"See here how everything leads us to this day"
Three-and a half years in the making, today is the finale of my 'Long Time Gone' special, wherein I've been sharing some of the most thrilling moments across thousands of live Grateful Dead shows.
For the unfamiliar, in this special, I'm featuring the songs performed live in concert by The Grateful Dead, with the longest gaps between consecutive performances. I'll play the bookends of that gap for you. To create the list of songs for this series, I culled through three different extensively researched song lists. Everywhere possible, I also created partial matrix recordings of each track and otherwise have done everything I could to make what you'll hear 'just exactly perfect.' And yet 'audiens cave.'
Now that this series is in the home stretch, all songs in today's broadcast will have a performance gap of at least 1300 shows, averaging just under 20 years apart!
If you missed any of the previous shows in this series, you can listen to them here (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)