Grateful Dead Pt. 1: Freedom's Just Another Word for…
May 16, 2025•48 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Episode description
The Grateful Dead became one of the most influential bands of all time and propelled themselves with improvisation, LSD and an ethos of “freedom”. Through drug busts and CIA surveillance, they thrived and created one of the largest, most fervent and commercially consequential fan bases of all time. Freedom, LSD and improvised blues in the key of bummed the fuck out on this episode of Disgraceland.
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This episode was originally published on April 16, 2019.
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