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Welcome to the weekly newsletter that brings you the most interesting and significant facts from Grateful Dead History, along with reviews of the music for the week ahead! The idea is to give all you Heads a "Heads up" on the interesting and cool stuff the Grateful Dead were up to on this week in history! So tell me what you think!

Ok folks, I knew this day would come. The "perfect storm" of events has forced me to get these emails out in a way that gets you what you need to know, without having to spend so much time on the writeup. I've got work travel and family vacation, and I just can't spend the time doing the writeup part of these emails. I have not including that part because that's where I like to explain why I included the shows that I did. That part takes the most time, so I've decided to do the analysis part and just take pictures of the book to show you where the highlights are, or any other relevant notes because it's all in my book. So it's kind of a shortcut. The downside is that I know these pictures don't display very well on a mobile device so I'm going to apologize in advance. But it's a way for me to get the next two emails out and still do what I need to do. Anything that's underlined is a highlight, and anything that's highlighted in yellow is a Jam Anthem version.

I'd also like to take a moment to remember Steve Silberman who died suddenly on August 28th at only 66 years old. Steve was such a wonderful soul, and talented writer, and he will be deeply missed. Although I never got to meet him, I have some friends who knew him very well. I always enjoyed Steve's writing about the Grateful Dead, but I especially loved his writing about neurodiversity. His book NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity helped me to better understand autism and to have a deeper connection with my autistic son. My condolences go out to all of Steve's friends and family. RIP ⚡ NFA ❤

Here's the highlights for Issue 32, for the week of September 4th, 2024.

Remembering Rex Jackson (9/6/76)
Vince Welnick's first show (9/7/90)
Happy Heavenly Birthday to Pigpen (9/8)
First performances of "It's All Over Now", "Weather Report Suite", "Le Me Sing Your Blues Away", "Hey Jude Reprise"

September 2nd

September 3rd

September 4th

September 5th

September 6th RIP Rex Jackson (1976)

September 7th

September 8th Happy Birthday Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (1945)

BTW, If you're not yet familiar with Jam Anthem versions of songs you can read all about it in Deadology II by Howard Weiner. Check it out here along with all his other great books.

And that's all for now! Of course, if you want to follow along in your very own copy of my book On This Day In Grateful Dead History: A Daily Listening Journal I still have some copies available here. Once they're sold out, I will have to decide whether or not I'm going to have more made. The costs of printing and shipping have gone way up in the last few years since I had them printed so I'm not sure if it's worth it or not. So get one now while you can! https://www.gratefuldeadbook.com/tigdh

Peace out my good people. Until Next week!

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