Dead For The Weekend

With a sunny July weekend just around the corner, and grooving off of yesterday's link to the Relix podcast, your friendly neighborhood Masked Downloader decided to round up some Grateful Dead podcasts. Alas, I shall be working all weekend, which makes this post ever so bittersweet...nothing says lazy Saturday like listening to a 24-minute version of Dark Star. Sigh. Pity the poor Masked Downloader. And check out these great 'casts!

The Dead Show, from KOPN 89.5 in Columbia, Missouri, is a fantastic weekly podcast (and a looong one, too -- this week's clocks in at around 1:45:00) highlighting memorable performances from the band's entire career. You can access the shows HERE or HERE.

Sunshine Daydream seems to be on a short hiatus -- there hasn't been a new show posted since late May -- but there are still plenty of podcasts in the archive worth downloading. Features music from the Dead and related bands (Jerry Garcia solo, Dylan, etc.).

The Music Never Stopped actually, uh, stopped about 18 months ago, but the archives of this one-hour Grateful Dead podcast are still available. Unfortunately, the only options are to stream via the Internet or download to your mobile phone (it won't let you direct download the MP3 file). Annoying, but I decided to stick it on here anyway, due to the huge volume of music that is apparently still available. I don't have a music-equipped mobile phone so I don't know if the download actually works.

And, of course, how can we forge the huuuuge resource of free Grateful Dead shows at Archive.org??