The Grateful Dead,
documented.

Documentary essays · 131

• 1974 The Year the Grateful Dead Broke Down to Build Back Up watch
• 42 Shows in 30 Years The Deads Most Avoided Song watch
• A Con Man, Crab Sandwiches, and the Leanest Grateful Dead watch
• Barlows Cowboy Tales How a Wyoming Rancher Helped Shape a New Era For The Dead watch
• Bob Weir Frankie Weir Azzara and the Real Story Behind Sugar Magnolia watch
• Bob Weir Has Died What Happens to the Grateful Dead Now watch
• Bob Weirs Legacy The Role That Made the Grateful Dead Possible watch
• Box of Rain The Inside Story of The Grateful Deads Last Words Together watch
• Brent Mydland and the Year the Deads Sound Was Reborn watch
• Dan Healy Changed the Deads Sound Then Turned Tapers Into a System watch
• Dark Stars Transformation From 1968 Single to Grateful Deads Live Show Classic watch
• Dead and Company Sphere Some Hated It I Went Anyway watch
• December 15 1986 The Most Important Show In Grateful Dead History watch
• Donna Jean Godchauxs Legacy From Muscle Shoals to the Grateful Dead watch
• From a Princeton Basement to 70000 at Soldier Field watch
• Grateful Dead at MIT The Amazing Untold Story of Their 1970 Free Concert watch
• Grateful Dead Never "Played" The Same Song Twice watch
• Grateful Dead Vs Allman Brothers What Really Happened At Fillmore East In 1970 watch
• Grateful Deads First Tape Is a Myth watch
• Grateful Deads Friend of the Devil The Unexpected Journey Behind the Iconic Song watch
• Hip Economics and Ammo Cases Untold Story of The Music Never Stopped watch
• His Father Swore on a Bible Then Robbed the Grateful Dead watch
• How a 1930s Prison Blues Song Became A Grateful Dead Anthem I Know You Rider watch
• How a Failed Bob Dylan Tour Rewrote One of His Most Famous Songs watch
• How Bill Graham Changed The Dead Forever watch
• How Bob Marleys Rejection Led To Grateful Deads Iconic Scarlet Begonias watch
• How Bob Weir Went From Kid Brother To The Boss watch
• How Deadheads Built the Internet The Grateful Deads Tech Legacy watch
• How Deadheads Created Social Networks Decades Before Facebook watch
• How Europe 72 Rescued the Grateful Dead Greatest Live Album Of All Time watch
• How Janis Joplin Lit Up the Grateful Dead watch
• How Ken Keseys Suicide Changed The Grateful Dead Changed Forever watch
• How LSD and the Acid Tests Created the Grateful Deads Iconic Sound watch
• How Neal Cassady Invented the Grateful Dead watch
• How Not Fade Away Became the Deads Most Powerful Promise watch
• How Owsley Bear Stanleys LSD Shaped the Grateful Deads Sound watch
• How Psychedelic Chaos Created American Classics The Grateful Dead in 1970 watch
• How the Allman Brothers Survived the Unsurvivable At Watkins Glen watch
• How the Grateful Dead Made Bill Walton an NBA Champion watch
• How Woodstocks Worst Set Created the Grateful Deads Empire watch
• It Wasn't the Drugs That Pushed Keith Godchaux Out watch
• Jerry Garcia Could Never Walk Away And It Killed Him watch
• Jerry Garcias 1986 Coma and The Grateful Dead Reborn watch
• Jerry Garcias Guitar Tells You What Drug He Was On watch
• Jerry Garcias Last Recording Wasnt with the Grateful Dead watch
• Owsley Stanley Gave the Dead Everything At a Price watch
• Owsleys Ultimatum The Grateful Deads 1970 Breaking Point watch
• Phil Lesh Loved the Wall The DRINKING Started in 75 watch
• Phil Lesh Was the Hardest Man in the Dead watch
• Pigpen Started the Grateful Dead. LSD Ended That. watch
• Pigpen Wasnt Crazy He Was the Point watch
• Pigpens Myth Was Loud The Reality Was That He Held the Dead Together watch
• Robert Hunter Stopped Touring Food Fights 10 Commandments watch
• Robert Hunter Wrote It for Jerry. Then Denied It. watch
• Shakedown Street The Album That Failed at Being Mainstream and Created a Movement watch
• Skull and Roses How Losing the Name War Won the Dead Everything watch
• The 5000 Check That Put Lithuania on the Map watch
• The Album Robert Hunter Tried To Erase watch
• The Crew That Kept the Grateful Dead Alive When Everything Was at Risk watch
• The Crowd Culture That Drives The Grateful Dead and Phish watch
• The Dead's Keyboard Chair "Cursed" Four Men. Not Him. watch
• The Folk And Jug Band Origins Behind The Grateful Dead watch
• The Ghost Of Pigpen watch
• The Grateful Dead Cover That Shouldnt Work But Absolutely Does watch
• The Grateful Dead Didnt Leave 710 Ashbury They Were Pushed Out watch
• The Grateful Dead Hid an 8-Year Reckoning in Plain Sight watch
• The Grateful Dead on The Festival Express watch
• The Grateful Dead Song Born from an ACID Nightmare watch
• The Grateful Dead Song Jerry Garcia Thought He Ruined watch
• The Grateful Deads First Bassist Lasted Only 4 Shows watch
• The Grateful Deads Keyboard Chair Was Designed to Kill watch
• The Grateful Deads Most Debated 20 Minutes watch
• The Impossible Job Replacing Jerry Garcia watch
• The Jerry Garcia And Duane Allman Paradox watch
• The Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia Story Two Legends One Unforgettable Sound watch
• The Messy Truth About Keith Godchauxs Exit watch
• The Mistake That Killed Jimi Hendrix and Saved the Grateful Dead watch
• The Most Important Venue In a Post Jerry World watch
• The Most Radical Thing Robert Hunter Ever Refused watch
• The MOTOWN Obsession Jerry Garcia Hid in Plain Sight watch
• The Night That Changed The Grateful Dead Forever watch
• The Night The Dead Collaborated With The Sufi Choir 1971 Performance Lost for 50 Years watch
• The Night the Grateful Dead Played a Lunar Eclipse in Egypt watch
• The Night the Grateful Dead Secretly Played the Tiny Club Where the Jerry Garcia Band Was Born watch
• The Real Story Behind Casey Jones Grateful Deads Cautionary Tale watch
• The Sober Promise Garcia Sang 391 Times watch
• The Song That Taught the Dead How to Jam Anything watch
• The Truth Behind The Grateful Deads Dancing Bears The Legacy of Owsley Bear Stanley watch
• The Two Nights That Made Europe 72 And Almost Killed It watch
• The Woman Who Saved the Grateful Deads Legacy watch
• They Tried to Fire Bob Weir The Strange 1968 Grateful Dead Tale watch
• Truckin by Grateful Dead The Story Behind Americas National Treasure watch
• Warren Haynes Had to be Jerry Garcia and Duane Allman In the Same Year watch
• Watkins Glen 73 The Historic Festival That Beat Woodstock in Size and Spirit watch
• When Jerry Garcia Played Two Bands every Night The New Riders Experiment watch
• When the CIA Lost Control MK-ULTRA and The Grateful Dead watch
• Why Altamont Changed the Grateful Dead Forever watch
• Why Hardcore Punk Loved the Dead Henry Rollins and The 1969 Grateful Dead watch
• Why Jerry Garcia Never Turned On the Hells Angels watch
• Why Jerrys Favorite Guitar Player Walked Away from the Dead watch
• Why The Dead Took 7 Years To Rise Again watch
• Why the Grateful Dead Needed Two Drummers The Rhythm Devils Origin Story watch
• Why The Grateful Dead Will Never Die watch
• Why the Grateful Deads Early Studio Albums Failed and Live Music Won watch
• Brent Mydland and the Rule No One Could Break watch
• Vince Welnick Never Had a Chance With the Dead watch
• MK-Ultra Was The CIA's Acid Brothel in San Francisco watch
• How Persian Heroin Snuck Past The Grateful Dead's Rules watch
• The Grateful Dead Couldn't Find This Song a Home watch
• The Missing Link Between Beats and Hippies watch
• Was The Grateful Dead's 4th of July Anthem A Trojan Horse? watch
• The Album That Reinvented The Grateful Dead watch
• How Bill Graham Created A Movement watch
• The Grateful Dead's Last Setlist Was a Goodbye Nobody Wrote watch
• Bob Dylan Wrote More Grateful Dead Songs Than Barlow (Sort Of) watch
• Deer Creek: The Real Story On The Dead's Most Dangerous Night watch
• Why It Truly Was Summer Magic 1985 For The Grateful Dead watch
• The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound Made a Crowd Whisper watch
• Why the Grateful Dead Belonged on Saturday Night Live watch
• The Song Garcia Called "Marginal" Was a Fairy Tale watch
• Donna Godchaux's Voice Was More Complicated Than You Think watch
• The Murder That Secretly Started the Grateful Dead watch
• The Grateful Dead's "First Show" Depends on Who You Ask watch
• Grateful Dad 101: How To Listen To Workingman's Dead watch
• The Dead's Parking Lot Was Their Best Invention [And Worst] watch
• Me and My Uncle: The Dead's Most-Played (?) Song Wasn't Theirs watch
• The Dead's Parking Lot Was Their Best Invention [And Worst] watch
• Phil Lesh Quietly Rebuilt the Grateful Dead. Nobody Noticed. watch
• Pigpen Wasn't Crazy. He Was the Point. watch
• Rolling Stone's #1 Grateful Dead Song Is Only Half a Song watch
• New York's Summer of Love Was Real. History Just Buried It watch

On YouTube only · 2

Documentaries on the channel that do not have a written essay here yet. These links leave the site.

• The Real Reason Owsley Built the Wall of Sound YouTube only
• The Grateful Dead’s Lyrics Started With MK-Ultra...Actually YouTube only

YouTube shorts · 15

• Bruce Hornsby Tells a Funny Dead Head Story on Arsenio Hall watch
• Buddy Cage On Replacing Jerry Garcia watch
• Grateful Dead and Fame Has Success Spoiled The Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia Band Interview watch
• Grateful Dead Casey Kasem Interview Making Music Like a Term Paper watch
• Grateful Dead members open up about their plans before bassist Phil Leshs death watch
• Grateful Deads Friend of the Devil The Most Covered Song In Dead History watch
• Jerry Garcia On His Musical Inspiration
• John Mayer and Bob Weir On Jerry Garcia
• Ken Kesey and Mountain Girl On Keseys Arrest
• Phil and Grahame Lesh Uncover Rare Friend of The Devil Verse watch
• The Grateful Dead Song Born from an ACID Nightmare watch
• The Grateful Deads Indian Classical Secret watch
• The Many Voices of Not Fade Away Deads Most Powerful Promise watch
• The Night Fans Broke The Grateful Deads Trust System watch
• The Shakedown Archives Trailer