophy of hall of fame NBA star Bill Walton. “The Luckiest Guy in the World” asks: “Who is Bill Walton?”…
00:24:55 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
Andrew Luft
Fans will be able to immerse themselves at Dead & Company’s “Dead Forever Experience,” a centralized hub for fans to come together and celebrate, shop, view exclusive Dead & Comp…
00:12:42 |
Thu 25 Jul 2024
Animazing Gallery
Sin City art gallery, Animazing Gallery, is honoring The Grateful Dead with a special Deadhead exhibition. Animazing Gallery is a leader in illustration, animation, contemporary …
00:08:15 |
Sun 30 Jun 2024
Brian Flegel
Brian Flegel discovered an audience recording of a 2/5/70 Fillmore West show – 54 years after the show. The recording gives us 8 new songs, including a nice Dark Star and a much …
Tue 28 May 2024
Max Ludington
A beautifully wrought novel on the aftershocks of the heady but dangerous late 1960s and the relationship between trauma and the creative impulse. Weaving the idealism and the da…
Thu 23 May 2024
Jack Herstam
Jack is an airline pilot in the United States. He previously worked as a flight instructor, where he discovered a passion for teaching about every topic related to flight, as well as mentoring p…
00:06:16 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Owsley Stanley Foundation
Sing Out! features a stellar line-up of acoustic performances by Bay Area folk heroes, including Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Wolf, Rosalie Sorrels, and …
00:39:46 |
Mon 12 Feb 2024
John Brackett
The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead’s reputation as a “live ban…
00:21:26 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
Ray Robertson
In All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows, Robertson listens to and writes ecstatically about fifty of the band’s most important and memorable concerts in order to better underst…
00:21:51 |
Mon 11 Dec 2023
Michael Kaler
Michael Kaler examines how the Dead’s dedication to improvisation stemmed from their belief that playing in this manner enabled them to touch upon transcendence. Drawing on band testimon…
00:22:41 |
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Marc Masters
This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compa…
00:22:17 |
Mon 09 Oct 2023
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